BOOTSEY X
Since I am down to a quarterly schedule rather than a monthly schedule, my annual list is a lot shorter, so I will try listing all of the people that I have discussed in some depth rather than just the Under Appreciated Rock Band and the Story of the Month. They are all punk rock bands of one kind or another this year (2015-2016), and the most recent post includes my overview of the early rap/hip hop scene that an old friend, George Konstantinow challenged me to write – probably so long ago that he might have forgotten.
March 2016 – 1980’s-2000’s punk/funk band THE LOVEMASTERS; Story of the Month on Pat Boone; also, Twisted Sister, the B-52’s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, ZZ Top, Deee-Lite, Katrina and the Waves, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, the Ramrods, Robert Mulrooney, Bootsey X, Bobby Beyond, One String Sam, the Credibility Gap, Dark Carnival, Nathaniel Mayer.
(Year 7 Review)
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So after finding films like that on Amazon.com for awhile, it occurred to me that I ought to be able to find some of the albums by the Under Appreciated Rock Bands and Under Appreciated Rock Artists that I thought I had no chance of ever locating. Sometimes the prices were simply too high, but I kept looking. I did pick up the only full album by past UARB the Lovemasters, Pusherman of Love – and what a treat it is! – but Bootsey X’s final solo album Women’s Love Rites was still priced at nearly $100 (as that album was not so long ago) and is currently not available at all. I just played that CD for a second time, cranked all the way up for a good part of the album.
(Year 10 Review)
