As far as I’m concerned, given my predilections, there simply cannot be too many books about the storied legacy of NYC’s underground music scene. As such, seemingly tailor-made to my tastes, a forthcoming book crossed my radar today, and I am well up for it.
Compiling the scene photographs of one Karen O’Sullivan, “Somwhere Below 14th & East” is slated for release this spring, courtesy of DiWulf Publishing. You can find out more about the project by clicking right here.
In doing same, though, I noticed the shot below, a photo snapped within, I believe, the notoriosuly low-ceiling’ed confines of A7 (currently the comparatively genteel back-room of Jesse Malin’s Niagara on Avenue A at East 7th Street.
I’m excited to check out all of O’Sullivans pics, but I got excited about this one, as if features a then-future member of Cop Shoot Cop!
Yep, in the bottomr right hand corner, you can spy a pensive-looking Jack Natz. The band onstage, meanwhile, is Whipping Boy.
You might remember I spoke to and about Jack back on this post when the Cop Shoot Cop book was still don the front burner. At this time of this undated photo, he may have either been playing within the rans of Virus, or possibly still with The Undead, flanking Bobby Steele.
That’s a good enough excuse to exhume this great video. I spoke of it at greater length here, but here’s Natz, Pat Blank and Bobby Steele circa 1982…
This looks GREAT! I knew Karen & Ray back then (and played in a band with Ray's brother Ernie)--have not seen her for maybe 35 years. She was very sweet and a great photographer, and I am SO glad to see this is happening!
Posted by: the G | January 23, 2018 at 02:20 PM
ALSO, for those keeping score, the guy in the center of that photo is the one & only T-Shirt Tony, the guy on the scene who made & sold the band shirts at the gigs (The Mob, the Abused, Agnostic Front, etc), and he was also the singer for Ultra Violence. It seemed like he had that cast on his arm FOREVER.
Posted by: the G | January 23, 2018 at 04:55 PM
Well the book is finally available for preorder through www.deathwishinc.com
If you preorder through the site you gets free poster, and the next level up, you get an additional “zine” with stuff that the author found after the book was finished. Well worth it!
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Posted by: SB14th&EAST | August 31, 2019 at 05:29 PM
And don’t forget, all of the money goes to Karen O’Sullivan, who is very sick with MS.
Posted by: SB14th&EAST | August 31, 2019 at 05:33 PM