White Pride/Immoral Attitude

DATE: Saturday, May 5, 1984
BAND: White Pride/Immoral Attitude
VENUE: Packing House - 5075 Packing House Road, Denver CO
COURTESY OF: Elaine Cantrell
PROMOTER: Lick It Up/Summit SS
COMMENT: This show didn't happen.  However, to say it was controversial is an understatement.  White Pride was an ill-conceived joke band contrived by a group of St. Louis, Missouri punks (including Mike Doskocil, later of Drunks With Guns) looking to get a rise out of the bastion of punk political correctness that was Maximum Rock n Roll, a widely-distributed fanzine out of Berkeley, CA.  At the time, a schism was evolving in punk audiences that had fascist-curious skinheads and their ilk on one side of the spectrum and leftist 'peace punks' on the other side.  Tom Headbanger urged a boycott of White Pride, and there was a local backlash of anti-racism pamphlets and letters to fanzines.