White Satan at the Black Monarch: The Haunted Show That Never Happened
The first thing we saw when we opened the door to the Black Monarch Hotel was the big tiled room on our left with a tall ceiling where...
Zack Kopp
Black Apple: Famous Groupies from this End of the Telescope | An interview with Kirkcaldy McKenzie
“It seems that Patrick started off quite quickly as a ghost writer for Decca, circa 1965 or thereabouts. And of course, ghost writers are hidden in the backdrop...
Westernized Ecstatic Trance Guitar with Robbie Basho and Peter Walker
As a lifelong music lover whose tastes aren’t driven by what’s popular, I’ve found a lot of treasures in the cut-outs bin, so to speak. Among the cast-offs...
Strange Tales of Jim Morrison Revisited: Conversations with Frank Wagner
My first citizen journalism article twenty-five years ago was about Gerald Pitts in Oregon, who claimed he’d discovered Morrison still alive as a rodeo cowboy. This led me...
Alan Graham and the Last Whiskey Bar(s)
This reporter was sitting around in his kitchen one night when the phone rang, and it was Jim Morrison’s brother-in-law of 22 years, Liverpool, England’s Alan Graham calling....
Growing up with 2 Tone and ska-punk in the 80s and 90s by Zack Kopp
Skaboob discovered the UK 2 Tone ska revival led by Jerry Dammers at age 15, including bands like the Specials, Bad Manners, the Selecter, the (English) Beat, the...
Jonathan Richman’s Inner House is full of Cold Pizza and other Hot Stuff by Zack Kopp
The name of this article is a mash up of the titles of Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins’s two latest full-length releases. Richman‘s career is an unbroken history...
The Merry Pranksters and the Thunder Machine by Zack Kopp
The recently published autobiographical burlesque 'CRONIES' is not Ken Babbs’s first publication, having published one called 'Who Shot the Water Buffalo?' (Overlook, 2011) detailing his experiences as a...
Happenings in Denver to promote Al Graham’s Books by Zack Kopp
Liverpool's Alan Graham met his future bride, Anne Morrison, or “Anna” as he calls her, in Earl’s Court, London, in the late-middIe-1960s, in the hotbed of U.S.-English cross-pollination...
The Jazz Butcher is Dead! Long Live the Jazz Butcher! by Zack Kopp
One night about a month ago, Pat Fish (born Patrick Huntrods on 20 December, 1957), and also known as the Jazz Butcher, was posting a video apologizing for...