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Kill the Punks: A Hated Youth Memoir

Kill the Punks: A Hated Youth Memoir


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Enter the embryo of the Florida hardcore music scene, a time and place where Andrew Jackson led the springtime parades. The years: 1981-1984; the band: Hated Youth who found inspiration watching Road Warrior serially at the local movie house, terrorizing college girls and little kids, doing drugs and spinning the latest vinyl on the north side of Tallahassee, bands like Dead Kennedys, Angry Samoans, Suicidal Tendencies and Negative Approach. What did it take for these unsettled mohawked teens of the Reagan years to make it through the gauntlet of aggressing jocks, plantation-era values and mandates to conform to the post-Ted-Bundyan redneck Deep South football culture?

In Kill the Punks you'll find out. In Kill the Punks you'll get up close and personal with cool punk rock girlfriends, jealous ex-boyfriends and the punk rock characters of the subversive underground. Come on out to Smitty's Juke Joint where Hated Youth hosted shows for other Florida bands such as the legendary Roach Motel, Terminal Fun and Stevie Stiletto and the Switchblades. Follow Hated Youth to out-of-town gigs where they played with bands like D.R.I., Minor Threat, Necros, the Bully Boys and Jody Foster's Army. In the process you'll get your knuckles scraped up with a few minor violences, as well as get to know the iconic hardcore personage widely known as Hated Eric. For lovers of music history, this literary exposé is a must, a candid punk rock bildungsroman with photos.



About the Author :
JOHN OLIVER HODGES was born in Florida, and was guitarist for the American hardcore band Hated Youth (1981-1984). His published books include, The Love Box (Livingston Press); Luv Slaps (Broken Tribe Press); and Eating My Name (Wordrunner Press). As a photographer his work has appeared widely in journals and magazines. He currently lives in New Jersey and teaches writing at the Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City.

Review :
"Kill the Punks is an audacious, in-your-face history of the early-'80s Tallahassee hardcore scene, told by one of its original troublemakers and one of America's most feral, fearless writers, John Oliver Hodges. Often laugh-out-loud and always kinetic, it's James Joyce with a mohawk and a pawn-shop guitar-a portrait of the artist as a young punk. This book will make you want to crank the volume on your life or at least start a band."-Ryan Ridge, author of New Bad News and bassist for the Snarlin' Yarns

"It is the dream of all artists that their vision may improve the moral standing of humanity. Given my observation, it doesn't happen often, though after viewing John's photos in Kill the Punks, I feel stilled by life's realities and motivated to be good to my fellow travelers. John's photos tell stories of inward psychology and outward presentation.

"Look at who loves each other. Look at who poses. Look at who wants to be the subject. Look at who is scared to death. Our interpretation of all these seeming realities define who we are as people. The reason John's work is SO impressive is that he understood this and wanted to document this when we were too young to understand. When the rest of us were just getting wasted, John was chronicling a subculture few knew even existed."-Alex Eysselinck, Biohazard Remediation Technician"Mr. Hodges hyper-detailed writing is remarkably eloquent to where it is difficult to put the book down." -George Barker, violinist, Toxic Shock


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798993877501
  • Publisher: Wasp Leg Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wasp Leg Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 242
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Hated Youth Memoir
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8993877505
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 295 gr


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