"Desperate Rock'n'Roll" Vol. 17

...I ran into a kid like that at Barris'. We were going through his place, back into his interiors-car interiors-department, and we came upon Ronny Camp. Ronny is twenty-two, but he looks about eighteen because he has teen-age posture. Ronny is in fact, a bright and sensitive kid with an artistic eye, but at first glance he seems always to have his feed propped up on a table or something so you can't walk past, and you have tokind of bat them down, andhe then screws up his mouth and withdraws his eyeballs to the optic chiasma and glares at youwith his red sulk. That was the misleading first impression...
... Ronny was crazy over automobiles and nobody in his home town, Lafayette, Indiana, knew anything about customizing. So one day Ronnie packs up and tells the folks, This is it, I'm striking out for hip terretory, Los Angeles, where a customizing artist is an artist. He had no idea where he was going, you understand, all he knew was that he was going to Barris' shop and make it from there. So off he goes in his 1960 Chevrolet... (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1. Rock & Roll Indian Dance - Little Butchie Saunders 2. Rock & Roll Atom - Wayne Busby 3. Wild Streak - Johnny Fallin 4. Lawdy Mama - Edgar Blanchard 5. Wake Up - Jack Burns 6. Moanin' Soul - Roland Stone 7. Recorded In England - Rod Bernard 8. I Can Tell - Shifting Sands, The 9. Sway & Move With The Beat - Donnie Brooks 10.I Got The Blues - Van Dells 11. Shimmy Shuffle - Vulcans 12.Soda Pop - Vince Maloy 13. The Golden Stairway - Raindrops, The 14. Jingle Jump - Danny Pfeil 15. Mene Gene - Andre "Mr Rhythm" Williams 16. Motorcycle - Tico & Triumphs
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