Gary Panter may have been Punk Rock Art’s Father, but Shawn Kerri was definitely it’s mother. The style was already familiar from dog-eared copies of CARtoons. We weren’t sure what was going on, but we knew it was punk, and we...
Read moreThe amazing thing to me is I don’t think anyone in the Brown Cuts Neighbors saw any of these old Bonzos TV clips while we were still active. If we had then surely we would have dropped to our knees and wept. Go seek out all you can on...
Read more.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mark Mulcahy, originally uploaded by taswan. Ciao My Shining Star: The...
Read moreTim Yohannan and late-80’s Gilman Street crew, originally uploaded by acrofish. He was the general contractor on that which we did that was secret. He was a good friend and inspiration and is still greatly missed. Wikipedia entry.
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After many years of wanting, I finally got to visit RRRecords in Lowell, MA and meet its proprietor Ron Lessard on the recent tour. I failed to put a card in my camera, so had to settle for a single still from the old video cam. One of the...
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I don’t know where to begin with explaining how much the writings and ideas of James (JG) Ballard have meant to and influenced me. Probably more than any other single person. I have all of his books and have probably read about half...
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Angela Sawyer, owner of Weirdo Records, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Taken in the store, Sunday, April 12, 2009, one day before Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson. Click the photo for a super-large version. Other wall goodies...
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Ron Ashton invented punk rock. Ron was very close to the Brown Cuts Neighbors’ family, and he is greatly missed. I hosted the web site for one of his later bands a few years ago… I’ve tried for a few weeks now to think of...
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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, 1959 My Side of the Mountain book on Amazon My Side of the Mountain DVD of 1969 film on Amazon This one’s for Cindy of Doris Zine & Blog.
Read moreBow Wow Wow | C30 C60 C90 Go! | EMI 1980 This is the first in a series of what will hopefully be regular Friday posts of possibly forgotten items from the past that had a huge influence on the rise of punk/DIY culture, Wow Cool and me personally...
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