[Tikievents] Book tour by Beatnik/1960s historian Domenic Priore

[Otto]

Domenic is the founder and co-editor of awesome 60s magazine Dumb 
Angel Gazette. His partner (Becky) and longtime collaborator (Audrey) 
are presenting "The Connection Between 60s Mod Go-Go and Tiki" at 
Tiki Oasis 7 symposiums on behalf of Domenic who will be on tour at 
the time



Long time Tiki activist and supporter of Tiki Rights and all 
endeavours of (and defender of) the Tiki Manifesto (see Tiki News #1) 
Domenic Priore has just released his nine-years-in-the-making book 
called Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood 
(foreword by Arthur Lee of Love).  This is not your typical "rock" 
book, however, as there is a tremendous slant toward the environment 
of the modernist Sunset Strip nightclubs of the '60s themselves... 
and what came out of them before the pigs shut the whole thing down, 
man, in November of 1966.  No fuzzy nostalgia here, the book is 
written from the punk rock perspective and re-adresses the radical 
aspect of a Hollywood that no longer exists.  Tiki content?  Les 
Baxter meeting Martin Denny for the first time at the Crescendo is 
mentioned, as are many of the cool jazz artists who shared the scene 
with the Byrds, the Mothers and others who broke outta the scene... 
including a good deal of the garge punk bands featured on Nuggets. 
O.K., underneath it all, you will probably like a lot of the 
historical stuff included in the book, so dig, Domenic will be at the 
venues below this summer (all times 7 p.m. and free, unless noted);

Friday, July 6, Booksmith, Haight Street, San Francisco (guest 
Michael Stuart-Ware from the band Love)

Thursday, July 12, Book Soup, Sunset Strip, West Hollywood (guest 
Michael Stuart-Ware from Love)

RADIO on Wednesday, July 18, "Quiet City" on Luxuriamusic.com, 6-9 
p.m. Pacific Standard Time.  A Riot on Sunset Strip set will be 
featured w/ Domenic at the turntables

Thursday, July 19, Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers, Williamsburg 
(218 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn) guest TBA

Friday, July 27, Bluestockings Radical Books, 172 Allen Street, Lower 
East Side, Manhattan (1966 Sunset Strip slide show and guest TBA)

RADIO on Sunday, July 29, WFMU "The Gaylord Fields Show," 3-5 p.m. 
Pacific Standard Time (wfmu.org)

Tuesday, July 31, Barnes & Noble, Astor Place, Manhattan (between 
Greenwich Village and East Village) special guest Barry Feinstein, 
photographer of the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" fisheye LP cover and 
director of 1966 L.A. scene documentary "You Are What You Eat"

Friday, August 10, Secret Cinema, Latvian Hall, Philadelphia PA. 
Screening of "Riot on Sunset Strip" plus 1966 Sunset Strip slide show 
and DJ/dance after-party)  $7 @ 7 p.m.

RADIO on Saturday, August 11, Luxuriamusic.com special New York City 
edition of "Riot on Sunset Strip" featuring DJs Phast Phreddie, 
Domenic Priore and Audrey Moorehead.  9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Sunday, August 12, Academy LPs/CDs, 96 N. 6th Street, Williamsburg 
(Brooklyn) featuring an in-store performance by the Nashville Rambers 
(who appear on the Children of Nuggets box set) performing tunes by 
the Leaves, the Bobby Fuller Four, the Dovers, the Addrissi Brothers, 
the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds etc.  Show starts at 6 p.m.

RADIO on Wednesday, August 15, "Quiet City" on Luxuriamusic.com, 6-9 
p.m. Pacific Standard Time.  A Riot on Sunset Strip set will be 
featured w/ Domenic at the turntables

Thursday, August 16, McNally-Robinson Booksellers Inc., 52 Prince 
Street, Nolita, Manhattan.  (guest TBA) We'll be gathering at 
Lombardi's Pizza after this one...

Saturday, August 18, East Coast Beach Boys Fan Convention, Southbury, 
Conneticut, Crowne Plaza Hotel.  Beatnik Beach slide show (L.A. 
coffeehouses and jazz joints of the late '50s and early '60s).  Noon. 
(cover charge, please check online)

TENATIVE GUESTS in the New York City book stores include artist Gary 
Panter (Screamers, Pee Wee's Playhouse), Jim Pons (main guy in the 
Leaves, of "Hey Joe" fame), Artie Kornfeld (West Coast/East Coast 
mid-'60s record producer/songwriter who saw it all and later 
organized Woodstock) and Laura Kenyon (of Lyme & Cybelle... a duo in 
which her partner was a very young Warren Zevon).

Saturday, September 8, Vroman's Book Store, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., 
Pasadena (guest TBA) 4-6 p.m.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 14, 15 and 16, Riot on Sunset 
Strip Weekend at the American Cinematheque, Egyptian Theater, 
Hollywood Boulevard.  Features (so far) include a Friday night show 
with "Riot on Sunset Strip" and "You Are What You Eat," Saturday 
night it'll be "The Trip" and "Mondo Hollywood" and we're still 
setting up Sunday, possible matinees and live music, maybe even a 
bazzar like Tiki Oasis weekend at the Egyptian.

later events at the West Hollywood Book Fair, and plans are in the 
works for events in Austin and Seattle.  If you're interested in 
booking an event, please contact Kevin Becketti (Jawbone Press) at 
(510) 528-1444 extension 235

-- 
Otto von Stroheim

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