RUNNERS-UP: Bruce Henderson (the Standing Waves); Jesse Sublett (the Skunks); Vince Bryant (Extreme Heat); Chris Gates (Big Boys); Steve Zirkel (Beto y los Fairlanes); Roscoe Beck (Passenger); Keith Ferguson (the Fabulous Thunderbirds); Spencer Starnes (Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure); Lee Shupp (the Droogs); Rob Hammond (Nasty Habits); Cola Rodriguez (Austin Jazz All-Stars); David Cardwell (the Lift); Tony Kinman (Rank & File); Vic Reames (the Jitters); Hugh Contrast (Agent I); Walter Collie (the Explosives); Kathy Valentine (the Violators, the Go-Gos)

This article appears in March 5 • 1982 and March 5 • 1982 (Cover).

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