Canadian punk legend Joe Keithley is fond of espousing the "rhetoric without response is useless" philosophy in his music and his life.

But for his new book, he went to a more positive equation -- history plus images gives the complete picture.

Keithley (a.k.a. Joey S--thead) has just released Talk - Action = O: An Illustrated History of D.O.A., a sort of coffee table tome chronicling the almost 35-year career of one of this country's most enduring and influential groups through the use of personal anecdotes and remembrances, supplemented with a healthy dose of poster art, photos, ticket stubs and album covers from his private collection.

"Well, I'm not going to be featured on Hoarders, so that's the good thing," Keithley laughs about putting the dozen or so boxes of memorabilia to good use. "It was really by accident that I hung onto all this stuff."

And a happy one at that. The 300-page, full colour compendium is an almost priceless piece of musical history -- a history that began with punk's beginnings and grew with it and helped shape it over the course of three and a half decades and across the globe, crossing paths with such legendary artists as the early torchbearers the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, X, The Circle Jerks and The Ramones, and latter day champions such as Nirvana. It's also the perfect companion to Keithley's 2004 autobiography I, S---head: A Life In Punk, a project which got him thinking about how he could further tell his, D.O.A.'s and the music's story.

"I went into Arsenal Pulp Press to talk about doing a book like this," he says. "The publisher agreed and thought it was a good idea. So I went through the boxes last November pulled out about three-or four-hundred of what I thought were the best images, put them in a couple of big boxes, went downtown, dumped them on their big boardroom table upside down and said, 'There's your f---ing book.'"

Well, not quite. Keithley admits putting it all in chronological order was something of a time consuming procedure, but one that jogged many memories for the West Coaster. One that springs to mind immediately is one of the earliest entries in the book, a handwritten poster for one of the early incarnations of D.O.A., Stone Crazy, complete with spelling error and another mistake blocked out with bold marker.

"That's my one and only poster," he says and laughs.

And while there are a whole host of other slapped together flyers featured in the book, there are also a great many more that show the sometimes forgotten art of the punk gig poster, which, back in the '80s and '90s, was D.I.Y. but could also be remarkably creative.

"I really like the approach back then because it was very homemade and very guerrilla," he says. "You don't see artwork or posters and albums like that any more.

"When the band sees the poster and it's something good, then I'll always let the artists, or at least the people connected with the club, know that, 'Hey that's great.'"

Another highlight of the book is seeing the names of the great clubs that have come and gone over the years -- the great and not-so great venues that helped the movement -- not to mention some of the acts that D.O.A. have shared a bill with.

Ultimately, the mirth and the musical memories should be enough for the casual or avid punk fan, painting a pretty complete picture of the lengthy scene. But for Keithley, the process and the result also go a long way to showing exactly what attracted him to the music, initially, and what keeps him going, which he hopes is a lesson not lost one the punks of today.

"What I wanted to try to do with this book was show people that it wasn't just this chaotic, nihilistic thing that was known as punk rock from those days. ... It really had a point. There's a lot of politics and it's reflected in the book in the political posters and the narration that goes along with it," says Keithley, who once ran in the provincial election as a Green party candidate.

"There was a point to this whole thing. That's why we still do it and kept doing it the whole time."

"There's not enough bands out there saying what they think about what's going on in the world. And what's going on in the world is not really that great in a lot of cases ... I thought the world was a messed up place when I was younger and I just didn't realize how messed up it was."

Rocker Sebastian Bach became so infuriated with an unruly fan at a gig over the weekend, he ordered security guards to throw him out of the venue.

The former Skid Row star was performing in Raleigh, North Carolina when he spotted an apparently abusive male in the audience.

Midway through a track, Bach pointed at the man and shouted at him to leave immediately - before urging security staff to remove the fan from the premises.

In a film clip posted online, Bach can be seen telling the mystery man, "Hey, come here. Come here mother f**ker... get the f**k out of here. I want this guy to get the f**k out of here. F**k you. F**k you. Goodbye... get him out. You're a f**king a**hole, f**k you.

"Get him the f**k out of here, otherwise I'll get him the f**k out of here."

The rocker continued his set after the man was removed from the venue