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Deep Cuts: Songs For A Visit to the Piercer

Body modification may predate civilization, but it didn’t hit mainstream American culture until the early ’90s.
On Ultimate Classic Rock: 40 Years Ago – Patti Smith Makes a Definitive Opening Statement With ‘Horses’

Either you love Patti Smith’s Horses or you’re wrong. That’s just science.
241. James Gets His Nipple Pierced

After the riots, the producers of The Looters found themselves without a movie title, but one of the film’s stars had a solution.
Throw Beck Thursday: That Time I Got My First Guitar

Note: Deep Purple was recently announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, rendering parts of this little story obsolescent. I’m sure that was the Hall’s intent because, you know, it’s all about me.
Deep Cuts: Your Obligatory New Years Playlist

It’s going to be a rough one, folks.
2016: The Year Things Will Change Slightly

We’re about to enter 2016, 40 years removed from the Bicentennial. In another ten years we’ll likely see another red, white, and blue marketing blitz similar to the one in ’76. Although the anniversary won’t be as meaningful, the marketing will probably make the Bicentennial look subdued.
From the Stacks: Chuck Cissel – ‘Just For You’

Like banned/changed album covers, test pressings are freak printings that I always pick up when I stumble across them. I like the rarity of them, and I like the peek behind the scenes of the process.
Throw Beck Thursday: Ventriloquism For Dummies (a Christmas Story)

The following is a piece of thinly veiled fiction that I wrote several years ago and haven’t found a home for. I concede, oh great magazine publishers — it’s not for you at this time and I’m glad that you appreciated the opportunity to review it. Maybe it’s a piece of junk, I don’t know.…
Deep Cuts: The Obligatory Christmas List

That’s a little tiny Christmas me to the left of the sister rockin’ the Santa guitar.
240. Anarchy Is Loosed

The next morning I awoke and ran back up to the roof of the Su Casa Apartments to see how the riots were progressing. I could see the fires making their way up La Brea, that long, straight artery connecting south Los Angeles to the heart of Hollywood.