Good to the last drop: Here’s a list of the most-popular discussions on Che Underground: the Blog. Jump on in and thrash around!
- Sucking in the ’60s (When did the decade jump the shark?)
- Tech of our lives (Gadgets that date us)
- “Sister Heat” (Why Jerry Cornelius is cooler than you)
- This We Dug: Iggy Pop (More sax and violence with the uber-Stooge)
- When Garris met Cornelius (An unexpected collaboration)
- London Calling (Our place in the world, then and now)
- This We Dug: X-ray Spex (Celebrating the band, assorted sax positions and “dropping a zoo”)
- Then and now: Off the Record (Why vinyl’s still cool)
- “I’m with the band.” (Who was your biggest fan?)
- The and now: Rock Palace (A brief but colorful rock history)
- Here comes the ocean … And the waves (How’d you like the beach?)
- Then and now: The Ken Cinema (Keeping the cinematic faith)
- How I spent my summer vacation (How rockin’ was your summer?)
- Opening Kings Road Cafe (Memories of a classic venue)
- Then and now: Adams Avenue Theater (From Stiv to sequins!)
- “Tourist, go home!” (How native is “native”?)
- Fleshing out the Skeleton Club (San Diego’s original punk redoubt)
- Then and now: Topsy’s (Rock-‘n’-roll eatery-cum-bear sanctuary)
- Record stores: Unchained vinyl (Where’d you buy your licorice pizza?)
- Have you ‘zine me? San Diego’s indy music mags (Micro-publishing empires of our youth)
- The rise and fall of the Town Criers (San Diego’s alt-country pioneers)
- Ted Avery O’Shea and the Mission Beach Ghetto Guerrillas (A memoir of Mission Beach)
- Introducing the Rockin’ Dogs (Rockin’ Dogs, India ink and midnight movies)
- Then and now: Greenwich Village West (A Gaslamp institution learns Tagalog)
- Our family tree (Let’s trace our roots)
- Remembering Renee Edgington, North Park Lions Club (Punk pioneer RIP)
- Then and now: Funland (Urban renewal and the fall of the arcade)
- Headliners we’ve known (Funny people we opened for)
- Then and now: Studio 517 (Punk club-turned-law office)
- Scooters in San Diego (The little engines that could)
- Then and now: La Posta (Rolling with the tacos at 3am)
- El sabor de San Diego (What do your memories taste like?)
- Then and now: El Cajon Blvd. Denny’s (Fries with gravy, coffee with … )
- Later days at the Che (What did the Che Underground spawn?)
- Let’s talk about girls (The scene wasn’t boys-only)
- Pictures in an exhibition (Flyer art on stun)
- Both sides now (What are your favorite album sides?)
- Musical chairs (Who played with whom?)
- R.I.P. Joshua Patrick Ford … my brother (Memories of E Street)
- Ye olde body mods (Where’d you get your ink?)
- Weird SD (Odd corners of San Diego)
- The Morlocks: Wake Me When I’m Dead (Morlocks history tour)
- Rock ‘n’ roll high school (How HS scenes informed your creative process)
- The Mayor of Sunset Strip (How radio and other sources shaped your tastes)
- Morlocks in motion (Songs, pictures and stories of the fabulous Morlocks)
- Punk rock picture show (Best film portrayal of the SoCal punk experience?)
- Hyphenates (How did you define yourself and those around you?)
- Career opportunities (What do you do nowadays to pay the bills? And what did you learn then that helps you now?)
- Our Blow Out (Discussion of the era’s definitive SD punk compilation)
- Enter P Man (Che Underground veteran turns to Dubstep)
- Sheldon’s After Dark (Food and fun in San Diego’s teen eateries)
- She gets confused … Flying over the dateline (Why’d you end up where you are?)
- OK, Jerry started it … (Our kids and cats in pictures)
- A Che lexicon (Why we talked like that)
- Under the ‘hood (Your corner of San Diego and how it shaped you)
- San Francisco exodus (Who left their hearts in San Francisco?)
- Who’s the OLD dude? (What would your current self tell your young self?)
- Weird scenes inside the gold mine (Strange gigs you’ve played)
- Where’d you get those clothes?? (Retro-cool on a budget)