"Desperate Rock'n'Roll" Vol. 15

...At the hot-rod and custom-car-show idea began catching on,..
... and there are really quite afew big ones now, including one at Coliseum up at Columbus Circle last year, it became like the culture boom in the other arts. The big names, particularly Barris and Roth but also Starbird, began to make a lot of money in the same thing Picasso has made a lot of money in: reproductions.Barris' creations are reproduced by AMT Models as model cars. Roth's are reproduced by Revel. The way people have taken to these models makes it cleaner still that what we have is no longer a car but a design object, an Object, as they say. Of course, It's not an unencumbered art form like oil painting or most conventional modern sculpture. It carries a lot of mental baggagge with it, plain old mechanical craftsmenship, the connotations of speed and power and the aforementioned mystique that the teen-age netherworld brings to cars. What you have is something more like sculpture in the era of Benvenuto Cellini, when sculpture was always more tied up with religion and architectures. In a lot of other ways it's like the Rennaissence, too. Young customizers have come to Barris' shop, for example, like apprentices coming to the feet of the master. Barris said there were eleven young guys in Los Angeles right now who had worked for him and then gone out on their own, and he doesn't seem to begrudge them that... (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1. Jukebox Bop - Dale Wayne 2. Trashman's Blues - Kai Ray 3. Jim Dandy - Sara Lee 4. Scrounge - Clyde Arnold 5. How Can I Make Her Mine - Bobby Roberts 6. The Monster Twist - Tyrone A Saurus 7. She's A Moonlighter - - Johnny Carlton 8. Blondie - Danny Meva 9. Annie Don't Work - Johnny Wade 10. Oogly Googley Eyes - Fanatics, The 11. Cool Down Baby - Elton Anderson 12.Teen Queen - Swingin' Rays, The 13. Prescription Rock 'n' Roll - Rulie Garcia
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