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CRIME fans rejoice! San Francisco’s first and only rock and roll band starred in a never-released movie filmed during June of 1978, and it’s coming out this year.

Details are few. A recent evening of punk cinema at the San Francisco Public Library advertised a sneak peek at something called San Francisco’s First and Only Rock and Roll Movie: CRIME 1978. In the two-minute trailer subsequently uploaded by Vimeo user Mabuhay!, CRIME mangles the Velvets’ “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together” and Dirk Dirksen abuses their audience. The teaser promises the movie, “a Henry S. Rosenthal production of a Larry Larson film,” will make its “40th anniversary debut” this year.

Superior Viaduct’s primo compilation Murder by Guitar is still in print. CRIME fans who can read might also enjoy this feature from Ugly Things #14, in which Johnny Strike, Hank Rank and Ron “the Ripper” Greco tell the band’s inspiring true story in their own words. Or Johnny Strike’s Burroughs-inspired fiction.
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Murder By Guitar: San Francisco punk band Crime live at San Quentin prison, 1978