Adult Crash will be playing Punk Rock Rodeo, a 2-day fest that will take place in Ocean Beach, California on March 20th and 21st. The fest’s founder and curator, Zak Prescott, is a local of the scene and was raised in Lemon Grove, California. He is also the singer of Big Attitude, who will be playing the fest as well. Zak is a husband, father, and full-time employee who has managed to garner the time and energy to lasso 50 bands (local, national, and international), and a DJ, as well as the venues, sound gear, and support staff to bring his vision of punk to the ears, eyes, hearts, and minds of all that will converge and cram shoulder to shoulder into various venues along the downtown strip in this coastal community in San Diego. I believe my first contact with Zak would have been seeing his band, The Jakked Rabbits, playing one night, in the dirt, above the Balboa Park Velodrome, powered only by a generator. Years later, I met Zak when Adult Crash played Lemon Grove for the first time. We were more than impressed by the positive, energetic, and thriving scene that Zak, his band PSO, and all the kids and bands involved had created. Zak’s roots go deeper. Having been raised by the guidance of parents involved in the earlier San Diego punk scene, he and his siblings were immersed in punk and skating. And while this is great, I can’t help but think that more importantly this was an upbringing, not without struggle, but with an attention on positivity, creation, and love. This is reflected in the fertile ground of punk that blossomed in Lemon Grove, and it is this same attention to positivity, creation, and love that Zak brings to Punk Rock Rodeo. -Tim Both Adult Crash and Big Attitude play on Saturday, March 21st.