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Hello and Welcome to Punk Pioneers Podcast and Photos Private Club Membership
I am the most published early punk rock photographer on the West Coast. ~ Jenny Lens, MFA.
Glad You Are Here! Stay Awhile. Have Fun! Rock On …

Join The Punk Pioneers Podcast and Photos Club Membership!
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Hear True Tall Tales of Early Punk. See Rare Photos and Hear just the FACTS behind my Photos To Prove Everything I Share only with YOU!
Don’t be left behind, believing all kinds of distortions about early punk. Or playing guessing games. Get the True Fun Facts!
It’s All Happening in the coolest place online.


Buy a variety of photo prints on my other site: PunkPioneers.com
UPDATING IMAGES ON MY SITE. MISSING PHOTOS ARE BEING REPLACED!!
“Please investigate PUNK PIONEERS by photographer Jenny Lens, who captured the scene so perfectly.” — Henry Rollins, LA Weekly.


“Jenny Lens was not just one of the few photographers chronicling the early punk scene in both North America and London, she was also one of the few women working in a very male-dominated field. Her life is pretty fascinating and made up of the three acts usually associated with characters in movies and novels.” Adorama Camera.
Punk Pioneers Podcast and Photos Private Club
How Does this Work?
So simple! You can listen to audio or look at images or video using any device with an online connection or wifi!
Photos appear larger on most tablets, laptop or computer monitor. But if you prefer a phone, that works too!
Start having fun and get BEST deals, exclusive audio, photos, video and text. Before I raise membership fees!
It’s All Happening! Join Us Now!
So simple! You can listen to audio or look at images or video using any device with an online connection or wifi!
Photos appear larger on most tablets, laptop or computer monitors. But if you prefer a phone, that works too!
Easily install Chrome. Do not use Safari.
You can use your Credit/Debit Card using Stripe, as a guest or log into PayPal.
IF you don’t like PayPal (who charge huge fees on my end) and prefer paying with Venmo, CashApp or another app or method, Write Me! I can manually sign you up.
Whatever is easiest for you. Thank you!
Be sure to write/type/dictate your user name and PASSWORD AND be sure your email is correct when signing up! You’ll need that when you login.
Or you need to provide the email you signed up with and request new sign-in credentials.
Easier to keep a record somewhere secure but accessible.
Never ever share your login info or you will get locked out because your license covers one user only. Plus I’ll find out and kick ya to the curb. Play nicely cos I cannot afford the immense time and cost to do this for you.
Plus it’s against the law.
IF you want more photos and stories, you gotta help pay for the electricity, hardware/software, and time and skills I’ve invested in.
Or I’ll just focus on teaching and creating new art and photos (which would make ME very happy!). But no one will ever see more of my classic, rare, beloved truly unique history of the earliest days and nights of punk, 1976-80, LA POV.
Thank you and have fun!
Read Member Rules for how to contact me and other vital info. Thank you.
One reason I have NOT posted more stories and photos is because some people are mean and rude and liars.
(“Some people give me the creeps,” from “We’re Desperate,” X.)
So I created this PRIVATE SAFE SPACE for us.
I plan on having some live sessions, as well as recorded audio and video.
It’s vital that we treat each other, and especially me, with respect. I should not have to say this, but it’s crazy that mean liars defame my archive and I!
Ok, so let’s have effin’ fun cos we sure need it.
ONLY 1976-80 Bands, Parties, Events, People
I photographed starting with the Ramones first West coast Tour, August 1976 to the Clash 16 Tons Tour in England, June 1980. ONLY.
See my list: Bands, Parties, Venues, People 1976-80.
I did not photograph much hardcore punk cos I hated the mindless violence.
I needed FUN, interesting people in creative, colorful clothes, and songs with lyrics that resonated with me and music that had a beat and you can dance to it. Not thrashing each other in the mosh pit.
Sadly, some of my fave negs and slides were stolen by a woman in the music industry supposedly trying to help me.
I’ve lots scanned, but not all large images. So we’ll deal with hundreds that are available.
Plus stories you’ve never heard or only heard from others. I always said punk is like the 6 blind men and the elephant.
Everyone has their own memories. But I wasn’t drunk and I do have photos. Plus I’ve interviewed many who also didn’t get stoned out of their minds every night.
You’ll feel as if you were there, with the creative people who changed world culture. Fun, historical insights into artists, writers, producers, fans and more.
NOW is your chance to see and hear more than you ever imagined!
All True Tall Tales with My Photos to Prove It!
I created a form that makes it easy to contact me.
Doing this Club takes more time than anyone realizes! I simply cannot be expected to see all comments, all messages on all the various social media out there. I have a life beyond punk!
Thanks for being here. YOU are special!
Questions? Suggestions? Write Jenny Lens.



My Punk Pioneers cover, Debbie Harry, Blondie’s LA debut, the Whisky, Feb 1977. (in Rock Hall of Fame)

The Ramones: Their First West Coast Tours
Hear behind the scenes stories behind published photos (famous and rarely seen). The images above were used, sadly, for their obits.
Shepard Fairey used my images for his iconic Dee Dee Ramone poster. Hear how I took these photos!
I’ll be telling more stories. Members get to tell me what YOU want to know.








“What can you say about Jenny? She is the premiere visual documenter of Southern California punk rock in its vital, earliest era from 1976-1980. Support her, buy her work, keep her archive going – it’s essential!!”
~ David O. Jones, the best chronicler and interviewer of early punk. Awesome bassist too.






“How to Look Punk” in 1977 Hollywood on Lethal Amounts gallery and site magazine.
The following taken from their now removed article, which included many of my photos and quotes from various sources:
“How To Look Punk” exclusively features photos by Jenny Lens, the premier photographer of the first wave of Los Angeles punk rock.
Lens, who shot from 1976-1980, knew how important it was to document the revolutionary fashions that were taking Hollywood Blvd by storm. She was there from literally beginning to end, and her work is the most crucial link in preserving the visual history and fashions of this era.
“I often photographed people based on their creative clothes, dancing, love of partying and posing, in a time when this was rare. The fans who migrated to the Hollywood shows often were colorful, vintage clothes from thrift stores or something they created themselves.” — Jenny Lens, an excerpt from her website, Punk Pioneers.
More fabulous photos of 1977 Hollywood punk style can be found in a lecture posted on YouTube by Jenny Lens, accompanied by a commentary slideshow. Mandatory viewing for anyone thirsty for knowledge about where this fashion came from and the characters that put it on the map.
Buy Museum Quality, Archival Photos, Punk Collage Prints, 12×18, and cool 78 Mini-Print Portfolio and more at PunkPioneers.com
Signed, Unsigned, 8 x 10, 11 x 14, 16 x 20 and some can be larger. See Print FAQs about paper, shipping and other questions people often ask me.Be like the major stars and international collectors from all every strata of society who collect my photos. Great gifts too! No watermarks on prints.
See and Buy Photo Prints. Dive in and explore my other site, PunkPioneers.com. If questions, drop me a line.

Jenny Lens In Action
I’ve always been camera shy, but so glad there’s a few images of myself! I painted my face as if I were Fauve (“Wild Beast”) Matisse on acid.
I made most of my jewelry and some of my clothes. Hollywood punks were a rough crowd. Amazing I got out alive! Gotta be made of strong stuff to survive. But it takes money and time and energy to do all I did then and continue to do.
100% DIY.
There’s more on my About Jenny Lens page.
But … IF you want to hear and read True Tall Tales with Photos (and some vids), you’ll become a Member of the Punk Pioneers Podcast and Photos Club NOW!
You’ll be glad you took that wonderful step to great adventures!!



… the following email is why I have spent all my time, money, energy, focus and put up with more shit and less income than most anyone realizes or believes me… because I get so many lovely emails. THIS especially touched my heart deeply …
Thanks so much Jenny! You are the coolest!!!