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Too Much Junkie Business
This Friday at Sneaky Dee’s in Toronto; The Hammer on Saturday. When Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan quit the New York Dolls in 1975, they started The Heartbreakers, inviting Richard Hell and Walter...
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I Belong to the Beat Generation
The beatnik on the right sports a safety pin. In 1959, beat poet Rod McKuen, he of mushy and syrupy poems and songs recorded “I Belong to the Beat Generation” under the pseudonym Bob McFadden And Dor....
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Hemingway Hated Disco Music
An absolutely rollicking week at Pogo H.Q.: We topped off last week by chatting with fangirl Erika Larner, who’s lineage goes from Gary Topp’s Original 99 Cent Roxy Theatre, where many seeds of...
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Sez who?
Part of The Lost Generation American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “There are no second acts in America,” but we’re thinking that might not apply to Canada. As we go through the...
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The Horseshoe Tavern 1978
The Horseshoe 1978. In May, 1978, after they left the New Yorker Theatre, partners Topp, Cormier and Silverman took over management of the Horseshoe Tavern, a dive bar that featured country and...
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