Tag Archives: the sonics

xmas record cover of covers

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is maybe the second best rocknroll xmas record ever set to vinyl (phil spector’s xmas disk being the best). this is the “etiquette xmas record”. i found this copy recently in a thrift store … Continue reading

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iron(ic) butterflies

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) the very first record i ever bought was ‘in-a-gadda-da-vita’, the Lp by the iron butterfly. (the second was the beatles’ ‘revolver’). back when i was a larvae, i thought the iron butterfly was the … Continue reading

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java jive

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) a couple of days ago, there was a front page story on the Java Jive, the famous old roadside “giant teapot’ monument architecture on south tacoma way in tacoma. it’s a a weird strange old … Continue reading

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post punk: johnny rotten

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) I’m not very comfortable with the new popular label “post punk”. to begin with, it denotes a time frame – it comes after ‘punk’, right? ok, so how do we define 1) “punk” and IT’S time … Continue reading

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seaweed in seattle

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): DIGGING through my crap, thinking about what to post today, i ran across this peculiar item. it’s a piece of seaweed (like the kind you purchase in small sheets in the asian food aisle in your … Continue reading

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instant litter: waiting for a rise from the rubble

When there is no more negation to negate. Art looks back at the punk scene and what lessons can be learned, or unlearned… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Back in around 1984, I put together a little book about Seattle punk posters … Continue reading

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