If only February were as long as other months, we’d have another traffic record on our hands! Two years since it began, Che Underground: The Blog keeps growing; every week brings more veteran San Diego scenesters into our orbit, all of them with their own stories and insights about the town where we grew up.
In that spirit: What bands, gigs, people or places would you like to learn more about? With nearly 10,000 of us hanging out here each month, we’ve got a mighty store of memories — and chances are awfully good that someone visiting the blog has answers to your questions. Let’s train the group mind on new subjects!
The UCSD stairwell covered with eerie grafitti. The top landing didn’t lead anywhere. There was melted wax on the floor up there. Who went up there; and what were they doing?
>.The UCSD stairwell covered with eerie grafitti.
Shall we also mention UCSD’s Great Paisley Stencil Scandal of ’84?
I had that phone
Dehlia, Charles Shields, John Nash, Holly, Bobby X, Chrissy, Rich Fortune, Destiny Dagger, Laura Frasier, Gene King. They all seemed to have disappeared. DT , Terry Xterminator where are you ?
Where is Dianne Rezendes??
Long before the Flat Duo Jets, much less the White Strips -- Straps? -- White Pipes? -- whatever -- there were the brothers Bill & Rand -- The Fabulous Verves. Maybe it was just “The Verves”, but they were fabulous. Where are they now?
the executives….mike jenks is on facebook.
I want to hear about the Great Paisley Stencil Scandal.
How about the Frame.
The 60’s band that is, I’ve only seen a listing for an album that’s impossible to get.
What ever happen to Steve Lightfoot? Last I talked him (over 15 years ago) he was working as a insurance adjuster for Stae Farm, in San diego….Steve?
What ever happened to Baby Jane?
>I want to hear about the Great Paisley Stencil Scandal.
Paul: Sorry — 1985! God bless the Interwebs and the LA Times:
UCSD Officials See Red Over Paisley Prank
March 07, 1985|GLENN BURKINS , Times Staff Writer
An unidentified student group, denouncing the “cold blackness of cement,” painted more than 300 bright red paisley designs on walls, sidewalks and trees at UC San Diego early Wednesday morning, campus police said.
The paisleys, teardrop-shaped designs often used on fabrics, were an attempt to bring life and color to the 2,500-acre campus, the organization said in an unsigned letter to the student newspaper, the UCSD Guardian.
“It’s a harmless thing,” said a female student who called The Times to claim partial responsibility. “It’s no social statement, just bored people wanting to decorate the brown, dull walls of UCSD.”
She said she and about 12 other students, each armed with a paisley stencil and a can of spray paint, began painting the designs about 3 a.m. Wednesday. Their goal was to put them in the most conspicuous places possible--one was painted on the steps of the UC San Diego police station.
If caught, the students could face malicious mischief charges, campus police Sgt. Bob Jones said. The maximum sentence could be a year in jail or a $5,000 fine.
Read more.
Whoa. Malicious mischief? Really? I swear it is a coincidence that that happened two weeks before I left SD…
I don’t remember dull, brown walls at UCSD. I remember dull, gray walls.
My understanding was the moat around the Revelle library and some of the other restrictive entryways on campus were architected specifically amid 1960s fears of campus unrest. If these barriers had not been in place, the entire university might be one huge paisley today!
Paisley is my favorite color!
Paul, if you’re thinking of the band Framework, I can post a song on my facebook page.
I’d like to read some band biographies--or at least some overviews--of the bands that inspired this blog and whose names appear on the introduction page. Yes, I’m talking to you: Noise 292, the Wallflowers, the Answers, the Rockin’ Dogs, Hair Theater. I’d also like to read something by the Morlocks or Gravediggers too. Let’s have some NEW contributors to the site!!!!! Conversation starters, anything!
It would be fabulous to learn about what types of positive contributions all of us scence sceptics are currently participating in to actually improve our society.
Personally,I am heavily involed in animal rescue causes. And am proudly owned by three rescue dogs. Luca (pit bull-found in trash dumpster in Mexico), Teddy (greyhound-ex racer and hemo pet which means he was a blood donor and saved countless other dogs while happily beeing a pin cushion), Isabelle ( Irish lurcher found tied to a meth trailer with her sister in Kansas. Rescued by a Texas greyhound group and was road tripped to Encinitas and is now a coastal baby).
Additionally, I have a kitty Bella who was dumped in my neighborhood then she proceeded to bring all of kittens to me. When I got all of the kittys to the vet. It turns out that the mommy cat was less than a year old and was PREGNANT!!! This is when I go COMPLETEY MILITANT and dream of fire arms and baseball bats aimed towards the ignonant MFs who treat animals as their disposable trash. Well,I guess you never truly leave punk attitude behind.
FYI,in SD county,it is illegal and a felony to leave a dog in a hot car with out proper air circulation. So if you live in SD county and see a dog in distress,pick up that phone and diall 911 because treating a dog like this is viewed by the authorities as child abuse! In this situation, I actually, Love the cops.
Ok, I will get off my soap box.
Oh, one more thing, PETA, not a fan!
Joe, yes Framework. Do post a song, I’ll look for it, thanks.
i want to hear the stories of how bands were actually formed. the drunk, late night rambling discussions of who would play what and what the names would be and why they were going to be just the best ever or at least get laid.
i want to hear about influences and sounds you tried to avoid.
my best memory is of driving around with the crawdaddies in carls old suburban before a show and asking ron why he was a singer. he said something to the effect of, “because it’s my chance to get it all out!” what “it” was we never talked about. it was understood… “it” was all the mojo stifled by moving books around at the main branch all day and the way he’d keep time with the wheels of the carts and the stamping of books. not that he seemed to not like his job. he fit in quite well in those stacks, as well read as he was/is. incidentally, every time i go into a library i think of ron. last time i saw him was in berkeley a million years ago (in the north berkeley branch, of all places!). always had an affinity for mr. silva. yep. good man.
i also want to hear from some of our crash worship people. what have jason and simon gone on to do? and ryan? have we done a story specifically on them? when i see people getting ready for burning man every year i always think on jason and simon and realize that they had that whole path mapped long before the burn got trendy.
also, did we ever find the stolen equipment from the cafe?
::sits back to read what comes next::
I was watching the T.A.M.I. show on PBS last night and was thinking about watching it at Kings Road. I recall a projector and speakers wired up for sound. Who owned the film then, was that Peter English? I’ll soon have the DVD for my viewing pleasure and may break out dancing on the living room floor.
that was edwin. i watched it with a few people over at his house one night. i still remember the whole night. 30 years later. whoa.
I still have that phone . same colour & everything but it’s a push button instead of a dial . Go western electric !
I just found a huge stash of flyers at my dad’s house and will be scanning them all soon . Lots of stuff I haven’t seen in a long time and a bunch that I haven’t seen on here at all .
Actually I thought my mom had destroyed all of them , but it seems that she saved them instead .
Are not any of the 10,000 blog viewers into charitable contributions or
making this difficult world a better place?
>.Are not any of the 10,000 blog viewers into charitable contributions or making this difficult world a better place?
Robyn: Probably. 🙂 I’m thinking I’m going to grab a few of these ideas and work them up into posts all on their own! That includes yours … I am indeed interested in learning more about our youthful ideals (or lack thereof) and how they’ve translated into action (ditto).
Brilliant!!!
I DEMAND the immediate release of all of the Big Bad Bubba Bert tapes!!!!
>Are not any of the 10,000 blog viewers into charitable contributions or making this difficult world a better place?
Sorry- missed this while making spaghetti and salad for 100 homeless people. After working on health care quality issues at the office. My rescue kitty says hello. I don’t think he remembers the days when his ribs poked out.
Re: TAMI show. Ava, I also remember seeing at Ed Moore’s house with a bunch of folks, and at the Ken Cinema.
Robyn: 3 cheers for your animal rescue efforts!
Ray: I second that! Well, I would be happy to just hear one song here!
dean i think you were there that night! james and i got rousted by cops while hanging out at the golf course afterward.
someone said that edwin had that tape under lock and key… back then that tape was worth more than it’s weight in gold.
robyn, you are a rockstar.
To answer Ray:
# Ray Brandes Says:
March 10th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I DEMAND the immediate release of all of the Big Bad Bubba Bert tapes!!!!
Show me the court order, and I will do it. Does Bert have to sign off on this? Should I get a waiver signed by all parties not be offended by the braggings and rhymes?
I remember seeing the TAMI vid at Ed’s…it was like going to the school of cool with a crowd of kids in the living room seeing the real deal onscreen. James Brown’s performance is absolutely mind blowing on that…
That must have been one valuable VHS (or was it Beta) back then.
I only knew a coupla folks that even had VCRs…imagine being able to view something ‘on-demand’.
Perhaps an obsolete media post is in order. 8-tracks, flexidisks, lazer disks, syquest cartridges, DAT tapes, minidisks, cassettes (both micro and ‘compact’), reeeeeltoreeeeels, anybody ever have a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera??
Oh yeah….film.
Things with moving parts — “transports”.
dave! my friend robin has a pixelvision. we made silly films back in the 90’s with poi dog pondering and her son, luca. it was so much fun. i loved that funky old camera…
i miss darkrooms, too. the chem smell and the alchemy of it all. digital just doesn’t do me right. it’s pretty and easy and all, but i loved the (pun intended) process of 35mm…
I had a polaroid swinger