Ben Wilcox: “Well, not really, it came from a Little Richard album, a live Little Richard album where they go, “good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the OK Club.” That’s where it came from. It’s just a, you know nice thought that everything’s OK everybody’s OK, with us but not really... Hey edit that part out!”
For more from Ben Wilcox and members of the Slut Boys, such as Donny Crenshaw, consider checking out recently resurfaced archive WFSU posted by Panhandle Punk Productions.
The OK Club was the namesake of the recording and practice space of the notorious Tallahassee punk group The Slut Boys. Their private recording space, not to be confused with a brief venue in the Spring of 1985 of the same name. The 1985 OK Club would host Tallahassee punk bands such as Sector 4 and Persian Gulf. Leading the movement to preserve the history of punk in northern Florida is @80stallypunk on Instagram and also check out their website, Panhandle Punk Productions. Once on the website, I suggest you navigate to the flyer archive, where hundreds of flyers throughout the 1980s from the Tallahassee and North Florida punk scene are availabile to the public.
The OK Club was the namesake of the recording and practice space of the notorious Tallahassee punk group The Slut Boys. Their private recording space, not to be confused with a brief venue in the Spring of 1985 of the same name. The 1985 OK Club would host Tallahassee punk bands such as Sector 4 and Persian Gulf. Leading the movement to preserve the history of punk in northern Florida is @80stallypunk on Instagram and also check out their website, Panhandle Punk Productions. Once on the website, I suggest you navigate to the flyer archive, where hundreds of flyers throughout the 1980s from the Tallahassee and North Florida punk scene are availabile to the public.
As the discussion of DIY and community engagement continues on this blog, this post serves as an encouragement. Whether a Tallahassee native or not, explore your communities history of punk or alternative music, and also understand how you can do it to. How punk, a global movement can fester in various geographic corners is just an example of the dissemination of a counter culture, and a need for self expression. In Tallahassee The Slut Boys, or London The Sex Pistols, its purpose universal while still unique in its own historical, geographic, and cultural context.
Time Capsule 1980: Tallahassee's emerging punk and underground scene