Rest in peace KAREN BLACK, COWBOY JACK CLEMENT
Bad news from America: both individuals passed away on the same day this last week, our iconic beauty and namesake of the current band The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black, who since the 1960s...
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A.M. BIRD FEEDER ACTION !
9 seconds of procrastination via bird feeder action in our back yard this morning. Above, the production still; below, the video...NOTE: link back tohttp://fastfilm1.blogspot.comif all elements such as...
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AHAB/REHAB LIVE at Paladino's: wish granted!
Have you ever wished that bands who cover classic rock chose better songs or even just played better? Wish granted, and then some! Ahab/Rehab (and sometimes 3Hab: they have several variants of...
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R.I.P. ELMORE LEONARD
Rest in peace Elmore Leonard,acclaimed, popular, successful and quite prolific writer (forty-five novels) who died today at age 87 in his Bloomfield Hills, Michigan home. He began writing Westerns in...
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MEDICINE LIVE at the Echo 8.11.13
Medicine reunited for their first gig in 18 years at The Echo, 8.11.13! Medicine are a much beloved West Coast band that released music on Rick Rubin's American Recordings and Creation Records in the...
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MARY KAY of THE DOGS, stylin' for Violet Moon
(We photographed this the week Mary was in town for THE DOGS' gig at the Kibitz Room, 8.16.12, see next blog, and I fashioned this copy for Violet Moon, which makes excellent quality, high end guitar...
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KIBITZING with THE DOGS at CANTER'S
Inspired by guitarist/singer Loren Dog's gig with his other band Little Caesar at The Kibitz Room at Canter's Deli (see LINK,) THE DOGS pulled out all the punk stops and pulled the punk crowd into...
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IGGY and THE STOOGES, live at the Queen Mary, Long Beach, Paraphilia Magazine...
Have you always wanted even more current shots of these Stooges live onstage? Trundle over to Paraphilia Magazine, clickingLINKfor my photofeature on Iggy and The Stooges' gig at the Queen Mary, Long...
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HAPPY LABOR DAY!
It's Labor Day in the U.S.A., we celebrate the working stiffs, and it brings to mind comedic duo Laurel and Hardy in "The Music Box" working harder than anyone ever has in the history of cinema. Hired...
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SUNFLOWERS @ DAYBREAK
Clouds remain a sufficiently rare occurrence where I livethat I'm drawn to document them. Cloudstalker!
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9/11
A photo I took 41 years ago of ruins in Los Angeles. In remembrance of New York's 9/11 victims, R.I.P. . .
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JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD art exhibition "Drawing Attention"
In which we attend the "Drawing Attention" exhibit of by John Van Hamersveld, one of the major art directors/graphic designers of all time, at his Cal State University Artist Reception, 9.7.13, info...
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LAST of the GIANT SUNFLOWER GARDEN 2013
Above, Mr. Twister celebrates his Giant Sunflower garden and below, yours truly as poseur, guest photographer Kurt Ingham.Above, who says compositions can't be topsy turvy?
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DETROITS ROCKS! music documentary
At top, Detroit/L.A. band for four decades, punk progenitors THE DOGS whose singer/guitarist Loren Molinare recently was interviewed this last week for director Ron Perry's longterm music documentary...
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R.I.P. SKIP GILDERSLEEVE
Here's flowers for a far sadder occasion. Social media, the down side: I am aggrieved to learn from same of the passing of someone I only met in correspondence, but from that knew him to be a genuinely...
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PREAMBLE to IGGY and THE STOOGES gig SAN JOSE CA 9.28.13
Snapshot scenes from the day before and day of the C2SV (Create Convergence Silicon Valley) technology conference and music festival, San Jose CA with headliners Iggy and The Stooges, identification of...
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FLASHBACK: CLUBBIN' in the 1970s
Photographs I took for assorted media in the early 1970s of two of Hollywood's most famed music clubs, starring UCLA chums of mine. Left, The Troubadour with the obvious caption "What do you mean my...
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THE DOGS rockin' return to The Redwood 10.11.13
THE DOGS returned to a packed The Redwood, Downtown L.A. 10.111.13 in rockin' form at a rare reunion gig for these Detroit/Hollywood legends (history, see LINK.) They still perform with all the...
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