KROQ - RF7 (1981) Punk Rock New Wave (Pt.6)

KROQ's "Future ROQ of the '80s"
Broadcast: March 8, 1981
Featured Band: RF7

Early broadcast of KROQ (Pasadena-Los Angeles) - during the Hollywood club scene's Gabba Gabba Hey-Day!

"Future ROQ" was a weekly program featuring Hollywood club bands. The March 8, 1981 broadcast featured (in order of appearance):

The Romanticats
The Exits
The Executives
The Bings
The Rick Smith Band
RF7
Industrial Waste

Category:

Music

Tags:

• KROQ
• RF7
• 1980s
• '80s
• 1981
• Power
• Pop
• New
• Wave
• Punk
• Hollywood
• Los
• Angeles
• TheBingsTV

[Iamnickl]

Sorry La Harba Music that I stole that Amp from your store in 1980. I remember the first time I heard this on the radio KROQ I got in a fight at a Howard Johnson because I thought I was a punk rock star now, Am I? I guess I am, got a dollar and a beer?

Nick Lamagna

[TheBingsTV]

Geza geez, you pilfered an amp from La Habra Music? Guess the royalties from the KROQ LP were something less than spectacular. Oh, you poor punk!

[ZEDSTODT]

Awesome!!! 1978-1988 in Pasadena, the best years on planet Earth!!!

[motodude1]

How sad that KROQ has become a mainstream outlet for craprock....but I spose that's where the money is....

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@RecordsAdNauseam666 first hardcore band in socal period. first hardcore band to play in L.A. too.

[RecordsAdNauseam666]

@TheNewMusicNetwork no , middle class is from orange county.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@motodude1 clear channel/cbs bought kroq and ruined it.

i dont think that shit is more popular. i think more people would prefer billy idol type shit or hard 80s alternative with harmonies over all the boring metalcore that's out there today. it's just that these corporations have no clue and don't want any riots going on(hardcore beach punk)

[flyboy123b]

this is real music unlike the crap of today.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

rf7? well i remember bands like the middle class which were the first hardcore band ever and from L.A.

[mondocaneman]

aaaaaaaw, good old memories when I was a kid then! yeaaahh!! L.A.!

[JackOfferlott]

What a great time to be alive! Black Flag was about to leave the safety and comfort of the South Bay and venture off down Kerouac's road. Little did we know then, huh? It was to mutate into "hardcore" and in turn "grunge" and "alternative"; hell even "thrash" and "extreme metal"!

What was punk? What did it all mean? I can promise you this much, I spent a lot of my high school and college days trying to find out! Thanks for posting the video. Brings back great memories!

[ForgottenSoul700]

That was really KROQ'S promo back then. Thanks!

[joemuerto]

I was there too . what a great time to see and hear all that raw talent comming up . back when kroq played music by local artist not this prepackaged shit they foist on us now