In the beginning were The Last
I got a brand new car and I can take you around To where the action is, I’m gonna take you down To Hermosa Beach ’cause the gang’s all there And I know that you can make it with your long blonde hair. — Every Summer Day by The Last, 1979 by Jim Lindberg If you ask the members of legendary Hermosa Beach punk rock bands Black Flag, Circle Jerks and the Descendents who the godfathers of South Bay puk are, undoubtedly they will say it’s the Nolte brothers and their psychedelic flavored, garage rock/surf punk band The Last. Joe Nolte and his brothers Mike and David grew up all over Hermosa and Palos Verdes and witnessed firsthand the evolution of popular music from The Beatles to Jimi Hendrix, from the Stooges to Blondie and the Ramones. Frustrated at seeing the powerful music that started the rock revolution in the mid ’60s turn into mid ’70s FM radio soft pop and bloated arena rock, they knew they would have to start a band of their own. So the brothers started writing songs in the family’s garage. Joined by Vitus Matare on keyboards and Jack Reynolds on drums, they began playing local living room parties, eventually releasing their seminal album LA Explosion on Bomb Records in 1979…
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