THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL RHYTHM SECTION
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
Living Colour
Tack>>Head
Little Axe (Skip McDonald)
Bernard Fowler (vocals)
1980 (INNOVATION, DISASTER, AND MURDER)
1980 — Ronald Reagan
•OriginalNoise.Org
the players 
the bridge
All Saints
“Rock N Roll All Night”
1975 —
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KISS OFF — Maybe less than unusual, but still a fun costume at 1979’s Halloween Ball. (kevin kolczynski)
“BLACK NAPKINS” (((VIDEO))) — In April 1980, Frank Zappa’s World Tour stopped in Gainesville, and played the Florida Gym. Opening with the guitar-heavy “Black Napkins,” letting the unknowing that he was much more than “Yellow Snow,” the same as he did on Halloween night in New York City at The Palladium.
After being “well received show in 1980, Zappa returned to Gainesville in 1981, as part of what is probably the best quarter of musical acts ever booked by Student Government Productions. [Qualman Story]
It was crowded and crazed, as usual.
by Jonathan Susskind
Alligator Staff Writer
Madness incarnate swooped and danced through the swarms, discovering a few not yet afflicted, mercilessly stomping their craniums, savoring the sweet innocence she sucked from the gray mush and spitting out a delicious sauce of dementia in drag, tempera paint, and construction paper. Intoxicated and rejuvenated, the dervish joyously swirled, twirled, and picked up the scent. >>>
The Day After
For UF students, Halloween Night (1981) was once again a raucous good time, full of the pomp and partying that has turned the annual festival into a “Ball.”
Students transformed themselves into toilet seats, rock stars, televisions, and other traditional costume characters, filling the campus with the brightly adorned bodies of happy Halloweeners. Once again, the cacophonic celebration proved to be the Gainesville spectacular that transforms even the wackiest of fantasies into reality. >>>
Other Balls*
LUNA(CY)
A NIGHT OF INSIDIOUS TEMPTATION
— BALLS OF OLD
YEAR BY YEAR HISTORY OF THE BALL
— SAINTS & SINNERS
HAVE A BALL (EDITORIAL)
— FRANK ZAPPA ’79
A DIFFERENT STATE OF HALLOWEEN MIND
— Queen Of The Ball ’81
THE BALL TO END ALL BALLS
GATOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET
“Last Days of May”
Blue Oyster Cult
1978 — “Three good buddies were laughing and drinking in the back of a rented Ford.”
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Stoned Age is a dirtier, five-years-after American Graffiti, made for those who graduated high school in the 1980s. The film follows two late ’70s stoners, spending an every Southern California Saturday night cruising and listening to Rock N Roll pop. Blue Oyster Cult topped their playlist, while looking for liquor, weed, and chicks. But it’s Ronnie Montrose who’s tune drives one of the film’s most memorable scenes. It’s their meeting China Kanter, across the street from “Fankie Avalon’s Old Place,” where they hoped to find teenage stoner heaven at the party they’ve heard was “going off” in The Valley.
Southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
GAINESVILLE ROCKED
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
TOM PETTY (GAINESVILLE’S FAVORITE SON)
MUDCRUTCH (TOM PETTY INTERVIEW 1971)
“YOU GOT LUCKY” (TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE)
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (KISS MY ASS / HALLOWEEN 1979)
PAT BENATAR (@ THE FLORIDA GYM)
TALKING HEADS (POST PUNK AT THE BANDSHELL)
movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
THE MOVIE WITH NO END
1975 — Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 — All The President’s Men
1977 — Rock N Roll Monsoon
The Who / Montrose @ The Miami Baseball Stadium.
opening for The Who, as LaBelle had the day before in Jacksonville. Pink Floyd at The Tangerine Bowl (1987). Chose to drive back to Gainesville, Red Isuzu, listening to Pulse as I drove up the Florida Turnpike. Pink Floyd at Tampa Stadium (1977) WKRP (“Animals”) w/Mr. Carlson and Johnny Fever. “With God as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly.”
1979 — Hip Hop Happens
Iranian Hostages 11/4/79
Jimmy Carter
THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGED [1980]
THE YEAR GOD SAVED THE GROWL [1980]
1980s — Just Say No
1980 — Ronald Reagan
1981 — Shuttle
1982 — No Nukes
NYC Central Park June 12, 1982
1983 —
THE POLICE
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
PAT BENATAR
FRANK ZAPPA (KISS MY ASS ’79)
TALKING HEADS
MOVIES (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
1977 — Voyager
Pink Floyd Tampa Stadium
WKRP “Animals”
Lou Grant
Orlando
WORJ (Blow by Blow / Imaginary Voyage / Deep Purple)
Outlaws w/Fat Chance (Sportatorium / Thirsty Turtle)
Pat Travers (Great Southern Music Hall)
One Week (Downtown Orlando)
Billy Cobham
Sea Level
Spyro Gyra
1978 — FM (Movie)
Tom Petty
Jimmy Buffett
Linda Ronstadt
Eagles The Long Run
“The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks”
1979 — Bombs, Hostages, and Oil in Iran
Iranian Hostages 11/4/79-1/20/81
Jimmy Carter
1980s — Just Say No
1981 — Shuttle
1981 (JUST SAY GO TO MTV, AND NASA’S RETURN TO SPACE)
1982 — No Nukes
NYC Central Park June 12, 1982
1982 (SATURDAY IN THE PARK)
1982 (JUST SAY NO TO EVERTHING)
1983 — “No Sell Out”
Keith LeBlanc
Malcolm X 12″
1984 — Keith LeBlanc
w/ Betty Shabazz vs. Sugar Hill Records
(((the original hip-hop beat )))
“No Sell Out”
Keith LeBlanc
Malcolm X 12″
1984 — Keith LeBlanc
w/ Betty Shabazz vs. Sugar Hill Records
((( the original hip-hop beat )))
1984 — BEAT STREET, Herbie Hancock Sound-System Keith LeBlanc (“King Of The Beat”) “NO SELL OUT” (Malcolm X) vs. Sugar Hill Records (Joe and Sylvia Robinson) w/Betty Shabazz.
1985 — Live Aid
Mick Jagger & Tina Turner
Farm Aid
We Are The World
Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones
Artists United Against Apartheid
Miami Vice
Adrian Sherwood
On-U Sound
Fat’s Comet
Gary Clail
Mark Stewart
Bernard Meets Mick Jagger
She’s The Boss.
Jeff Beck Flash
w/ Jimmy Hall, Rod Stewart, Nile Rodgers and Arthur Baker (Production) Carmine Appice,
1986 — Jeff Beck Flash Jan Hammer, Simon Phillips, Doug Wimbish, Steve Lukather, (TOKYO)
1987 — Living Colour Vivid, Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien
1988 — The Young Americans
The Second Coming of Mick Primitive Cool
The Brothers of Sodom
1989 — Bill Hicks
Viciously Honest (“Patriot”/”American Scream”) “The Gospel According To Bill Hicks” (GQ)
MUSIC [ 1.]
MUSIC [ 2.]
MUSIC [ 3.]
“The Story Of Willie”
King Missile (downtown nyc)
((( apocalyptic opinion )))
dave.
WARNING: YouTube forces you into the shit storm to see “It’s Just A Ride,” a biographical film made shortly after Bill Hick’s death in 1994. But it’s worth it, for those who get it. (VIDEO HERE)
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month 11, 1980
vol 11 no. 111
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