Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Bop-shoe-bop-shoe-bop, Ling Ting Tong

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I'm a little slow on the uptake for this one (as I am with most things in life), but dig this clip of David Johansen sharing tropical c...
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Spotted Cheetahs Redux

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Further to yet another very old post , a while back I received a lovely e-mail from a lady named Valerie who shared some of her memories of ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Here I Go-Go Again

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[ Via .] [ Via .] Further to a very old post ...I've recently made the e-mail acquaintance of a fellow blogger named C...
Monday, January 11, 2010

New York's definitive rocker?

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New York Magazine gets it right and wrong in the same issue.
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Monday, November 23, 2009

But she just couldn't stay, she had to break away...

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A few weeks ago, the fine folks at W. W. Norton & Co. (my second favorite Norton -named business--I certainly was a devotee of their li...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Elegie for Music Row

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From Rock Scene , March 1976. Found this article by accident while looking for something else. Clearly one of these days I've gotta pore...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009

It's the Ritz, baby, the Ritz lookin' out for you...

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Or was it "lookin' after" you? It's been many years since I've heard those old Jerry Brandt Ritz radio ads so I hope I...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

Remembrance of Greek Omelettes Past

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It's been a long time since I've written a proper post, and it may be a while before I get back into the full research mode required...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Guess I'm not a lazy sod

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I'm merely a slow blogger . From the NY Times , 11/23/2008: Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace By SHARON OTTERMAN WHEN Barbara G...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Quiet, numbskulls, we're broadcastin'!

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When I'm not fretting over how lazy I am in updating this blog, I'm preoccupied with putting together my weekly CIUT radio show, Rea...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Look elsewhere, angels...

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...to the Times , for an article on the possibility of the Bottom Line setting up new digs in Brooklyn...and to the Bowery Boys , for a so...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Do you rememba Zaremba?

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See more grainy, blurry, faraway Fleshtone fotos here . I'm about two-thirds of the way through Joe Bonomo's mega-entertaining-and-...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Stompers Say Yeah!

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Now that I've got a digital camera, I'll let the pictures say my usual thousand words. Here are a multitude of photos from Cav...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Welllllllll, meet me, baby, down on 45th Street...

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Bup-shoo-buh , bup-a-bup-a-shoo-buh ... (Thanks to my hip tipster Flipped Out Phil ! Despite the Jackie K. cover I hadn't even perused ...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Let's swim to the moon, uh-huh...

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I promised myself I'd crank out a post before leaving for Cavestomp! so here 'tis. By the way--check out the Bowery Boys' wonde...
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Friday, October 05, 2007

A few Doll houses

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I'm currently working my way through Kris Needs' and Dick Porter's Trash: The Complete New York Dolls (London: Plexus, 2006). I...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Fauxpollo

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Should have put these up earlier; it's probably gone by now. A phony Apollo marquee was recently, and surreally, erected on Yonge Street...

Where ya goin' to?

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Another fab Mary Weiss interview , replete with Brooklyn Fox and NY Paramount memories, appeared in the 9/28/2007 issue of the New York Su...
Friday, September 28, 2007

"I did not know that," she said all Carson-like

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A while back I heard that the former Gramercy movie theater--my main local screen back when I lived at the Hunter dorms--had been converted...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

Ye New Time Music Hall

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NY Times , 8/30/2007: Neither Arenas Nor Dives, New Clubs Hope to Succeed with Style . Thanks to good ol' buddy Bruno for the tip. Savag...