Oh my gosh, you won’t believe it! The LADS (Los Angeles Death Squad) were this awesome group of friends who all had the same ideas and came together during the early days of the Los Angeles punk scene. It was getting pretty crazy in LA with fights happening all the time. People started hearing that punk rock was the coolest thing ever, and with that came a bunch of rules and stuff that the original punk rockers didn’t care about. Gangs started taking over the scene, attaching themselves to certain bands and fighting each other at shows. They fought over bands, territory, anything really. There were these super tough gangs from Huntington Beach that everyone talks about, and then there was the Hollywood crew who eventually became the Los Angeles Death Squad (LADS). There were also gangs from Ventura and a really mean group from Venice Beach who got into it because of the early Suicidal Tendencies music. It’s so cool, you can even see Jay Bentley wearing the LADS logo in pictures from 1981.

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