SEX OR WRITING

BOTH CAN BE DONE ON A PLANE OR IN THE BACK OF A CAB GREAT SEX CAN INSPIRE GREAT WRITING GREAT WRITING CAN SCORE GREAT SEX SEX AND WRITING CAN BOTH BE GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS BOTH CAN BE SIMULTANEOUSLY EXHILARATING AND EXHAUSTING BOTH CAN LEAVE YOU SATISFIED OR FRUSTRATED BOTH WILL SUFFER WHEN YOU WRITE ABOUT […]

FRANKIE’S TIKI ROOM AT 15

THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY FRANKIE’S TIKI ROOM HAS FOR 15 YEARS BEEN REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BARS IN THE WORLD. IT’S IN LAS VEGAS. IT’S OPEN 24/7 AND THE COOL PARLAY OF ISLAND ESCAPISM AND VEGAS KITSCH IS WITHOUT PARALLEL. MANY OF THE WORLD’S ELITE TIKI CARVERS AND LOWBROW ARTISTS CREATED […]

SAYONARA BLOODCOCKS UK

MY BAND BLOODCOCKS UK, THE ONLY AMERICAN BAND NEVER TO PLAY IN AMERICA, PLAYED OUR FINAL SHOW RECENTLY IN TOKYO. WE HAD A HELL OF A RUN WITH 8 TOURS OF JAPAN, ONE OF ENGLAND, PLUS MADE 4 RECORDS INCLUDING THE WILD 2022 LIVE ALBUM NEAR BODOKAN. OVER THE YEARS THE LINEUP CHANGED AND SO […]

MEDIA LOVE FOR DOUBLE DOWN’S 30TH

  The Las Vegas punk rock dive that Anthony Bourdain called one of the five best bars in the world is turning 30! Little did I know that when opening the Double Down Saloon that over the years it would come to mean so much to so many people. Home to the fabled Ass Juice […]

BLOODCOCKS UK – TRUE OR FALSE

BLOODCOCKS UK ARE THE ONLY AMERICAN BAND NEVER TO PLAY IN AMERICA. TRUE. 7 tours of Japan and 1 of England, but have never struck a chord on a stage in America QUEEN ELIZABETH WENT TO A BLOODCOCKS UK SHOW IN LONDON. FALSE. Our drummer at the time, Gunther, put her name on the guest […]

Bloodcocks UK live album – NEAR BUDOKAN

Bloodcocks UK recorded this live album in Tokyo two weeks before the shutdown. Available now on limited edition vinyl, iTunes, Spotify and all digital music platforms.

DEAD RINGER PRESALE

VEGAS 67. The mob versus the Mormons in a deadly battle for control of the Desert Inn with Howard Hughes as the pawn. PRESALE NOW ON AMAZON THE BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE OCTOBER 6

12th STREET ALE HOUSE

An interesting bit of NYC music trivia. My 12th Street Ale House in the East Village was once a bar called Slugger Ann where Lou Reed and others often went to ditch the Warhol crowd. Cross dresser Jackie Curtis bartended every Thursday dressed as James Dean, hence the line in Walk On The Wild Side.  After […]