Wade T Oberlin Gregg was great to talk with- I feel like we covered new stuff and expanded on other things like his Velvet-y group The Mistaken.

Gah- I also talked to Gregg about DION who I just read has died. I read his autobio and also address that a bit in the latest. Closing in, should be printed soonish if I bust myself this week.

Thx! W

      Jack H I think I made an oopsie. Looks like he has yet another book out (Dion: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Philosopher) but I can’t find the original article that was talking about him all in the past tense. It was on the MSN Home Screen on a work computer. Should have been more diligent.

          a month later

          Are there still copies of this floating around? Straight from the source or do I need to hit distros?

            Let me know when you are ready to take some orders on these. Want it for the site

              Randall absolutely, I’ll send # of copies I have available tonight.

                8 days later

                FWP 7 is … OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

                Also still less than 10 copies of FWP 6 left currently, which includes thee Mordecai flexidisc and a booklet about jazzer Una Mae Carlisle.

                15 dolla apiece for each, and that’s with shipping included. 25 if you buy together! If considering a bulk order, you can email me, @ me… all other info at fauxwoodpaneling.com

                Thank ya, have a gravy weekend.

                  Wade T Oberlin

                  Oh, and another thing… got a Substack going, have been posting on and off.

                  Last one was the Claude Bessy feature from Issue 6, and it contains something special at the bottom of the page, if you’re in the need for some Catholic Disciple and then some.

                  All articles free to view so far except one which is a rant I could justify paywalling, ha: https://fauxwoodpaneling.substack.com/p/we-laugh-so-hard-it-hurts

                    I grew up in Los Angeles, born in 1982. Slash still had a heavy presence. I moved out of West LA at the end of 1992, but I would've gone to Uni High School had I continued out there. A lot of the L.A. punk scene went to school there -- half the Germs, Slash writer Will Amato, Kira and Paul Roessler, etc. Moved to the 'burbs and attended Newbury Park High where the other half of the Germs went -- Lorna Doom, Belinda Carlisle and Donna Rhia. Uni High is one of the oldest schools in L.A. Elizabeth Taylor went to school there. In West L.A., I went to Brentwood Elementary. It still had art deco interiors. James Dean went to school there when he briefly lived in L.A. That fed into Uni High. A lot of that old glamor stuff. It was an overload of skateboarding, music and faded Hollywood.

                    Kickboy started out with Angeleno Dread -- his reggae fanzine. I've talked with dedicated collector scum and no one has been able to turn up a copy. Of course, it existed. I'm just lead to believe it was put out in very, very small runs -- possibly mimeographed -- and while I'd like to think a copy or two exists, I've yet to see one.

                    I emailed Philomena in the mid-2000s. She was wonderful. Claude worked for Rough Trade later on.

                    If you're from Los Angeles -- maybe it's just me -- but you grew up in the shadow of all of that stuff. I'm unsure if that's still the case, but that scene was already long gone when I was a teenager...

                      Ryan Leach thanks for this.

                      I haven’t seen any remnants of his zine and I’m not from the area. As you can tell from the article, I was a fascinated outsider. I’m glad I did pull it all together though. Ivar, Richard Meltzer, Philomena and myself had a zoom call where we discussed for a moment a possible English version. Shortly after Feral House was looking at it, but the current operator there said it wasn’t up to snuff. That saddened Ivar a bit. Since then my version went through a few more minimal edits and then I continued R Meltzer activity, likely the seeking out of Hepcats From Hell programs. That turned out to be great as there were multiple recordings of Claude and others filling in on that show. That’s also on archive.org.

                          Uni High in the 70's sounds crazy based on what I read in the Lexicon Devil.

                          Sorry, just throwing that out

                            Clif The Scientology stuff was real and L.A. during that period was facing a real right-wing backlash. Democrats have state elections on lockdown, but Reagan was the governor in the early 1970s and the Dems adopted a lot of his economic policies. There was a tax revolt in 1978 (Prop 13). A lot of the schools are charter schools -- including the elementary school I attended. Mike Davis is the author who really captured the zeitgeist of the city. My dad's extended family worked at GM -- Van Nuys Assembly. Closed around NAFTA.

                            Uni was 3/4 of a mile from my house. Brentwood was on Bundy. I used to pass by the house OJ murdered his ex-wife at on my way to school. Being from there and getting to know a lot of the people involved in the OG punk scene changed my life. I can't say for the better or worse...I've skated my whole life, so we'd go skate Taft High in Woodland Hills which is where Jane Wiedlin went to school. It was all around.

                            I'd continue talking with Philomena. Meltzer is really intelligent. Slash was always Steve Samioff, Melanie Nissen, Claude and Philly. Biggs came later and added to the legacy via the label. Philly was there through the whole thing.

                              1 1/2 miles away from Uni was Rip City Skates where the We Got Power guys were based out of. Like I said, it was all really close and you felt somewhat overwhelmed by it if you knew the area.