Redd Kross
Redd Kross, from Hawthorne, California, is one of the great West Coast rock bands. Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald have been performing their mysterious alchemical transformations of pop trash since they formed the Tourists in 1978, when Jeff was 15 and Steve was 11. The first lineup, with guitarist Greg Hetson, played its first show with Black Flag. In We Got The Neutron Bomb (2001 Three Rivers Press), Jeff McDonald remembers: “Redd Kross got Black Flag their second show, a sixth-grade graduation party in Hawthorne playing in somebody’s living room. That was Redd Kross’s first show before Janet Housden played with us. We were all pre-to-mid teen—one was 12 and one was 11.” In the summer of 1979, Red Cross played Black... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie, Punk, Power Pop
- City Of Origin:
- Hawthorne, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1978
