Iron Leg Digital Trip #12 - Gravel v.2 - NYC

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 [...]

Iron Leg Digital Trip #11 - Gravel Vol 1 - Riot On the Garden State Parkway

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 [...]

13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me b/w Don Buchanan RIP

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 [...]

Francoise Hardy - Ce Petit Coeur

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 [...]

Emitt Rhodes - Really Wanted You (and some other stuff..)

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 [...]

Stardust The Super Wizard!

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 [...]