teen a go go

longtime fort worth rawk promoter melissa kirkendall's been spending progressively more time working on films the last coupla yrs, and now she's directing a documentary, teen a go go, that chronicles the explosion of brit invasion-inspahrd teenage garage bands here in the fort during the mid-'60s. that era of cowtown music garnered national attention a coupla yrs back when noo yawk-based norton records released three volumes of fort worth teen scene, a cornucopeia of teen snot nuggets from back in the day, compiled by local obsessive rekkid enthusiasts larry harrison and david campbell, whose article for kicks magazine ca. '85 got the whole ball rolling with norton honcho / kicks editor billy miller.

i've seen a short teaser for the doc and dug the experience of seeing cats like roger brownlee (ex-frontman for the elite of "one potato, two potato" fame) and larry roquemore (whose band larry and the bluenotes recorded _their_ signature hit, "night of the sadist" -- or "...phantom," depending on which version you heard, based on the myth of the lake worth goat man -- no less than three times) or jazz cafe impresario nick kithas (known in his '60s persona as "the creep" of creep and the deacons) talkin' 'bout days gone by, and my old borders workmate harrison expounding on the significance the period's music has had for him. it'll be interesting to see if kirkendall's able to unearth any period live footage, which seems like a necessary ingredient to make compelling cinema of the subject matter, but could be a tough nut to crack, since most video documentation of these bands was done by local tv stations that tended to wipe such footage almost immediately. anybody got some grainy old super-8 reels out in the storage shed that you'd be willing to pony up?