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R.I.P. RODDY PIPER
Rest in peace professional wrestler/actor Rowdy Roddy Piper, seen at top in illustration art for John Carpenter's film They Live. (Do you think Shepherd Fairey was influenced by this movie's slogans?...
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KIM MILFORD, RAINBEAUX SMITH: TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LIVE...
Whatever jogged my memory to think of Rainbeaux Smith (1955 - 2002,) American actress in legitimate films plus porn/exploitation? She was an exceptional beauty and eventual heroin casualty who was up...
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LARRY CLARK, "TULSA"
Guest photography © 1971 Larry Clark. All Rights Reserved, fair use for review. Larry Clark photographed the reckless friends of his youth in his 1971 book Tulsa both artfully and intimately, four...
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NOW AND THEN, the inevitable answer to the inevitable question...
© 1970 Heather Harris. All Rights Reserved. The Who, 1970, San Diego CAMy standard answer to query of the difference in music from when I started photographing 45+ years ago and now: Now--...
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KARIN SPRITZLER SINGS and EVERYTHING!
(Tenth in a series of tales told out of school, both literally and figuratively, how my Swiss Cheese brain remembers such events which may or may not be accurate at all. Preface: I attended a girls'...
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FANTASIA WAS MY CHUCK BERRY: LITTLE CAESAR
Disney fair use screen capture. We're watching the PBS biographical-series on Walt Disney currently being broadcast in the U.S. because, you must remember, as a visual artist Fantasiawas my Chuck...
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GOD SWEATS BULLETS: JIMI HENDRIX, ALL IS BY MY SIDE
Jimi Hendrix in 1967, England, fair use photo © 1967 Fred Muddit/Fietschers Fotos/ the U. S. Post OfficeWhy no Fastfilm photos of Hendrix? I was too young to go see him without pre-arranged rides...
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AMY D'ALLESSANDRO weds JAMES STOLZ with BEST HORSE part of the ceremony!
My friend Amy D'Allessandro wed James Stolz in an outdoor ceremony with her National Show Horse Bella Nova as a vital part of the ceremony 9.5.15. Amy rode Nova from her nearby house to the park where...
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TARDY R.I.P. CHRIS BURDEN
I only just learned that my favorite performance artist Chris Burden passed away this last May. He was the Iggy Pop of the art world, a factoid I noted in my book "Punk Rock 'n' Roll," written in 1977,...
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REESI ROCCA ROCKS HER "NEVER AFRAID" VIDEO SHOOT with a flying...
About a month ago over the course of two weeks, singer/songwriter Reesi Rocca filmed assorted scenes for her opulently deluxe "Never Afraid" song video. I was there to film stills for two nights of...
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AWARDED-- HALL OF FAMER in both TECHNOLOGY and ROCK AND ROLL: JAMES WILLIAMSON
photos © 2014, 2013, 1973 Heather Harris. James Williamson, new recipient of technology standards leadership award in Washington D.C. this coming October, is seen here with wife Linda at his last tech...
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TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
9.27.15 Total lunar eclipse as seen in the city with my "purse camera," a Panasonic Lumix DMC LX7. Tech notes: resting on a trashcan dragooned as tripod, awaiting clouds sporadically to clear.
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THE STREET WALKIN' CHEETAHS, DR. BOOGIE, THE BLESSINGS and THE TWO TENS: two...
Above, Frank Meyer of The Street Walkin' Cheetahs, multi-tasking: singing, playing guitar, jumping on tables and drinking a beer with the bottle hanging out of his mouth like a Frenchman with his...
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DR. BOOGIE pre-tour gig at EL CID 9.26.15
DR. BOOGIE played a packed El Cid Club, 9.26.15, their last local gig in Los Angeles before their tour of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. Their forthcoming full album, Gotta Get Back to...
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THE DOGS' EXCITING LONG BEACH GIG/ "ARE YOU A BOY OR ARE YOU A GIRL?"
Legendary Detroit/NY/L.A. hardest rockers THE DOGS' rare appearance at Alex's Bar, Long Beach CA 9.19.15 attracted all kinds of humans in both its enthusiastic, packed audience and also onstage. Fellow...
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GLAM SKANKS and THE TWO TENS LIVE at Maui Sugar Mill 10/3/15
Two lively, amazing bands on the same bill Oct. 3, 2015 at Maui Sugar Mill, Tarzana Calif: GLAM SKANKS and THE TWO TENS.THE TWO TENS are Adam Bones, guitar, vocals plus Rikki Styxx, drums, vocals:...
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REST IN PEACE STEVE MACKAY
Rest in peace STEVE MACKAY who passed away today after a difficult spell in the hospital with sepsis and other ailments. He was saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist for The Stooges (Funhouse album,)...
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CROQUET IS A DANGEROUS GAME: NEW DISCOVERY EMBEDS BILLY THE KID AS PLAYER
cropped detail of photograph in the link below. Mr. the Kid on leftCroquet amongst the lawless... actually interesting story of discovery of genuine photograph of Billy the Kid and gang at leisure,...
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17
Anyone can look good when they're 17 years old.Backstory is that I needed a parental co-sign to buy this, my first car, but the parents said I had to stop dressing so hippie/glam. So I went over the...
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I AM NOMINATED FOR AN AWARD...
I've been nominated by the Los Angeles Press Club for Best Photo Essay for my photographs in California Rocker of James Williamson's "Re-Licked" concert 1.16.15, the Bootleg Theatre, Los Angeles. The...
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