IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
C Josh Frank 2008 By Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz
Free Press a division of Simon and Shuster publishers
page 171
"Peter had always been the one to discover, throw himself into, and turn his friends on to the coolest, most interesting music scenes. In the two years since Animal House had prompted a mass migration of unruly New York comics to LA, a new scene had begun to bubble up for the LA music underground. The early stages of punk rock, which in the early to mid - '70's had stormed New York and London, had in large part passed Hollywood by. While bands like the Germs, the Weirdos, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and X sparked varying degrees of cult devotion in Southern CA, the sound as a whole, and the attitude and aesthetic that came with it, did not really begin to catch on until the later '70's , when the tectonic rumblings of two of punk's most potent second-wave manifestations began to crack the town's placid facade..."
