I'd like to meet:
Hey, You're Alright!
Music:
Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Roy Orbison, The Stairs, Dino, Desi and Billy, The La's, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Albany, The Teardrop Explodes, The Living Brian, Edgar Summertyme Jones, Shack, The Basement, The Coral, The Maybes?, Scouse country and sea shanties, Eric Burdon and all his many lives , Lonnie Donegan, Safe as Milk, Bonzo Dog Band, The Rutles, Neil Innes, Revelation: Revolution '69 [The Lovin' Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler], Latino brown eyed soul, Arthur Alexander, Brenton Wood, Sam Cooke, Goffin/King (Carol King is a fucking genius, even though she bitched me out when I was 15), Brill building sound, 60's Girl Groups, oh and early Elton John, I'm talking first two albums here folks! The rest is dog doo. Well... not really, but you know what I mean... guilty pleasures and all.... uh... yeah.
oh, and loads of Mersey Beat, Mitch Ryder, The Miracles have been on heavy rotation too.
my new musical creation: Lorraine Lorraine-uh and the Californians
Musical Creation II: The Lorraine 5 and the Fuzzlers
Musical Creation III: The New California & Lorraine Alarm Clock
Books:
Situationist International Anthology, The Creation Records Story, The People's History of the Vietnam War.