Monday, June 27, 2011

The Modern Lovers Sign With Warner Brothers! David, Ernie, Jerry and Jonathan

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Flush from all that cash from "Billion Dollar Babies," Warner Brothers takes the plunge (sort of) . . . .
Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Kings of LA circa 1981-82: Flesh Eaters, X, Gun Club, Minutemen/Non Plus Magazine

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If I can figure out how to post these tapes I will. State of the art technology in the early 80's = cassette magazine. Based on the $....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

"Velvet Underground: Music and Mystique Unveiled" in June 1970/When Mel Brooks met Mel Lyman by Proxy

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I swear when the Velvets decided to reform and tour Europe in 1990, it was pretty tempting to sell everything I had at the time and go follo...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Someone Saved My Life Tonight/Iggy, Elton and the Gorilla Suit/"I Simply Can't Understand Why Iggy Isn't a Huge Star"

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Some of the more interesting rock reads are those where there is on the surface an incongruity between the writer and the subject material. ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ask Henry Rollins "What's New for '82?"/Real Bands and Fake Bands/"People Are Going to Get Smarter"/"No More Robot Skaters"

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From "lifestyle" magazine Action Now, January 1982. Same issue which features a review of "Damaged" and calls it "...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Juncosa!

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Found this one in the barn and figured it would look pretty great on a t-shirt. Ok, I'll admit it. I saw SWA countless times during th...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Claude Bessy Sings the Beatles

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As a follow-up to the recent post on Claude Bessy, some additional pieces for Bessyologists are floating around the web. The first Bessy cli...