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Kid Lightning

kidlightning1974

About Me

Black leather jacket. White silk scarf. Tight black jeans. Obsessive compulsive. I live in a box, eat no meat and keep my shoes clean at all times. Confused. I crave volume and action at irrational times of the day. I dance to music in my head. Retired musician. On/off. Founder and DJ of the psychedelic, rock and roll party that is, The Skull Club.



My Interests

Fuzz guitar, girls in the street, the possibillities of expanding one's... thing, time alone, insomnia and sounds.

I'd like to meet:

Owsley Stanley. Lester Bangs. Linda Lovelace. Jerry Garcia. Hunter S. Thompson. Alan Vega. Julian Cope (again). Bobby Liebling.

Music:

Music. Loads. Rock and Roll music. Psychedelia. The Stooges, Syd's Pink Floyd, New York Dolls, The Seeds, Julian Cope, Primal Scream, Sonic Youth, Buzzcocks, 70's Aerosmith, Suicide, The Byrds, The Damned, The MC5, The Who, Ozzy-era Black Sabbath, The Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy, Can, The Cramps, Motorhead, Sleep, Link Wray, Jane's Addiction, The Beach Boys, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, AC/DC, The Clash, Spacemen 3, early Van Halen, The Dictators, make-up Kiss, Grateful Dead, Black Flag, Alice Cooper, Om, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Wailers, The Stranglers, The Band, early Motley Crue, The Kinks, The 13th Floor Elevators, Shangri-Las, Stone Foundation, Talking Heads, The Electric Prunes, Kraftwerk, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Hawkwind, Ramones, Pentagram, The Mothers Of Invention, Faces, The Heptones, John Coltrane, The Flying Buritto Brothers, The Fall, Eno-era Roxy Music, Funkadelic, Agent Orange, The Specials, The Velvet Underground, Neu, Bob Dylan, Soft Cell, Moby Grape, Todd Rundgren, early Monster Magnet, Miles Davis, Dexys Midnight Runners, Sleep, Love, Sly & The Family Stone, Magma, Pere Ubu, David Bowie, early Dr John, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, NWA, Cream, The Gladiators, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Danzig, Television, King Tubby, Ryan Adams, Danzig, Serge Gainsbourg, Silver Apples, Bad Brains, ESG, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Doors, Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band, The B-52's, Public Enemy, Pentagram, The Sonics, Teardrop Explodes, The Congos, Sun Ra, Om, The Third Bardo, Scott Walker, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Killing Joke, Max Romeo, The Misfits, Flower Travellin' Band, Dr. Alimantado, early Jesus & Mary Chain, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Monks, The Flamin' Groovies, Public Image Ltd... On & On...

Movies:

Jaws, Jason And The Argonauts; A True Testimonial (MC5), Performance; All Dolled Up (New York Dolls), Yellow Submarine; Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls; Midnight Cowboy; Dirty Harry; The Graduate; Planet Of The Apes; Easy Rider; Vanishing Point.

Television:

Not much...

Books:

Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung - Lester Bangs; Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson; Season Of The Witch - James Leo Hurlihy; Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr; The Dark Stuff - Nick Kent; Please Kill Me - Legs McNeil. Head On/Repossessed - Julian Cope; Keith Richards - Victor Bockris; Jaws - Peter Benchley.

Heroes:

Y'know, the usual movers and shakers. And Les Alcock.