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Jimmy Wynbrandt, Robert Gordon, Jayne County, Sable Starr, Richard Hell, Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone

during Max's Christmas dinner party at Max's Kansas City, NYC December 1975

©Bob Gruen

 

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 Nov 30 – NYC – (L-R) Clem Burke of Blondie, Mike Ness of Social Distortion, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols and Walter Lure of the Heartbreakers backstage at the tribute for the 40th anniversary of the Heartbreakers LAMF album at Bowery Electric.

Barb Wire Dolls, Billie Joe Armstrong, Blondie, Bob Gruen, Caroline Taucher, Chris Frantz, Clem Burke, Cory Booker, D-Generation, Dante Vega, Delta 72's, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Emi Helfrich, Flea, Glen Matlock, Green Day, Gregg Foreman, Jack Helfrich, Jakob Dylan, Jared Artaud, Jayne County, Jenni Muldaur, Jesse Malin, Jo Scheuer, Joe Raiola, Johnny Pisano, Josh McClorey, Kris Gruen, Kyoko Helfrich, Lenny Kaye, Little Steven Van Zandt, Liz Lumere, Martin Rev, Michael Stipe, Mike Ness, Miss Guy, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Olafur, Patti Smith, Perkin Barnes, Pete O'Hanlon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Revan Walsh, Ric Ocasek, Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd, Ronnie Spector, Ross Farrelly, Sean Lennon, Sex Pistols, Social Distortion, Suicide, Talking Heads, Television, Tenzin Choegyal, The Cars, The Heartbreakers, The Strypes, The Wallflowers, Tony Shanahan, Vacant Lots, Ville Juurikkala, Walter Lure, Yoko Ono

Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll - Metropolitan Museum of Art - April 8, 2019

Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll

Exhibition Dates:	April 8–October 1, 2019
Exhibition Location:	The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor 1, Gallery 1999

The first major loan exhibition in an art museum dedicated entirely to the iconic instruments of rock and roll will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning April 8, 2019. 

Through more than 130 instruments that were used by such artists as

Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Page, Steve Miller, St. Vincent, Metallica, The Rolling Stones,

and many others,

Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll will explore one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century and the objects that made the music possible.

Drawn from 70 private and public collections in the United States and the United Kingdom, most of the objects in the exhibition have never been shown outside of their performance contexts.

Organized thematically, Play It Loud will include many of rock’s most celebrated instruments, including such guitars as

Eric Clapton’s “Blackie,” Eddie Van Halen’s “Frankenstein,” and Jerry Garcia’s “Wolf,” as well as Keith Emerson’s Moog synthesizer and Hammond organ, and drums from Keith Moon’s “Pictures of Lily” drum set,

to name a few. By displaying several rigs used in live performances and sound recordings, the exhibition will also demonstrate how artists created their own individual sounds.

The instruments will be complemented by some 40 vintage posters, striking stage costumes, and epoch-making videos.

The exhibition is made possible in part by the Estate of Ralph L. Riehle, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and Diane Carol Brandt.

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rock Hall.

With objects dating from 1939 to 2017, the exhibition, together with its catalogue, will examine many ways in which rock and roll musicians used their instruments.

The exhibition will highlight themes such as emerging technologies and how they were embraced by musicians, the phenomenon of the “Guitar Gods,” crafting a visual identity through the use of instruments, and even the destruction of instruments in some live performances.

Highlights of the exhibition will include:

Chuck Berry’s electric guitar ES-350T (1957), which was his primary guitar from 1957 until about 1963 and was used to record “Johnny B. Goode”; Jimi Hendrix’s electric guitar “Love Drops,” originally decorated by him; James Jamerson’s upright bass, which he likely used on many early Motown hits; Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig, consisting of the customized Moog Modular Synthesizer, electric tone-wheel organ, and rotary speakers; a reconstructed performance rig from Eddie Van Halen as it appeared onstage in 1978; Steve Miller’s electric guitar that was painted with psychedelic designs by artist Bob Cantrell by 1973; Jack Bruce’s electric bass,  which was painted for him by the artist collective known as “The Fool” in 1967 while he was  with Cream; St. Vincent’s electric guitar, which Annie “St. Vincent” Clark designed in collaboration with Music Man in 2015; and Jimmy Page’s dragon-embroidered costume (Los Angeles, 1975)—the elaborately hand-embroidered suit took over a year to complete and Page wore it during Led Zeppelin’s live performances from 1975 to 1977.

   
The exhibition will also include a sculpture made from what was left of one of Pete Townshend’s electric guitars after he smashed the instrument during a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz, that was published in Rolling Stone as “How to Launch Your Guitar in 17 Steps.”

Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where it will travel to in November 2019.

This is the second collaboration between the two after Rock Style, which was presented at The Met in 1999.
Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll is co-organized by Jayson Kerr Dobney, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments at The Met, and Craig J. Inciardi, Curator and Director of Acquisitions of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 

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November 20, 2018

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I first came across Phil X. Milstein on what may be the very best website on the entire Internet: WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

There, Milstein is revered as one of the founders of the American Song-Poem Music Archive and a contributor with a vast knowledge of musical arcana. He's a true online music god, writing for countless e-zines and contributing to projects by and about indie artists like Thurston Moore, Half-Japanese and Jandek.

Probe is Turning on the People is Phil's personal virtual radio show, a place to post whatever he likes, arranged into more-or-less themed showcases. The range includes everything from The Ed Sullivan Show clips, oddball covers, unknown B-sides and rare demos. But it's not all novelty funny business—historically fascinating blues, ska and country cuts turn up here, too. This is a place where you can get your Oedipus on with Mr. Rogers' "I'm Going to Marry Mom," hear a Cambodian version of The Carpenters' "Superstar," or learn the back history of the dirty-talk blues classic "Shave Em' Dry."

I'll leave you to sort through the Johnny Cash sound-a-likes, the myriad versions of "How I Got To Memphis" and the sub-sub-genre of songs spawned by game shows. My playlist, though, includes Sue Lyon singing the "Ya Ya Song," Jay Chevalier's "Castro Rock," Gitta Hedding's German-language ska track "Das Ist Der Blue Beat," Porter Wagoner's "Lonelyville" and Big Maybelle's "Ocean of Tears."

DEA Deleted Microgram Bulletin (but this guy is more obsessive than me, AND i was first)

DEA Deleted Microgram Bulletin (but this guy is more obsessive than me, AND i was first)

During the summer, the Drug Enforcement Administration pulled down all issues of Microgram Bulletin, its monthly periodical aimed at drug warriors within the DEA and other law enforcement agencies at all levels.

I’ve combined all issues into one PDF, which I’m calling The Collected Microgram Bulletin, 2003-2013 (below).

At the same time, the DEA purged six years of Microgram Journal, a heavy-duty academic journal focusing on the chemistry of street drugs. Again, I’ve combined all those deleted issues into one PDF.

Microgram Bulletin

PDF: The Collected Microgram Bulletin, 2003-2013 [1,468 pages / 110 megs]

During its long life, Microgram Bulletin has mostly been unavailable to the public. It was first published (as Microgram) by the DEA’s predecessor agencies starting in 1967 and it continues to this day. From the beginning it’s been considered Law Enforcement Sensitive, and copies have been 99% successfully kept from the public.

But there was one decade when the DEA mysteriously decided to lift the veil. The issues published from the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2013 were unrestricted. The DEA even posted them on its website.

I downloaded them because I damn well knew that the DEA would yank them down at some point. Sure enough, the redesigned DEA website launched in August 2018 is missing the Bulletin. (Lots of agencies use a redesign as cover for deleting documents they wish they hadn’t posted.)

I’ve combined all issues and presented them in order (with bookmarks) in the PDF above.

If you’d like the issues as individual PDFs, the Wayback Machine captured them here and here.

Bear in mind that all issues from 1967-2002 and 2014-present are still Law Enforcement Sensitive and have never been publicly released by the DEA, even under FOIA. However, Erowid has obtained and scanned the first 17 issues (1967-1969) and posted them at the bottom of this page.

Microgram Journal

PDF: The Collected Microgram Journal, 2003-2008 [752 pages / 22 megs]

In 2002, the DEA split Microgram into two publications. What had been Microgram became Microgram Bulletin, and the highly technical articles about the chemistry of detecting and identifying illicit substances got a new, separate home in Microgram Journal (which is published sometimes quarterly and sometimes semiannually).
The DEA posted PDFs containing two or four issues of Microgram Journal for the years 2003-2008. Those are now gone from the DEA website. I’ve combined them into one PDF (above).

PDF: The Collected Microgram Journal, 2010-2018 [1,166 pages / 63 megs]

There’s no sign of the Journal for 2009, but since 2010 the DEA has been posting piecemeal fashion, with a separate PDF of each article going up every so often. For some reason, those individual articles are still on DEA’s site here. Nonetheless, good ol’ Russ combined them into a single convenient PDF covering 2010 to the first article of 2018

by Russ Kick · Published November 6, 2018 · Updated November 27, 2018

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