Update 06-14-2008
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Best of Burning Man: Fire Dancers, Steampunk Tree House and More, thanks Sweejak
The Man Burns for a Second Time
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Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland
How green was my Burning Man?
Other takes
What some local Burners say about 'The Green Man'
AMerican Drug War
shitdogs less one
Apr 11, 2008 5:23 AM
posted by Crow Dog 1
From BR Advocate.
William Robert "Bill" Mallory
An archaeologist and a writer for Prentice Thomas and Associates in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., he left life much too early on Thursday, April 3, 2008. A native of Palatka, Fla., he was born July 31, 1949. He is survived by his sister, Jody Mallory, DeRidder; and many dear friends. Service will be at Chaddick Funeral Home, DeRidder, on Saturday, April 12, at 10 a.m. Many will remember Bill as the bass player for the S' Dogs and a longtime employee of Leisure Landing Records in Baton Rouge. Bill was preceded in death by his parents, William Buford Mallory and Gwen Singletary Mallory. He was loved for his talent, encyclopedic mind, eccentricity, intellectualism, sweeping imagination, musicianship and enduring friendship. "In Hawkwind we trust."
Published in The Advocate on 4/10/2008.
Arsonist Burns Burning Man Early
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Another Samba Rio, Vid
2007 Kentucky Artcar Weekend, thanks Alan Evil
Chico Rock City
A semi-illustrated look at 30 years of local music
A.O.T.M.F.(ATTACK OF THE MOTHERFUCKERS)
"Well-known Chico musician dead at 54"
By HEATHER HACKING - Staff Writer
Article Launched: 01/15/2008 02:29:17 PM PST
Chico rockabilly front-man Matt Hogan died early Sunday morning, Jan. 13, at Enloe Medical Center. He was 54. A staple on the music scene for decades, Hogan was the leader for the band the Incredible Diamonds as well as playing with several other groups. Hogan died of natural causes, and a memorial is being planned by his family. Hogan was born in Red Bluff and grew up in Hamilton City. "He had one lesson from a friend" when he was in his early teens, said his sister, Mary Johnston, "and he never put the guitar down again." "He found his passion at that point of his life," and was self-taught, she said. Johnston said Hogan liked all kinds of music and was interested in helping local music thrive. She said many times he was asked to play a gig, and if Hogan couldn't do it, he would find somebody who could. "Matt's passion was playing music and it wasn't necessarily to make a bunch of money," she said. It was always about doing what he wanted to do and for people to have a good time, she said. Long-time friend and Incredible Diamonds drummer Clint Bear played with Hogan's band for nine years. "When I first met the four-eyed guy," was in the early 1990s, Bear said. Before Normal Street Bar, that location was owned by Mark McGowan, where Hogan held an open blues band. "He let all the local musicians play. We were just kids then," Bear said. Friend Lynette Frost said Hogan was "notoriously known" for playing his guitar while roaming through the audience. He'd take the guitar outside and play behind his head, she recalled. "Matt was the Incredible Diamonds," said Frost. "The band members were constantly changing," Bear said. "Everybody played with them, whoever he would roust up." Among the bands he also played with was Brutilicus Maximus. "He really enjoyed that. He got to let loose," because when he played with Brut Max he didn't have to be the front-man, Bear said. He was also a "Lonesome Cowboy," playing with Danny West. Hogan also made a point to perform at the Hamilton City levee festivals, events that were held to raise money to reinforce the failing levee on the West side of the Sacramento River. Another of his favorite venues was the Bambi Inn in Butte Meadows, Frost said. Beyond the music, Bear said Hogan's personality is memorable. "He was so charismatic. You could spend five-10 minutes with the guy and you would think he was your best friend. He made people feel comfortable. He could find something in common with everyone." Close friends may remember Hogan best for his stories. "He was always full of some story, some information that was interesting," Bear said. And he was always telling jokes, often repeating them the next time a person ran into him. One example still managed to crack Bear up Tuesday afternoon. Hogan would ask "have you seen my pride and joy?" Then Hogan would open up his wallet, and he had a picture of Pride furniture polish and Joy dish soap. Bear said he pulled this gag for years. "He probably had that in his wallet when he died," Bear said. "He would just bust that out. It was a crackup." "He wanted to enjoy every day," Bear said. "He lived every day in the moment, always just dealing with right now. He didn't always look into the future and didn't really dwell in the past. It was just right there, right now."
Staff writer Heather Hacking
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Remember Where You Heard It FirstHe performed "Man in Black" on the show. "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down/Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town/I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime/But is there because he’s a victim of the times."
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"Cold Cold Winter"
music by Naomi Vice
thanks Alex
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks-I Feel Like Singing - 1974
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Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks-Soda Fountain Baby 1974
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Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks-Long Come A Viper 1974
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Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks-Payday 1974
featuring Naomi and MaryAnn
TOOTHLESS WHA and JOHNNY
Rev. First Duval Russell - MIB, Cyle Chafin, Tony Quinones and Brian Prior
Sunday, July 1, 2007
with The Lost Loco Motives
@ The Maltese
1600 Park Ave
Chico, CA
9:00 pm
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be there!
Gig Hype by AlexMackinum
Allrighty then folks...its that time!!! Come on down to "The MALTESE" on park avenue in CHICO CALIFORNIA....just 90 miles north of "Arnoldland" (Sacramento)...Show starts at um...8pm(-ish...lol) Be prepared for a good show cuz weve been practicing without a gig forever, so obviously were ready to Perform flawlesly....of course it is a bar....and we all have put are hard drinking days behind us...(O_o) well ...we will see...but anyways be it a perfect performance or a total "Train-Wreck" it will be in a comfortable place with good drink prices....oh and a nice patio for those who like too smoke and drink at the same time,lol
Hope too see you there!! Yer Pa,l Alex M =D
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Bryan Ferry apologizes for Nazi remarks
The 61-year-old lead singer of Roxy Music told Germany's Welt Am Sonntag newspaper last month: "The way that the Nazis staged themselves and presented themselves, my Lord!
"I'm talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags -- just fantastic. Really beautiful."
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NEGATIVLAND, 05-14-2000, Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans
Review by Rev. First Duval
The East Bay phenom, cyber-punk, electronic, head fuck, noise, revolutionary ensemble known as Negativland has launched a 15 city campaign throughout North America. From what I hear, the band has only performed a known 24 times in 20 years, but sport 18 CD's, 2 films and a book in their huge catalog. For both devotees and Nega-curious, all felt lucky enough to be there and lucky that New Orleans was a stop on this "True or False" tour. Negativland hadn't played in seven years and have no new project to push, beside this 2 ˝ hour special, multi-media performance.
Now their web site stated that they would be doing some old favorites, but this was hardly the case; not that I'm complaining about hearing their unreleased new material for the first time. There was no "car bomb", no U2(aside from a poka version of "I still haven't found what I'm looking for"), no "Time Zones", nothing from "Helter Stupid", no "Christianity is Stupid", no Cassie Cassum(although his image was montaged in throughout the slide show), and no "Guns". There was however, a first time live appearance by Pastor Dick, who delivered a scathing attack against organized Christianity, along with his Manger Babies parody from "King of the Hill" and a very funny video story of his on the number 180 and the letter G, an obvious variation on their use of the letter U and number 2 legal stance. They also performed several cuts off their "DESIPEPSI" CD, taking digs at McDonalds along with the cola wars. The rest of the set was a marathon, sight n'sound bombardment of controlled racket, five 16mm projectors, numerous slide projectors, tape loops, film loops, turntable scratching, treated drum machines, samplers and synths. Exercising their "Fair Use" option of the U.S. copyright law, they ripped into "the Sound of Music", "Titantic" and Henry Mancini. This was all done with their tell tale sense of razor shape humor, in the tradition of Zappa and The Residents. Asking the musical question, " What is true in this culture of too much information?" The answer being "THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE NOISE !!!!!" Negativland.COM
Larry 'Bud' Melman, Dead at 85
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Lennon's Conviction: You Can Change The World
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Idiocracy, the feel-bad comedy of the year
The View from the Bandstand by Lou Reed
JOHN SINCLAIR
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"Lou’s Always Dreaming,"Reflections of an evening with Lou Reed….by Duval Russell
Posted Dec. 2, 2006
Lou Reed - Song and Noise, Nov. 5, 2006
Laxson Auditorium, Chico, CA
"The image of the poet is in the breeze," and so it was that crisp fall evening when myself, "my wife," and about 1000 others Chicoans spent a few hours with Lou Reed. It’s been a few weeks since the show, the tears have dried up a bit and I decided to commit to silicon the memories and impressions of that night before hey "just slip away." Lou popped out on stage in a gray tee shirt and faded gray jeans, looking all of 125 lbs., about as skinny as my bony ass. He cast a figure of Dorian Grey since from my P.O.V. he hadn’t aged a bit since ‘82. He threw his open palms up and said, "Here I am." We could hardly believe it. No one was screaming out song titles, insults or throwing things at the stage. We shut the fuck up and gave Lou our complete attention for two hours. It took Lou a couple of songs to figure out that we were taking him seriously and he settled in and then he "whipped it on us Jim." Lou played with only longtime mate Fernando Saunders and Rob Wasserman, no drums. As Lou explained, "You miss a lot of things when you play with drums, … like the words!" Wasserman skillfully bowed an electronic upright bass through quad effects all night, while Fernando jumped on and off on electric cello, 5 string electric bass guitar ( looked like an old Music Man model ), a black strat with a skinny telecaster neck ( this looking like my current axe, besides the custom neck ), and sang the high parts. He was wearing Arabic robes and sported a blond wig, giving the impression that he was a woman. Then I noticed his height, hand size, etc… "hey," I said to myself, "that’s Fernando in drag." "Shaved his legs and then he was a she, I say hey man." So the poet’s voice and words were way up front, while he strummed his custom guitars and the strings through the house board were like a live string quartet. Simply beautiful.
If one came to the show looking for nostalgia, you may or may not have been satisfied. Lou performed none of the hits/classics that have made him a household name. The only oldie but moldy tune he did was "Femme Fatale", and he didn’t even sing that on the original. He took the beginning of that song to talk and imitate Nico, reliving conversations between him and the German bombshell from more than 40 years ago. He asked at one point, "How long have I been doing this?" "40 years!" "That’s not possible (in his best Ruth Gordon voice from "Rosemary’s Baby"). I wasn’t even born then." Most of the nostalgia came from a piece he called, "An Imaginary Page from Andy Warhol’s Diary." He played synth for this song and announced that Andy did keep a diary, "which I’ve read,…and read." So he takes you through a day in the life of Andy Warhol, doing it all in his best first hand imitation Andy voice and character. In this he gets around to mentioning and gossiping about others we may well know. He talks about John Cale and about Andy’s feelings about himself (Lou Reed). Other Factory regulars are mentioned only by first name, so one has to have dome their homework to get the gist. Talking as Andy being driven to the Factory, " there’s that park where the kids gather to play, what’s that? Frisbee. That looks like fun. I’d like to have some fun sometimes, but no, I’m always working." A good half of the set came from his 2003 release "The Raven". He seems to be satisfied with it and may deserve a purchase or download. He mentions playing the 310 club at 5:00 am, people who were there then had related that to us on all night underground gigs in San Francisco; it made hitting the stage at 4:30 am so much more tolerable.
Then at the end of the show the poet got really serious, almost morbid. He did this song call "Dreaming", which details the deterioration and death of someone close, some one he loved. The poet’s loss, our loss, our pain and hurt. "The last time I saw you, you were in your room sitting in your big red chair with a tube in your arm. Still smoking that cigarette. Man did you get skinny. They said when you went you went screaming. You deserved better than that. You were always laughing, but you never laughed at me. Dreaming, I’m always dreaming." At this point I mistakenly thought that Sylvia had died and I think to myself, "Alright Lou, you’re hitting a little too close to home to call this entertainment." We began to ball like children. Last year I had a close brush with lung cancer. My wife cried for four months. I'm still sick, just not dead. My wife and I had fallen in love to Lou’s songs about Sylvia, now we thought she was gone. I’m still here, but she’s not? We weep some more. So it turns out that "Dreaming" has nothing to do with the death of Sylvia, but we didn’t know that then. Its really about the decay and death of two loves in Lou’s life, Doc Pomus ( rock and roll legend) and Rotten Rita ( a tranny meth connect at the Factory back in the day ).
People asked me after the show, "Hey Duval, how was Lou Reed?" "He made me cry like a bitch," was my response, "I guess that’s what poets do."
Reply: Naomi Vice
http://www.myspace.com/naomivice
Date: Dec 2 2006 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: Lou's Always Dreaming
Great review........ I was actually in a band with Rob wasserman around 1973. We played Dixie land jazz and I sang and played violin. Dan Hicks is now married to claire wasserman , Robs x.
The band played at the holiday inn in china town and i,d have to drive to marin pretty shit faced at 2;30 in the morning. I saw nico perform at the on broadway but I don,t remember what year. she was solo and was playing some wierd keyboard. She was fabulous, she was nico. My favorite andy worhol charactor was viva. Inabout 1995 i was in a band and a drag queen was nico, I was john cale and my friend lou read was lou reed. We did the songs from the album with the banana on it at the paradise lounge for awhile.around 1974 I was down in Hollywood and ran into tom baker a real andy worhol charactor (I Man) we hung out. also I,m a friend of hollywoodlawn. We had the same manager in 1978 and we partied together.If i had stayed in ny I may have been in that scene. When dan hicks and the hot licks played max,s kansas city in new york some of andy,s crowd were there. All i remeber was there was herion at our front door when we stayed in ny and played there in 71or72?It reminded me when I saw that movie about jim morrison and the scene when they play nyc. all of a sudden the drugs changed from the west coast to the east at that time and the vibe was so F****** different.I think that was the beginning of the hot licks trip into nodland.
Good article duval... yeah, naomivice
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"Sweet Jane, the Velvets, '68
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He wrote the monster mash
Naomi Vice
Posted Oct. 27, 2006
I would like to take this time to pay tribute to my friend Lenny Capeezie who wrote the monster mash. I had the luck to meet lenny when I performed at the Troubador in the early 70's. He told me he wrote that song when He was l6.Lenny came from Boston and had been in do-wop street accapello groups with his brothers.He traded his pompadore for a poneytail and moved to california. When he left L.A.' He moved to northern ca. and had a band called the Mendicino allstars. Every time I,d see Lenny he'dpeak of buying his mom a house with his residuals. I ran into him again in Sonoma at the in of the beginning. He was now a proud father. I lost contact with Lenny after that. In l987 I was taking a trip to my old hood Flushing Queens drivin in a rent a car down Northern Blvd. It was Oct.31st. The monster mash came on and I felt like I was 11 years old again. At the end of the song the D.J came on and said Lenny Capeeziei Died of an overdose. I'll always think of you lenny and me and maryann Jammin with you and singin at the Continental Riot in Hollywood. Lenny is mentioned in the movie American Hot Wax Lenny you are a true Graveyard flash. Don't throw this E mail in the trash. Send it to a friend. Naomi Vice.
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Henry Rollins-"freedom is under attack"
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It's curtains down for 'punk' club CBGB in Manhattan
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The basic nut of the story is that groups such as the Dead were encourged as a strategy to deflect the anti-war and other elements of the 60's movement from politcal activism to "turn on, tune in and DROP OUT". These efforts were designed to deflect the movement away from political transformation/reform to internal reflection and political apathy.
So..... this makes some sense. Were Phil and Mickey the agents? I can't stand the thought that Jerry may have been.
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Dirk Dirksen -- 'pope of punk' amused, insulted S.F. crowds
Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Dirk Dirksen, the godfather of San Francisco punk rock and the often abrasive ringmaster of the North Beach punk emporium Mabuhay Gardens, died unexpectedly in his sleep Monday night. He was 69.
Mr. Dirksen presented acts such as the Dead Kennedys, Devo, the Ramones, Flipper, the Mutants, the Nuns, Black Flag, the Go-Go's and literally thousands more in the 10 years he operated the Broadway nightclub, fondly known as the Fab Mab.
Mr. Dirksen, who called himself "the pope of punk," was known for peppering audiences and performers alike with abuse and insults.
"I'm sorry to see you're that easily pleased," he told the crowd at the end of one band's performance. "You should try and show some intelligence and sophistication and not just accept any slop that's thrown in your trough."
He turned to the musicians, who were trying to stalk off the stage, thinking he was not going to let the band have an encore.
"I'll give you one," he said, "but only because the next group is an absolute pimple in the armpit of progress. Now everybody, please pay attention because it's time to play 'People Are Stupid.' "
"He was super obnoxious onstage," said Penelope Houston of the Avengers. "He would stand there with that little dog under his arm, being a target for whatever they wanted to throw. At the same time, he loved all those people. In a way, they were his family."
The dog's name was Dummy.
Mr. Dirksen once estimated that his nose had been broken seven times during his years as a nightclub impresario.
Among the highlights of the Mabuhay's annual calendar was always his birthday celebration, where each year he dreamed up a different mock torture for himself -- flogging, beheading, etc. One year he had himself burned at the stake.
Mr. Dirksen, who operated the Dirksen-Malloy Productions video firm since leaving the nightclub business in 1984, also worked with the children in the Mission Recreation Center, across the street from where he lived, teaching cooking and helping resolve disputes. He hosted the various Mabuhay reunion events, including a Fillmore Auditorium show last April with members of the Dead Kennedys, the Mutants and Flipper, or the Contractions' recent reunion at the Café du Nord. Only last weekend, he attended the show by the Mutants at Lennon Studios.
Born in Braunschweig, Germany, in 1937, he followed his father, a professor of aerodynamics, to this country in 1948. The family eventually settled in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. He served in the Army as a public relations expert and made his show business debut in 1957, producing an all-night live television remote from a Wilshire Boulevard auto dealership featuring neophyte and amateur entertainers called "Rocket to Stardom." An unknown Lenny Bruce once appeared on the 12-hour weekly broadcast.
He attended San Jose State but dropped out to open a surfing business in Santa Cruz. He worked as a producer on an ABC-TV series about surfing and served as tour manager with acts such as Ray Charles, the Supremes, Iron Butterfly and the Doors. He also managed the 1968 presidential campaign of comedian Pat Paulsen.
He moved to San Francisco in 1974 and, two nights later, stumbled into the Mabuhay Gardens. He started presenting late-night events at the club featuring Les Nickelettes, an all-female guerrilla comedy troupe. Whoopi Goldberg made an early appearance at the club.
When punk rock emerged on the scene, Mr. Dirksen immediately began to book the unruly bands. He presided over his impolite empire with an enduring patience and a sly smile. Robin Williams once described comedy hell as "opening for the Ramones at the Mabuhay Gardens."
"He was a father figure to me and a lot of other punks," said Kathy Peck of the Contractions. "Louie of the Vktms said we thought he hated us, but he loved us."
Mr. Dirksen produced the recent video documentary on the Mutants and had been involved in video production since leaving the Mab, including a long-running, late-night San Francisco cable access show called "Cosmos S.F."
He underwent heart surgery in 1990.
He is survived by his longtime partner, Damon Malloy, and two sisters, Molly Dirksen of Bethesda, Md., and Theodore Ernst-Dirksen of Los Angeles.
Memorial plans are pending.
Carlos Guitarlos, thanks BJ
well, we went to da gig,
burnt out, passed our bedtime and everything. just sher and i went and had a blast. naomi and kenny were in the front row, but fer sure, and held spots for us. about as many peolpe as last time.
poor carlos said he brought granpaw's foot with him and had to play sittin down. he was wearing weird sandals and i guess the diabeties was acting up. bill played as always and was funny. bill's ex-wife from montana was there also, flirting with the locals while the band played.
they took a long time to warm up. we made some new friends of duffys' reguklars as well.
for the second set, naomi sat in on eletric violin. it was great. first he was choosing bluesy type things for her to follow, sounding a lot like hot tuna back in da day. she did so good that carlos just went back to the play list and naomi followed. the best part was carlos' stories. talking about marilyn, right to naomi and the crowd and stories about the blasters, the go gos and others that i kinda knew back when, real cool.
we left about 12:30, they were still playing.
missed you,
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NOLA Underground
Soulja Slim's Brother Talks About Murder
Dixie Chick: Bush owed ‘no respect whatsoever’
Maines takes back apology for ’03 remarks she made about president, right on!
'Da Vinci' has 2nd-biggest world opening
$77 million in box office the first weekend, seven times the box office for "Flight 93"
Art Car Pics from Alan Evil
RogerART.com
Keith Richards brain op
Mick beats W to suite
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RICK BURNLEY
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The Nervepool
Can't Go Home
Juvenile's New Orleans, the ghost town America made
Wacko Jacko
Stones sing of killers, Satan in China
Risque songs make it to playlist after censors prohibited 5 classic tunes
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NME - Originals
'South Park' wins Peabody Award
"Melancholy" Proves to Be a Powerful Lure
DVD Easter Eggs & Hidden Secrets
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Double Click Paint Maker
Memorable Quotes from Forbidden Planet (1956)
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Sex Pistols Flip Off Rock Hall
Brave Luck Books, thanks Tom G.
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Art from Palestine
Tipitina's Foundation
Curtains for 'Rachel Corrie'
Marcus Kuhn
Tattoo Links
Henry's terror flight
US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane.
Synthesis Magazine
TampaBilly
Art Links
Fantastic Lie by Ben Frost
Courtney Cox's Asshole
Tagging Variations - Pictures of Walls
ART ATTACK
Wilson Picket dies at 64 of heart attack
Globe win for suicide bomber film
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
KilledByDeath.org
KBD radio
SlowMotionDisaster.com
7 Inch Punk
Modern Living / Neurotica series
Crud Crud - blog
CRUD CRUD is a tour through the stacks of records, demo tapes, etc. that surround me. No recycled MP3s, CD tracks, or reissues here. Average price paid for the records below is $3.
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Avengers post on strangereaction.com
Occult Beatles: Behind a wall of illusion
Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination:
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Radiator Hoes
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the HOMELAND SECURITY Collection
Jimmy Carl Black, on Wiki
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FRank Black
Henry Charles "Hank" Bukowski
The Beat Page
Brain's Drive-In Theater
Yvonne Craig
Anne Francis
Annette Funicello
Freee Albums Galore
the new Rave Up Records
Iraq Soldier Describes War in Poetry
carymccoy.com / paintings
Burning Man 2005 Pics
Passion Pigs @ Burning Man
Man Pics '05
Bill Blakemore on 'The Shining'
Citizen Kubrick
Germs Bio
THE CRAMPS.Com
Planet Rezillo
The Buns, MP3's
The Work of Robert Levers
Fuck the Taliban
F.I.G.H.T. - Digital Art
THE LENNON CLIENT LIST
100 Greatest Horror Movie Performances
It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine): Millennium movies, half-hearted apocalypses and the cinema of disappointment.
Drag City Records
Throbbing Gristle
Beatles top Variety 100-year entertainment poll
Collected Paintings from Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse
Deer Hoof
BANKSY - UK Politico Art
Rapper Lil' Kim Heading To Prison
HWY An American Pastoral By Jim Morrison (1969)
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Circus Posters
picassodreams.com > Art of War
Samba Party Girl - webshots
Casino Carpet Gallery
Surreal Pop Art
The Collage Art Of Peter Lewis
Music and Politics, Austin Style, pics by Sweejak
The Plastic People of the Universe
Enemy Combatant Radio is back!
Remembering Playwright August Wilson - ra file, thanks Sher
Topple Bush Music, FREE
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Residents.Com
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
SATURN: Sun Ra and the Arkestra
A Definition for Punk, thanks Burkhard
the DAMNED
ZAPPA.Com
jimi-hendrix.com
World Samba
Acme Vintage
Femme Fatales
http://www.cafedunord.com/
Inks Fotolog
Wooster Collective
ZAPPA on Crossfire - 1986
Picasso.coM
Bands @ Stampen
Laster's Art Shack
Who-Ha Da-Da - more Laster Blast
America Oh Yes!
Austin F'in Underground
Mr. Hooper's Art
Strip Club Artfully Slips by Anti-Nudity Law
Jimi Hendrix @ Winterland, San Francisco, CA, October 1968
New York, New York - Photographs by Allan Tannenbaum
Brian Jones 1942-1969
History of Tipitina's
Twi Ro Pa
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Noo Moon Tribe
Panarama Jazz Band
THE SEXIEST ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME
Manic Hispanic
Web Gallery of Art
Retro Culture
Bill Shatner - HaS BeeN, thanks FUSE
Iggy Pop.Com
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The Dictators
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Pretty Things
Knights In Blue Denim
Tommy Emmanuel, c.g.p.
Pseudo Movies by Muybridge
"Little Queenie" Leigh Harris
Jaap van Deijk 's Pulp Art Palace
Is the RIAA "hacking you back"?
Earth Station 5
soul sychedelics
Tremč Brass Band - “Gimme My Money Back”
Velvet Acid Christ
The Day the Music Voted
"A lot of people give me shit because I'm a punker and a drunk, and I haven't been known for my political stances over the years, but, you know, fuck, I graduated college, I read, and I read the news, and I'm fairly intelligent and I've travelled a lot. I'm not telling people what to do, I'm giving people my views."
Fat Mike of NOFX
ANTI-FLAG
Burning Man 2004 Pics
Peter Holderness - Queer Activist Photographer
Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904
Crypt Records
Carlos Guitarlos, thanks BJ
The Times (London)
October 02, 2004
Pop
Carlos Guitarlos
David Sinclair at Borderline (5 stars)
THERE is talk of making a Hollywood movie about the life of Carlos Guitarlos, and you can see why. As the guitarist with the LA blues-punk group Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs in the 1980s, he lived a life of unbridled excess. By the time Top Jimmy died of liver failure, Guitarlos was drunk, divorced and diabetic, and forced to earn a living busking on the streets of San Francisco. At the age of 54 and sober at last, his already prodigious performing and songwriting talents are now informed by a wealth of hard life experiences and his career has belatedly bloomed. His current album, Straight from the Heart, is a roots-rock gem, but even so it hardly prepares you for the musical and emotional masterclass that is a Carlos Guitarlos gig. He seemed a little grumpy at first, berating the lighting engineer while rifling through a plastic bag filled with guitar accoutrements. And he was halfway through the zydeco-influenced shuffle of the opening number, Damn Atchafalaya, before the sound engineer located the fader to switch up his black Stratocaster Once he had done so, however, and Guitarlos had moved into the testifying R’n’B of The Love I Want followed by a blasting version of the Motowninfluenced Ain’t That Lovin’ You, the extent of the man’s talent was beginning to be revealed. Blessed with a gruff but heartfelt singing voice and possessing a huge vocabulary of guitar chops, he performed like a rogue angel. With his long grey hair spilling out from under a fedora and an easy smile that suggested a lifelong mistrust of dentists, he looked and sounded every inch the battle-scarred survivor. As if this was not enough, his three-piece backing band included the singer and guitarist Marcy Levy. Known for her work with Eric Clapton, for whom she wrote Lay Down Sally, Levy is also remembered as one half of Shakespears Sister, whose biggest hit Stay she also wrote. Tall, dark and exuding a Chrissie Hynde-like cool, she sang these and other songs in a beautiful, clear soprano, that was the perfect foil for Guitarlos’s street-hardened holler. She also took a two-verse harmonica solo during the 12-bar shuffle Women & Whiskey that was the sexiest thing I have ever seen on a rock’n’roll stage. The easy rapport between Guitarlos and Levy — “Beauty and the beast,” as Guitarlos described it — added yet another dimension to a performance that was already superlative. They rounded off with a sure-footed revival of Robert Johnson’s Rambling on My Mind and a blistering instrumental wig-out apparently called Pigfoot Shuffle. As far as basement-club blues goes, this was simply as good as it gets.
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114 Milov
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Johnny Cash Fans Fight to Take Back His Populist Legacy From Republican Revisionists
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"The End of Everything"
Snow Globe
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Culturcide Shrine
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Johnny Cash Dies @ 71
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Art-E-Zine.UK
532 New Suits Filed against Music Downloaders
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"Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?"
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The Secret Commonwealth, thanks Alan
New Orleans Online Band Directory
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Donzeigler.com
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Born David Lee Parsons - Died Donna Lee Parsons
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Artists erect giant pink bunny on mountain
File Sharers Prepare for WAR on RIAA
High Sierra Music Fest 2003
Hyped 2 Death
Exploding Hearts Die in Van Crash in Oregon
Hendrix made greatest guitar album of all time ( you think so doctor? ), thanks Pico
Sex Pistols want to play Baghdad
Reviwe of Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine
Burning Man, part 1 of 3
Burning Man, part 2 of 3, Neo-pagan aspects of Burning Man 2003, part 3 never appeared online
TSOL's Jack Grisham for Gov.
Cali Recall MP3
General Strike Band
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Tom Waits
Warhol
Cinema=Jean-Luc Godard=Cinema
To, For and Against: Jean-Luc Godard
Alphaville
Patsy Montana
Boo Lacrosse
HIGHDROPPED
The Basement
Sound Toys
METALLICA DEFENDS RIGHTS AGAINST CANADIAN BAND OVER E, F CHORDS
Unfaith's Official Statement on the Metallica E-F Chord Controversy
Myatt Lipscomb Photos
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War Band
True Punk Forum, thanks Stich
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Punk Rock till you Puke
Records.Razor-Blades.Com
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Grand Funk Roadkill
project aristotle
Patti Smith
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Why Patti Smith?
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em411
trash 80
c367
Imputor
Sindri
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pleaseeasaur
New Generation Seeks Pop Music With Meaning
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FCC Agents Visit San Francisco Liberation Radio
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Zomboid
The Dead's Site
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Cletus Sack
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Hippie Pics from Frankfurt, 1966-69
karl friedrich wollschlager
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xylox
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Dino Records
DEVO 2003
Billy-Corgan.Com
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Internet Movie Database - IMDb
Jon Brion
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Hugo's Music History
Collector Scum's Punk Discography for Southern USA, 70's - 80's
Tinkin' s Graphics
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Grotesque
Jesus is da' Bomb
Another Wayward Youth
"Burning Fast"
1st CD release by Men in Black, limited release on
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