WATCH: Roger Waters at UN Security Council on Ukraine (consortiumnews.com)
yes, but I’m standing right here. In Revolutionary Times, Are Art and Music Falling Short? With James Kennedy (mintpressnews.com)
‘Broken Windows Policing’ & the Killing of Tyre Nichols (consortiumnews.com)
More Evidence That The West Sabotaged Peace In Ukraine – Caitlin Johnstone
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Press Reckoning on Russiagate (consortiumnews.com)
TAIME DOWNE STILL STRUTTIN’ HIS STUFF TO THE HIGHCLASS PART OF TOWN
Ya know I really like that guy actually. I saw him talking on a podcast to like, some much younger, earnest fan boy kid and he was totally cool and righteous and sincere and not the least bit haughty or condescending, like he’s the kinda real rocknroll motherfucker I’ve always liked, and gotten along with. My wife always teases that I just like the bands that look like me and ya know yeah me and Taime are both older now, not as svelte as we once were, with the leather vests and biker boots, glasses and black hair and cowboy hats, right? Not that many of us left around. He was saying he never sees Izzy anymore but that was who he was tightest with in Guns N Roses and how they are still one of his favorite bands and how he loves the memories of those bands toring together way back in 1987, which the podcaster said was a lifetime ago, but to me, was just like a few weeks back. I remember the day I bought the Faster Pussycat debut and “Appetite For Destruction” and I liked Pussycat better at first. I don’t like the rap song, but I always say to me they were like a fun and entertaining cross between AC/DC and the Joneses, Jeff Drake’s band. We used to cover the Joneses “She’s So Filthy” at that age and when our original skinhead drummer quit the band, we got this older, know it all, friends with the Ashton Brothers guy in the group and he insisted we cover a Faster Pussycat song called, “Where There’s A Whip”, so we did for awhile. Me and my band bros met the Pussycats twice I think, we were like seventeen, the photos of my kid guitar player who’s a doctor now with Greg are funny cause my guy looks like he’s about ten. Our first band broke up cause like half of us wanted to move to the big city and get a record deal, and the other half wanted to stay in their hometown and be popular amongst the people they went to high school with-I think that bunch got some negative feedback from their peers about our punk band being “too glam” cause me, the guitarists and the original chick magnet Inxs new wave bass player were all still pretty united in our full blown, big haired, kohl eyed, red lipstick goth and biker sleaze incarnations with the feathers and the leather and the scarves and the cowboy boots, and those other guys wanted to be more suburban conventional like Social Distortion or like the Descendants and they took one of the guitarists with ’em and I think they did sortof a New Bomb Turks punk band after that. More conventionally masculine, with the barber shop haircuts and imported boots and muscle cars and chain wallets and shorts. Me and the rest of my pirate crew moved to Boston and commenced searching for drummers and kept on wearing the velvet suit jackets and the cop hats and mirrored shades and much leather, funny what divides a rock band, ya know? A purple scarf, some fucking smudged eye mascara. I loved Faster Pussycat, they were my kinda seleaze punk, and was always rooting for the old guitar players to rejoin that band and always got excited about it every time they did guest appearances, I really like Brent and Greg very much, but like I’ve said elsewhere lately, Taime’s latest lineup have a shit ton of energy and they are really trying to put out for the fans. If I could fucking find the right guys to play with, I think Golden Robot Records is definitely one of the labels I’d shop my songs to. I really dig Taime’s “Like A Ghost” song, another cool tune about growing up way back in seventies Seattle. Taime’s cool, check out his latest sides and you know Danny Nordahl ex NYC glam hero always brings that old school Evil Boys/Angels In vain/Sweet Pain/Heartbreakers/Deadboys/Skin N Bones sensibility to the Pussycats. I am really rooting for those guys to keep making new music and playing shows. They are still very good based on all the clips I see on Youtube on these cold and lonely mornings in the dead end desert ghostville. I used to curl up in my old girlfriend’s bed on the Sunset Strip and listen to that “Whipped” album while she was outta town and my other girlfriend was eyeybrows deep in the ghetto wine, and that “Hey Mister Lovebone” song really spoke to me, had a lotta soul, I always loved Andy Wood, too.That whole lp was great-they had it painted on the side of Tower Records back then while the Teaszer wa s painted purple for our friend Joe Normal’s old Zeroes band. Taime’s written some real good songs, honestly. Even the early stuff is still fun to singalong to-“Smash Alley” and “Bathroom Wall”! Glad him n Danny got together-it just really takes two real dudes to get the ball rolling.
Faster Pussycat – Like a Ghost (Official Visualizer) – YouTube
Faster Pussycat – NOLA (Official Audio) – YouTube
Faster Pussycat Roseville 1989 – YouTube
Faster Pussycat – Cathouse – Live in L.A.1987 (Tribute Video) – YouTube
Faster Pussycat – House Of Pain (Official Video) – YouTube
FASTER PUSSYCAT Bathroom Wall – ORIGINAL LINEUP REUNION – Cathouse Live 8.15.2015 – YouTube
Faster Pussycat – Dial MTV October 1989 – YouTube
BURT BACHARACH HAS LEFT THE PARTY
Ya know as a teenager I was always devotedly in love with this one particular new wave chick, there was a significantly long procession of other girlfriends those hicktown males are still spitting bullets jealous about, but it was known that my heart was with The One. I just always carried a torch for her since the first day we met when we were probably thirteen nd fourteen. I might be like half a year older than her. The one who got away as people always say. The one who keeps me putting quarters in the jukebox in the wise words of Willie Nelson. One of those songs I’d always play for her was “If You Leave” by “OMD”, another was Morrissey’s “Old House”, another one was Burt Bacharach’s perfect song, “Always Something There To Remind Me”. THAT is the kinda song I’m always trying to write, with less and less success each year. I grew up loving the Naked Eyes version, but Morrissey got me hipped to the Sandy Shaw version which I came to hold even closer to my old heart. (RIP)
Sandie Shaw – (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me – HQ – YouTube
DURAN DURAN
While many of my old school pirate lords were heavy metal enthusiasts, Motorhead, New Wave Of British Heavy Metal enthusiasts, or hardcore British oi punk oriented, like summa my old crusty punk corner gang drinking buddies who are almost all dead now were into like GBH and the Exploited, I never stopped listening to Billy Idol or Duran Duran. I still listen to ’em like all the time, whenever I can. Just something about Duran Duran has always spoke to me. I saw them live many times, brushed with them a few times. I still love ’em and actually pray for Andy Taylor! I had a dream the other night that Patti B., one of my middle school girlfriends who shared my love of Duran Duran was in. One of my closest friends who I was setranged from for a long time and I have reconnected in recent years and she also shares my love of Duran Duran. Also that chick I told you I stayed in love with all those years. My lyrics were never so opaque but I think Simon’s awesome, I don’t always know what he’s talkinga bout with vigilantes out on dawn patrol and the Union Of The Snake is on the rise, but I always FEEL IT, ya know? I love everybody in that band, I mean from the main lineup and also Steven Duffy. Not so much the Missing Persons guy, but the originals. I even like Arcadia and Power station. Lots. Even Neurotic Outsiders, even “I Do What I Do”. I might be a bad influence on them but I’d still very much like to write songs with Nick and John.
Last Chance on the Stairway (2001 Remaster) – YouTube
DURAN DURAN – FRIENDS OF MINE [HQ] – YouTube
Duran Duran – Very Early(est?) Studio Demos (Intro’s Only) – YouTube
Duran Duran – Careless Memories (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Duran Duran – Very Early(est?) Studio Demos (Intro’s Only) – YouTube
Duran Duran – “Do You Believe In Shame” (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Duran Duran to Embark on ‘Future Past’ North American Tour – Rolling Stone
RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE!
Go to Washington DC to Rage Against the War Machine! (actionnetwork.org)
“That Seymour Hersh published his big piece on Substack and not a major news outlet is such an insane indictment of the US media class and yet another testament to the off-the-charts levels of censorship that silently reigns over it.” (-Heshmat Alavi’s Trenchcoat)
“They’ve been censoring him from larger outlets for a years now.” (-Grumpy Grandad)
“Yup they straight up refused him permission to publish his book on Dick Cheney.” (-Heshmat Alavi’s Trenchcoat)
“Well, the Wikipedia trolls are hard at work today. Definitely want to make sure “conspiracy theorist” is the first thing people see if they look up “Seymour Hersh” (-Michael Tracey)
“Please lift the sanctions and allow aid into Syria. This level of cruelty isn’t the way.” (-M.I.A.)
“Seymour Hersh has confirmed what many of us suspected: the U.S. via the CIA blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
Russia never benefitted from such an action and all claims otherwise were always shameless war propaganda. The US committed a war crime by destroying Nord Stream. The US is committing war crimes by sanctioning Syria during a natural disaster. The US is a mafia state that is exceptional in its war criminality.” (-Danny Haiphong)
Rage Against the War Machine: A Call for a National Strike to End the War – CounterPunch.org
EASY TO FALL ON HARD TIMES IN THIS RICH TAKE ALL ECONOMY
Man those of us who pay any attention know that even musicians we love who can still sell merchandise and command substantial guarantees on their Headbanger’s Ball fame can fall on hard times. People I know are all suffering from depression. I know veterans who turned to hardcore drug abuse. I know dudes who think the others are being propagandized or Cointelpro patsied, but it could never, never happened to their team, cause they’re the smart ones and of course the others are over their telling themselves the exact same stuff. I know educators who gave up knowing what’s happening cause it might threaten their tenure so they just say the current thing and just try to stay cloistered and laser focused on NPR/PBS and try to tell themselves everything is okeydokey so long as we keep repeating that Dr. Jill Biden is large and in charge and praising Kamala Harris and Chelle Obama, who are all supposedly saving us from those Republican voters and Melania Trump, just don’t listen to Tara Reade or Dr. Naomi Wolf. I got diehard old rocknroll motherfuckers writing me letters about how I am a past my prime faded dreamer who will probably never record anymore songs, like that’s something that I aint had to contemplate. Other ex punks saying anybody in leather pants is silly now and there is no fortune to be made playing loud, rude, aggressive music, even though I can show you hundreds of examples that prove otherwise. Got people who think the main problems in the world are immigrants, or wily Antifa protestors, they froth over these exaggerated menaces like they used to “The Muslims”. I know people who are still real ginned up about Bernie Sanders still wearing a cloth mask and Bono showing up to support the demented old teleprompter reader selling fake confidence to people who already own their homes and have insuarnce and pensions and secondary properties. Them Bernie folks are still talking about the un cloth masked and undervaxxed and blaming them for all the sudden deaths. New wave icons, waving Nato flags for war. 12 steppers tell me how they are accepting imperfect times. I aint mad at any of ’em really, cause I know they’ve all been bombarded with unprecedented propaganda psy ops, fake news designed to divide us and keep us all in a state of fear, believing we need more alphabet gangs and military to “keep order” and protect us from the scary boogeyman “others”. Most of us used to oppose censorship but now the haves only believe that people they agree with should have free speech ever since the think tanks infiltrated the colleges and taught those safespace kids that it’s not really censorship if there’s a private billionaire owner standing upfront. They kept telling us any inconvenient fact that contradicted their official narrative was antiscience or fake news, or Russian trolls or Russia influenced misinformation like that BUFF BERNIE meme that supposedly ruined everything when it was “Hillary’s Turn”, or conspiracy theories. Just Trust Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and all your benevolent billionaire, scientific seed hoarding, astronaut super saviors! The Rachel Maddow people kept howling for more censorship cause they did not like Alex Jones so now the entire antiwar left has been censored and kicked off the platforms. None of us know what’s really goin’ on, we all just get to pick between two known liars, two demonstrable recipients of billionaire dark money bribes. Which fake news source do YOU prefer to be lied to by? Vote now, operators are waiting. Are you Team Jennifer or Team Angelina? Backstreet Boys or NSynch? FOX anti China or MSNBC anti Russia? Are you dutifully peppering all your speech with mainstream programmed Kenta Cloth and prayer flag safespace transkid’s rights virtue signaling obedience lingo, or are you still in a panic over scary black people protesting the brute kkkops and immigrants coming over the border to steal your good jobs nd benefits? Either way, the real rulers are not going to look out for your health and safety, which is why we need to tune their bullshit division creating broadcasts out, create our own media, and resume looking out for one another.
The Tea Party and Pink Hats were both fake movements, manufactured for rich people who don’t wanna pay taxes and to elevate Hillary Clinton, they were both billionaire funded, astro turf, big screen hundreds of wooden chairs fake protests, that’s why you saw no teargas deployment or water hoses, or cop grenades blowing people’s arms off or blinding elders, or heavy intimidator military cop presence, but almost every demonstration since then, from Black Lives Matter to the MAGA Capital Hill protestors disputing the electoral count voting software, they’ve all been deeply managed and infiltrated by deep state operatives and agent provocateurs with trucks full of bricks and random violence and masks on. That police precinct that caught on fire, turned out to be Proud Boy working for the FBI. That’s how it always is, now. I saw it at Occupy, rich college professors coming in and telling people what they were allowed to say or do, and leading the whole occupation actually out of the banking zone in a trail of tears surrender, as not to offend their lawyers, and Saturday Market rich friends, it was madness, then kkkops dumped off a dead drunk and belligerent wino at their camp who attacked somebody, got in a fight, ended up dead so the screws could come in with their klieg lights and kick everybody out of the dirty needle park beneath the underpass that was making no statement anyway other than college age kids getting to have their first sex and drugs slumber party sleepover in the tents. Then you saw so called activists feuding over access to the GOLDEN TICKET free pass to some annual rich people, Deadhead drugs galore, boomer hippie getdown way out in Veneta, Oregon. They tried staging a protest on behalf of the local 3000 homeless people in FREE SPEECH PLAZA that drove the local politicians to not only shut the place down declaring a medical emergency and sending in pressure washers with Hamzat suits on, but wanting to change the name of the public space, and also, wanting to remove the statue of Ken Kesey downtown that they believed sends the wrong message to the town’s yuppie two grand a month rent payers. Some City director lady later bragged to her lawyer pakls that she “changed the culture” of the town by promoting a “poop fiction”, telling the media that someone had pooped downtown to justify removal of protestors, and that she felt entitled to be somehow financially compensated for that by the rich hotel owners and sports tourist community. You can’t make this shit up. But City Hall did just that: THEY MADE SOME SHIT UP! Literally! Fucking crazy times and most of your friends only pay attention to tv news and a bigass fake awards show Occult Ritual with all the pyramids and one eyes, glorifying demons and selling your soul for material gain…brought to you by Pfizer. I think they got a textbook to undermine protests, like, if you were some fat cats sitting on city hall and every yuppie middleclass homeowner was saying “defund the police”, what’s the easiest go-to strategy to warp the discussion and change the narrative, you send in some compromised informant types to create destruction and violence so all those exact same yuppie middleclas homeowners forget about the dead black people, and want to superfund the racist cops to “restore order”. It’s easy peasy, they do it in their sleep. Plant a gun and say the cops felt threatened for their lives.
FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Racial Justice Movement (theintercept.com)
Marines Charged In Capitol Riot Got Highly Sensitive Spy Jobs After Jan. 6 (theintercept.com)
Take a Bow, Columbia Journalism Review – by Matt Taibbi (racket.news)
JUNKYARD – Life Sentence? Don’t Give A Damn! – BraveWords
Welcome to the Junkyard: How two Texans moved to Hollywood and rolled with GN’R – 2Fast2Die
MintPress News on Twitter: “”What is essentially being enacted here has historically been defined as corporatism, … Benito Mussolini, for example, defined his particular brand of fascism … as corporatism, a merging of private and public power.” – Journalist Whitney Webb exposes the World Economic Forum https://t.co/kdSvBVuRja” / Twitter
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Matt Taibbi (substack.com)
“While American officials keep touting the “rules-based international order,” the truth is the US is absolutely a rogue nation. We are out of line with the global community in just about every way that matters.” (-Lee Camp)
“I was born and raised in West Jerusalem. My grandfather was one of the founders of Israel. My father was a general. My sister was good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu. As one of the privileged people in Israel’s apartheid state – I know it’s apartheid” (-Miko Peled)
“The real SOTU? Both parties are racing to the nuclear abyss, dithering on climate, derailing the right to strike, denying HC as a right & throwing >$100B to an explosive war we could have prevented by simply supporting Minsk. We need emergency action not clueless optimism.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“
Blockading aid to Syria after a devastating earthquake that’s killed thousands is truly evil.
That is what the United States is doing right now. For those who are so surprised, the US maintains the most crippling sanctions arguably on earth on Syria and is stealing its oil in occupied territory to the East. This is hampering aid efforts.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“I can’t wear fancy trousers anymore they look ridiculous on my 57 year old broken body and these days I’m not trying to prove anything to anybody. What a colossal waste of energy and time two things I don’t have much of left.
Realistically, I have maybe 15 yrs left. That puts me at 72. I have less time on this marble than the last time I saw you in person in ’05. I certainly don’t have time to waste on delusional recording opportunities that will never happen. It’s one of the things I regret. Never having the stars align for us to record an album. When you put the cart in front of the horse you won’t get very far fast, you just get stuck pulling a cart, then I’m like fuck carrying this cart full of faded dreams.
I highly doubt we’ll see each other in person before one of us dies let alone write new songs or record
I’ve got too much nerve damage to play consistently.” (-The Artist Formerly Known As Nasty Bastard of The Original Suffering Bastards)
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (substack.com)
WATER IS LIFE! REMEMBER WHAT THE DEM ADMIN DID TO WATER PROTECTORS? HOW YA’ALL’S CLASSY & DASHING, FALSE HOPIUM PEDDLER, FOREVER PREZ SAID HE WAS “GONNA LET IT PLAY OUT”?
This is not ancient history but I’m layin’ out some links so all us crackers who always sem to instantly forget shit like human rights violations and police bruttality overnight when they are committed under a DNC Services Corporation figurehead’s administration and their donor class big oil cronies, maybe ’cause of a heavy fluoride consumption, maybe they got some kinda suppressed tech that erases middle class people’s memories, I dunno, but precious few of us Divided Slaves Of Amnesia like to remember how the First Black Pres and his Goldman Sachs Cabinet refused to intervene on behalf of The Original People when bankers, leaky pipeline profiteers, Hillary’s fracker friends and private mercenary proxy armies wanna abuse folks who are just trying to defend their land and water. Burntout Recluse Remembers. In “my country” the corporations program us with tv copaganda and hire actors like Ice T to help make the po-po and mercenaries and alphabet gangs sympathetic to the honkies on the hill, even got a show called “Cops” that’s supposed to serve as “entertainment” carefully edited to make poor people look like inept, shirtless, druggedout crazies, and the nightsticks into some kinda long suffering, patient, caring social workers, even added in a reggae soundtrack, you know, for that “diversity” the empire loves so much, “whatcha gonna do when they come for you” it says. Well, it might be worth thinkin’ about. You think you are immune to their gestapo tactics cause you got a degree in fashion merchandising or navel studies from the Sports University? I saw ’em roughing up white women and gleefully using chemical sprays on NYU students like it was all good fun at the Occupy Wall Street protests. Saw elders get bruised by rubber bullets and water cannons at Standing Rock and the millionaires on tv tried to spin it as some kinda Smooth Victory for Classy and Dashing Obama, rather than a betrayal of all his fancy talkin’ promises and conscious rap playlist drops and campaign speechifyin’. Rememeber when that dude did one of his famous controlled public relations events in Flint, prtenending to drink the contaminated water so all the tv watching Karens would go back to sleep and believe their dashing hero had fixed it? Not only did all the crooked politicians who were involved in the poisoning of the water get off the hook in court, but the water in Flint is still fucked. They got all these Section 8 houses available for poor people to rent there but they only list them by zipcode cause they don’t wanna emphasize exactly where it’s located cause the water’s still poisoned. Shitlibs just put their hands over their eyes and ears and go back to blaming Putin, Trump, Husein, Chavez, Gaddafi, always some external boogieman. Or that guy who messed up Pelosi’s desk. I say prayers to my higher power the way that shitlib Kalltha Kops Karens only live to Thank Obama. And Beyonce.
. Now they try to trot out AOC and even Gropey Joe with dementia to speak in his played out hallelujuh black church gospel cadences, but it’s embarrassing and ridiculous cause the only gospel they know is Wall Street, money, weapons of war, of always blankcheck funding funding spooks and rubber stamping more private armies to keep The People on the Res. The lesson is always the same, the shitlibs hate having their consumerism or commute delayed, the furious Thank A KKKop MAGA wingnuts get so enraged by images of protests that FOX shows all day of black people looting convenience stores, they get the guns out of the safe and go outside to belligerently confront random people in the front yard, the talk radio assholes always demonize the families of the dead victims, they are doing it with that kid they killed for squatting in a treehouse at the Stop KKKop City forest defending frontlines right now. They’ll plant evidence, or they’ll hide a gun, they’ll frame a story everywhich way but loose and all the cameras will mysteriously stop working and those Bill O’Reilly people will bleat on and on about Law & Order. Murkkka trains it’s young to hate protestors and worship enforcer class jack boots who use weaponry to “restore order”. The fat honkies in the South even wrote laws and put ’em on the books, making it legal for rightwing white people to crash into crowds of marchers with their cars if they dislike the message of the people’s movement. Shitlibs have never stopped crying over Nancy Pelosi’s desk being messed up by a white male during the Capital Hill MAGA protest because pig media said the word “insurrection” 1 million times a day for four years. If you doubt the out come of an election, you can not demonstrate, or talk about it in public spaces, or “sacred temples of democarcy” where the corporations go to bribe the politicians, or the One Percent will declare you a Thought Criminal; and they can come round you up ever since the First Prez With A DISPOSITION MATRIX, Obama’s NDAA indefinite detention papers were signed, and he was given a library, a big book deal, Net-Flix job, and a sprawling plantation. Better stay in line and keep your lip buttoned or Kopmala might have to unleash her dogs on you. Google this: Homeland Security Mission Creep. They gonna let it play out some more. Might play out on you.
Mni Wiconi: The Stand at Standing Rock – YouTube
Water Cannons Used Against Dakota Pipeline Protesters – The Atlantic
The Water Protectors Who Stayed At Standing Rock – YouTube
Holy Rage: Lessons from Standing Rock | Standing rock, Rock sound, Big oil (pinterest.com)
Native American Activist Winona LaDuke: It’s Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels – YouTube
The Water Protectors Community | Oral History Project
The Water Protector Movement – Truthdig
Mass arrests at Standing Rock | SocialistWorker.org
These Are the Defiant “Water Protectors” of Standing Rock (nationalgeographic.com)
Water Protectors | From Fort Good Hope to Standing Rock – NFB Blog
Standing Rock Protesters Remain At Dakota Access Pipeline Site, Despite Warnings. Here’s Why : NPR
How art and spirituality are defining the ‘water protectors’ | CBC News
Nokomis Josephine Mandamin – Anishinaabe Water-Walker, Elder, Teacher & Leader – YouTube
Autumn Peltier (@autumn.peltier) • Instagram photos and videos
The Anishinaabe woman who walked for water rights – YouTube
Faith Spotted Eagle – Essential Understanding #1 – YouTube
Standing Rock Protector’s Arm Blown Off By Police Grenade – YouTube
Jewish woman injured at Standing Rock protests, could lose her arm | The Times of Israel
An injured Standing Rock activist could lose an arm, but her resolve remains strong | Grist
UNICORN RIOT – Your Alternative Media
Water Protectors (water-protectors.com)
Muskrat Falls protester Marjorie Flowers no longer under house arrest | CBC News
Winona LaDuke – Americans Who Tell The Truth
Circus of Power (featuring Nick Oliveri) – “Blood at Standing Rock” – YouTube
Mní Wichón
NEWS, SPORTS, & WEATHER DESK:
A Seriously Unlimited Hangout with One Nation Under Blackmail Author Whitney Webb (bitchute.com)
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 on Twitter: “i’m shocked shocked shocked.” / Twitter
LITTLE CAESAR
I was not a big fan of that bluesy L.A. sleaze metal band Little Caesar, can’t really say why, I guess I was kinda fickle at that age, just didn’t vibe them much as I did, say Junkyard and Sea Hags, other than their album artwork was kindof atrocious and maybe the band name reminded me subconsciously of my really terrible pizzamaker job at Little Caesars, and Rob Young, the vocalist’s, singing style was just maybe a bit too blues night blustery for me, ya know I was not into Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Tesla, or Soundgarden, either, but when he spearheaded that online campaign to aid Dave Roach from Junkyard and raised a shit ton of money for him, I started kinda thinking about him and wanting to revisit his band. Turns out he’s written a rockstar bio I have not read but I’ll link to below. He was signed by Geffen and worked with John Kalodner one of those industry hack song doctors who helped ruin Aerosmith in the Bon Jovi years and was produced by Bob Rock, the slick Metallica/Dr. Feelgood/Sonic Temple guy. So the straight world expected them to make it big, I suppose. He also had a brief Cameo in some Terminator movie. A cover of an Aretha Franklin song, “Chain Of Fools” was probably not the right choice to help them reach an L.A. Guns-Four Horsemen-Circus Of Power-Guns N Roses-Raging Slab biker chic junkie sleaze metal audience, which is who I woulda targeted. Maybe I just don’t like “Chain Of Fools”. I do love “Save Me” by Aretha. I probably even would have preferred they did “Freeway Of Love”. Earl Slick joined the band and I always call him Earl “Too” Slick, in spite of his work with Hunter, Bowie, lennon and the NY Dolls. Listening to songs like “Hard Times” and “Wrong Side Of The Tracks”, they ARE actually better than I remember. My old goth girlfriend move to L.A. before I did and used to send me tornout pages from the free Sunset Strip entertainment weeklies, encouraging me to come out there to find my band and I remember them being seemingly big in the club scene at that time. To me, if you were in Kerrang! and Rip magazine, you’ve MADE IT! Maybe cause I live in a dead end desert where there aint no punk rock, no record store, no real nightclub, nothing to do but sit in a chair, or take a walk by the river, but I’m listening to “Supersonic” right now by L:ittle Ceasar and it’s perfect for a winter morning filled with yearning, coffee, ongoing sadness, it’s good stuff. Sounds like rocknroll to me. Everytime I say I wanna find a new guitar player and write some new songs or still dream about creating another after hours performance venue where outta town bands can visit and play, my family always says the same thing to me, that I’m “just trying to relive (my) twenties”. I dunno about that, man. I see a lotta guys even older than me still out there playin’ music!
Little Caesar Music Video for Supersonic – YouTube
Dirty Water by Little Caesar from the album American Dream – YouTube
Little Caesar – “Stand Up (live)” – YouTube
Little Caesar Perform Down To The Wire Live – YouTube
Wrong Side Of The Tracks – YouTube
Rock-N-Roll State Of Mind – YouTube
Little Caesar-Name your poison – YouTube
I Wish It Would Rain – YouTube
chain of fools LITTLE CAESAR.mpg – YouTube
Little Caesar perform Hard Times on Rick Dees Into The Night Late Night TV Show – YouTube
Autographed Ron Young Book (doctorstevetherapy.com)
KOOL STUFF WE LIKE:
Gunhouse Hill’s second release came out in 2013 !! Dead Men was off the Outlaw EP !!☠ – YouTube
Boy George – Funtime (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Rock City News | Mojave CA (facebook.com)
1984-1989 Los Angeles Sunset Strip Band Flyers – rocksandy.rocks
Paradise City: How Sunset Strip shaped glam rock and the 1980s | Louder (loudersound.com)
Hair Metal History: Nothin’ But A Good Time On The Sunset Strip (udiscovermusic.com)
10 glam-rock artists from the 1970s who heralded the coming age of punk (altpress.com)
https://m.facebook.com/leftards/videos/leftards-ccp/1718674068327527/
ROB TYNER looking at you – YouTube
Dark Carnival /Destroy All Monsters-BEST FRIEND – YouTube
Iggy Pop live for 6 Music (Full performance & interview) – YouTube
The Cramps – Lux & Ivy Interview MTV 1990 – YouTube
The Saints (’73 – ’78) Know your product Hi-res video HQ audio Ed Kuepper – YouTube
Winners are grinners, even when we’re all losers | Reviews (i94bar.com)
Dark Carnival Live with Ron Asheton & Niagara Detroit – YouTube
Radio Birdman DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM – YouTube
The hidden history of UK punks in 11 films | BFI
Niagara Detroit November 22nd 1963 – YouTube
MC5- “Black To Comm” LIVE 1967 [Reelin’ In The Years Archive] – YouTube
The Celibate Rifles – Frank Hyde (Slight Return) – (Live) – YouTube
THE CRAMPS – Oslo 2006 (FULL SHOW) – YouTube
8 punk bands who rocked the ’70s scene alongside the Ramones (altpress.com)
Punk Hybrids: Wham! Bam! Glam-Punk! | PopMatters
The Legacy of The Sunset Strip’s ’80s Glam Rock Scene – InsideHook
44 Candid Images Of Real Life In 1980s Los Angeles (allthatsinteresting.com)
SICK OF McDONNA
She thinks she’s being edgy and provocative but most times she’s being repetitive and predictably, trying too hard to be offensive. Fackoff, Debbil-Madge. I liked her better when she was Susan and singing stuff like “Lucky Star”, “Borderline” and Into The Groove”. I’m not into her witch priestess bullshit at all.
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