Trowsers was an early 1980s group which released a single and two albums, Solitary Confinement and Drop ‘Em. Members included Joyce Rooks, from early San Diego punk groups like the Dinettes (an all-female ensemble for much of its existence) and the Cockpits, and Richard Cracknell, who doubled as a strip club DJ at the time.
“I joined the Cockpits in 1978 by answering a Reader ad,” recalled Rooks in 2010. “I had a guitar and amp and a cello which I kept hidden, as it didn’t seem punk rock enough at the time.” The Cockpits played their first gig at Porter's Pub at UCSD; after several membership changes, including latterday male players like future Beat Farmer Country Dick Montana, the group essentially morphed into the Dinettes.
Rooks next joined Trowsers, a ska/reggae band which Runaways mastermind Kim Fowley had a fleeting interest in. Fpr much of 1980, they played several nights a week at the Zebra Club. "I was working 8-5 at Licorice Pizza in Chula Vista," recalls Sue Delguidice, "then playing from 9-1am, getting home at 3am, then back to work. You can do that in your twenties!"
Rooks recalls “After the Trowsers, I hooked up with the Penetrators as a backup singer. Along the way, I would sing with the Country Dick Montana’s Pleasure Barons Revue and record with the Beat Farmers.”