Saturday, July 30, 2011

Brian Wilson Arrives at Auckland International Airport

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We have previously posted Roxy Music's 1975 Cleveland airport arrival here . Not sure why New Zealand didn't field a bigger fan arr...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Some Toy Love Love (and Tall Dwarfs)/Toy Love Week in Dunedin

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Gotta love Chris Knox's favourite lps circa 1979: "Help," "Strictly Personal," "Wee Tam," "Plastic On...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

SST at the Masque aka the South Bay Hits Hollywood/Corporate Rock Still Sucks/Unpacking My Library

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For some reason I have always drawn dividing lines between the early Los Angeles/Hollywood punk scene at the Masque and the SST revolution t...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Thee Morrisons/Let's Hear It for the Singer/G-L-O-R-I-A!/L'America

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Done with comparative law study for the moment and back to more important things. In 2011, are there still any rockist types who dislike th...
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...