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Djuna

Play bass in the Yes-Go's

About Me

Played guitar in Klubstitute Kollective, Popcorn Theatre,The Sighted, DW Holiday and The Sheer Frost Orchestra. Bass in Glamacide, Slow Poisoners, B-Cups and Bettie Black. Member of the Yes-Go's on bass. Did U.S. Army Engineers in South Korea and New York State - carpentry/masonry and combat engineering. Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana as a building manager at a vocational school for teens. Ride a Baja Chetak scooter and Moto Guzzi V11 Sport motorcycle. Long for a pick-up truck with motorcross bike in back. Born in Memphis, Tennessee-also lived in Kansas City, Chicago, Shreveport, Louisiana, St. Louis, Alabama-undergrad at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in political science MySpace Layouts

My Interests

Motorcycles, Scooters, Bicycling, Travel, Running, Reading, Watching Movies, Guitar and Bass Playing, Listening to music, drinking coffee or a beer or wine or scotch, Korean food, fashion, sleeping in, railroads, history and Americana, Art and Music History, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Industrial Archeology and so on...

Music:

Velvet Underground, Holy Modal Rounders, The Fugs, MC5,The Wipers, Dead Moon, The Muffs, Can, The FastBacks, Tomorrow, The Pagans, The Creation, The Action, Julian Cope, Pulp, The Pink Fairies, The Deviants, Amon Doul, Neu, Faust, The Electric Eels, Rocket from the Tombs, The Small Faces, Chameleons UK, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Jim Carrol Band, The Dream Syndicate, The Rain Parade, The Jam, Johnny Thunders, Gun Club, Flamin Groovies, George Jones, 999, The Stooges, Pretty Things, Blue Cheer, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Vibrators, Television, Patti Smith, Willie Alexander, The Bakersfield Sound, Mink Deville, Blue Oyster Cult, Thin Lizzy, Big Star, DMZ, Lotte Lenya, The Lyres, The Dictators, The Rezillos, The Wedding Present, The Mekons, Radio Birdman, The Saints,, Replacments, Husker Du, Lotsa jangle and twang and lotsa Jazz and lotsa local San Francisco bands! etc etc etc etc

Movies:

The Fugitive Kind, 400 Blows, Rita Tushingham, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Metropolis, La Strada, The Passenger, La Adventura, Night in Cabaria, Paris, Texas, The Loveless, Something Wild, After Hours, Decline of Civilization Punk Years, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, The Leatherboys, Cramps Live at Napa State Hospital, Beneath the Valley of the Dolls, Umberto D, Bicycle Thief, Open City, The Wild One, Breathless, Cabinent of Dr. Caligari, just about everything by Werner Herzog and John Cassavetes amongst many others....

Television:

Excluding DVDs/VHSs I never watch TV

Books:

Crime and Punishment, The Bell Jar, Nightwood, The Subterraneans, Vanity of Doulouz, Junky, Violet Le Duc-La Batarde, Second Sex, Tobacco Road, Town and the City, Electric KooL Aid Acid Test, John Clellan Holmes-Go, Lawrence Lipton-The Holy Barbarians, The Decameron, Heart of Darkness, Louis Ferdinand Celine, The Immoralist, The Stranger, Nauseau, Female Enuch, Nadja, Pere Ubu, Maldoror, Mina Loy, Hilda Doolittle, Jean Rhys, Emma Goldman, Notre Dame Le Fleurs, Le Fleurs De Mal, The Horn, Hunter S. Thompson's-Hells Angels, East of Eden, Non-Fiction Books on Motorcycles, Art, Music, literature, politics and railroads and so much more...

My Blog

Record at Bart Thurbers place-Weekend of Oct 12, 13

Record songs for CD/EP
Posted by Djuna on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:57:00 PST

Private party at Lennon Studios

In Mid October-Friday night
Posted by Djuna on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:00 PST

Beale Street on Halloween

Beale Street with Lucabrazzi and The Obsessors  
Posted by Djuna on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:00 PST

More shows so far

Rocket Room-7/22; El Rincon-9/4, Johnny Zs in San Jose 9/29 Knockout 9/5, 9/12 Metro...and another show at Retox in Dogpatch
Posted by Djuna on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:39:00 PST

havent all the past shows because I have been so busy with other things like a new job

busy busy busy
Posted by Djuna on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:59:00 PST

Kimos 6/21

Kimos 6/21
Posted by Djuna on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Next Yes-Go's show-Fat City-3/31

with Absinthe Boy
Posted by Djuna on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST

2/24 Fat City (formerly Studio Z) show with Absinthe Boy

Yes Go's show
Posted by Djuna on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:21:00 PST

Grant and Green show 2/21/07

Yes-Gos show   Thanks to Andrew Poisoner for that one
Posted by Djuna on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:42:00 PST

Kimos w/Dead Americans 4/29

Yes-Go's Show
Posted by Djuna on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:19:00 PST