Special Thanks to our friends who

donated photos for this blog post:

Mike Tully - Rose Rosemarie Rizzi Cirillo 

Paul O. Colliton

Terri Goldstein - Carolyn Olson

By 1983, the Freelance Vandals, after the departure of keyboardist Jack Finch and…

BLOODLINES:

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

The Velvet Underground were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964. Its classic lineup consisted of singer and guitarist Lou Reed, Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and…

Many famous rock & roll clubs and concert halls 

have quietly vanished from the face of the earth. 

Why, it's almost as if they never existed.... 

but the stories about them live on.

By the time I moved to Long…