PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...
Narrative Oral History
Women of Rock Unite!: Oral History Project founder/director Tanya Pearson Explains How
Frustrated over a lack of sources about women rock musicians, a Smith College grad student decided to go...
MOE TUCKER: ON THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Maureen Tucker had a front row seat to punk rock history being conceived before her very eyes. An...
I GET AROUND – WHEN GLEN CAMPBELL REPLACED BRIAN WILSON IN THE BEACH BOYS!
An Oral History by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Brian Wilson: The Beatles’ invasion shook me up an...
THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS LEGS McNEIL AND GILLIAN McCAIN
Paula Mejia’s article on Jean Stein and her greatest legacy, the narrative oral history, was just published in The...
ALAN VEGA, SUICIDE’S MAIN MAN
An Oral History of Punk By Alan Vega as told to Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain. - Quite simply, Alan Vega revolutionized rock & roll. Along with his long-time collaborator, Marty Rev, their two-piece combo, Suicide was a band about thirty years ahead of their time.
JOHNNY THUNDERS & ME BY PHILIPPE MARCADE
Philippe Marcade, Senders lead singer, talks to Legs and Gillian about his memories of Johnny Thunders and the...
When The Beatles Met Elvis – An Oral History
An Oral History of when the Beatles met Elvis Presley on August 27, 1965. By Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain.
Ron Asheton – King of the Stooges!
Ron and Scott Asheton were the nucleus of the Stooges, the greatest fucking punk band in the world. Having attended Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, with Iggy Pop (né James Osterberg), the Asheton brothers were hoodlum types who attracted other punks with their erratic, wild behavior. As Iggy said of the Ashetons, “These guys were the laziest delinquent sorts of pig slobs ever born. Really spoiled rotten and babied by their mother. [Their] dad had died, so they didn’t have much discipline at home.”