Most of Saturday was a blur, stumbling around smiling and hugging people. Navigating through bodies and sleeping bags looking for the Food For Love stand, a guy smoking an Indian P…
1970 – 1650 Broadway
1650 Broadway, that housed Beechwood, was the songwriting ‘sausage factory’ annex to the iconic Brill Building diagonally across the street at 1619. Allegro Studios and its live ec…
1970 – Jimi Hendrix Opens Electric Lady
Ironically, when Jimi left that morning for England, to perform at the Isle Of Wight Festival, he would never again see Electric Lady and, other than some tracks laid down during c…
1974 – Reminiscing For Time That Never Was
…the sixties civil rights movement, assassinations, Vietnam fiasco, drug culture and sexual revolution had the left brain of the country at odds with the right. Now Nixon and his e…
1975 – Punk Becomes ‘New Wave’
As Saigon fell, completing our defeat in Viet Nam, with the economy here and UK in the toilet, the anti-establishment Punk disease spread. Seymour Stein signed The Ramones and Talk…
1976 – My First Trip To L.A.
Despite the smog, everything was sunny clean, even the streets. Smiling faces made eye contact on sidewalks without swearing or ‘fuck you fingers’ flying. Friendly namedropping sal…
1976 – Sexual Confusion
In July, as the tall ships blew in to New York Harbor celebrating the country’s 200th Anniversary, a team of Israeli commandos flew into Entebbe Airport under the nose of Uganda’s…
1979 – End Of An Era
As the humiliation of the Viet Nam sixties set in, having ripped the country’s psyche apart, in the seventies we anti-bodies to stupidity just couldn’t fight anymore as the body po…
