PATTERNS AND TONES

"The Tight Fits - Full Frontal Attack" 2017   San Francisco in 1995 was a hot spot for the trashiest, silliest, goofiest bands you could ever wish for and The Tight Fitz were no exception.  With Shane White ( The Rip Offs , Spoiled Brats, Loose Lips, The Infections , The Fingers, The Vaticans) on guitar, his brother Jason White (Cheap Dates, The Rip Offs, The Fingers) on vocals, Chantal Monte on bass and Kyo "Lawless" Ito on drums, this quirky quartet  last about a year and put out two 7" singles in their wake.   Shane's punk garage label  Pure Filth Records  put out a 7" on his label featuring the ever scrumptious and voluptuous Ms. Tina "Boom Boom" Lucchesi on the front cover. Their recipe of glam-punk was captured in   "Full Frontal Attack " on the A side and "Bulldozer"  on the flip side.  The follow up 7" featured "All Balls" and "Pink Cake" on Seattle's garage punk Rat City ...

When it comes to cars, girls and monsters, there's no one in the world of contemporary illustration that renders them quite like the amazing artist,  Rockin' Jelly Bean . One of Japan's premire illustrators, Jelly combines west coast kustom kar kulture esthetics, with subcultural references and erotic pinup girls. Saddling two cities, Rockin' Jelly Bean seamlessly melds the two world together to create amazing and original artwork which is reproduced for the masses in silkscreen posters , cloths and more recently beach towels !  Following in the foot steps of the likes of  Robert Williams , with his lo-brow f igurative graphics and  Ed "Big Daddy" Roth , with his anti-hero  Rat Fink, Rockin' Jelly Bean has carved out his own niche in the world of art graphics.  True to his name, Rockin' Jelly Bean  is also a fantastic bass player in the amazing Tokyo  surf combo   Jackie and The Cedrics , as well local Los Angeles favs...