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With the lights out, what you first hear is a deep intake of breath amplified, a whooshing intake of air that is stored in silence for a second, maybe more, as if warning is being …
Your view of the world is unique if you live in Imperial Beach, just five miles north of the Mexican border. If the street where you live is on a narrow corridor of land between …
Talking fast isn’t a matter of choice for AM jocks; it isn’t rock and roll chic in the way working at Tower Records while you’re wearing your Grateful Dead roadie shirt and acting bored is chic.
At their February, 1978 performance at the Fox Theatre in San Diego, all I could do was to put in my ear plugs and cry. And then try to get my eyes back in shape.
"If I've had a nutritional meal in the last year, it’ll come as a surprise to my stomach," quips Dan McLain in between resounding burps. It is almost midnight and we are sitting outside a …
Today, the disco record industry is a mammoth $4 billion enterprise — bigger than television, movies, or professional sports in America. “Disco accounts for about forty per cent of all the ‘chart activity.’ "
In 1936 you could dine at the fashionable Stork Club, or the posh Chambord in New York City, and chat about Mayor LaGuardia while the background strains ' of "There's a Small Hotel.” or "The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful" came in on Muzak’s "six-to-nine" program.
People down here are more sincere,” says Griswold. “The people up in L.A., it seems to me, are the more hardcore punks. It's a big scene, a place to hang out. Down here it can't be that."
Of collecting many records, as the Preacher might have said, there is no end. But it is really the beginning of the addiction that presents the greatest hurdle. Let us suppose you want to have …
The music of the 20th Century constitutes one of the richest periods in musical history. For variety of expressive means, for inventiveness, for ingenuity in the handling of old forms and the discovery of new …
The art of serious music involves three distinct groups of people (one might almost say three social classes) — those who compose music, those who perform it, and those who listen to it. (A case …
Moby Grape's move to Santa Cruz was an attempt to get away from the meth and smack that were going down heavy in San Francisco
Here is an instrument that cuts through most of the music fog that the dream-makers have fabricated for the past twenty years. No, you don't have to be “gifted" to play the harmonica.
You can get drunk and rock out (on your harp), in a room full of people, or you can sit around a campfire and accompany the crackling of flames and the twinkle of stars.
If film directors like Altman and Fellini ever run out of suitable sites for their confettilike pageantries, they might do well by turning towards Tijuana. The rolling hills, crippled streets, lopsided architecture, high pressure street …