alexrosas2022-06-01T14:55:21+00:00June 1st, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
This was the 144th day of 2022. There have been more mass shootings than days in the year. Let me clarify that: there have been more mass shootings in America than days in the year. This is the only country in the world that can claim that dishonorable distinction. Think about that
alexrosas2022-05-25T23:06:40+00:00May 25th, 2022|Books We Love, Music|
A Product of Legsville: A Legsville Oral History - Legs McNeil Talks with Bobby Grossman
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:31:30+00:00May 24th, 2022|Music|
Arturo Vega was the most optimistic, jubilant and fun pal anyone could wish for. If it wasn’t for Artie, Joey Ramone and I would’ve starved to death in those early days. He used to give us each a buck fifty so we could each buy a quart of beer and a pack of cigarettes. Joey smoked Winstons; I smoked Marlboros, at 75 cents a pack.
alexrosas2022-05-19T16:42:32+00:00May 19th, 2022|TV & Film|
When you think of an axe murderer what vision comes to mind? I bet it isn’t a frail, Christian mother wearing oversized glasses and a tight perm. This is why Hulu’s series, Candy, intrigues us so much. Based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (played by Jessica Biel), a suburban mom from Wylie, Texas who killed her lover’s wife by hitting her 41 times with an axe. Shockingly, Candy got away with it claiming self-defense.
alexrosas2022-05-19T01:43:47+00:00May 18th, 2022|Comedy, Essays|
Bobcat Goldthwait comes out and introduces the clips that Jerry brought, and the clips are running. There's the famous dance down the stairs from Cinderfella. There’s him doing the incredibly famous boardroom bit from The Errand Boy. And I'm watching Jerry look at himself. He was seventy-six, overweight and nobody knows who he is anymore, and he's looking at the twenty-six-year-old version of himself when he was super-famous. And I see Jerry look out at the half-full crowd, and then Jerry fell to the ground. And I think he’s dead.
alexrosas2022-05-18T13:19:40+00:00May 18th, 2022|Essays, Music|
This article was originally published by Chris Zappa on Medium in 2021 under the title, “I Just Can’t Even With Eric Clapton Anymore.” Chris has graciously given Legsville permission to republish it, and I encourage other music lovers to read Chris’ work on Medium as well as sign up for Zappagram, the mother of all music newsletters, which he runs on Substack.
alexrosas2022-05-15T15:45:01+00:00May 15th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
©2022 By Lillian Glass – Director/ Producer, Body Language Expert, Communication Expert | "First of all, she is once again copying Johnny's style as she too is wearing a vest under a blazer just like Johnny is wearing and has been wearing throughout the trial."
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:31:15+00:00May 13th, 2022|Music|
Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera revolutionized Las Vegas, the lounge scene and 20th century popular music when they launched their spectacular act in December 1954 at the Sahara hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
alexrosas2022-05-13T15:26:56+00:00May 12th, 2022|Essays|
Leon felt the muscles in his arms spasm after tearing down the Snake Girl tent in less than an hour. A job that usually took three other men two hours and a half-pack of cigarettes, he could do alone in fifty-three minutes.
alexrosas2022-05-12T19:35:43+00:00May 12th, 2022|Music|
In one of his many interviews, John Lennon called it the most exciting day of his life. I rather doubt it, but then I grew up with the Elvis that was making movies like “Clambake” and “Girls, Girls, Girls,” so I was never impressed. Like Lennon, I loved Elvis’ early Sun Records stuff and believed Presley went to hell when he joined the army. Still, I would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall the night the Beatles finally met Elvis. I hope you enjoy this!
alexrosas2022-05-05T22:14:25+00:00May 5th, 2022|Music, Video Of The Month|
"For me, Rock n' Roll is about freedom. It's about the freedom to express your feelings very loudly in public. And for me, the idea of expressing your feelings is what life is all about. And the bands I follow have that message." - Bob Gruen
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:53:27+00:00May 5th, 2022|Fashion|
Watching this was like watching someone herding cats. Live streaming this is not the way to go as there are a boat load of security trying to steer the attendees around the red carpet. In addition there are what can only be referred to as “Dress Wranglers” moving overdone, ridiculous trains around after every turn and step. | ©2022 by Suzy Dooley
alexrosas2022-04-30T18:03:22+00:00April 30th, 2022|Essays, Music|
Cynthia was truly an original thinker and a meticulous goofy artist who took the job of casting rock stars’ erect “rigs” extremely seriously while never losing her sense of humor about the job at hand. Join me now as we listen to Cynthia Plaster Caster’s story….
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:01:16+00:00April 29th, 2022|Fashion, Music|
So Punk, what are you going to wear? I’m already thinking about Fall 2022. I have just seen my first glimpse of tourist winter white flesh revealed. I witnessed for a mere nano second the stretch marks and imperfections, back fat and butt cracks! I’m ready to see the coats back on and the sins of our unhealthy diets swathed and draped in almost anything.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:01:41+00:00April 29th, 2022|Books We Love, Essays, Music|
Excerpted from CORPORATE ROCK SUCKS: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland. Copyright © 2022. Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
alexrosas2022-04-30T15:55:21+00:00April 29th, 2022|Essays|
On April 29, 1992, jurors in Simi Valley, California acquitted five Los Angeles police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Los Angeles citizens responded to the news with a display of widespread civil disobedience and destruction that became known as the Los Angeles Riots. The evening the violence began, Burt Kearns, a producer of the syndicated nightly tabloid magazine series, Hard Copy, was sharing a pizza with correspondent Rafael Abramovitz at Santopietro’s restaurant. Thirty years later, the following is adapted from his memoir, Tabloid Baby.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:02:17+00:00April 27th, 2022|Books We Love, Essays|
After consuming magic mushrooms in Basel, Switzerland, I ran into Albert Hofmann, the chemist who catalyzed the psychedelic era. | By John Horgan on April 19, 2014 (Reprinted with John Horgan’s Permission) | © 2022 Scientific American, A Division Of Nature America, Inc.
alexrosas2022-04-29T13:34:15+00:00April 27th, 2022|Music|
Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera revolutionized Las Vegas, the lounge scene and 20th century popular music when they launched their spectacular act in December 1954 at the Sahara hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The story of their success has never been told in full, and never accurately – until now. Based on long-hidden interviews with the principals and extensive research, Burt Kearns reveals how all the parts fell into place, long before that historic debut. In Part One, we meet the man who answered the call of The Wildest, the key player without whom this success story would never have happened.
alexrosas2022-04-26T21:58:32+00:00April 26th, 2022|Essays|
Johnny’s body language is open and his tone is appealing. He is articulate and his drawing out his articulation and pacing time is engaging. He comes across as in control and level-headed in his delivery and appears to be credible. While many of the revelations are shocking, he openly describes his experiences with Amber and holds nothing back. He is also credible in the fact that he openly admits his flaws and embarrassing issues as well.
alexrosas2022-04-22T13:50:55+00:00April 22nd, 2022|Books We Love, Music|
Here’s something I discovered over the last couple of years: Tell somebody you’re putting together a book about music and their response is usually something like, “Cool! I love music.” Tell them it’s a book revolving around punk drummers and the response is more like, “Damn. I hate math.” | ©2022 by S.W. Lauden
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:03:17+00:00April 21st, 2022|Comedy, Music, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
©2022 by Legs McNeil | Legsville welcomes comedian, actor, writer & director: Bobcat Goldthwait. A Legsville Oral History.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:31:02+00:00April 20th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month|
Contradictory evidence was immediately destroyed, photographs were stolen, and FBI interviews were altered to complete the picture of Sirhan Sirhan as the sole assassin.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:03:43+00:00April 14th, 2022|Comedy, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
©2022 by Legs McNeil | Legsville welcomes comedian, actor, writer & director: Bobcat Goldthwait. A Legsville Oral History.
alexrosas2022-04-13T22:21:16+00:00April 13th, 2022|Comedy, Music|
Gilbert Gottfried was a fearless, hilarious, and truly great comedian. He also was a horror movie expert, a keeper of show business tradition and a gentle, humble man. Oh, and he was also a Ramone! Here’s the classic from USA Up All Night. 1-2-3-GIL!
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:04:27+00:00April 6th, 2022|Essays, Fashion, Music|
The punk rock stylist and fashion icon has passed away in her home in Seaford on Sunday. Jordan styled the Sex Pistols, managed Adam and the Ants, worked at Vivienne Westwood’s famous store, Sex and starred in the film Jubilee by Derek Jarman. The actress, model, artist and vet has been mourned by the masses on social media.
alexrosas2022-04-04T20:16:01+00:00April 4th, 2022|Music|
I’d heard that something had happened to Frank Sinatra's grave. That someone defaced the memorial to the most important musical artist of the 20th century. Attacking Sinatra? This was like taking a wrecking ball to Graceland. Reading about it was one thing. I had to see for myself.
alexrosas2022-04-04T17:56:49+00:00April 4th, 2022|Music|
George Jones’ drunk daddy used to wake him up as a child in the middle of the night and make him sing for him and his buddies or get a beating. Maybe that harsh pressure helped create a country diamond. Maybe it just created a mean SOB who also happened to be able to sing.
alexrosas2022-04-13T22:21:45+00:00April 4th, 2022|Video Of The Month|
Joe Coleman is a world-renowned painter, writer & performer who’s exhibited for four decades in major museums throughout the world
alexrosas2022-04-02T15:51:26+00:00April 2nd, 2022|Music|
©2022 By Chris Campion | Behold… the transfiguration of Iggy Pop, during a legendary Stooges show at Ungano’s, New York City, which was recorded by Danny Fields and heavily-bootlegged for years.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:30:54+00:00April 1st, 2022|Music|
When I was doing a reading tour of the south last winter, I became friendly with Johnny Puke, from Charleston, South Carolina, where he books and manages the Tin Roof, a fun, dumpy punk club. Johnny told me that he was with G.G. the night he died and I thought it would be an interesting story to get on tape.
alexrosas2022-04-13T22:22:11+00:00March 31st, 2022|Video Of The Month|
alexrosas2022-03-19T16:32:27+00:00March 19th, 2022|TV & Film|
When I first binge-watched nine episodes of “Inventing Anna” on Netflix a few weeks ago, I was appalled by the little sociopathic girl with the over-sized glasses, the crooked smile and that grating voice that reminded me of a broken fourth wheel on a broken grocery store cart; “You’re such a disappointment.”
alexrosas2022-03-19T15:20:40+00:00March 18th, 2022|Music|
R&b singer Richard Berry doo-wopped onto the LA music scene in 1953 as part of his high school group The Flairs, three years before Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers became a household name and two years before Little Richard howled across the Billboard pop charts. It was a time when radio was segregated, and r&b was branded “Race Music” as a warning label to pearl-clutching conservative white America and played on separate stations.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:41+00:00March 9th, 2022|Essays, TV & Film|
One of the great unknown stories about Andy Warhol is that he hired someone to impersonate him on a tour of colleges throughout the United States in 1967. And Andy almost got away with it. Almost...
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:52+00:00March 8th, 2022|True Crime|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-10-19T04:02:27+00:00March 8th, 2022|Horoscopes|
AMY HABEN READS YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR THIS WEEK!
alexrosas2022-03-04T20:45:01+00:00March 4th, 2022|Essays|
Years back I lived in New Haven. There I resided in Westville, a mile or two out from Yale Law School where I was a student. An Orthodox priest and his wife rented part of their basement to me, a comfortable enough pied a terre with arresting Greek icons and cruciforms lining the walls just outside it. Joe Lieberman lived a few blocks away. He was famous.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:34:26+00:00March 1st, 2022|True Crime, TV & Film|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-03-01T20:44:27+00:00March 1st, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month|
In 2001 I interviewed the delightful Bunny Yeager at the Lowe’s Miami Beach Hotel for The Other Hollywood, my narrative oral history of the porn film industry, and found her to be charming and forthright and underappreciated. Bunny had a fascinating life and really was one of the main liberators who helped launch America’s sexual revolution in the 1960s.
alexrosas2022-03-01T15:43:20+00:00March 1st, 2022|Essays|
Adam Parfrey founded Feral House in 1989 and died in 2018-- though it continues to publish innovative, unexpected and thought-provoking nonfiction — inspiring films and cultural trends; exposing crime, malfeasance and stupidity; and celebrating artists and thinkers overlooked by popular media.
alexrosas2022-02-22T14:02:35+00:00February 22nd, 2022|Music|
©2022 By Legs McNeil | In honor of Howie Pyro’s new liver and Jesse Malin’s benefit show for Howie’s medical expenses on Saturday, March 5th, I present Howie Pyro, the East Village Zelig, founding member of both the Blessed and D Generation.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:10:47+00:00February 18th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month|
©2021 BY LEGS MCNEIL — ART BY BRIAN WALSBY | GERARD MALANGA, EDIE SEDGEWICK, BOB DYLAN, NICO AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, LA MONTE YOUNG, BRIGID BERLIN, ONDINE, ETC., ETC…
alexrosas2022-02-18T03:36:05+00:00February 18th, 2022|Music|
©2022 by Amy Haben | "The X-Ray Spex singer’s daughter, Celeste Bell, has made an award-winning documentary on her mother’s inspiring yet dysfunctional life."
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:08+00:00February 18th, 2022|Music, Video Of The Month|
Director/Producer/Editor: Sam O'Leary -- DOP: Dann Cooper -- Set Design: Jan Siwilewicz -- Production Assistant & Make Up Artist: Roma Lucia Allenby
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:16+00:00February 13th, 2022|Music|
Already frustrated by growing tensions within the band, the group was less than excited about their arrival in Toledo. Later, tour manager David Libert would be quoted saying, "If the Lord ever wanted to give the world an enema, this is where he would stick the goddamn nozzle."
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:31+00:00February 11th, 2022|Music|
Johnny “Guitar” Watson was a hardcore guitar gunslinger with a sound described as “an icepick to the forehead.” He was the Gangster of Love, and he proved it in the way he played, the way he lived – and the way he died.
alexrosas2022-02-10T17:23:45+00:00February 10th, 2022|TV & Film|
I called him and asked for an interview, and told him what I wanted to talk about—and he graciously accepted. I think he wanted to try out his new stand-up act on me, and as usual John was hysterically funny. In honor of Valentine’s Day 2022, I present to you John Waters on pornography—So get comfy, I think you’re going to enjoy this one….
