I was in college at Cal State Long Beach when my best buddy invited me to go to San Francisco with him to do the equipment for the doors at the Avalon. I was going to college for one reason, to avoid the draft. That weekend the doors offered me a summer job to be […]

I am a long time reader and I commend you for your effort in keeping everyone in this industry informed and inspired. My name is Vince Lawrence. I appeared in Frank Marshall’s Bee Gees film, discussing Disco Demolition from the perspective of a Black person who was actually in the stadium on that frightful day. […]

https://spoti.fi/2WA1xAK 1 The Doors revival is now forty years old. The early eighties saw the introduction of U2, Soft Cell and Human League, and then MTV. There was a schism between what came before and what came thereafter, the late seventies were seen as calcified, with corporate rock and disco, finally the scene was reinvigorated. […]

https://spoti.fi/37hz74o 1 I tried to see every movie. There was a time when I went every night of the week. I think the most I’ve seen in a day is four, I liked slipping into an alternative universe where I was accepted, into story, back when movies were movies, if you know what I mean. […]