D.O.A.

Vancouver turns loud.

Formation, early shows, Smilin' Buddha, records, road years and later returns, organized as a room visitors can enter from several doors.

Randy Rampage leaping onstage at the Smilin' Buddha.
RR-062 - Flying Randy, Smilin' Buddha, circa 1978. Photo: Bev Davies.

Smilin' Buddha

One jump, one room, one proof of life.

The D.O.A. chapter uses the Flying Randy photograph as an entrance into the early Vancouver punk material, not as a decorative poster.

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D.O.A. performing onstage in May 1979.

Early D.O.A.

Early Vancouver punk material now opens through cleared Bev Davies stage photography instead of repeating the Flying Randy frame.

Open D.O.A. photos
Randy Rampage with D.O.A. members backstage in May 1979.

Backstage

The room can move from the stage into the people around Randy without turning the archive into a generic biography page.

Trace the artifact
Randy Rampage ST EP cover.

Into the EP

The D.O.A. room naturally leads into the 1982 Randy Rampage EP and the people orbiting that record.

Enter the EP