There’s a certain black-and-white, graffiti-covered, sweat-drenched nostalgia associated with early punk scenes.
It’s an image Alice Bag knows well. She formed The Bags with Patricia Morrison (aka Pat Bag) in 1977. The group was foundational to a burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene that produced bands like Fear, X, Circle Jerks, and Black Flag.
A child of Mexican immigrants, Bag was an electric stage presence, breaking the mold in a scene that prided itself on, well, breaking the mold…