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Billie Joe Armstrong on The Stooges
I sent Bob Gruen a PKM t-shirt to France, cause he was on tour with Green Day. It was when we were first launching the website. I sent a note in the package that read, "Bob, take the shirt out of the package, put the t-shirt on Billie Joe, now take the fucking picture!" Bob handed the note to Billie Joe, who said,
"I guess we'd better do what he says..."
-Legs McNeil
Mutant Monster Surfboard – Part 2
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein with the surfboard from Punk Magazine's Mutant Monster Beach Party. NYC 1977. The entire Punk Magazine #15 Mutant Monster Beach Party issue has been reprinted in The Best Of Punk Magazine, edited by John Holmstrom and Bridget Hurd. This picture were taken on the "set" of the opening scene, which was the street just outside the door of Chris and Debbies loft. There just happened to be a Jaguar parked there, and the owner came by let us incorporate it into the scene. He even put the top down. -Tom Hearn
The Descendents and Me
By Brian Walsby - A former Californian's weird connection to the Descendents.
Mutant Monster Surfboard – Part 1
Legs borrowing his brother Craig's surfboard to use in Punk Magazine's Mutant Monster Beach Party in 1977. He was taking it on the train from New Haven to Grand Central. I don't think Craig actually gave him permission to use it, but I know Craig never saw that board again. It was last seen in the possession of Joey Ramone.
Excerpt from: “LIVE THROUGH THIS…”
“You doing alright Legs?” Joey Ramone asked me one night, shortly after I’d gotten dumped by Billie Bartlet. We were hanging at out one Monday night at Arturo Vega’s loft, the Ramones’ creative director, right around the corner from CBGB’s.
Rebus Works Flyer
Cartoonist Brian Walsby made this great flyer for Gillian and Legs' book reading at Rebus Works in Raleigh. Thanks, Brian!
Punk Magazine Book Party
I recently (Jan 2013) attended the Book Launch/ Monster Book Signing Party at the PowerHouse Arena for THE BEST OF PUNK MAGAZINE by John Holmstrom and Bridget Hurd.
John assembled a group of former contributors to the magazine to have a massive book signing event. Guest book signers included former staffers Bruce Carleton, Robert Romagnoli, Steve Taylor, Roberta Bayley, Hal Drellich, Elin Wilder, Jolly Prochnik, as well as Andy Shernoff, Bob Gruen, Joe Stevens, Mickey Leigh, Tish and Snooky Bellomo, and more.
- Tom Hearn
via Collections Digest – PLEASE KILL ME by SIBLING
FOUND ON THE WEB: AnOther Magazine- via Collections Digest - PLEASE KILL ME by SIBLING | AnOther.
The Best of Punk Magazine
via PunkMagazine.com Homepage.
John Holmstrom's THE BEST OF PUNK MAGAZINE Is Here!
BOOK SIGNING PARTY AT POWERHOUSE ARENA, BROOKLYN, JANUARY 11th
"Few have earned the term 'punk pioneer' like John Holmstrom..." - NY Post "I love it..." - Vanity Fair Pictoral - The Daily Beast "The Best of Punk is a funny, visually-stimulating time capsule commemorating the first music periodical of its kind..." - Cleveland Examiner
PKM Party in Berlin
We found this on the web. "Not just ‘a party’ though, really, it’s ‘THE PARTY’" 12 DJ's ring in 2013.
So Far Underground…
from June 1967 EVERGREEN REVIEW. Courtesy of Brant Shapiro.