"teen a go go" a go go

heading to austin and houston for the next coupla days to tape interviews with jeremy diaz aka jesus de la cruz (dead sexy, this damn town, strange attractors) and king coffee (butthole surfers) for a younger point of view, mike buck (fabulous thunderbirds, leroi brothers, fort worth record collector) and joe nick patoski (rolling stone and texas monthly journo and srv biographer) for expert testimony, and crucial scene vets mark stevens aka mark e. baby (kfjz deejay) and arvel stricklin (cellar house band muso). over the past few days, we've gotten good stuff from the elite, larry & the bluenotes, the orphans, red young (the committee), sumter bruton (local music historian and record town honcho), john nitzinger and ron marcott (barons), recording engineer phil york (sound city studios), and bugs henderson (mouse & the traps and full-time cellar dweller), among others. shooting continues through the 19th in fort worth, chicago, and l.a. still need to lay hands on some of the archival footage we've been pointed to. then director melissa kirkendall and director of photography/editor james sterling johnson get to put it all together in viewable form in time to meet sxsw's submission deadline. yeah!