‘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…
Wings
Photos of Mae West sporting bat wings, spider legs, butterfly wings & more!
Mae West in a publicity photo for the 1934 film, ‘Belle of the Nineties.’ Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of…
A gorgeous pair of human-sized pneumatic wings
Wow, wow! Laughing Squid hipped me to these jaw-dropping pneumatic articulating feather wings by Alexis Noriega. They were made for her kickass Halloween costume. I…
Texas woman sees Jesus on moth’s wings; others see THE DEVIL
Texas-based mother Yvonne Esquilin swears God was trying to send her message through the yellow and brown patterns on the wings of a large yellow…
Rats with wings: Surveillance drones of the early 20th century?
Julius Gustav Neubronner with carrier pigeon and camera While the reality of drone surveillance (not to mention warfare) often feels like the very cutting edge…
Paul McCartney and Wings’ TV special from 1973
It’s been a good week to be Paul McCartney. His hook-up with former members of Nirvana re-kindled his rock ‘n’ roll cred in the minds…
The only known video of Bruce Springsteen performing the never released ‘Wings For Wheels’
This video footage is from a 1975 Bruce Springsteen concert at Widener College in Chester, Pennsylvania. Bruce is performing “Wings For Wheels” which was an…
Hannah Moriah: Paper Wings
Dangerous Minds pal Chris Musgrave shot and directed this extraordinarily intimate music video for a song called “Paper Wings” by newcomer Hannah Moriah. This is…
On the wings of beatnik angels, Phillipa Fallon and Vampira: B-movie beatitudes
Beatnik chicks rule. Phillipa Fallon and Vampira move imaginary furniture in the coffeehouses of our minds. The words to ‘High School Drag’ (the poem in…