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The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – Save Our Stages #SaveOurStages is a hash tag you probably saw appearing all over social media in April 2020. The life lockdown we faced in such an incredibly dramatic fashion beginning March 13, 2020 jolted the music industry. 100% shutdown of all live music venues was immediate. For […]

The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – BeepBeep, BeepBeep, Yeah! If one is going to write about music and how we all connect with each other around music in a regular K-ZAP blog, I feel comfortable quoting Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely,” and go on till you […]

APRIL 6th, 1968… THE WHO’s FILLMORE EAST DEBUT The Fillmore East opened for business in the old Village Theater on 2nd Avenue, just north of East 6th Street on March 8, 1968. Nothing short of alchemy, dilapidation and indifference had given way to state-of-the-art rock concert presentation. If you were between the ages of say, […]

Instead of giving you the viewpoint of just one person, we will be offering you a curated collection of posts from writers from around the world.  All of our writers will offer unique perspectives into the world of rock and roll and the music and culture that we enjoy. Our first regular contributor is Binky […]

The New York Dolls @ Mercer 12/31/72. Two weeks after The Planets debuted at Mercer with the Dolls. Every Mercer person was decked out beyond reason. I know I had thick eyeliner, gunmetal gray satin pants I poured on, a hot rod show airbrushed Planets t-shirt, a white babydoll sweater completely covered in mother-of-pearl sequins, […]

My friends, Paul and Gene, had been signed in 1973. It was now 1977 and I was still playing NYC clubs. Starchild and Demon were concerned, bless ‘em. They were both great admirers of my guitar playing (well, they were, dagnabbit). They wanted to help. Their manager, Bill Aucoin, had signed a new band called […]