Punk Turns 30

Finding Sounds To Translate Images is not my title! It's Bruce Bennett 's title for his piece in the NY Sun, published on October 2, 2007, URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/63769 That's Bruce on the left, with Billy Miller, his band-mate in The A Bones. I've seen Bruce standing on his amp and doing other crazy rock n roll things on stage... but his dirty little secret is that when he's not going crazy playing a mean guitar for the A Bones, he's quite the scribe... Since I couldn't have possibly said anything better than Bruce... I'm lifting from him in huge chunks from that NY Sun article, where Bruce tells us that ....In 1999, the custodians of Rohauer's archival legacy, the Douris Corporation, and Ohio's Wexner Center for the Arts commissioned guitarists Tom Verlaine and Jimmy Rip to compose and perform new musical scores for a program of Rohauer's experimental gems. Mr. Verlaine had gained moderate fame as the front man of New York...

Miriam Linna played drums for The Cramps in 1976-1977, and since 1986 has been one-half of Norton Records with Billy Miller, her husband and band-mate in the A Bones. Miriam is just so cool and just about the kindest person on the face of the earth. She's been deeply involved in so many punk rock things as a writer/zine publisher, musician, record label and fan. Together with Billy, in just the past year, Miriam has been instrumental in bringing back to vinyl, two important musical artists from the 60s: Mary Weiss and The Alarm Clocks. And Miriam has made enough of a dent in the world to have her own entry in the Wikipedia so how's that? Miriam Linna, Billy Miller, the Reigning Sound and Mary Weiss, up on the roof of the recording studio, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Tara McManus plays drums in Mr Airplane Man, and is one-third of the Turpentine Brothers with her husband, Justin Hubbard and keyboard player Zack Brines. Turpentine Brothers Mr Airplane Man is Margaret Garre...