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Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous White Stripes

Jack Mottram — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:09:02 +0000

I watched the splendid, inexplicably out-of-print punk mockumentary Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains the other night.

Just as The Stains’ career is taking off, Billy (a chubby Ray Winstone) and Corrine “Third Degree” Burns (Diane Lane) have the following exchange on their tour bus:

Billy: I like your hair.

Corrine: Yeah? What else do you like?

Billy: That’s it. I mean, at the moment, you’re just hair, aintcha? If you work hard, maybe, in a couple of years time, you might be something… different. At the moment, you’re just two white stripes.

Is that where the famous rock ‘n’ roll group got their name?

Patti Smith, Live At The Mitchell Library

Jack Mottram — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:49:12 +0000

Here she is:

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Pink Monkey Bird

Jack Mottram — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:32:22 +0000

I just posted the following to MetaFilter, and since I know there are folk who read this site but don’t read that one, I thought I’d reproduce it here:

Kid Congo Powers, noted guitar stylist, teenage president of The Ramones Fan Club, erstwhile member of The Cramps, The Gun Club, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (also known for his collaborations with Julee Cruise, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Khan and others) has produced a two part online autobiography of sorts for New York Night Train. It includes oral histories, available as transcriptions or MP3s, pages from his Cramps scrapbook, a vintage Creem article, free MP3s from his back catalogue, and, of course, his recipe for enchiladas.

See also, Kid Congo Powers’ latest group: The Pink Monkey Birds.