LOS ANGELES Joe Escalante is a compact, gray-at-the-temples, 43-year-old punk rocker wearing a hip Paul Frank plaid shirt. He has played bass in the same band -- the Vandals -- since he was 19. They had a couple of hits in the 1980s that, for the most part, only people in L.A. remember. They still... -
The DJ With the JD
LOS ANGELES Joe Escalante is a compact, gray-at-the-temples, 43-year-old punk rocker wearing a hip Paul Frank plaid shirt. He has played bass in the same band -- the Vandals -- since he was 19. They had a couple of hits in the 1980s that, for the most part, only people in L.A. remember. They still...-
By Hank Stuever