Dirtyloudfuckingrockandroll
No metal, no hair bands. Fuck emo. Fuck baggy shorts. No kiddie punk.
Hunter S Thompson. At a Temperance Society meeting.
Radio Birdman, X, the MC5, the Stooges, Television, Screaming Tribesmen, the Visitors, New Race, The Stems, the New Christs, Celibate Rifles, Lime Spiders, Rose Tattoo, Sonics Rendezvous Band, the Hitmen, the Saints, Died Pretty, The Velvets, the Stones, The Passengers, the Dictators, the New York Dolls, the Heartbreakers, The Eastern Dark, Sunnyboys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids (R.I.P. Robert Quine), early Alice Cooper, Scott Morgan Band, Lou Reed and the Ramones, plus virtually anything warm and fuzzy from the Nuggets/Ugly Things era. Turbonegro, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Kim Salmon, Deniz Tek, Powertrane featuring Scott Morgan, Asteroid B612, BellRays, Kevin K, The M-16's, Simon Chainsaw, Louis Tillett, The Hekawis, Penny Ikinger, Ian Rilen & the Love Addicts, Sir David Graney, Deniz Tek Group, Stooges, Roy Loney, Bro Wayne Kramer, Joey Kline, the Yes Men, the Volcanics, Ed Kuepper, Holy Curse, (amped up) Neil Young, The Hangmen, Donovan's Brain, Intercontinental Playboys, the D4, Sonny Vincent, the Crusaders, The Darling Downs and Johnny Casino's Easy Action for a start. Fave rekkid labels: Citadel, Career and Off the Hip, to name three.
"The MC5: A True Testimonial" - the best rockumentary you won't see (unless you score a bootleg). "End of the Century" (Ramones doco). Any shit with De Niro or Pacino. "Taxi Driver", "Apocalypse Now" blah blah blah.
Who needs TV when you have a bar to tend?
Bukowski. Lotsa shit. Rock n roll bios - much to The Barmaid's chagrin. Trashy Grisham, formularized shit. Robert Barrett (even more formularized) and his Les Norton shit. And of course, R.I.P. Lester and vale Hunter S. Thompson.