My fifteen seconds of fame in Desperately Seeking Susan. Susan Seidelman thought SAG actors were not “downtown” enough to be extras in her movie. Someone posted the notice for the cattle call at Ed Blank Associates where we sold Weekly Reader.
Luke Schwartz took this photo in front of his new home to send to his friends in Arizona to prove what a shithole he lived in. That’s the courthouse in the background.
Hang gliding in Rio during our first visit. It was the thing that all rock stars did. Yes, we had to run off this ramp overlooking the beach. Once at the top, there was no other way down.
That’s Samatha, Sloth, and the back of Mark Arm’s head at the City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey, Halloween 1992.
As the song said, “Fat horny and dead, sits in the bathroom right next to Jack Webb.” You can’t make this shit up.
Archie, Daniel, and Barbara Darling. n.d. Location unknown but looks like Montevideo.
The snake lady in front of the Rio Palace, January 1993.
Artifacts from the Hollywood Rock show. Hollywood was a brand of cigarettes.
Samantha and Noel on Halloween in New Orleans, at almost the same moment we learned River Phoenix died. 1993.
Liz Estrada and “Dando,” on Halloween circa 1993.
At the Hole show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. It felt like an unofficial memorial for Kurt. September 24, 1994.
Posing in front of the Desperately Seekiing Susan poster in Malmo Sweden, circa 1985.
Vicious, Sloth, and Mothra at Zum Zachsen on the David Strasse, Hamburg, Germany, May 1989.
It was not hard to find a display case of Cisco on the Rampart in New Orleans, Labor Day weekend, 1992. This was just before we met the Chicken Man.
Group shot of Halloween in Trenton. There’s that toreador hat again.
One of the “schnickens.”
Yes, that is the former mayor of Montevideo in the center square at Polyesther’s on 8th Street, NYC circa 1993.
A real camera crew filming my address to the Brazilian people. We do not know where that footage ended up.
Dave Grohl has done interviews about how much he hated working at Tower for a particular manager who ended up in Paramus. We got this photo after the concert in front of the hotel.
Chris P. and Casey at Barbara Darling and Daniel’s wedding.
Mothra and Daniel at Barbara Darling and Daniel’s wedding. The punk rock episode of Quincy had just aired.
Even at a Hole show, you couldn’t avoid “the Boss.” Archie, Casey, Vicious, Mothra, and Sloth pointing to the photo of Bruce Springsteen. He loomed large in our legend and this was Asbury Park after all.
Sloth and Jud at Crazy House I
We had no idea LIz and Benny’s dog, Frank was in the booklet of the Paul Schaffer CD.
Artist rendering of Cobi, the ubiquitous Olympic Mascot who became our savior, circa September, 1991
The gauche tourist. Wearing a souvenir bullfighting hat on the way to Parc Guell, holding an octopus. Good thing he got this because it came in handy for “hat night” at the Tower Convention in Sacramento, two days later.
Sloth, Mothra, Igor, Barbara Darling, Noel at City Gardens, Halloween 1992
Marilyn Slash in the museum at Utrecht. “What kind of cheese did you have yesterday.”
Covered in mud and slime after Nirvana finally finished their set.
The Evel Knievel pinball machine.
The Geffen cocktail reception to promote Beavis and Butthead and Guns and Roses. It’s where we attempted to get tickets to Unplugged.
The last Halloween party in Jersey City. Our newest obsession was the TV show, Absolutely Fabulous. It was like an early clue to the new direction.