Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 41-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
With the International Pop Underground (1991) a one off, the YoYo A Gogo team jumped in three years later to make a tradition out of punks, weirdos and nerds taking over Olympia, Wash.’s downtown core. Hard to believe the first YoYo was 30 years agogo. I was recently interviewed about the event along with Lois, Nikki McClure and others.
“One More Safe” from Jarred Up (K, 1993) (download):