Category: music
It with deep regret that I read in this morning’s LA Times that Jimmy O’Neill had passed on at 73. Only a couple of weeks ago I posted a story about Jimmy, how he was…
When Dave, Mac and I first met Les, we didn’t realize what a good singer he was. He had an instrumental guitar band called the MG’s, who were highly influenced by Nokie Edwards and the…
Though I did almost four months of research before really getting my teeth into this memoir, I still have to periodically find things to help me when I’m writing. Recently I have been writing about…
LAS VEGAS HOTELS AND LANDMARKS IN 1966 A Two Night Stand at the Cat When Stark Naked and the Car Thieves came to play the Pussycat A’ Go Go in 1966, there were twelve major…
I recently found some masters produced by Easy Street Productions from my old recording studio, City Recorders. It was located in the basement of the Sunset Gower Studios near the corner of Sunset and Gower…
It has been a long slog that began a long time ago for research, and nearly full time writing around a year ago. I’ve written enough words for two and a half books but I…
Last August I began writing “A Naked Car Thief” as a remembrance of the years I was a member of our band, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves. Prior to that, I spent about four…
Back when our band, then called The Checkmates, came to California, most of us lived inland around Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek because the first club we worked in was in Pittsburg, CA a few…
A Stratocaster and a Twin Reverb-Amp—one of the all-time great Fender guitar/amp combinations Fender has been noted worldwide for well more than half a century as one of the few manufacturers that is equally acclaimed…