Punk poet. Noisemaker. Grandpa.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 13)
“An Awareness Grows” culminates in a line my Granny C. wrote on a newspaper article she clipped and sent me:
Samples by James “Prove It” Nugent.
JB
1977: Mix Tape (Track 12)
What is it about certain objects that they have the power to recall people and things that have passed? “What’s Fallen Apart” was first published by Paper & Ink Literary Zine (UK) in the Birth & Death Issue.
Samples by James “Clash” Nugent.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 11)
“Manifesto” condenses history into a list of (mostly) paired concepts. It’s extracted from reading Blake, Ginsberg, Rimbaud, Genet, Burroughs, “Being & Nothingness,” and “The Rebel.”
Samples by James “1977” Nugent.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 10)
“A Pause Before Beatings Resume” was inspired by the sound a phonograph needles makes when it reaches the end of the record but fails to return and you’re already out.
Samples by James “Sonic Reducer” Nugent.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 09)
“Hippie Sutra” advocates for open minds.
Samples by James “I’m So Bored” Nugent.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 08)
So what — “Penance.”
Samples by James “Pissing in a River” Nugent
Rocket To Russia
Three reasons why, released 40 years ago (Nov. 4, 1977), the Ramones’ third LP “Rocket To Russia” still matters:
- “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker“
- Cover photo by Danny Fields.
- Russia is still messing with us.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 07)
“Palpitations” is about the sensation you get standing close to loudspeakers. The lows that reverberate in your chest. The drumming that realigns your heart beat.
Samples by James “Iggy” Nugent.
What I learned from Johnny Rotten’s autobiography (Part 3)
Five things about John Lydon I didn’t know and I’m embarrassed that I didn’t:
- He moved to L.A., first Pasadena then Malibu where Herb Alpert was his neighbor (early 1980s).
- As Time Zone, he collaborated with Afrika Bambaataa on “World Destruction” (1984).
- PiL Ltd. released four albums I never heard about: 9 (1989), That What Is Not (1992), This is PiL (2012), What The World Needs Now… (2015). (I blame the record company. See full discography.)
- He hosted nature shows on great white sharks and mountain gorillas (2004-05).
- He became a U.S. citizen (2013).
JB 