Spot landed in Hermosa Beach, California in the mid-1970s. A serious musician, he helped build Media Art Recording Studio and stumbled into photojournalism via Easy Reader, the local news weekly. Hermosa proved to be a crossroads abounding with oddball roller skaters who were mostly overshadowed by Venice's disco rollers and Dogtown-inspired skate youth. Then, in the late seventies, the South Bay was at the vanguard of a cultural shift fueled largely by the burgeoning Southern California music scene. Spot became the in-house producer and engineer at SST Records; the label founded in 1978 by Greg Ginn as a vehicle for Black Flag - the band that defined LA hardcore. Between 1979 and 1985, he recorded, mixed, produced, or co-produced most of SST's pivotal acts, working on all of Black Flag's greatest releases as well as classic albums by The Minutemen, Misfits, Meat Puppets, Descendents, Big Boys, Dicks, Subhumans, Hüsker Dü, and more. Throughout this period, Spot relentlessly photographically documented various local subcultures. As this volume reveals, there was no distinction between the musical and the visual - Spot heard what he saw, and saw what he heard - hence, its title. Spanning the late sixties through the early eighties, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening is published by Sinecure Books, edited by Johan Kugelberg, and features an introduction by Ryan Richardson. It offers amazing, until now unseen portraits of sun-glazed Southern California's surf, sand, and wild wheels as well as its mosh pits, darkened alleyways, and rehearsal spaces.