Clothing designer John Varvatos, whose new shop on the Bowery
replaced CBGB, is still trying to play up his punk rock bona fides, telling the
New York Post that his first concert was an Iggy and the Stooges show in 1970. "Even back then, he performed shirtless. Fast-forward 35 years and I put him in a three-piece suit in my ad campaign. He said it was the first time ever that anyone wanted to photograph him with clothes on." Ahh, isn't the realization of the punk-rock dream a beautiful thing? [
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"He was just hanging out at the barber shop, used to party over there up on St. James Place. He used to come down to the store and say, 'Birdell, I want you to help me get beats, tracks, 'cause I know you know them old blues and the good music.' I said: 'Aw, Biggie, I don't have time for that. I'll tell you what I'll do. Get you a record player and I'll let you go downstairs in the basement.' So he and his partner would come every day three or four months straight, every day but Saturdays, and he would say, 'I'm going to be big one day, Birdell.' I said, 'Aw, you ain't going to be nothing.' " — Brooklyn record-store owner Joe Long on the crate-digging ways of former customer Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace. [
NYT]
Idolator
Fremantle, Australia will put on "The Bon Scott Project," a multimedia homage to the legendary AC/DC singer who had been raised in the town. Along with putting up 19 artists' tributes to the man, hosting panels, and a few musical performances, the project will display a few personal letters from Bon Scott that show his "bawdy and humorous side but also offer an insight never before seen into the personality of the man." A blog has been set up for fans to contribute their own feelings and memories to, and its already full of musical appreciation, rumors of love children and quotes from his many letters.
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