Infused with a powerful guitar attack and Sublett's active, up-front electric bass, The Skunks' sound is best represented in songs like "Cheap Girl" and "Push Me Around", both of which appeared on the first Austin punk compilation album, Live at Raul's.
[4] The Violators co-headlined their opening gig at Raul's with a band, which featured, along with Jesse Sublett, Kathy Valentine who would later join the Go-Go's, Carla Olson and Marilyn Dean.
Local Austin punk bands which sprouted from this scene included The Explosives, The Dicks, The Huns, The Big Boys, Terminal Mind, Sharon Tate's Baby, and Butthole Surfers.
Founders Jesse Sublett and Eddie Munoz started played together in the glam blues band Jelly Roll from 1975 to 1977 before recruiting Billy Blackmon and forming the initial lineup of The Skunks.
Bassist Jesse Sublett, guitarist Jon Dee Graham, and drummer Billy Blackmon's muscular power punk is still as potent and danceable now as it was 20 years ago.