For the past couple of Saturday nights, I’ve had to deal with some rather annoying neighbors that have been throwing some very loud parties with really awful “dance” music. The first time…
A One-Stop Rock Merchandise Shop
Imagine one place where you can order legitmate, band-authorized merchandise by the Kingsmen, Big Brother & the Holding Company, The Archies (yes, the Archies), The Ventures, Mickey Dolenz, Commander Cody, and others……
New Iggy Pop DVD
Last week, I visited a local record store and discovered an all-new Iggy Pop DVD that features THE SONG. LIVE AT AVENUE B is a live concert video DVD of a 1999…
Even More on Good ol’ Chet Helms…
I received nice little email about the upcoming Chet Helms tribute in San Francisco: I notice it has been a couple weeks since you mentioned Chet on your blog (not even yet…
Vandals (the non-musical kind)
Last weekend, my car was broken into, right in front of my home. My CD-MP3 player was yanked out of the dashboard, a case of 30+ CDs were swiped, my hands-free cell…
LOUIE documentary update
Last week, I had an opportunity to interview Stanford University Professor Larry Lessig for the LOUIE documentary. As this documentary deals with certain matters of the music publishing industry, I thought it’d…
Follow-up on Revere & Raiders Naughty Bits
A few weeks ago, someone asked if there were naughty bits in the version of LOUIE by Paul Revere & the Raiders. I just took a look at the liner notes of…
A Berkeley LOUIE event I missed in 1998
Even with a webpage, various write-ups in international newspapers, and a prominent acknowledgement in a book by Dave Marsh, I still can’t find out about all things connected to LOUIE LOUIE untill…
LOUIEs from Gulcher Records
A few weeks ago, I did a little mention about a version of the SONG by the artist known as Angel Corpus Christi. I hadn’t actually heard it yet, but I dropped…
Update on the House of Animals – 2005
Back in my youth, National Lampoon was one of the most subversive humor magazines I’d ever seen. I loved MAD magazine, but National Lampoon dug deeper with a no-holds barred approach, creating…