Early in 1980s a couple of friends, who I would eventually start the bands Corporate Whores and Useless Pieces of Shit with, took me to a bar on 4th Avenue in Tucson, Arizona to see a showcase of bands from Los Angeles which included Black Flag, Minutemen and some others that I can’t remember. (It was a long time ago!) We had just seen the movie, “Decline of Western Civilization” which had introduced me to the West Coast Music Scene for the first time. I was there to see what it was all about. This was the start of my time in the Tucson Hardcore Punk Music Scene and how we came to this point and this compilation. The Backstage was a dive full of drunks by day, but at night they would have the best Punk Rock shows. Every Punk Band in the country that toured through the Southwest usually played at the Backstage. The list is too long and I don’t want to leave anyone out, so I won’t make one. Many Tucson bands cut their teeth at the Backstage. Anyone could book a show and there were many Tucson bands at the time who did just that. The music flourished, but the scene was just a collection of small groups of individuals, hanging out, some just shinning in front of the shows and not paying to go in. There were local bands, but not really a unified scene. Ground zero for the Punk Rock Movement in Tucson was a record store called “Roads to Moscow” run by Lee Joseph. If you made a bunch cassettes of your band, Lee would sell them for you at no charge. The Backstage was home to the Punk Rock Scene until it burned down on June 6, 1983. After that many bands broke up and everyone wrote off the Punk Scene in Tucson. Instead the summer of 1983 was a time of the formation of many new Tucson bands. It also was the beginning of a unified music scene that we all started to call, Tucson Hardcore (THC).