Tequila Mockingbird LA Punk Museum collection LSC.2375

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.

UCLA Library Special Collections

Online finding aid last updated 2024 February 21.

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections

Title: Tequila Mockingbird LA Punk Museum collection

source: Tequila Mockingbird, 1956-

Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2375

Physical Description: 13 linear feet (13 boxes, 2 flat boxes, 2 map case folders, and 1 shoe box)

Date (inclusive): 1976-2023

Abstract: Tequila Mockingbird is a writer, producer, singer, musician, and actress whose work is foundational to the Los Angeles underground. She created and helms the LA Punk Museum, an art experience comprised of a series of pop-up art and music events. She currently directs, produces, writes, and hosts Tequila TV, a public-access show in which she interviews musicians and artists. With a dedicated service to public access television for decades, Tequila has created several shows including New Wave Theater, the Dude Magazine TV Show, SCUM Southern California Music Television, and the Cocktail Hour. The Tequila Mockingbird LA Punk Museum collection ranges in date from 1976-2023 and contains U-Matic tapes from record labels for Tequila TV; VHS tapes from Dude TV, Tequila TV, and Van Gogh; an LA Punk Museum calendar and coffee mug; More Mayonnaise issues 4-7, Lost Anarchy issue 13; Bomb City and Duchess de Sade posters; and The Weirdos singer John Denney's jacket and pants.

Physical Location: Portions of the collection stored off-site. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page. Folder 17 and Folder 18 are stored onsite.

Language of Material: English .

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO and AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Materials will require assessment and may need further processing for safe access. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Tequila Mockingbird, 2018.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9993536243606533

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Tequila Mockingbird LA Punk Museum collection (Collection 2375). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Custodial History

These materials comprise a portion of the Tequila Mockingbird LA Punk Museum collection. Mockingbird stewards the rest of the collection for ongoing exhibitions and pop-up museum events.

Processing Information

Processed by Kelly Besser with assistance from Tess Livesley-O'Neil, 2020.

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Biographical / Historical

Tequila Mockingbird is a writer, producer, singer, musician, and actress whose work is foundational to the Los Angeles underground. She created and helms the LA Punk Museum, an art experience comprised of a series of pop-up art and music events. She currently directs, produces, writes, and hosts Tequila TV, a public-access show in which she interviews musicians and artists. With a dedicated service to public access television for decades, Tequila has created several shows including New Wave Theater, the Dude Magazine TV Show, SCUM Southern California Music Television, and the Cocktail Hour. Tequila has donated materials to Library Special Collections as part of the punk collecting effort; attended punk-related events on campus such as The Zine Explosion... Archived! A Ben is Dead 30th Anniversary Pre-party; presented at the UCLA Conference, Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method; and hosted the Library Special Collections punk collective at her own events such as the 7th Anniversary LA Punk Museum Festival. She spends her free time at home working on her autobiography with her Chihuahua, Regina.

Source: Biography written by Tequila Mockingbird (aka Taquila Mockingbird), Kelly Besser, and Allie Whalen.

Scope and Contents

The Tequila Mockingbird LA Punk Museum collection ranges in date from 1976-2023 and contains U-Matic tapes from record labels for Tequila TV; VHS tapes from Dude TV, Tequila TV, and Van Gogh; an LA Punk Museum calendar and coffee mug; More Mayonnaise issues 4-7, Lost Anarchy issue 13; Bomb City and Duchess de Sade posters; and The Weirdos singer John Denney's jacket and pants.

Arrangement

The existing order of the materials was maintained.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Punk culture -- California -- 20th century

Punk rock music

Tequila Mockingbird, 1956-

LA Punk Museum -- Archives

box 1

Tequila TV U-Matics

Physical Description: 6 audiovisual carriers(6 U-Matic tapes)

Scope and Contents

This box contains U-Matic footage of the following: Tequila TV Fashion, Idol Worship, Terri King, Pygme Love, Circus, Glowing Candles, Luna Stix, Scarlet Fry's Horrorama, Habitrol - Latest Advances in Smokeless Technology.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email spec-coll@library.ucla.edu.

box 2

Tequila TV U-Matics

Physical Description: 6 audiovisual carriers(6 U-Matic tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains U-Matic footage of the following: Tequila TV clips, In and Out Master, Exene Cervenka "All-Tied," "Heterosexual Men," Tequila TV (October 25, 1995), Kipper Jones, Lalah Hathaway, Ziggy Marley, and Skinny Puppy.

box 3

Music video U-Matics

Physical Description: 6 audiovisual carriers(6 U-Matic tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains U-Matic footage of the following: Adventures of Stevie V, Green Jelly, Kingstone, Camper Van Beethoven, Megadeath, and PIL.

box 4

Music video U-Matics

Physical Description: 6 audiovisual carriers(6 U-Matic tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains U-Matic footage of the following: Jim Gable director's reel, Monster Voodoo Machine, Three Eyed Jacks, Posssum Dixon, Neneh Cherry, Keith Richards, The Wallflowers, Verve, and Mo Murphy.

box 5

Music video U-Matics

Physical Description: 6 audiovisual carriers(6 U-Matic tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains U-Matic footage of the following: Lucy's Fur Coat, Green Jelly, PIL, Lock Up, Ben Harper, Shonen Knife, Cracker, Auteurs, Low, Pulp White, and Zaya.

box 6

Tequila and Dude TV tapes

Physical Description: 12 audiovisual carriers(1 U-Matic tape and 11 VHS tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains U-Matic and VHS footage of the following: Dude TV, movie clips, Master's Christmas, Tequila TV, Despair, and Last.

box 7

VHS tapes

Physical Description: 15 audiovisual carriers(15 VHS tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS footage of the following: Beyond Baroque Venice, Nona's Noshom, Day of the Dead (Zombies), WWF Hulk and Savage, 57 Crown, and movie clips.

box 8

Dude TV tapes

Physical Description: 16 audiovisual carriers(15 VHS taps and 1 CD)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS footage of the following: Dude TV, Spinal Tap credits, movie clips, Bewitched, and Evelyne Bennu. The box also contains a CD entitled Eye.

box 9

VHS tapes

Physical Description: 15 audiovisual carriers(15 VHS tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS footage of the following: Adam World's Fastest Painter, England #2, English Frank, MC Audio, Doug's B-day, German 1920s film clips, The Future, Golden Robert Williams, Hank Williams Senior, and Nina Hagen.

box 10

VHS tapes

Physical Description: 15 audiovisual carriers(15 VHS tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS footage of the following: Weed Whore, Mix movie, Vic Vacum and the Attachments, Dr. Demento, The Wasp Woman, Dog Eat Dog, Mad Monster Party, Mother's Day Flower Shop, Tequila's Shop Edit #1, and DP Plower.

box 11

VHS tapes

Physical Description: 14 audiovisual carriers(14 VHS tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS footage of the following: Dragonfly- Blue Period, Car show, Berlin Undercover, Wildflowers, 1999 DooDah footage, Possum Dixon, NoHo Festival, Dude TV with Julie, and Master Vampire.

box 12

VHS tapes

Physical Description: 9 audiovisual carriers(9 VHS tapes)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS footage of the following: Jello party, Market Nona's Notion, Dede Troit, Madonna Justify My Love, Jello edit, CAD party, and Doug's birthday 1998.

box 13

Zines, music, and calendar

Scope and Contents

This box contains Lost Anarchy issue 13, More Mayonnaise issues 4-7, two CDs, and a 2014 Punk Museum calendar.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.

Box contains two CDs: Tequila Mockingbird and the Blonde Moondust "Rockets of Desire" (2023) and 2022 Solstice "The Continual Return of Dr. Ordinaire (a postmodern dark wave rock opera).

box 14

LA Punk Museum red foam mohawk

box 15

John Denney's jacket and pants

Scope and Contents

Jacket and pants designed and worn by Weirdo's singer John Denney. The jacket, signed by Denney and Nicky Beat, includes pins, duct tape, drawings of a drum set and guitar, a tic tac toe board, smiley faces, and the inscription, Fuck Happy.

box 16

LA Punk Museum mug with safety pin handle

folder 17

Duchess de Sade poster

folder 18

Bomb City poster