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

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Positively Oblivious to 50th Street

Remember that Cafe Wha? video I posted a couple days ago? Turns out it's part of a series of articles and other stuff the Village Voice has been publishing lately in honor of the golden anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in NYC. The Voice used to be part of my regular weekly site-trolling, but with so much other internet stuff to read (and infinitely more of it proliferating EVERY DAY) I fell out of the VV habit. I got the skinny about it from Dangerous Minds, but you can see more articles directly at the Voice site.

UPDATE: All four "Dylan in New York" vids in one 13-minute chunk:

And via the comments section on one of the Voice vids, I found the YT channel of a certain Dylanologist who once worked at the Cafe Wha?:

1972 Ads: Max's Kansas City

Selected 1972 Voice ads for Upstairs at Max's Kansas City. Again, many issues are missing from the archive, so there are only about six months' worth of ads here. My blog-colleague Bryan at This Ain't the Summer of Love has already compiled a near-complete Max's show list, but I decided to collect the ads anyway--if only for the sheer surreality of seeing, in bold print, some of the mellow and/or mainstream acts that once played at a venue we tend to think of as THEE bastion of proto-punk-into-punk. Speaking of blog-colleagues (blog-eagues???), I should also thank Stupefaction's Tim B. yet again for another recent head's-up, this time on Ed McCormack's Max's memories. And don't miss Jeremiah's VNY this week, as he's taking us on a guided tour into Swing Street's sordid past.

5/4/72 issue.

5/11/72 issue.

5/18/72 issue.

5/25/72 issue.

6/1/72 issue.

6/8/72 issue.

6/15/72 issue.

6/22/72 issue.

6/29/72 issue.

7/6/72 issue.

8/3/72 issue.

8/10/72 issue.

8/17/72 "Riffs" column. Last two cut-off words are "deserves credit."

8/17/72 issue.

8/24/72 issue.

8/31/72 issue.

9/7/72 issue.

9/28/72 issue.

10/5/72 issue.

10/12/72 issue.

10/19/72 issue.

10/26/72 issue.

11/2/72 issue.

11/9/72 issue. Didn't know my fave Beau Brummelstone was involved in such a project.

11/9/72 issue.

11/16/72 issue.

11/23/72 issue.

11/30/72 issue.

12/7/72 issue.

12/14/72 issue.

12/21/72 issue.

12/28/72 issue.

Reviews, etc.:
The Country Gentlemen, 5/18/72 "Riffs" column (links to nearby ad).

Sandy Bull, 5/25/72 "Riffs" column (links to nearby ad).

White Cloud and George Gerdes, 6/1/72 "Riffs" column (links to nearby announcement).

Max's DJ Claude Purvis available for home parties, 6/1/72 "Scenes" column.

Jack Bonus, 7/6/72 "Riffs" column (links to a nearby ad).

John Fahey, 10/5/72 "Riffs" column.

Tim Hardin, 11/2/72 "Riffs" column (links to nearby ad).

Max's 1972 Youtube clips, including Bruce Springsteen and Wayne County and Queen Elizabeth.