Magazines- They Ain't What They Used To Be pt 2. (Brigitte Bardot Special Edition)

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The Sleaze mags loved Bebe.... and she gave 'em plenty of ammo, like three suicide attempts [...]
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Magazines- They Ain't What They Used To Be

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One of Brigitte Bardot's first American magazine covers, pre-blonde hair! More digest size magazine stuff, these were 5" x 7" pocket size. Nice Shot [...]
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The "5" Royales and Lowman Pauling

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early promo pic    VG+ VG- insane guitar solo original version of James Brown hit their best record Lowman Pauling solo disc [...]
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Gillian's Found Photo #13

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    From the Fang's vast archives this week's found photo is an examination of young love. This photo was taken at the Mineola Skating Rink. Mineola is out on Long Island, New York. Long Island scares me, [...]
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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notice autograph pre-I Put A Spell On You Can't remember who took this one..... bubblegum card signed business card Esquerita Milochi lights up.... It was [...]
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John Gilmore- Laid Bare

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I've been laying around sick for a few days, head full of snot, retching up some horrid yellow bile (some sort of side effect from the chronic hep c), and blogerating is the last thing I feel like doing, but lying [...]
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Gillian's Found Photo #12

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The Fang's outdone herself this week. Check out these hepsters. The photo is dated 1968 which makes the haircuts ten times cooler, and they were already pretty fucking cool. The guy on the right has some amazing shoes, [...]
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Tod Browning & Werner Herzog

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I'm a bit late on the draw, but for those of you in the New York City area, Film Forum has retrospectives of two of my all time favorite directors running simultaneously.Tod Browning, whose Freaks and The Unholy Three kicked [...]
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Five More 45's

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Five more 45's off the shelves. Let's start where we left off on Tuesday with Dossie Terry, this time with "Thunderbird" as his middle name as a selling point, proving that the last posting must have sold some records [...]
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Bird's still the word...

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Back in April after the mammoth bloggeration on the subject of Thunderbird (the song and the wine, here), my pal Barry Stoltz e-mailed me to remind me that I'd forgotten this version, on King by Dossie Terry. I meant [...]
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Gillian's Found Photo #11

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After a week off the Fang is back with a real doozie from her archives. We just can't seem to stay off the subject of cheap wine here at the Houndblog, my apologies to anyone who arrived here via the link on Eric Asimov's [...]
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Jimmy Reed For Gypsy Rose Wine

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I love Jimmy Reed. As a singer, guitarist, and songwriter he was the greatest, and the drunkest. I assume you're all familiar with Jimmy Reed's Vee Jay LP's- I'm Jimmy Reed, Rockin' With Reed, Best Of Jimmy Reed, Found [...]
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Roy Buchanan- The Oily Years

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Long before he became king of the blues bar bores, Roy Buchanan was actually a great rock'n'roll guitar player. His best recordings unfortunately are spread out over a handful of obscure 45's on small labels, coast to coast. [...]
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Charlie Christian- Live At Mintons

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Why can't the mayor's office understand that every creative movement in New York City of the 20th Century, from jazz to abstract expressionism to punk rock started in bars and after hours joints. We need such places. Nowadays, [...]
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