The Adolescents and The Weirdos

The Adolescents are an American punk rock band formed in 1980 in Fullerton, California. From its earliest days, the band has functioned as a kind of SoCal punk supergroup, being formed originally from early members of Agent Orange and Social Distortion.

When The Weirdos burst onto the L.A. scene at the Orpheum Theatre in April of 1977, the world was in awe. They were like a call to arms, kicking off the nascent Hollywood punk scene, the second they hit the stage. It was as though they emerged fully formed, spawned from a radioactive rock n’ roll garbage dump that came from outer space.