Here’s a couple interesting remembrance pieces you might have missed recently.
Firstly, singer-songwriter Dave Alvin remembers the night in 1983 that he and a group of musicians from X and The Blasters backed up the late Bo Diddley at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles.
“Whatever you do, do not play ‘the Beat!’ ” Alvin distinctly [...]

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You probably don’t want to play this at work, lessen you work in a really bad design studio, but here’s some vintage footage [...]

Chris Gaffney, Southern California roots rock musician, died Thursday, April 17. He’d been diagnosed weeks before with liver cancer, but sources said his April 17 death was the result of a fall and the almost inexplicable collapse of his vital signs at Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach. He was 58.
A memorial show (and fundraiser) now scheduled [...]

Roots rocker died Thursday at 58

Chris Gaffney, Southern California roots rock musician, died Thursday. He’d been diagnosed weeks before with liver cancer, but sources said his April 17 death was the result of a fall and the almost inexplicable collapse of his vital signs at Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach. He was 58.
In his last talk [...]

Cal State Long Beach poet Gerald Locklin prepares to retire
There are certain people whom you can’t imagine Long Beach without. Kelvin Anderson of VIP Records is one; how would I have gotten through high school without my Eric B. & Rakim fix? Cal Worthington, the car dealer, is another; many of us grew up on [...]

D.J. Waldie and Diane Keaton’s new book
It’s about time Lakewood public information officer D.J. Waldie wrote a new book, you’re saying? Well he has–a book on Spanish Revival architecture in Southern California–co-written, with none other than actress Diane Keaton.