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…
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…
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…
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…
Living in St. Louis in the 70s it was not uncommon for music tours of punk bands to bypath our town. The going saying back in punk zines of the day would be to call the STL punk crowd the fun 100. Of course there were more than 100 punk fans. Maybe 200. ha ha….
If you’ve been reading my stories you might think this is a follow up to the time Lou Reed cussed me out. You would be wrong. This is the story of when Lou Reed apologized to me. Again with the Peaches Record store, Lou Reed was in town for the Street Hassle Tour and making…
Remember back in the days when white folks would hate things like Nazi rallies? SIt seems like a distant memory in the Fox News-Trump era, but it’s true—I swear. At the time I was working with some fellas in a very early incarnation of proto-punk. By that, I mean we were playing classic 60’s tunes like things…