Love au Go Go

If you've noticed my by-line, you've probably understood its dual nature--my initials are indeed D.C., and I do dig Love big time. (I neither condone nor engage in the Conka-esque habits alluded to in the song, however.) So I was pleased to get an e-mail today from Bruno Ceriotti, author of a new Love chronology in e-book form entitled My Little Red Book: Love Day-By-Day 1945-1971.  As a fan of both Love and rock chronology books in general, I'll be buying a download of it post-haste.

Via.

Bruno also hipped me to a new documentary film he helped work on which is currently making the film fest rounds.  How I missed hearing about this movie before receiving Bruno's note mystifies me...I'm having vague semi-recollections of possibly reading about it and taking note of it a while ago, but if I actually did, the momentousness of the info didn't sink in at the time. Anyway, I'm on it now, and I really hope it gets screened at Hot Docs or NXNE next year. It's called Seven Years Underground: A '60s Tale.  The subject is the Cafe au Go Go, and it was made with major input from Howard Solomon's family.  Please peruse their official website and enjoy the tantalizing excerpts from the film on their Youtube channel.  [And here are more Cafe au Go Go Youtube clips.]

Speaking of docs and books...I wonder how Sid Bernstein Presents is coming along. And I want to thank Caryn Rose for sending me a copy of her fine new novel, B-Sides and Broken Hearts. I'm currently about 2/3 of the way through it, and it's a bi-coastal rock and roll romance of the highest order. The story is set mostly in Seattle and L.A., but has a heaping helping of NYC/Jersey flavor too.  With all the Sonic Youth and heartbreak embedded in its pages, it just might be the perfect read for our new post-KimandThurston world.


  

1967 Ads: Flashback, Part 1

These '67 issues of the Voice were either missing from the archive at the time I went through it, or were tacked on to the ends of other issues without me realizing it then.  I've been meaning to go back and visit them, and the Great Blogger Crisis of May 2011 afforded me the perfect opportunity to do so.  [Still waiting/hoping for a '74 post and draft I did on Thursday 5/12 to be restored--I sure as hell don't feel like re-doing them.]


3/2/67 issue:

There was still a Womrath's in operation quite close to my high school in the '80s--and they did still have a lending library in addition to the books they had for sale.

3/30/67 issue--I did go through this issue before, but I think I may have missed a couple of these at the time.  Actually, I want to go back and re-do most of the year's ads at some point, since I've now figured out how to get them in a larger format.  But what I really long for is the addition of the still-missing '66 and '68 microfilm!
 

4/6/67 issue.

I might have joined such a singles society had it existed in '90s NYC.

6/1/67 issue:

"Scenes" excerpt.

I feel a strange urge to go back and collect all the Cafe au Go-Go ads I avoided before.  At the time I thought that would be a redundant activity, but now I kinda want them for the graphic value if nothing else.

7/6/67 issue: