sentences:  The Controllers were part of the rapidly growing LA punk rock scene in 1977, even becoming favorites at Brendan Mullen's underground club The Masque.They were the first band to play an advertised show at The Masque and the last to play there in any form in 1996 at a record release party held by Exene Cervenka.Their debut releases, in 1978, was the "Neutron Bomb" single on the seminal punk label, What Records?