The Punts (aka Bonnie Hayes & The Wild Combo)

Paul Davis






Bonnie Hayes

 

 







Hank Maninger

The Punts were a New Wave band in San Francisco and at this point in time had a "hit" single titled Shelly's Boyfriend.  When I say "hit" I mean it got alot of airplay on KUSF, a college radio station broadcasting throughout the San Franscico Bay area.


The Punts eventually signed with Slash Records and changed their name to Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo. They released an album on Slash Records titled Good Clean Fun and a second album on Bondage Records titled Brave New Girl. They were very popular in San Francisco in the early to mid 80s and I went to many of their shows.


These particular images were taken the first time I saw the band at the Keystone Berkeley. The band was Bonnie Hayes (vocals and piano), Paul Davis (guitar), Hank Maninger (bass) and Kevin Hayes on drums. Two images I shot this particular night were published in KUSF Wave Sector magazine.


The Rolling Stones

Ronnie Wood




Ron Wood and Charlie Watts

 

Keith Richard

Buddy Miles

 

 

 

 

Buddy Miles is a singer, guitarist and drummer who played with with Ruby and the Romantics, The Ink Spots, The Delphonics and Wilson Pickett before forming The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield. After the Electric Flag broke up, Miles formed The Buddy Miles Express with guitarist Jim McCarty (later of Cactus). He later hooked up with Jimi Hendrix and played drums on several tracks on Electric Ladyland and Band of Gypsys (which he was originally a part of.


Miles released an double LP titled Sneak Attack in 1981 with his band Buddy Miles Regiment. I photographed Buddy Miles around this time but do not know much about the band or who else was in it. I used a 50mm 1.4 lens with my Pentax ME at this show. It is one of the very few times I did not shoot with my 120 mm telephoto lens.

Xmas Eve

Jerome Capers





Xmas Eve




Eric Capers




Bruce Rayburn




Eric Capers




Jerome Capers




Eric Capers




Xmas Eve




Bruce Rayburn and Jerome Capers

The first time I saw Xmas Eve was when they opened for The Fall and Blurt at the Keystone Berkeley. I shot all three bands and met the guys in Xmas Eve after they played. They were interested in seeing their pictures so we agreed to meet after I had the flim developed and contact sheets printed. There were a few shots the band liked and used on flyers for later shows. I went on to see and photograph them at other venues such as Berkeley Square and The Mab in San Francisco. I am not quite sure, but I think they opened for the Dead Kennedy's at The Mab and I shot both bands that night.
 

Xmas Eve released a self titled EP in 1982. The four songs can best be described as art punk and are: Paint it Red, My House, Indestructible Man and Life's a Penitentiary. The vinyal was packaged with an insert that had liner notes and a photograph of the band. We went out into the hills and spent a few hours taking various pictures of the band in their leather jackets in what looked like the desert. One of these shots was printed on the insert and another published in BAM magazine.