Memory, History and Punk Rock in San Francisco

The Avengers, a legendary San Francisco punk rock band, played a recent show at the Great American Music Hall that evoked memories of the city's punk moment

One day circa 1983 my friend Will and I set out from our neighborhoods in the northern part of San Francisco to find an address somewhere in Potrero Hill where allegedly there was a party going on.

The party was for the release of a record by a punk rock band known as the Avengers. That album is now known simply as “The Pink Album” because of its pink to…