The latest showpieces from the Tom Goddard Collection of classic San Diego flyers.
Today’s batch includes additional Tell-Tale Hearts ephemera (Exhibit A, from a July 27, 1984, show at Studio 517, bears autographs dedicated to Tom’s sister Suzie); a very early appearance (probably August 18, 1984) by “the Morlochs” (sic) with the Hearts at the same venue; a Nashville Ramblers gig; Tell-Tale Hearts and Chesterfield Kings at SDSU’s Backdoor; and a Distillery East show with Manual Scan, the Untouchables and UXB, a band I’m afraid I’d forgotten completely before taking delivery of this cache.
More flyers from the Tom Goddard Collection:
I am sure this will prove to be a great thread but as I posted before, has anyone ever considered reproducing these flyers for re-sale? I would be your first customer.
Just noticed the reference to “Distillery East”. I have been trying to remember he name of that club for a while now. I recall my favorite show of all times, (all times being 1983 to 1987), was a show at Distillery East when Tell Tale Hearts did a great version of “Hey Joe”. Sorry if my memory fails me but if it doesnt…that was awesome.
Steven: I’m trying to envision how best to distribute such a showcase of flyer art … Maybe a CD of printer-ready images?
And RE the Distillery East: How did this place endure in the hinterlands of Escondido? Not that the club was an epicenter of hotness, but … Who here grew up in Escondido? Unless it was catering to the post-Wild Animal Park crowd, I can’t quite picture the economies of scale here.
(I’ve been to Escondido within the past decade, and it seems to have acquired a bit more cultural ballast.)
Bobby Lane deserves a book of his own! Those were some iconic damn flyers he created.
You guys are asking a serious question, so I’m going to give you a serious answer: The biggest challenge to executing this or any other book on our stuff here is the cost of production and distribution.
We can put our heads together and — using Adobe’s Creative Suite and the magnificent talents of all you fabulous people — we can create any damn book we want in digital form. Hell, this blog already contains enough source material for a wonderful book. And I’ve got discs and discs of the flyers in high-resolution formats. (Crunching them down to Web sizes has been a big time sink, but I appreciate the archival value of the big files.)
Where this gets very difficult is manufacturing and distribution (M&D in the publishing biz, which always sounds like a fetish to me). The economics of applying ink to paper and getting that paper into the hands of people who’ll pay enough money to cover the printing and shipping gets … difficult, especially if the subject matter is perhaps a little arcane and certainly if you’re trying to DIY.
Note: This would only be our problem if youse guys are talking about self-publishing. On the other hand, it’d be the publisher’s problem if we could convince a company there’d be sufficient audience to turn a profit. The press we’ve gotten tells me some people actually can be convinced to care about what creative kids built in SD in 1983, and maybe we could get a book publisher to agree.
On the other other hand, if it’s just for our pleasure, we could just photocopy a buttload of flyers and mail ’em to each other! 🙂
Hey there Matt & Dylan,
I am working with an online publisher for my SD guide book I am writing. Xlibris. (All the “real” publishers said it was too regional) Very resonable. But if we are talking about a “coffee table” type of book costs could go to 5k or so. Kind of cool if you could mix in some of the old photos of people, scooters, etc.
As for Escondido they have become a bit more cultural. California Center For The Arts Escondido has become quite the place for some big names.
Quick word on Escondido: The name of that town always sounds wrong to me, because as far back as I can remember everyone always called it “Escondildo.” This was true when I was 10 or so, before I had any idea why it was supposed to be funny. To me, that’s just the name. I’m sure I’ve innocently pronounced it that way in front of old ladies, or small children, or the vicar…
Simon, you BASTARD! I just spit coffee all over my shirt in a very nice NY restaurant.
Well, you shouldn’t be checking your blackberry in nice restaurants, should you? Where were you raised, Escondildo?
Still called Escondildo in certain circles. Is it true that most Vicars are alcoholics?
I remember a few folks Like Jill and Cyndie calling their hometown of Rancho Penasquitos as “Rancho Skinyerpenis”.
Comedy Gold.
I remember the Rancho Skinyerpenis sobriquet as well.
“Rancho Skinyerpenis … A hair south of Escondildo.” Billboard fodder? Somebody alert the chambers of commerce!
I remember that homophobic young wags would sometimes call Hillcrest “the Swish Alps.”
And there was “Fascist Valley,” but that was inevitable…
We used to hang out in Emission Bay…
…Nocturnally, of course.
Imperial Beach = Venereal Beach
venereal beach , where the syph meets the surf
If Ramona is the armpit of San Diego how can El Cajon be the crotch?
And where preytell would that put Escondildo, Salvador inflatable Dolly?
Steven,
My memory may be failing me as well, but I would swear the Tell-Tale Hearts never played the song “Hey Joe,” ever. I’m glad you enjoyed it, though! That brings up a good question: Which version of “Hey Joe” do you think is best? We’ve got the Leaves, Love, the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix . . .
Now back to our regularly scheduled puns.
Best version of “Hey Joe” was Dave Fleminger, Dave Doyle, and a long forgetten drummer at some sort of Clairemont High assembly or talent show around 1981. It was very Mitch Mitchell/Noel Redding inasmuch as they switched who played guitar and who played bass on the next song which I think was “Sunshine of Your Love”. Completely blew my mind.
Ray,
I wonder who it was then? I do recall the Tell Tale Hearts being there. Guess I am just getting old.
Ray/Steve: Steve you never went to any shows in Escondildo, Did you?
That would be a long drive on the “Great Pumkin”..
As for best “Hey Joe” LOVE of course!!! The Leaves are great, but they just aint no LOVE.
So what was the most covered song bye San Diego garage bands?
I would say it was “Leaving Here”….?…. Did the TTH cover that song?
it’s seems like everyone did.
I went to Distillery East wih Aubrey Doolittle. Any of you remember him. And while I am on the subject of Aubrey Doolittle, what about those “Dancing Skeletons” guys? Werent they sometimes called the Dangling Scrotums?
Yeah, the DS! They were really cool Chula Vista guys, including Aubrey, Elker and Eric. I saw Aubrey about a year ago at the Tell-Tale Hearts reunion show, and he looks exactly the same. Anyone remember that guy Heinrich that used to hang out with them? He was a real ladies man, and I used to watch him put all the moves on pretty girls. I used to call it the “Heinrich maneuver.”
Apart from the infamous show at which a mirror was broken (Tommy style), I don’t think I ever went to the Distillery East. My knowledge of North County geography is still a little lacking, particularly NC inland.
And “Leaving Here”--great song, but we never played it. We were always extremely conscious about not covering songs other bands played. I know the Crawdaddys played it a few times, and Manual Scan did it as well. Maybe the Event, too?
Wow! I havnt thought abou Elker and Erik in a long time. Elker had that little high performance Primavera. Funny thing though, when I think of the Dancing Skeletons I tend to think of the later group, Chris Hans of La Jolla and Company.
You know I think I lost a girl to the Heinrich maneuver…but he was cool.
Aubrey was a great guy. Didnt they hang out with a guy who called himself “Monkey”?
Aubrey does still look the same..Pia (my daughter) and I saw him at Starbucks.He lives in N.Park.
Chris Hands got married and had a baby and John Hands should be back in SD in a few yrs.
Monkey was driving his scooter w/this girl named Penny and and hit a cab…ouch! I guess it was a pretty bad crash Penny got all messed up from it.
“Leaving Here” Morlocks also covered it, recorded it. yeah know I think Motorheads first 45 was “Leaving Here” , kinda crazy really, love that song.
Aubrey was a nice guy, he once gave me a bunch of his old cloths that did not fit him anymore, or maybe he just did not like them anymore.
I dont know if it was just a rumour but I recall hearing that Aubreys Grandfather was the famous Airman Doolittle of he Tokyo raid fame. Or maybe that was Dr. Doolittle who even more famously could talk to animals?
Have to disagree with you one the best version of Hey Joe, Dylan. For me it’s The Leaves album version with the fuzz power chords, tied with The Hazzards incredible screaming punk version with staccato lead guitar (on Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things vol. 2). As much as I like Love, their version sounds a bit stiff.
I prefer it played fast, not slow like Jimi Hendrix’s version.
Heinrich used to hangout with Alex Green and Monkey (John). I know that Alex came out here (NYC) to do his residency, we hung out for a bit, and I think he is now at Mass General in Boston (a world-class hospital) saving the world.
What happened to Heinrich?
That is good to hear. And, now we know how to spell his name properly.
Tony: what in god’s name are you making?
One more child to be removed from the Che Underground milk carton. Tell Henrik hello, and if he was indeed that much younger than the rest of us, his legendary status is only increased in my eyes!
How about a post on the smooth ladykillers among us? I recall an east county guy who used to hang with Dean and Kirk, Rodrigo I believe his name was. Of course Elker and Eric used to slay the girls as well . . .
Mike Gomes was also quite a lady killer.
Henrik! and Bjorn his older brother (those were the only Swedes in SD County). We had great times together, including the Infamous road trip to Ensenada during summer of 1983. Imagine a whole gang of us dressed in suits-barhopping at places like Hussongs. I don’t recall too many fights. Henrik was a lover; not a fighter. While driving the way back, He and Jay Hathaway were peeing out the back of my truck, then I slammed the brakes ‘for fun’; Fluids in motion stay in motion, and they got to ride the rest of the way to La Jolla/UTC all wet.
I used to hang with Henrik when we was about 10-12 years & living in Sweden back in the good old days… Fun to here that he is still alive:)
wholly shit……………..i was a young man with foggy, memories of great times