The producers of the awesome looking upcoming documentary, Salad Days: The DC Punk Revolution, on the 1980s Washington, DC punk scene have started a Kickstarter account to raise funding for the project's completion along with a new teaser.

Head over here to their Kickstarter page to contribute.

ABOUT THE MOVIE

SALAD DAYS  is a documentary-in-progress that examines the fertile Washington, DC punk scene of the 1980s. This was a particularly important time in the evolution of punk and independent music, with DC based bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Market Baby, the Faith, the Slickee Boys, Void, Government Issue, Marginal Man, Dag Nasty, 9353, Gray Matter, Beefeater, Scream, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Shudder to Think, Nation of Ulysses, Jawbox and others defining the DC aesthetic. Local record labels like Dischord, Fountain of Youth, Teen Beat, and Simple Machines would become standard-bearers for the DIY revolution. 

WHY NOW

Much has been written about the pre-Nirvana period of American punk
rock, but there's never been an examination of DC's indelible
contribution. We've spent the last year interviewing dozens of
the participants who helped create the local music scene in the 1980s— musicians, photographers, DJs, activists, and writers—to tell the story of one of the most inspiring (and misunderstood) decades in independent music. We've also sorted through hundreds of photos, live videos, flyers and zines for inclusion in the film.

Like countless others, I discovered punk rock as a kid. Growing up in the Washington, DC area I was so taken with what I was witnessing that I started a fanzine and began to document the local scene. Almost 30 years later, I wanted to revisit the people and places that have informed my life and so many others. It's been a hell of a journey so far—but we're not done yet.

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

As we finish up the pre-production phase, we need your help. Your donations will offset the upcoming costs of editing, animation, graphics, mastering, color correction, sound editing, travel and more. We have a daunting task ahead of us—and yet we’re so passionate about telling this story that we’re anxious to share it with the world as soon as we can. We hope SALAD DAYS will see a Q3 2013 release and we have high hopes for its festival run. Thanks in advance for your support—we can’t do it without you!

WHO WE ARE

SALAD DAYS Director/writer SCOTT CRAWFORD is a music journalist, musician and graphic designer. As a teenager in the DC suburbs, he started a fanzine called Metrozine that documented much of what was happening in the DC hardcore punk scene in the 1980s. In 1985, Metrozine (and WGNS) released a 7" compilation called "Alive & Kicking" that featured unreleased tracks by DC area bands Gray Matter, United Mutation, Marginal Man, Beefeater, Cereal Killer and Mission Impossible (featuring a 16 year old Dave Grohl). He was quoted in both Dance of Days and Banned in DC—the two most definitive books on the early DC punk scene. In 2001, he launched Harp magazine and served as its Editor-in-Chief for over 7 years. Crawford also launched the online music portal Blurt (blurt-online.com) in 2009.

Serving as Director of Photography for SALAD DAYS, Jim Saah (jimsaah.com) is a native of Washington, DC who has worked professionally in photography and video for over 25 years. He has shot for a variety of publications and websites ranging from the Washington Post to Rolling Stone.

He's also an experienced videographer whose credits range from union organizing films to music documentaries. Recent films he has worked on include movies about the bands Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie and Eddie Vedder.

Interviews include:

• Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat, Embrace, Fugazi, Evens, Dischord)

• Henry Rollins (SOA, Black Flag, Rollins Band)

• Dave Grohl (Scream, Nirvana, Foo FIghters)

• John Stabb (Government Issue)

• Pete & Franz Stahl (Scream, Wool)

• HR (Bad Brains)

• Joe Lally (Fugazi)

• Kenny Inouye (Marginal Man)

• Dante Ferrando (Iron Cross, Gray Matter, Ignition)

• Jeff Nelson (Minor Threat, 3, Dischord)

• Mary Timony (Helium, Wild Flag)

• Alec Mackaye (the Faith, Ignition, the Warmers)

• Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia)

• Dave Smalley (DYS, Dag Nasty, All, Down By Law)

• Steve Niles (Gray Matter, 3)

• Monica Richards (Strange Boutique)

• Bruce Miles Hellington (9353)

• Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats)

• Jenny Toomey (Tsunami, Simple Machines) 

• Boyd Farrell (Black Market Baby)

• Bobby Sullivan (Soulside)

• Jason Farrell (Swiz, Bluetip, Retisonic)

• J. Robbins (Government Issue, Jawbox, Burning Airlines)

• Kevin Seconds (7 Seconds)

• Mark Andersen (Positive Force founder, author of "Dance of Days")

• Mark Sullivan (Kingface)

• Tonie Joy (Moss Icon)

• Shawn Brown (Dag Nasty, Swiz)

• Jim Spellman (High Back Chairs, Velocity Girl)

• Steve Hansgen (Minor Threat, Second Wind)

• Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion)

• Jon Spencer (Pussy Galore, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)

• Mark Robinson (Unrest, Teen Beat)

• Amy Pickering (Fire Party)

• Skeeter Enoch Thompson (Scream)

• Fred "Freak" Smith (Beefeater, Strange Boutique)

Check out the newly released teaser below along with an older teasers.