Mod girl dancing at The Dive (1986)
Photo by Andy Peters
All the photos in this piece were taken by Andy Peters, who if he knows what’s good for him will put together and publish a coffee table book on the scene.
DOH!!! While a-googling to do some fact checking, I discovered that my old pal Blair Buscareno [...]
June 8, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 9 Comments
Mod Fun on stage at The Dive (1986)
Photo by Andy Peters
DOH!!! While a-googling to do some fact checking, I discovered that my old pal Blair Buscareno put together podcasts, using the ‘Highs In the Mid 80’s’ title (also inspired by a mid-80’s collection of 60’s punk comps) a few years back over at GaragePunk.com. There [...]
May 19, 2008
Categories: 45s, Culture, Garage Revival, Iron Leg Digital Trip, Local Music, Mod Revival, Music, folk rock, freakbeat, garage punk, pop, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 19 Comments
The Phantom Five at CBGBs 1986
(L-R) Chris Grogan, Don Buchanan, Bill Luther, (out of frame… me)
The night Woody quit the band.
(Picture by Andy Peters)
Listen - You’re Gonna Miss Me - MP3
Greetings all.
I hope everyone had a great weekend.
I’m going to start the week off with something a little serious (in all senses of the word).
A [...]
April 7, 2008
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Francoise Hardy
Listen - Ce Petit Coeur - MP3
Greetings all.
Here’s hoping that the end of the week (or beginning, depending on where you start counting) finds you well.
All is well on this end, and I figured that a recent spate of digi-ma-tization for Iron Leg dictated that we start the week off with something interesting.
Back in [...]
February 4, 2008
Categories: Culture, Music, Yeh Yeh, folk rock, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 12 Comments
Emitt Rhodes
Listen - Really Wanted You - MP3
Greetings all.
Sorry for the delay in posting but it was a very busy weekend.
I’ve been busy with all manner of family stuff – generally fun and rewarding but time consuming nonetheless – and haven’t had a lot of the kind of downtime I need to get my head [...]
August 21, 2007
Categories: Books, Culture, Music, animation, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 3 Comments
Greetings once again, or more likely for the first time, since I doubt anyone’s been here except for little ole me….
I have to start this entry by stating that I was never a comic book kid. This is not to say that I never read comic books, but rather that I never developed any lasting [...]
July 1, 2007
Categories: Books, Comics, Culture, Uncategorized . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 5 Comments