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Hey! Wow!! Justin Love, also once known as Justin Trouble, gives us a little talking to over the telephone on all-nighters in New Yawk City back in the early Eighties. Currently living outside Woodstock, NY, and painting and playing music, Justin released an incredible hit called "Hippy Love Bubble" that we've played a thousand times over. Now, we know who put the love in the bubble but where did the "hippy" come from? What exactly was the power of Joe Franklin and Channel 9? Who is the Chocolate Chip Kid? And can Justin fix us up with a date with Jenny Tudor?
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Nikki Corvette, her gorgeous, fiercely fashion conscious, brilliantined composed self gave us a ticket to an unbelievable heart-to-heart talk-to. On stage, never before practiced, Peter James blissed, born at the righteously timeless time, genuine and strikingly sweet, Nikki & The Convertibles - cum Corvettes - smudged their beauty over a Detroit club-crowd faced with a band's first-ever time. Hear the fun, as from a conversation, word-for-word, can only dish, with flash and gossip, the feel and panache of making a happening scene a night worth lasting.
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Vance DeGeneres: bassist, songwriter, vocalist, heartthrob. The very Vance that gave us "Three Chord City" by whipping that ditty together with his N.O.L.A. based bandmates in The Cold. Alice Cooper: singer, songwriter, makeup artiste, auteur. The personality that gave us The Spiders, "Eighteen," fog machines, shotguned mascara, excess, camp, the chills, and a doped hoard. The time: 1980 (we guess). The place: A Mississippi Gulf Coast arena. Headliner: Alice "Super Duper" Cooper. Opener: The Cold, duh!? The one that once sung "School's Out" while - eight or so years later - the other shows up in their catholic school uniforms.
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The palm trees were swaying in the breeze. The waves were lapping the shore. The natives were slapping the mosquitoes on the back of their necks. Sunhats, khaki shorts, Hawaiian and Cuban shirts, socks up to the knees, bad bar bands and soup-thick humidity. Miami, a paradise for the older some, yet a retirement community penal colony for the fewer young. The Wind, championed by the local AM radio, dumbstruck from a nod in Rolling Stone, giddy from a spotlight on MTV, an album selling like crazy, fan mail; their heads filled with the promise of girl groupies, pop success, and more. They moved to New York City and found themselves dog paddling on CBGB's bills with the latest youth movement: ...hardcore. But that's another story...
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Uh, oh. Can't listen in on Justin Strauss talking about all the juicy bits that went into all those Long Island, London, New York and L.A. days singing with Milk 'n' Cookies. Sorry, Charlie. Our tape machine-held-to-the-receiver picked up some sweet goodies though. You got to get a copy of Issue #1 if you're wondering why Island sat on the LP for soooo looong. What was it like playing Brit kiddie programs on Saturday morning BBC One? Who really married Kathleen Turner? Did Johnny Thunders take the teens out for ice cream? What kind of pool parties did the Cookies play all glammed up in glitter?
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