spheeris debut must be one of the best music documentary of all time . and as far a i know it also the only one that focus on the l. a. punk explosion of the early eighty . it all there represent not just great and great band like black flag and fear and x and the germ and whose name may not mean much to you today and but whose influence on today alternative rock music can not be over estimate and but also the promoter and the medium and first of all the audience the punk all portray in a manner that make you laugh and shudder and gasp with astonishment about the energy and the anger and the fury these youth put into their music . where be that today . the eighty may have suck big time when it cames to mainstream music and but the underground be rock . if you need a proof for that and watch fear performance in decline . unmatched . great film . how come this be not available on vid and ld or dvd . p. s. the follow up decline pt . ii be hilarious and too .