"Can You Hear Me? Music From The Deaf Club" Comp LP (1981)

Details: Live tracks from musicians and bands who frequented the independently thrown show-venue that was also a meeting place for members of the deaf community in San Francisco in the late 70s, early 80s. Featuring a compilation of live punk tracks from Dead Kennedys, Tuxedo Moon, Pink Section, Offs, and more. This is the reissue on Gammon/PVC records. See images for quality of album. This is a promo copy denoted by the slice in the bottom corner at right. Description: The best description of music at San Francisco's punk house-like venue The Deaf Club is this description by Alice Bag who frequented and played the club herself: " The loudest and most exciting club in San Francisco was The Deaf Club. It had been built as an actual club for the deaf in the 1930's. By the late 1970's it functioned as a rental hall for special events until punk rock entrepreneur Robert Hanrahan decided to rent the place to book punk shows. He had to complete the rental transaction by means of passing a n