The News Review:
- At Whisky A Go-Go applause for co-founder Elmer Valentine
- Seeking meaning at the Royal Rumble
- zark Serenade: RFT readers share memories of the once wild punk …
At Whisky A Go-Go applause for co-founder Elmer Valentine
Los Angeles Times CA
Valentine and partner Mario Maglieri stopped booking live rock acts for a time in the mid-’70s when the folk singer-songwriting boom hit. They turned it into a dance club and then devoted the room to stage musicals. When the punk-rock revolution began around 1976 the Whisky returned to live music hosting the Runaways X the Motels and others on L. ‘s punk and new-wave scene. And it imported such influential acts as the Ramones Talking Heads Blondie the Police and Elvis Costello. Another lull came in the early ’80s and the Whisky closed for a couple of years reopening during the pay-to-play era in Southland music when bands were required to pay up front for a performance slot and hope to generate a profit by selling the tickets themselves.
Seeking meaning at the Royal Rumble
MLive.com MI
A” when Hacksaw Jim Duggan trotted out for the rumble thumbs up and two-by-four in hand. Are his hate and patriotism real? Wrestling plays to the comfort of the American public. Easily identifiable stereotypes like the “gangsta rappa” Shad whose intro music quotes: “no more Hollywood this Hollyhood” or C. Punk who comes out to loud punk music and has phrases tattooed on his fingers or a “Jamaican wrestler” who comes out clad in an exotic yellow-colored tights dreadlocks and images on the screen of him swimming on the beach with a surfboard. It’s easy to see the popularity of Royal Rumble as it plays to the paradigm of good and evil better than any other sport better than even Hollywood. In the storyline in the JBL versus John Cena match the.
zark Serenade: RFT readers share memories of the once wild punk …
Riverfront Times M
That was a Springfield problem. Jason Bringle Portland regon via the InternetWhat’s your problem Dan Johnston!?: Whatever Dan Johnston’s frustrations are (perhaps the pressures of once being punk rock now having to play grown-up) Springfield does not deserve the abuse he gives it in this article. The point of the piece rather seems to be to illustrate the perhaps surprising strength of the ’90s punk-music scene in Springfield. Why then must the same city be accused of being “miserable” “isolated” “ignorant and backwoods” — and “Republican-crazy-Christian-Protestant nutballs?” Springfield may not be as ready-made cool as New York London or University City but we’re not all a bunch of inbred Bible-thumping racists here either. Local Yokel Springfield Missouri via the InternetJohnston responds: The frustrations I voiced were for Joplin in the early ’90s not Springfield then or now. Why else would I move here if I were still unhappy? I guess that did not come out in the article. Also just for the record I don’t have a problem “growing up.
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