Toxic Shock Records: A Story of Love, Loss, and Loud Music
by Bill Sassenberger Author
This is a love story of a love toxic unlike the title and the name of the record label that would come from this love story. Bill Sassenberger, owner of the aforementioned label and Tuscan’s Toxic Ranch, mentor to hundreds of music aficionados, writes his own story about his relationship with Julianna Towns — amazing musician who walked into his record store one day and stayed in his life. They would come to start a record label, discover musicians and nurture musicians throughout the world, through her illness and health. This is a story of their love that synchronizes with the history of punk rock, and a musical revolution that their lives would become part of.
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There is what’s known as the Anarchist work ethic. This book’s author, was a Yippie who became a supporter of garage bands and the punk culture. He went from being homeless in 1977 and working in various low paying jobs, like being an apple picker in Washington state. He drove an ice cream truck in Orange County. Somehow, he ended up in Pomona, California and took over a headshop, converted it into a record shop/clothing shop, and sold fanzines and vinyl for the “Blank Generation.” It got to the point where he released records on his own independent label, from bands like Treepeople, Italy's Raw Power, Skin Yard, the Hickoids, Corrosion of Conformity and others