Budstock, 30 July, 1981- Luxford, centre one above from bottom

Bud Luxford and Ian Thom are two unlikely brothers. In visits I used to make the Vancouver Art Gallery I would ask curator Ian Thom about his brother Bud Luxford. He would sneer at me and turn around.

Bud Luxford was an (and still is) an enterprising entrepreneur of Vancouver’s punk era. He was famous for his boat cruises with punk bands (Boating with Bud) and promoting what in Vancouver we called Fuck Bands. They were called that because musicians from different bands would change places and guitarists would sing, etc. They played “for the fuck of it.”

Luxford was central to a photograph of mine that appeared in a Vancouver Magazine Christmas special in 1981. In One Ear columnist, Les Wiseman came up with the idea of me taking a Christmas photograph of a punk band for several Christmases in a row.

Recently Bud Luxford paid me a visit. He was after a photograph I took July 30, 1981 at the Commodore that featured most of the punk community. What is especially notable of the photograph is that I light it with a large softbox (with a flash) and used Kodak SO (Special Order) 115 Film which was the sharpest b+w film ever made.

Bud Luxford & The Dishrags - Left - Scout, centre -Jade, right -Dale -1981