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Joe Boot and the Fabulous Winds: Rock and Roll Radio (1958)
From The Ventures (Walk Don't Run) and the Kingsmen (the garageband classic Louie Louie of '63, see clip) through Jimi Hendrix, the grunge bands (Nirvana, Mudhoiney, Pearl Jam etc) to the Posies, Sleater-Kinney and Modest Mouse, the Pacific Northwest has been a breeding ground for rock'n'roll.
It's fitting that it should be the home the EMP...
> fromthevaults/3335/joe-boot-and-the-fabulous-winds-rock-and-roll-radio-1958/
COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, a documentary by RON MANN (DV1/Southbound)
This 90 minute doco may look dated now -- and it is rather superficial in some respects -- but it offers a useful comicshistory.001 overview of the US major players from just before the Second World War (given scant attention) and into the more interesting, diverse and controversial period of the Fifties and mid-Sixties.
Looked at from this...
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PET ROCKS AND PUNK ROCK: Have A Nice Decade; The '70s Pop Culture Box considered
It might have been famously "the decade that taste forgot", but the Seventies has spawned an interesting nostalgia for smiley faces (on e-mails!), terrific films such as Dazed and Confused . . . and this extraordinary box set of seven CDs which unflinchingly collects up the great (James Brown's The Payback, Freda Payne's Band of Gold...
> absoluteelsewhere/2732/pet-rocks-and-punk-rock-have-a-nice-decade-the-70s-pop-culture-box-considered/
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