Hail Murray! Bay Area Punk Photography 1982 - 1995

Friday, March 21

Happy Hour: 5 - 7 pm

Slideshow of Hail Murray with Editor Anna Brown: 7 - 8 pm

Ratio Beerworks

  Ratio Beerworks invites you to a happy hour and slideshow event to celebrate Hail Murray! Bay Area Punk Photography 1982 - 1995. A long-awaited collection of work by East Bay punk legend Murray Bowles will hit bookstores December 1. Hail Murray! brings together two decades of Bowles' iconic photography, representing the definitive chronicle of the Bay Area punk scene in its heyday-a story that has yet to be fully told. A Silicon Valley software engineer by day, Bowles spent his evenings and weekends embedded with the Bay Area punks. Never without his camera, Bowles attended thousands of shows in myriad venues, from San Francisco’s Mabuhay Gardens to Berkeley’s legendary 924 Gilman Street, and countless warehouses, basements, and backyards in between. His work captures the chaotic joy and tenderness of a scene that spawned The Dead Kennedys, Fang, R.K.L., Neurosis, Christ on Parade, Sleep, MDC, Operation Ivy, Green day, NOFX, Sweet Baby, Crimpshrine, Spitboy, Jawbreaker, The Mr. T Experience, and many more. Hail Murray! is the first book-length compendium of Bowles’ work. The images it contains--originally distributed at shows for 25 cents per print--helped propel the East Bay punk scene to legendary status and remain indispensable to its collective memory. For anyone who did not experience this era firsthand, the book is a unique window into the Bay Area’s vibrant creativity during its golden years. The release of Hail Murray! is a major contribution to the genre of punk photo books, standing alongside collections by Edward Colver, Ruby Ray, and Glen E. Friedman.