IT'S ALL THE STREETS YOU CROSSED NOT SO LONG AGO: September 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

1971 Ads: Fillmore East

Have they caught on to me or something? I was almost finished perusing the '71 archives when I noticed that several issues from October through December had suddenly and inexplicably disappeared. Not only that, but it seems like many '70s and '80s issues which I'm almost certain were there before have now been zapped away from the archive. Unless it's some temporary server glitch on Google's part, this could mean that future Voice ad posts might be considerably slimmer!

But let's worry about that tomorrow; we've got plenty of '71 goodies to tide us over for the time being. Here are some selected Voice ads and announcements dating from the Fillmore East's last six months of operation.

1/14/71 issue, full-page ad.

1/21/71 issue.

1/28/71 issue.

2/4/71 issue.

2/25/71 issue.

3/11/71 issue.

3/18/71 issue.

3/18/71 issue. The previous week's "Scenes" column (issue now missing from the archive) had included a discussion on the market for Howdy Doody collectibles--was this gig booked before or after that article?

3/25/71 issue. Review in the 4/8/71 issue.

4/1/71 issue.

4/15/71 issue. There was also a nearby ad for Elliott Randall at the Fillmore, but most of it was cut off.

5/6/71 issue. There was an article, but naturally this issue has been removed too.

5/13/71 issue.

5/27/71 issue.

6/3/71 issue.

6/10/71 issue.

6/1/71 issue.

6/17/71 issue. Couldn't resist the bootleg record ad.

6/24/71 issue.

7/22/71 issue.

Various Fillmore-related and other pertinent articles:

Buddy Miles concert review from the 1/14/71 "Riffs" column (link goes to a nearby ad).

Review of final shows in the 7/1/71 "Riffs" column.

Christgau on Bill Graham, 7/8/71 issue.

A report on the huge Grand Funk Railroad show at Shea told from the perspective of the technicians and stagehands, many of whom were Fillmore veterans--7/22/71 issue.

"Audience Guide for the Wary," a cool run-down of various venues that attempted to fill the Fillmore void (Academy of Music, Beacon, etc.), in the 11/25/71 "Riffs" column (link goes to a nearby ad).

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Downtown Talk

Trust me, you DO wanna hear some of that "Downtown Talk" by Tom Dickie and the Desires. Made all the better with scenes of early-'80s NYC--y'know, St. Marks Cinema, corner stores, MTA fishbowl buses, the subway, that sort of thing.

Big head's-up credit to Tom, who's so much more on top of NYC-related Youtube goodies than I could ever be! He also hipped me to these personal reminiscences of Club 82 from T. Roth, the former lead singer of Another Pretty Face (this one and two others which I couldn't embed).

Friday, September 24, 2010

Recent image acquisitions

Bob Polhemus of Bobby and the Teemates sent this great shot of them playing at Scott Muni's Rolling Stone. "His club the Rolling Stone was one of the hottest gigs I ever played...The place was like a celebrity gathering with every soon to be legend of rock visiting...The picture is us The Teemates--Me second from left. We were the house band there the first week he opened the club. We were there a month followed by the Vagrants, with the Yardbirds doing a set every now and then along with Eric Burdon, Chas, The Gentrys. Opening night there was a line stretching up 48th Street to Second Avenue...Barry Oslander was the Sound Engineer there, and co-produced our LP "Jet Set Dance"...This was our last week there. Scott was furious we gave up our Beatles squeaky-clean look for these striped shirts. Cancelled our contract--Vagrants followed...The picture above was taken shortly after the Teemates changed their name under new management with a guy by the name of Bill Blackburn who was associated with the New York Jets--thus the name 'Kickers." I believe this was our last week at Scott's, after which the Vagrants or another Band followed us in."

Harold C. Black, later of David Peel and the Lower East Side and Teenage Lust and the Lustettes, holds a prop used by his earlier band the Banana Trippers. I think he told me he was on MacDougal Street here, pausing briefly before heading out to Forest Hills to play at the First International Psychedelic Expo. Not sure if the awning is for the Cafe Wha or some other establishment owned by Manny Roth. This came from the Facebook pages of his friends Phyllis and Jason, who also posted and restored the great pic of the Night Owl below.

Speaking of Village photos, one of my dear suppliers is "cheapocheapo" (Allison), who regularly scans wonderful vintage teen mag photos and NYC pics and posts them to her tumblr. She doesn't like to take too much credit for "putting pieces of paper against glass and pressing a button," but I praise her to the high heavens nevertheless for taking the time to unearth and expose the otherwise unseen. Also check out her Lovin' Spoonful fansite and music 'zine blog. I'm pretty sure all or at least most of the following Village pics came from her.

WFMU's blog put up the audio from this LP quite a while back.

From The New Inside Guide to Greenwich Village, published in 1965.

From Hit Parader.

Thanks to Tom for hipping me to these Getty Images shots of Otis Redding with Booker T and the MGs at Hunter College. Note Druids of Stonehenge drumhead!

Mother's flyer--I got it from tumblr but it probably came from somewhere else originally.

Also, check out Stupefaction's post on '80s club ads from a couple weeks ago, part of his regular "Friday Emphemera" series.

And extra-special thanks to Corry for our super-fun "Rock Prosopography Summit" a couple nights ago. I hope I was lucid enough for ya--I'm not used to that much beer on an empty stomach!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Max's, "live" and in color

Thanks to the ever-alert Tim B. at Stupefaction for the head's up!!!

Friday, September 17, 2010

1970 Ads: Other Venues and Miscellany, Part 4

Selected ads from the Voice, September through December, 1970.

9/3/70 issue.

9/10/70 issue.

9/17/70 issue.

9/24/70 issue. There were several anti-midi ads and articles around this time. Also, over a few weeks Howard Stein used his "Scenes" column as a platform for a series of experiments in which female friends of his would wear see-through blouses in public and report on people's reactions. And there were waterbed ads, LOTS of waterbed ads, throughout the year.

9/24/70 issue.

10/1/70 issue.

10/1/70 issue. Legendary Toronto institution that brought new meaning to the term "higher learning."

10/1/70 issue.

10/9/70 issue.

10/15/70 issue.

10/22/70 issue.

10/22/70 issue. A revered figure at the Hunter College Women's Studies department in my day. I'm referring to Bella, not Trude!

10/22/70 issue.

10/29/70 issue.

11/5/70 issue

11/5/70 issue.

11/5/70 issue. Pete Townshend's guru. And I've still got my mother's copy of Richard Hittleman's 28-Day Yoga Exercise Plan.

11/5/70 issue.

11/19/70 issue.

12/10/70 issue. They was punk before we was punk.

12/10/70 issue.

12/17/70 issue.

12/17/70 issue. Here just for personal reasons--I love seeing the evidence of bygone Queens hipness!

12/17/70 issue.

12/24/70 issue.

12/31/70 issue.

Whew! I think I finally got the hang of the new photo editor--it's got some cool features but it would be much more convenient to use if it had batch uploading capability. That about wraps up '70. 1971 is on tap next, though I might try to squeeze out an essay before then.