From Hollywood And Beyond: The Bizarre History of “Deep Throat”
Pioneers in any field have it rough as they’re never appreciated in their time. It’s their imitators that reap the rewards and either bring notice to their predecessors or ignore them completely. Think of the blues musicians who inspired the Stones and the Beatles and countless other rock musicians. Sometime before the characters of “Boogie Nights” might have plied their trade and before today’s More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: 2004 Wrap Up
Are we that jaded as a society that this story disappeared in the media practically the day after it happened, or is it that the victim was a heavy metal guitarist not known to the general public? If you had written More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Remembering The Ramones
With the death of Johnny Ramone on September 15th, an era came to an end. Now three of the four original Ramones are gone. With 24 official releases from 1976 to 2002, countless bootlegs the band left a wealth of More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Spock’s Brain Live – Sunset Junction – The Cure CD Review
Last week I saw the worst original Star Trek episode “Spock’s Brain”come to life in full ’60s polyester onstage in the OC. Director Mike Carano, a photographer and graphic designer, invested $5,000 of More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Camp Freddy – Spirit Of Radio
Camp Freddy at the Avalon, Hollywood April 13 It’s not easy being a semi-professional journalist. Occasion-ally, you just don’t wanna bother with publicists, press lists and jotting illegibly in a notebook More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Mayor Of The Sunset Strip Review
Director George Hickenlooper, most famous for his documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now (Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse) and the little-seen but morality tale “Man From Elysian Fields”, More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Exclusive Interview With Cynthia Plaster Caster
The term “groupie” is now part of the American lexicon. When it’s even in included in Microsoft’s spellcheck, you know it’s legit. Cynthia Plaster Caster, along with her partner, Diane, achieved lasting More...
Looking Back On 2003, CD Reviews
If anything outstanding happened in rock music, or in all of entertainment, in 2003, I don’t remember it. I don’t know if that’s because I’m getting older and crankier or because things really were that More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: The Band The Music Biz Loves To Hate
Very few people knew about the Sex Pistols two week tour this summer, and even fewer folks attended the shows. Well, what can you say about the most hated and misunderstood band in history? A band that has been More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Type O Negative – From Brooklyn To LA
Every once in awhile there’s a rock group that you can’t categorize neatly with others of the same “genre.” Is it punk, metal, pop, Is this the unnamed band from “Joe’s Garage?” (RIP Frank). Speaking More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: L.A. Hair Metal, The Beginning
Real L.A. rock ‘n’ roll—the kind that emanates from the streets and not from record company offices—runs in cycles. After the hippies, the Doors and the punks, the early ‘80s saw the emergence of hair More...
From Hollywood And Beyond: Velvet Revolver, New CD Reviews
There was quite a scuttlebutt a few weeks ago amongst normally jaded Tinseltown music industry types over the “next big thing.” What was it? A band of off-key indie types, or perhaps some gangsta rapper charged More...
