Sunday, March 22, 2009

src in shindig annual no. 1

now that i'm back from sxsw, i need to put mr. credit card away for awhile, because i was hemorrhaging money while hanging around 6th street and red river, availing myself of all those $5 beers and pizza slices. spent more time in rekkid stores this past weekend than i have in the past several years -- besides antone's, the place i was staying was within walking distance of both waterloo and cheapo's (of which i'd been previously unaware).

was able to limit myself to only buying merch from bands i saw, but this morning while killing time waiting for the italian kid to return from his in-laws' up north of the city, mimi and i took a stroll over to waterloo. my friend derek lewis wasn't working, but i wound up shelling out 20 bucks for a book that contains a 10,000-word piece i wrote on '60s detroit psychsters src (from interviews conducted over a period of several months) while i was unable to go to work downtown after the tornado in 2000.

it's my contribution to the mike stax school of aspergerish obsessive-compulsion as scholarship, and i think it holds up in spite of three grafs being truncated in the book and the photo reproduction being less than stellar in spots. i was just thinking a few weeks ago that i didn't have a copy of the piece, since i'd given away all the copies the publisher sent me. now i've got one. the rest of the book is full of stuff that'll be of interest to anyone who's into (mainly british) '60s mod-psych obscurities. i'm especially glad to have the very last interview with carl wayne of the move, since i've kinda been on a move kick lately. (it's also available from forced exposure.)

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