So, I don’t know where the hell this is gonna take me, but in my brother Craig’s memory I’ve decided to do a series of Jimi Hendrix posts. I’ll tackle individual songs, performances, albums, whatever. To be honest, I haven’t really thought it through, but Craig deserves it. Dude was the biggest Jimi fan […]
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It’s with a heavy heart that I report the sad news that my brother, Craig Davis, passed away last night from the cumulative effects of tongue, lung, and liver cancer. He was 51 years old. Fifty fucking one. It started out, as these things often do, with a nagging cough. This was July/August of […]
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This post is dedicated to my oldest daughter, Leilani, on her 9th birthday. I love you, miss you, and think of you often. It also contains spoiler alerts, so don’t say you weren’t warned. I couldn’t help but think of Lani while watching Inside Out, the new film from Pixar. It stars Amy Poehler […]
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Today we’re spinning off Sean-Michael Yoder’s excellent feature, Gun Club, Pt. 2: Walking with the Beast: 1983-85, which I published last time. While that post was still in draft mode, Sean and I discussed any number of topics related to it, including Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, who figured prominently in the first part […]
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Last August, my old Chico runnin’ buddy, Sean-Michael Yoder, became the first guest writer in the history of The Adios Lounge. I let Sean run loose on the early history of The Gun Club, particularly their first 2 albums, Fire Of Love (1981) and Miami (1982). For years, Gun Club was a band I’d […]
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