Revisiting Punk’s Early Days With a Trio of TSOL Rockers

The original TSOL is back, or at least three-fourths of it is.

Singer Jack Grisham, guitarist Ron Emory and bassist Mike Roche are scheduled to play tonight along with X, the Bags, the Adolescents and the Crowd at an invitation-only concert at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, marking the close of the exhibit “Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk.”

Next month, the TSOL trio, augmented by drummer Danny Westman from Grisham’s solo band, will headline the 17-city Social Chaos Tour, a festival of old-line punk acts that stops July 24 at the Orange Pavilion in San Bernardino. Grisham, Emory and Roche, along with original drummer Todd Barnes, played a series of reunion shows in 1989-91; TSOL, a huge influence on the Offspring, among others, was the hottest-drawing band of the initial Orange County punk boom before the original lineup split up in 1983.

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A QUIET SUMMER: After 14 consecutive summers staging weekly concerts, the Long Beach Museum of Art will not present its eclectic, Wednesday night outdoor series this year. The reason: construction work on a museum expansion project. A spokesman says the series, which has featured an enticing mix of folk, ethnic and rock artists on a lovely, waterfront lawn, will return in July, 2000--possibly with a somewhat reduced seating capacity due to new construction.