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When Is a Band Reunion NOT a Reunion?

I've argued over Badfinger being legit, since surviving frontman Joey Molland was NOT an original member, and the other three pivotal members are dead. But I maintain support of his right to be Badfinger - As early as 1970, “Better Days” - a Molland/Evans single from the No Dice album (the first full Badfinger album with Joey Molland) – was the popular flipside of the monster hit single “No Matter What” (US #8). Joey also co-wrote “I Don’t Mind” on this album. 1971’s Straight Up album had Joey’s “Sometimes,” “Suitcase” (featuring Beatles cohort Klaus Voorman), “I’d Die Babe,” AND a lovely little acoustic ballad still well-suited for solo performance, “Sweet Tuesday Morning.” He also co-wrote “Flying” on this one, a personal fave of mine --- And arguably the two most rootsy rockin’ songs ever done by the classic lineup were on their final Apple album Ass (1973), with Joey’s “I Can Love You” and “Icicles.” Of the album’s ten songs, Joey wrote five. For Badfinger’s self-titled Warner Brothers album in 1974, Joey wrote four of the twelve tracks – the final album with the four “classic” members, Wish You Were Here, also had four Joey tracks (two of them grafted onto other songs in operatic “suites”), “Got To Get Out of Here” being the Beatlesque best, tho the closing track “Should I Smoke” is one of the band’s all-time great rock-out end-of-set numbers ---
— June 11, 2011 5:42 p.m.

Locals Suing Courtney Love (Who Once Got Me Fired By Larry Flynt)

Actually panned/penned out VERY well! Flynt's Rip Magazine went under in 1996, while Spin Magazine -- founded by Flynt's rival Bob Guccione Jr., publisher of Penthouse -- is still running Rock Tales to this day! Flynt not only fired me personally, but I'm told I was the FIRST person he fired after returning to his desk for the first time in several years, having handed over the day-to-day publishing reins while he battled various ailments and worked on personal projects (such as the bio film, I imagine). Since I also did a comic strip called Oui's Carnal Comics for Oui Magazine, founded by Playboy honcho Hugh Hefner, I guess I've cartooned for the nation's three biggest newsstand pornographers. Only one of them always paid on time (probably not hard to guess which one) --
— June 2, 2011 9:55 a.m.

SoundWave Crashes

That locale never had much success as a venue until 'Canes - remember when it was Chillers? They brought in world class acts like Steve Hackett and Brand X, only to attract 20 or 30 attendees. That end of the Park also briefly hosted a Beach Boys club -- probably the only reason 'Canes made a successful go was the combination of Eric sticking with it after the first few years of hardships, coupled with his relatively sweetheart rent deal at $300,000 annually. I suspect it'd be nearly impossible for any concert club to turn a profit down there at nearly a half million dollars a year just for squatting rights.
— June 2, 2011 4:35 a.m.

Jamie Lennox, Rockologist

I was just corresponding with local promoter Carey Driscoll, and he mentioned something Jamie Lennox may find useful: "I wonder if Ms. Lennox has been in touch with Jack Tempchin, who ran or at least was one of those who ran the Backdoor for some number of years? I'm sure he'd have tons of memories relevant to her research."
— June 1, 2011 12:09 p.m.

Jamie Lennox, Rockologist

I saw the Ramones play the December 15, 1978 Montezuma Hall show. The band was still breaking in "Marky," fresh from Richard Hell and the Voidoids. That night, they played "Rockaway Beach," "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," and "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue," which Joey introduced as "the one that got us banned in Sweden" (true). My friend Joe and I were collecting autographs after the show when a guy I later deduced to be Ed Stasium (producer and sometime band guitarist) came up and announced the band's van wouldn't start and the equipment trucks had already left for L.A. Joe piped in that he had a pickup truck, and, the next thing we knew, we were driving north with four Ramones and manager Danny Fields in the truck bed. The band was due to shoot scenes the next day for Rock 'n' Roll High School at the abandoned Mount Carmel High in Watts. When the Ramones returned to town to play Montezuma Hall 10-31-79, they squeezed in a visit to the zoo, where they posed for a photo spread that ran a few weeks later in the short-lived local music magazine Kicks. Photos from that shoot can be viewed at http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…
— June 1, 2011 11:58 a.m.

Jamie Lennox, Rockologist

Frank Zappa and the Mothers played SDSU's Peterson Gym on October 4, 1970. This newly-formed Mothers featured former Turtles singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, billed as “The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie,” or Flo and Eddie, due to Turtles-related litigation. Before showtime, many in the audience were talking about Janis Joplin’s death earlier that Sunday. Hard rock trio Head Over Heels opened, having been brought down from L.A. and paid by Zappa himself. Few in San Diego had heard the new Mothers, whose recorded debut on the Chunga’s Revenge album was still two weeks away, so anticipation was high when Zappa finally took the stage and announced “Hi there, boys and girls!” Wearing tye-dyed jeans and a purple t-shirt, Zappa told the audience “I went to Grossmont High and Mission Bay High. You can see how much good it’s done for me.” Among the reported set highlights was a lengthy excerpt from the operatic 200 Motels, which had been performed and recorded with a symphony orchestra that summer but was thus-far unreleased. “Definitely x-rated material,” Zappa warned the crowd beforehand. “Anyone who will be offended should leave now.” The set closed with the Turtles’ “Happy Together,” resulting in a standing ovation and a lengthy encore of “Who Are the Brain Police” (a song that inspired the name of the popular psychedelic San Diego band, the Brain Police). A subsequent review in the San Diego Onion complained of Zappa’s guitar solos; “He seems to deceive himself sometimes into thinking he’s Eric Clapton or somebody and, really, he isn’t.” The Daily Aztec gave a more glowing review, though it was noted that Zappa “played for an audience a good third of which was too spaced out to perceive it as anything but ‘weird’ sounds.”
— June 1, 2011 11:51 a.m.

Jamie Lennox, Rockologist

The Grateful Dead headlined SDSU's Spring Fling concert at the Aztec Bowl on May 11, 1969. Held on Mother's Day, the show included Canned Heat, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lee Michaels, Tarantula, and Tijuana-bred Carlos Santana. Jerry Garcia performed "Morning Dew," and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (four years before he died) sang lead on a 20-minute version of "Hard to Handle." Pigpen also fronted the band for "Good Lovin'," "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," and "Turn on Your Love Light," the last highlighted by a jam with Santana's percussionists and singer. One of Spring Fling's promoters was future mayor Roger Hedgecock, who at the time aspired to create a local concert scene similar to San Francisco's. "There was a lot of opposition from the city," he recalled in a 1980 interview with Kicks Magazine. "But all the predictions of total chaos and calamity did not come true." Hedgecock recruited the local chapter of the Hell's Angels to provide security, sealing the deal with a complimentary case of Jack Daniel's. "I got a note back from them thanking me for the case," according to Hedgecock. "They drank it all at one party." Space was provided for arts-and-crafts exhibits, as well as a booth for the city's brand-new free clinic. "Even the Black Panthers had a booth," said Hedgecock. Much of the show was aired live on KPRI-FM, and tapes of the broadcast still circulate among tie-dyed and squinty-eyed Deadhead collectors.
— June 1, 2011 11:48 a.m.

Record-Release Roundup

Also: Tropical Popsicle's debut concert happens June 2 at Soda Bar, where Volar Records is hosting a triple record release show. At that show, Tropical Popsicle will be launching their Beach With No Footprints 7-inch, while Ale Mania is releasing A, Who Sings That Beat? and Lenguas Largas (from Tucson AZ) debuts their Ese Culito 12-inch EP). Maren Parusel's CD release show for Artificial Gardens happens June 23 at Bar Pink.
— June 1, 2011 11:24 a.m.

Former Local Co-Creating Newest Star Trek Adventures

"We've hit a few snags on the next episode, but it's almost ready," Patrick emailed this morning. "It's entirely relationship/romance-oriented. If Robert Altman did a TREK episode, this would be it. So much so that there's even an Altman reference in it. The one after that is amazing. It's TREK's first Lovecraft episode, and [episode writer] Dave knows his Cthulhu mythos very, very well. The recordings are in the can, so it's ready for assembly!"
— June 1, 2011 10:58 a.m.

Projectionists Take Cues From Marks

I remember in 1979 and 1980 when we first automated the reel switchovers at the long-gone downtown all-night grindhouse theaters, first at the Aztec and Casino on 5th Avenue and then at the Balboa on 4th and then the company's other SD theaters. It seemed like a space age miracle, to be able to literally flick a light switch (behind the snack bar!) at the buzzer prompt, enabling anyone on duty to seamlessly roll in the next reels. That early automation was the beginning of absentee projectionists, rather than when platter feeds came in -- after the auto-switches were installed, theater owners Walnut Properties (who also ran moviehouses in Oceanside, El Cajon, and National City) cut the projectionist staff downtown from six people to only two, tho the remaining duo spent a LOT of time sprinting from theater to theater (including the Plaza and Cabrillo in Horton Plaza, the Pussycat on 4th, and the Bijou on 5th) to keep things running smoothly. BTW, LOVE that you use a pic from a John Brahm film in this blog!! Been lately digging his work on the DVD sets for both Twilight Zone and Boris Karloff's Thriller ---
— June 1, 2011 8:14 a.m.

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