City Lights

Thanks for adding us! :)

thanks for the add...
I went to City Lights last year...really nice! I love S.Francisco ..I stayed to Big Sur too..amazing trip...like to be with the Kerouac ghost....

cheers, mike

Thanks for the friendship - Hope all is going well...

~Holly

now available for pre-order thru paypal ($5 plus S/H)...j. michael niotta's chapbook, "the devil's doin the same damn thing he's always done.'

noir, bars, women & cars - from vegas to dago, the brothels of germany to doha, kuwait: a wild & gritty collection of 17 cuts: pomes & prose, plus 3 excerpts from the novel, ‘the ants, thirsty,’ all from the former editor/columnist of 86…the man who put "hard fic" on the streets…the hardcore referee/translator/negotiator you’d hire when sitting bookended in a bar between nick tosches & chuck palahniuk.

"look, the stuff is good. quite good. straight up - like a good half-glass of whiskey."
—dan fante, author of ‘mooch,’ ‘spitting off tall buildings,’ ‘kissed by a fat waitress,’ & ‘a gin pissing raw meat dual carburetor v-8 son of a bitch from los angeles.’

cover & bio photos by adria photography www.myspace.com/adriaphotography

http://www.shadowarcherpress.com/jmichaelniotta.htm
http://www.shadowarcherpress.com/

New Fifty Foot Hose CD!

http://anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=FOgIMVzZlkK

Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco

In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other, fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that were sprinkled throughout the album.

Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene, though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still, the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and Fairport Convention.

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GIVE PEACE ! Give Peace a Chance.

Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes -
nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert.

NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person
march and rally for Nuclear Freeze.

Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.

http://www.imaginelovingpeace.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqi97njloM

Imagine Lovin' Peace,
Curtis

Viva City Lights!

Great to connect with you,

--J.C. McGowan,
author of the science-fiction novel
"The Big God Network"

Welcome City Lights to Garage Noir. Your comments are invited.

Birth of the Beat.

GN

I left my phone there...can't believe I got it back...the front desk people were the most helpful!!!  (and i'm from nebraska...how funny).

I LOVE you guys..:)

I wanted to meet ferlinghetti..he's my all time fave...

Thank you! I miss my evening walks through Chinatown to peruse those shelves!!

Best wishes,

Brian

I love you City Light! Been shopping with you since my parents began taking me to your door over 23 years ago!