"Desperate Rock'N'Roll" Vol. 8

...Most of the work he was doing then was modifying Detroit cars - chopping and channeling...
...Chopping is lowering the top of a car, bringing it nearer to the hood line. Channeling is lowering the body itself down between the wheels. Also, they'd usually strip off all rhe chrome and the door handles and cover up the wheel openings in the back. At that time, the look the kids liked was to have the body lowered in the back and slightly jacked up in the front, although today it's just the opposite. The front windshield in those days was devided by a post, and so chopping the top gave the car a very sinister appearance. The front windshield always looked like a couple of narrow, slitty little eyes. And I think this, more than anything else, diverted everybody from what Barris and the others were really doing. Hot-rodders had a terrible reputation at that time, and no line was ever drawn between hot-rodders and custom-car owners, because in truth, they were speed maniacs too... (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1. Cosmo: I'm A Little Mixed Up 2. Billy Barton: Crazy Lover 3. Steve Alaimo: She's My Baby 4. Steve Mitchell: I Don't Need You 5. Junior Wells: Loveydovey Lovely One 6. Prince Arky: Ten Horned Devel 7. Marlon Grisham: Ain't That A Dilly 8. Earl Chatham: Take Two Steps Back 9. Dewaine Olby: Iron Worker Blues 10. Willie B.: Bad Mouthin' 11. Victor France: Men At The Crazy House 12. Bob Cass: Corvette Baby 13. Recalls: Reesie 14. Mac McClanahan: That Nonsense Stuff 15. Jesse Knight: Nothin' But Money 16. Jimmie Click: Polecat Hollow 17. Night Beats: Night Beats Are Rockin' 18. Steve Bledsoe: You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) 19. Pitmen: Summertime Blues 20. Beatha & Captans: Revenue Man 21. W.L. Horning: Kiss Me Baby
ripped from vinyl in glorious monoloudarama!