Collect all three Chris Montez posters!

Chris Montez, the man the LA Weekly calls "the great, underrated pop-rock legend" performs Friday night at El Camino College in Torrance California, along with a preview of the upcoming musical feature, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story (and a special performance by the great lost Seventies pop band, Help Light).

This is the third in our series of collectible posters.

Collect all three (find the others here and here)!

And come to the show!

The concert is a fundraiser for the El Camino College Foundation and the Friends of the El Camino College Library’s Living Archives Project.

Showtime is Friday, November 19 at 8:00 pm in Marsee Auditorium on the El Camino campus. General admission is $25, plus $2 for parking. For tickets call: 310 329-5345 (toll free at 800 832-ARTS), or visit the Marsee Auditorium box office, Monday – Friday, 10 am to 6 pm.

Collect another Chris Montez concert poster!

Collect all three!

And see Chris perform along with a special preview of the movie and special guests at El Camino College in Torrance, California on Friday November 19th.

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A major recording slipped out this week

Jerry Lee Lewis is not only hanging in but still rockin. Mean Old Man was released on Tuesday. We're listening to the empathetic and rootsy duets album this morning. Nineteen tunes! Download it and send us your review.

David Hull is releasing his first solo album

The sudden late-in-life rock star resurrection of local teenage hero David Hull that we first chronicled four years ago to this day (September 3, 2006) has reached a new apotheosis with the release this month of his first solo album.

Soul in Motion is available for pre-order on i-Tunes and Amazon.com and will be celebrated with a release party on October 14th at the House of Blues in Boston. Dave reports that a video for the tune Pay Some Attention (above) has been shot and will be released soon.


Hull, the bassist from Stratford, Connecticut who found international success forty years ago with the Buddy Miles band, White Chocolate and the Dirty Angels. His connection to Seventies superstars Aerosmith (he and guitar partner Charlie Karp once planned a band with Steven Tyler) paid off at the end of the decade when he joined the Joe Perry Project. Hull would keep up a low-profile career based in the Boston area until 2006 when he was called back to the Majors, filling in on tour for Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton, who was sidelined with throat cancer. In the time since, he's kept up his chops with the James Montgomery Band, toured with a revamped Joe Perry Project and done more shows with Aerosmith.


The album drops September 14th. Hull tells his Facebook friends he's putting a band together, so expect a tour. Stay tuned.

Karen Carpenter book is pop culture classic

Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter stood out on the shelf of Book Soup and seemed like a good summer read. The details of the Seventies star's death scene seemed promising enough, but we admit we expected the book to be a camp clip job hagiography written by a fan.

As it turns out, Little Girl Blue is finely-written, exhaustively-researched and nothing less than a classic rock bio penned by a music teacher who's dedicated decades to the subject and wrung from it a revelatory tragic saga As far as we know, this is the first clear representation of the baleful star's life, no longer clouded by family censorship and shading, painting a vivid portrait of the family dynamics that fed Karen's anorexia, and compiling other juicy details like the fact that Karen had a "microphone voice"-- powerful on records but so soft that it could hardly be heard across a room, and revealing that the smarmy incest rumours about brother and sister were trumped by the fact that, after treatment for his Quaalude addiction, brother Richard Carpenter married his first cousin.

Randy L. Schmidt's music credentials come into play with a fascinating overview of their creative and recording process and the Carpenters' place in the music, cultural and political scenes of the Seventies. This book could get the Carpenters into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

All the Elvis master recordings for $763.99

One thousand numbered sets of The Complete Elvis Presley Masters are now on sale for $763.99. The three-box set includes every Elvis recording, digitally remastered, in chronological order, from 1954 through 1974: 30 CDs, 711 master recordings, 103 additional rare recordings, more than 35 hours of Elvis music-- and a 240-page hardcover book. The set ships in October.

Mitch Miller was still alive?

The enemy of rock 'n' roll is reported dead at 99.