DC5 45s

A pile of Dave Clark 5 45s I picked up at the Goodwill. Seems Rita had excellent taste in beat combos.

More Label Shots

I think I'll just post label shots to this blog. With the occasional witticism. Very occasional.

Rompin' Ronnie

So was Ronnie Hawkins the first rocker with his own label?


These sides are from 1965.



Skip ahead 20 or so years for this next one.

Ronn Metcalfe

This is my current favourite record.

Stuff Pops Up

Found this while poking around. Check out Joe Pesci as Lead Tenor of Chang Lee and the Zani-Acts. I knew he made a record in the 60s, but this is way cooler.

Monkee Sticker

Thought I'd pop in and post. It's only been a few years. I got this in a record bin at Goodwill, but the Davy Jones LP it presumably was stuck on was nowhere to be found.

Dr. Doom

Third attempt at a book 'review', and, as usual, I read the book about the time of my last post, four months ago. From what I barely remember: Danny 'Dr. Doom' Breckinridge, a former sixties folk-rocker reinvented as a more transgressive glam/Kiss rocker for the 70s, receives some pre-concert death threats. Intrepid high-school rock reporter Larry Small, who aspires to write for Rolling Stone, god help him, is onto an obviously career-making story as the threats appear to be real! Along the way we meet various cyphers such as Idiot Sheriff, Eccentric Old Newsman, Would-Be Girlfriend. To be entirely fair, the book is aimed, I think, at the teen market, who deserved better.

The bassist did it.