After six months his scavenger hunt came to an end in Tucson, Arizona. There, he paid $1500 for the GMC bus chassis and another $9000 for the mothballed DC-3. He had the wings and four feet of the tail section removed, sold them to a man from Texas, and hauled the rest across the desert to San Diego. Once home, Rolland mounted the airplane to the bus chassis a formidable task and began the arduous task of readying the Goony Bird for the road.
The only substantial savings are to be had in spirits produced and bottled in Mexico.
Vince Compagnone
The Mexicans themselves don’t buy their booze in liquor stores; they get it from the beer distributorships (Sub Agencias), or the big grocery stores like Cali-Max or Limon, or the Supermercado de Licores. At these places the prices can be twenty-two pesos (one dollar) cheaper per bottle or six-pack
Patti Smith was born in Chicago during a snowstorm in 1946. Next Saturday, she returns to the city of her birth to receive the 2014 Chicago Tribune Literary Award.
By: Andy Gensler
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The Trail Blazer: Bill Graham circa 1971 outside New York City’s Fillmore East which, along with the Fillmore West, helped set the bar for what live music clubs could be.
A few days after Jan. 8, 2021, on what
would have been legendary promoter Bill Graham’s 90th birthday, Pollstar spoke with Robert Greenfield, co-author of “Bill Graham Presents: My
Life Inside Rock And Out.” This wildly engrossing read not only chronicles
Graham’s impossible rise his harrowing escape from the Holocaust,
his adoption in the Bronx and barely surviving the Korean War but also
documents the rise of the modern concert business as we know it
These “great man” theorists see Lester as self-made and El Cajon actually was a hindrance. Those of us from El Cajon, especially those who knew him well, have a much more nuanced view of Lester’s El Cajon years. And, we definitely see Lester as a product of El Cajon. If you like Lester, you have to like El Cajon because.Lester is El Cajon. He’s an El Cajon kid. He acts like one. He thinks like one.
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Uhelszki started at
Creem magazine the same day as Lester Bangs. She’ll talk about those days at Grossmont on Tuesday, October 6.
In early 1971, rock critic Sandy Pearlman suggested to the Long Island band Soft White Underbelly that they change their name to Blue Ãyster Cult. Pearlman and fellow producer Murray Krugman turned BOC into âintellectual hard rockersâ through cryptic lyrics and collaborations with Patti Smith. When Pearlman died in 2016, BOC still was playing the occasional après-ski party at Colorado resorts, but hadnât released new studio music in 20 years (and few worthy songs since the mid-1980s).
Now comes the unexpected release of
The Symbol Remains (Ward Records/Bivalve) that blows past jokes of âMore cowbell!â from the famous
Saturday Night Live sketch, but offers plenty of weird mysticism via lyrics from Richard Meltzer and science fiction author John Shirley. Do the lyrics still trip over their good intent? Sure, but not as often as in the bandâs second decade. In 14 long tracks across two LPs, BOC stays ironic and fresh in tunes like âBox in My