OUR TRIP TO CHARM CITY!!!!!!!

THIS PAST WEEKEND MY LADY AND I WENT TO CHARM CITY TO VISIT SOME GOOD FRIENDS!!!!LET'S JUST SAY WE HAD A BALL!!!!!!!!!

MR. SWINGING LONDON

John Stephen was a Glaswegian clothes designer who had several shops on London's Carnaby Street. He is remembered as one of the main figures in creating Swinging London. He died of cancer in 2004

Before moving to London, Stephen was a welder's apprentice. He moved to London from Glasgow in 1952 at the age of 18, and set up his first shop (called "His Clothes") within four years^[2], in Beak Street. In 1959, he moved to Carnaby Street and set up the first clothes shop there. By 1965, he owned eight shops on the street, selling clothes to mod bands such as The Small Faces, and boasting David Bowie as a designer. His complete archive is now maintained by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and in 2005, Westminster City Council unveiled a plaque on Carnaby Street commemorating his influence on fashion.

RON ASHETON

Ron Asheton, a guitarist of the Michigan proto-punk band the Stooges, and the guiding hand of some of the most simple, satisfying and copied riffs in rock ’n’ roll, including “TV Eye,” “Down on the Street” and “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 60.

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Ron Asheton, in glasses, with other Stooges members in 1972, from left, James Williamson, Iggy Pop and Scott Asheton.

Police officers found his body after a friend alerted them that Mr. Asheton had not been seen for several days, said the Stooges’ publicist, Angelica Cob-Baehler. A coroner’s report from the Washtenaw County Medical Examiner’s office was not yet available; Sgt. Brad Hill of the Ann Arbor police department said that foul play was not suspected.

Mr. Asheton, whose friendly if sardonic personality seemed the opposite of his loud and dirty guitar playing, lived in the house he had originally moved to with his family in 1963, and where the Stooges had their first basement rehearsals.

Three high school friends in Ann Arbor — Mr. Asheton; his drummer brother, Scott; and the singer James Osterberg, who later changed his name to Iggy Pop — formed the nucleus of what was first called the Psychedelic Stooges. Influenced by free jazz, garage rock and Chicago blues, the Stooges’ first two albums — “The Stooges” and “Fun House” — are the best showcase of Mr. Asheton’s sound: two- or three-chord riffs with an open, droning, low E string and solos filtered through distortion and wah-wah pedals.

After the high point of “Fun House,” things became more complicated. The bassist, Dave Alexander, was fired, and the band was dropped by its label, Elektra. Iggy Pop, individually, was signed by David Bowie’s production company, MainMan. A new guitarist and songwriter, James Williamson, joined the group. On “Raw Power,” the band’s final studio album, Mr. Asheton was demoted to playing bass.

The Stooges lasted from 1967 to 1974. Having progressed from a noisy, anarchic joke to a great, confrontational rock band and back to a joke, the members were broke and addicted to heroin, except for Mr. Asheton, who increasingly took responsibility for holding the band together from day to day.

In 2003, after the Stooges’ music had become enshrined by the punk movement that followed, and more than 20 years since Iggy Pop and Mr. Asheton had seen each other, the band reunited. From then until last year, it played nearly 150 furious, quickening, age-defying concerts around the world, from Detroit to Moscow, and recorded a new album, “The Weirdness” (2007).

Between stretches with the Stooges, Mr. Asheton played with a number of bands in Los Angeles and Michigan, including The New Order (not to be confused with the British group New Order), Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival and the Wylde Rattz. Wylde Rattz was a collaboration with some prominent younger musicians — Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Mike Watt of the Minutemen and Mark Arm of Mudhoney — who had grown up learning the songs Mr. Asheton wrote with the Stooges.

In addition to his brother Scott, Mr. Asheton is survived by a sister, Kathy.

Pursuing a lifelong interest in films, Mr. Asheton played small roles in several 1990s horror films, including “Mosquito,” “Legion of the Night” and “Frostbiter.” In 2008 he created a signature electric guitar for the Reverend company.

“For all that knew him behind the facade of Mr. Cool and Quirky,” read a statement issued by the Stooges, “he was a kind-hearted, genuine, warm person who always believed that people meant well even if they did not.”

ZOOT MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite simply the biggest character on the British rhythm and blues scene since the early 1960s, Zoot Money was born George Bruno Money on 17 July 1942 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Part of a large and noisy family, both his parents were Italian immigrants, although his father's family (really called Money) were originally English.

At school Zoot played the French horn and sang in the choir, but it wasn't long before he heard the call from the pied pipers of rock and roll (aka Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles - what a combination!) and found himself transformed into a leading light on Bournemouth's vibrant music scene.

In 1961 Zoot formed the first incarnation of the Big Roll band; over the next two years the line-up settled into Andy Summers (guitar), Nick Newall (saxophone)and Colin Allen (drums), with Zoot on piano and Hammond organ. This dramatis personae continued for a few years with various interruptions. The first was when Zoot, spotted by "British Blues Godfather" Alexis Korner's then manager, was invited to play with Korner's seminal Blues Incorporated for a temporary spell. Zoot decided to stay in London, and the other Big Rollers soon joined him.

Before long The Big Roll Band, alongside those other luminaries of the Soho blues scene of the time, Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames and The Animals, had become permanent fixtures at the Flamingo Club in Wardour Street. Zoot's shows were famed far and wide for his combination of outrageous antics (including "shocking" trouser activity that predated PJ Proby by several years), tight musicianship and passionate vocal delivery. At that time, to be seen - let alone to play - at the Flamingo was just about as achingly hip as it got. Two new members, Paul Williams (bass/vocals) and Clive Burrows (saxophone), were added to the line-up, and things really began to take off.

THE SMALL FACES

THANKS HOWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MATT YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!!!!!!

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PrImItIvE NEW YEARS 80s PROM NIGHT!!!!!!!

THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT THE OTHER NIGHT!!!!!!!! HAPPY 2009!!!!!!!! KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR THE NEXT PRIMITIVE DANCE NIGHT!!!!!!!! IF YOU DUG THE NEW YEARS PARTY COME BACK FOR SOME MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!