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.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:28:09+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.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:27:56+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|
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:27:44+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.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:27:33+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.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:26:33+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.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:26:42+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….
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:46+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays|
Robert C. Hockett is a Professor of Law at Cornell University who used to live in Lawrence, Kansas and play in a garage band a few houses away from William S. Burroughs. On his 108th birthday, Robert remembers Bill hanging out at his house, watching the band.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:30+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays, Music|
©2022 By Amanda Sheppard | A glimpse into the Texas psychedelic rock & roll scene in the 1960s.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:26:53+00:00February 4th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month|
In honor of Black History Month, February 2022, I present “The Untold Story of the Little Rock Nine”—nine Black high school students who were the first to integrate the whites-only Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957
alexrosas2022-02-01T17:51:53+00:00February 1st, 2022|Essays|
By Amy Haben | "Gwen may have had good intentions in the beginning of her career but became power hungry and evil once she became more famous and richer. Her alt-right values which became more extreme after she met Joe, didn’t help things."
alexrosas2022-01-29T20:55:09+00:00January 29th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
By Burt Kearns | Tone was a movie star. Neal was a B-movie dolt who looked good in trunks. The woman was Barbara Payton, a badtime, badass blonde who’d gone more rounds (in the sack, of course) than both men put together.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:34:37+00:00January 26th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month, 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.
alexrosas2022-01-26T01:04:31+00:00January 26th, 2022|Essays, Music, TV & Film|
"At age 20, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the downtown scene with a budding sophistication equally rooted in abstract expressionism and the post-punk, no-wave, hip-hop, graffiti grit of the Mudd Club avant-garde." | ©2022 by Amanda Sheppard
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:54+00:00January 25th, 2022|Music|
Suicide was anything but boring. Far from it. This was dangerous, wildly unpredictable, chaotic performance art. They were really quite a spectacle and left anyone who stumbled into their concerts at CBGB or Max’s with their mouth open, thinking, What the hell is this?
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:57:14+00:00January 16th, 2022|Essays, Music|
"She was always doing new things, but she still stayed connected to her roots and wasn’t too cool to show up and play at a small downtown club with punk bands and her friends."
alexrosas2022-01-15T02:23:35+00:00January 15th, 2022|Music|
By Dee Dee Ramone, As Told To Legs McNeil
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:38:04+00:00January 15th, 2022|Literature, True Crime, Video Of The Month|
The Dark Side of the Sixties: Charles Manson & Porn
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:26:03+00:00January 13th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month, TV & Film|
This is the story of the 1970s summer photographer Nan Goldin and writer/actress Cookie Mueller spent in P-Town in the Cape, partying non-stop with eccentrics like Philippe Marcade, John Waters, and other brilliant weirdos.
alexrosas2022-01-13T21:42:38+00:00January 13th, 2022|Last Night's Dream|
Amy Haben has the funniest and most vivid dreams of anyone I’ve ever met and she writes them down three times a week, describing her subconscious life. Trust me, they’re compelling, as well as hysterically funny!
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:57:18+00:00January 10th, 2022|Legsville Supports This|
PushBlack is a nonprofit dedicated to raising up Black voices.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:13+00:00January 10th, 2022|Music|
Keith laid out the entire history of the hardcore scene. It probably helped that I started off by saying, “Talk to me like I’m a moron and don’t know any of this stuff.”
alexrosas2022-01-10T02:08:08+00:00January 5th, 2022|Essays|
Norman Mailer, Tom Baker, Jim Morrison, and Me - Copyright March 1st, 2022 By Legs McNeil
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:38:39+00:00December 31st, 2021|Narrative Oral History Of The Month|
Join us as we present A Legsville oral History featuring: Carol Overby (Legs' ex-wife). She recounts the times she was photographed by the great Robert Maplethorpe.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:25+00:00December 31st, 2021|Music|
By Tom Wynbrandt | “The rooster hair, the platform shoes, the quiet acceptance of all the adulation— I’d never seen anyone quite like him.”
