Category Archives: youth

SIGNED DC – Arthur Lee and Love / Lyrics

September 2, 2010 – 9:14 pm

Arthur Lee wrote SIGNED DC watching his drummer fall under the spell of heroin. Released in 1966 the song caters to the reality of smack versus the Velvet Underground’s romanticism of the narcotic. Everyone made their own choices no matter what song you heard first. Love Signed D C lyrics Sometimes I feel so lonely […]

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Hurrah Video Link

September 2, 2010 – 7:26 am

Hurrah’s nightclub existed from 1977 to 1981. Once its disco era was ended by the opening of Studio 54, the owners refashioned the second-floor club into a showcase for punk and new wave bands. I worked at the door with Howie Montauk and Jack Flood. The DJ was Shaun Cassette. The bands were the Dead […]

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The Past Refound

August 31, 2010 – 6:57 am

My possessions are scattered across two houses in Thailand, a mountaintop cabin north of Santa Cruz, two farms in upstate New York, my apartment in Fort Greene, and my sister’s house outside of Boston, however I was surprised this weekend to hear my host Billy O say at his Easthampton house, “I have several boxes […]

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Joni Mitchell Drag

August 25, 2010 – 10:28 am

I was born in 1952. Doctors during that prehistoric period had no way of predicting an infant’s sex, yet my mother was so convinced that her second child would be a girl that a year’s worth of pretty pink baby clothing lay neatly stacked in a crib. I imagine she experienced a more than a […]

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I Can’t Control Myself – Troggs

August 18, 2010 – 8:13 pm
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