tom wright

altho the last couple i penned still aren't up, think i'm gonna pen yet another book review for the i-94 bar, this one on tom wright's roadwork: rock & roll turned inside out. tom's a photog, alabama-born and currently based in austin, who was pete townshend's art school roommate in 1962; when he got deported from the u.k. for ganja, townshend inherited his substantial collection of jazz and r&b rekkids and the rest is, um, whostory. zelig-like, tom next landed in detroit, when he was managing the grande ballroom (hometown stomping ground for the mc5 and stooges) when the who came through on their first u.s. tour in '67. tom wound up working as road manager for his old school chum and went on to work for the faces, joe walsh, the eagles, blah blah blah. i read a snippet from this manuscript a few yrs ago, around the time i visited the lbj library at ut in austin to peruse the tom wright archives there. wright took lotsa classic rockaroll photos, and i'm guessing that his book will be a corker. just waiting on amazon to deliver.