Los Angeles Police Department, using the aggressive nature of punk rock shows and audiences as the excuse to raid the venue, attacked the audience and musicians, beating them severely. Investigating the incident, Monitor's O'Connell interviewed the Rampart Division sergeant and published a critical editorial on the event in Slash magazine, the premiere Los Angeles punk tabloid. The incident was also the topic of Alice Bag's film A Riot of Our Own. The Tikis In early 1981, the members of Monitor released a 7" single under the band name The Tikis, with two tracks: "Junie," a cheesy-pop satire about spontaneous combustion, and "Surfadelic", an instrumental with a surf-rock-inspired sound. Their only release as The Tikis, each record included a coupon that could be mailed (with a self-addressed, stamped envelope) to receive a free, handmade tiki pendant created by one of the band members. Influences The location and timing of the collective's upbringing heavily influenced the nature of their work. The collective began during the post-Space Age/pre-Internet era of the late 1970s when much of the optimistic futurism of the earlier era had fallen out of fashion, but at a time when communication and information distribution was localized, physical in nature, and slowly paced. The collective often references science (in general) as an influence and, more specifically, Nikola Tesla. Other stated influences include "The Church," "our moms", and a semi-fictional character, Herb Lane. Musically, the collective cited bands that they liked, such as The Screamers, People, Human Hands, and Phranc. Though their music clearly reflects their interest in the early Western classical canon from the medieval era through the baroque, as well as a concurrent nod to international indigenous pieces of music and cheesy pop—most notably the faux exotica of Martin Denny—they have stated "really, no one, ourselves" to the question of their direct influences, and have noted that their music tended to be created by accident. Their work also reveals strong influence from "cultural artifacts", "icons—from tikis to televisions", mass entertainment (Disneyland, in particular), and the "decaying vision of the future conceived of in the 1950s". That's mainly what we want to do, make our music and art the same thing ... The process is kind of important because we usually make our music by accident ... Like we'll be playing just nothing, and we'll accidentally come upon something, and in our art, we do the same thing. We just sort