Jade Blade was the lead vocalist and guitar player for legendary Vancouver  punk band The Dishrags. The band played the first punk show in Vancouver on July 30, 1977. This conversation took place on August 25, 2024. Venues visited: The Japanese Hall on the 400 block of Alexander Street is still the Vancouver Japanese Language School, a cultural centre. The building is from 1928.  It hosted the first punk show in Vancouver and very occasionally hosts a music show. O’Hara’s was a bar which hosted punk shows in 1979, at the north end of Main street, past Alexander. It was part of the pier built by the Canadian National Railway in 1931 for their steamships. It was demolished in 1984. Gambado’s was an underground art gallery at 55 Powell which had shows in 1979. 310 Water Street housed a warehouse where the Dishrags played in 1978. The Smilin' Buddha Cabaret at 109 East Hastings Street began live as a cabaret in the 1950s. It evolved into Vancouver's iconic punk music venue in the late '70s and early 80s. It was a diy venue under the name SBC from 2013 to 2019, when it re-opened as Buddha's. It was the site of a fire in 2023 and is now closed. The Windmill at 1047 Granville St was a bar which became a punk hangout and venue in 1978/1979. According to Public Enemeny zine, by March 1979 Windmill shut its doors to new wave “due to the destructive tendencies of the patrons.” The Quadra Club at 1055 Homer  later became Club Soda and then the Starfish Room. It was a lesbian bar and had punk and new wave shows. It was demolished in the early 2000s. Bands discussed: The Furies, The Dils, The Avengers, DOA, The Clash, The Ramones, The Subhumans, the K-Tels, Bo Diddley, the Pointed Sticks. All of The Dishrags’ music is now available through Supreme Echo.  Four, an album of remastered later material, was released in 2024. Music excerpts used with artist permission: I Don’t Love You (Three, Supreme Echo 2014) Tormented (Three, Supreme Echo 2014)  

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