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| 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 |