Tom Sawyer like tales for the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation
In my many abortive and failed attempts at adulting in my rock and roll days, I had on occasion had a roommate or roommates. This was done for financial as well as social reasons. I will attempt not to digress with all the adventures in roommate-ing as I’m prone to do as the others adventures…
Back in the day there was an underground punk club in the West End. By underground I mean that it did not have any of the legal normalities of a business. It was an abandoned building that Tony P. Dad owned and him and a lose conglomeration of people started a club. Club Op-P. Search…
In my home state, Missouri, we have a few areas that are known locally as Shut-ins. These are streams running through rock that withstand the erosion caused by the water. This creates a dangerous but delightful playground for both young and old and I’m going to recount some of my tales of the most famous…
One of the early bands I was in and the first punk band was a combo called the Camaros. I’ll be covering some of the fun and funny things that occurred in that band as I go along but here is the tale of the stranger who came to play harp. The Camaros were a…
Don H. who attended Washington University in St. Louis saw this flyer at school. He showed Mark S. and me and we figured we better attend in case all the drugs and drinking didn’t destroy our mind the music we listened to might. We liked Beethoven and we liked the Sex Pistols could that fact…
How often have I heard that TSMR is an inferior copy of the Beatles SGT Peppers? So many many times. As a child this was my first Rolling Stones album because even shortly after it came out I purchased it as a cut out at Barnett’s Market, a local mom and pop grocery store in…
As is apparent in a number of my posts there was a lot of transitioning between cultures in the 70s going back to the 60s. Coming out of the 60s with the American rock bands transitioning to British Invasion bands. The 70’s in quick succession was the transitioning between long haired rock, underground rock, prog…
Some people follow rock and roll artists to bask in the warm glow of the stardom. Others look for ways to have that glow rub off on them and monetize it. For me it would appear that I follow rock and roll artists to give them a chance to cuss me out or steal my…
After our fun day disrupting Nazis what’s a young punk band to do? Take acid of course. Then we drove out to South County to a favorite outdoors party place. This was located on… wait for it… Grimsley Station Road. We would go there frequently as youths. Unable to go to bars we used the…
Back in the day I was a fan of the Girl Rock Group the Runaways. Had seen them live all 3 occasions they were in the St. Louis area as well as going to the South Hampton Peaches store when they did an in-store visit. Below is proof of my being there. All good things…