Celeb Graves, Locals Make Their Own MTV, and Rock’n Rob’n

FAMOUS FORMER NEIGHBORS - CELEB GRAVESITES Whether you're goth or you just dig celebrity graves (that's "dig" as in "enjoy"), you might be interested to know of these famous former neighbors entombed at a gravesite near you. BOBBY DRISCOLL (1937-1968) …

Plus Kyle XY’s local music connection, Gaslamp gadflys, San Diego’s first rock stars, a phone call from Bob Dylan(?)

MOTLEY CRUE SPOOF – SNOTLEY CRUE Here’s a rarity from the Rock ‘N’Roll Comics archives – this mini-comic created in Hillcrest was commissioned to be included with Motley Crue’s official box CD set “Music To Crash Your Car To II” …

SoCal skinheads, Local DJ Stalkers, and Concert Lawsuits

SoCal skinheads, Local DJ Stalkers, and Concert Lawsuits DO THE WHITE THING "Throughout history, music has been used to recruit and unify ultra-right movements. A lot of people think the Third Reich couldn’t have happened without Wagner. For Skinheads, who …

Stone Temple Pilots, Crimson Moon, the Brain Police, Online BootyCall, and more –

Scott Weiland didn’t show up for a Velvet Revolver gig at the Sundance Film Fest, just as the press quoted him saying a reunion of his old band Stone Temple Pilots is imminent. Hmmmmmm…hey, VR, I hear Sammy Hagar is …

Also: War Stories battling over band name, Boy Shakira is all my fault, & “I Found Nirvana (Next To The Foo Fighters)”

WAR STORIES AT WAR “There’s a bunch of makeup wearing weirdos rocking our name,” says DJ Frydae of Boston-based War Stories, referring to a local band using the same name. “I Googled it one night and found ‘em. In turn …

Inside story of a local '70s counterculture icon & Top 5 Lists

LEGENDARY LOCAL DJ GARY ALLYN: THE O.B. RANGER RIDES AGAIN! “We were going after the progressive rock or the album rock crowd,” says radio DJ and programming vet Gary Allyn about his early seventies on-air gig in San Diego. “We …

Rating TJ's toilet facilities, and a creepy old guy goes to a rave...

Every weekend evening, thousands of people travel southbound across the San Ysidro-Puerta México Port of Entry. The majority will pass right by Plaza Viva Tijuana, a retail commercial center adjacent to the border station, and head straight for the nightclubs …

I didn't set out to become a pornographer...

BATTLE OF THE PEEPS – THE INSIDE STORY OF A PORNOGRAPHY EMPIRE I didn’t set out to become a pornographer. In '84, about to become jobless, I grabbed the Yellow Pages and circled every “bookstore” listing within moped-riding distance of …

New axe to grind with Mustaine & old axe courtesy Bart Mendoza

SOMEONE ELSE IS MAD AT DAVE MUSTAINE Last month, Megadeth mainman and North County resident Dave Mustaine conducted a “Who Will Support Megadeth In Europe?” poll on theliveline.com. A metal band named Warmachine scored highest, earning 21 percent of the …

Remember the Monroes?

REMEMBER THE MONROES??? “Could you be the one I’m thinking of? Could you be the girl I really love? All the people tell me so, but what do all the people know!” (The Monroes, “What Do All The People Know”) …

According to hearing experts and the rockers themselves...

From an engineering standpoint, the human ear has more design flaws and potential for breakdown than any other mechanism on Earth. That’s according to audiologists, whose expertise involves evaluating the nature and degree of hearing loss. Since obtaining such expertise …

Gene Simmons, Stan Lee, Axl Rose, Gene Roddenberry, etc.

(repost of an earlier deleted entry) I hear it all the time. "Wow, I wish I had your job - you get paid to have fun and hang out with famous people!" What folks don't seem to understand is that …