Items

The audience sat on folding chairs, as the flyers always asked.

Dee Ramirez at the library copier, ten cents a page. Nearly every flyer in box 7 came out of this machine.

Two trombones and two trumpets on the Grange steps before a summer show.

Eighty people in a basement built for twenty. The landlord never found out.

Skaters and bands shared the back lot most Saturdays that summer. The ramp was built from the feed store’s old pallets.

Leaving for a weekend of shows in three towns. The van was borrowed from Ana’s uncle and came back with a new dent.

The food bank benefit, from the stage looking out. The cans are stacked by the door on the left.

Shot from the front row at the April 9 show. The hand-painted banner behind the band still hangs in the Grange.

Ska-punk with a full horn section, recorded live in the Grange Hall kitchen because it had the best echo.

The first compilation of valley bands: eleven songs, a fold-out J-card with notes on every band, and a sticker.

Eight slow songs. The J-card asks you to play it “at night, quietly, in a car.”

Six songs on a borrowed four-track, recorded in one Saturday in a garage on Mill Street.

Recorded from the soundboard at the April 9 show. One hundred copies, dubbed in real time in Tom Avila’s bedroom.

Nine days, six towns and one broken van, written up by the horn section.

The band’s own zine, given away at shows: lyrics, collages and a page called “How to start a band in a town with no music store.”

The full tracklist of Static Hum Vol. 1, with a page of notes on every band.

A zine about recording at home: four-track tips, a chart for dubbing tapes in real time, and a Grain Elevator rehearsal diary.

The last issue Josie made before she left for college. Half of it is letters from readers.

The issue with the review of the Grange show: “212 people and nobody broke anything.”

Show reviews, an interview with Ditch Lilies and a hand-drawn map of every all-ages room in the valley.

Drawn in ballpoint and copied at the bank where Tom’s mother worked. The band remembers fourteen people and one dog.

Potluck Riot’s last show anywhere, and the last show at the Grange before it closed for repairs. Admission was a dish to share.

The release show for the first Static Hum compilation tape: eleven bands, eleven songs, one very long night.

The library’s teen board booked two bands and served lemonade. Quiet hours were suspended for the afternoon, by a vote of the library board.