Episode 14: Jone Stebbins (The Wrecks, Imperial Teen)

Jone Stebbins was guitarist and a founding member of all-girl early 80’s hardcore punk pioneers, Reno, NV.’s The Wrecks. She and bassist Bessie Oakley also produced the beloved and influential Paranoia fanzine in that era. Since the 1990’s she has been making music with Wrecks drummer Lynn Perko-Truell as bassist of Bay Area super-group Imperial Teen. Jason and Jone became friends in 1983 as penpals, they met later that year when she and Bessie spent a number of months in Los Angeles running Shawn Stern’s BYO record label. The conversation tracks her path as a self-proclaimed seeker of all things weird. We follow along from her early teen discovery in the late 70's of ‘midnight movie’ screenings like Rocky Horror Picture Show to her immersion in the DIY participation culture of early- 80’s hardcore punk, the formation of The Wrecks and Paranoia, her move to the Bay Area in the late 80’s and her life in music and culture from that era through to today. It’s a fun and inspiring conversation. Thank you so much for listening. TM Pod theme by Jason Traeger Music: The Wrecks "I Love to Shoplift" and "Punk is an Attitude" from their 1982 "Teenage Jive" demo,