In the mid-70s, guitarist and vocalist Kim Salmon dreamed of playing punk music in his hometown of Perth, the isolated capital city of western Australia. Though he initially had nothing to work from except a six-weekold issue of NME and a Ramones record, by the summer of 1978 he’d spent time in one of Perth’s few early punk bands, the Cheap Nasties, before joining up with local group the Exterminators, which morphed into a new group he christened the Scientists.…
In the mid-70s, guitarist and vocalist Kim Salmon dreamed of playing punk music in his hometown of Perth, the isolated capital city of western Australia. Though he initially had nothing to work from except a six-weekold issue of NME and a Ramones record, by the summer of 1978 he’d spent time in one of Perth’s few early punk bands, the Cheap Nasties, before joining up with local group the Exterminators, which morphed into a new group he christened the Scientists.…