Author: Andrea Martin-Banks

THE LATEST LOOK AT AMERICANA WITH THE AMAZING … ERIC LASTICK The nineteen hundred & seventy three’s music scene where ”Glam Rock” engages with “Grunge Rock” at The Roxy Theater…as each costume and blue jean—–front line through the looking glass—-all along the stretches of West Hollywood lanes, in great anticipation of the show. Neil Young… Continue reading RAVES & ROLLS OF WEST HOLLYWOOD’S EARLY OPENERS … AT THE ‘ROXY’ 1973

Russian defector sells helicopter and lands a new life for family Maksim Kuzminov, aged 28, is a Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot. He could also be the first propaganda hero of this awful Ukraine war. But to Putin and his twisted cohorts Kuzminov is a coward, a thief, a deserter – and a target. He surrendered… Continue reading FLY FROM THIS WAR, PUTIN PILOT TELLS AIRFORCE

Another brilliant piece by ERIC LASTICK Being a Beatle from all the trails…the runs of development of style…the beat…the coffee houses, Jazz clubs…the night spots along the French cafes…The jingling of jewels of the Hierarchy of English tone…and tarnished souls…They, the Beatles, British Liverpoolian pop sensations were and are, just what we all had been… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTER GLARES AND TRIPPED-OUT SPLIT IMAGES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE, ‘BEATLE’

It’s always been seen as a fair game to boo, lampoon, insult, attack, complain about and scoff at Bob Dylan. This attitude has made me furious over the years … of course he can sing, he is probably one of the most inventive singers since the beginning of popular music and has influenced the whole… Continue reading A tough crowd sometimes… but Bob is still standing. They won’t get him beat

PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR)                    (A BILLY THE KID PERSPECTIVE) Another grand opus by the quite brilliant Eric Lastick Pat Garrett Texas cowpoke, high call it home.Home wherever the cowboy in him. Tilt barrels of frozen memories—–all through the grimes of… Continue reading VERSIONS OF SO IN-SIGHTED READS OF BOB DYLAN

Sadly, we have to defend a frog-eyed monster to protect our own freedoms Coutts, perceived as an international private bank for the super-rich,  has cancelled one of the most dangerous men in the UK. But this censorship had nothing to do with Farage’s political pontifications or the fact that the ex-banker-turned-big-w*!nk*r has been erroneously described… Continue reading A BRIDGE TO FAR-(AGE) BY A FISTFUL OF POMPOUS COUTTS

Society’s good fellas use their dull knives of lies to play ‘split the kipper’ with my life Yep, it has happened again … they are gathering at my back door. The lights of the road don’t reach there. I am going to have to fight them again, aren’t I. I beat them off last time,… Continue reading Another darkness falls on the TRUE story I may never be able to tell you…

A NEW AND MAGICAL PIECE FROM RESIDENT ‘SOCIETY’ WRITER ERIC LASTICK Native Alcatraz place…and it’s Indian justice—and to what to be, in no more than a moment, as just that fast, the pointed sharpness of the spear— loses it’s edge to the dull of truth…and the thunderous Cannon call; as this cut of native rock—casts… Continue reading USURP TIDES OF NATIVE CLAY STEAM DISHES…RATTLES THE PELICAN WINDS AT ALCATRAZ ISLAND

THE twisted world of social media’s illegal name-and-shame game went into overdrive before Hugh Edward’s wife named him to stop the savagery. One reason she took this step was because the piranhas on twitter, Facebook and all those other new bastions of Freedom of Lies were naming anybody they could think of over a crime… Continue reading HERE IS THE HUWS – ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA FORCED VICKY TO NAME HER HUSBAND, NOT JOURNALISTS

The Ukraine is fighting for the freedom of the West against a country run by one of the world’s richest men. At first Putin came across as a pocket-action man with a penchant for sitting half-naked on horseback – for puffing his chest out like a belligerent pigeon and for surveying his outside world with… Continue reading 500 days of horror as Pocket Man Putin fails in Ukraine