"At (UC Davis campus radio station) KDVS it felt a little like a political coup because the ‘old guard’ was playing very hip stuff, a lot of prog rock, a lot of things which I love now - folk, blues - but we were like, “Man, that’s all cool but we want to play punk rock.”
 There were maybe fifty people in town who were into punk and a lot of them ended up in bands; Guy Kyser was in Thin White Rope, the people from Dream Syndicate and True West, and Scott Miller was in Alternative Learning.
  Tom Gracyk was KDVS music director; he was the one to tell us about the New York Dolls, the Flaming Groovies or bands just before punk, and then all the punk bands.
 Peter Afterman was in charge of booking shows for the campus and he had a really good sense for bands that weren’t that big yet, but were really good and might get bigger. He managed to book all these great acts into the UC Davis Coffee House around 1977-78: Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Elvis Costello (with nobody there), Rockpile, Devo, The Police. More mainstream things like Dire Straits and Emmy Lou Harris - the Talking Heads a couple of times - all these great shows!"
 Steve Wynn, Suspects/Dream Syndicate

"KDVS acted like a carrot for us. If you put together a tape of your band that was good enough, you could actually hear it on the airwaves. I remember that being quite a thrill. But I had no idea that things were happening either more or less successfully here than any other college town in the world."
 Scott Miller, Alternate Learning/Game Theory

"Steve Packenham, Kendra and I, and Gavin Blair formed this band called The Suspects - we were the first new-wave band in Davis, California, a university town."
 Russ Tolman, Suspects/The Meantime/True West

"The Ramones and the Sex Pistols had a lot to do with getting me pissed off enough to get in a band in the first place."
 Guy Kyser, Thin White Rope, Mummydogs

Note: Links to source interviews coming; much editing/paraphrasing has been done; contact me at robert@angrylambie.com