‘Metal Man Has Won His Wings’: Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa’s early ’60s R&B band, the Soots
Zappa at the door to Studio Z in Cucamonga Briefly, during 1963 and 1964, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa were in a proto-Magic Band called…
Author: Oliver Hall Archives: 06/2017
Adam Ant, John Cale, Ad-Rock and others guest star on ’80s crime drama ‘The Equalizer’
Edward Woodward and Adam Ant on the cover of Ant News Today, 1985 The Equalizer was a crime drama starring Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man‘s…
The Doors’ last charting single, ‘The Mosquito,’ as marketed by Presbyterians on Christian radio
One hears a lot of contrary opinions, spending year after year in the orbit of musicians, record collectors, and resentful nerds. That the Beatles “sucked”…
William S. Burroughs’ answer to the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’
The author at home It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” and you know what that means: it’s the 40th…
‘Dirt Sounds’: A record made of dirt from Brian Wilson’s childhood home
Working with my friend LeRoy Stevens of the record label Small World, the LA-based artist Jeff Hassay has created an audio souvenir of Brian, Dennis,…