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...signs of restlessness were there. After returning from the road, Waits moved out of his long-time abode at the Tropicana Motel, now the stopover spot for spiky-haired English punk bands. Waits exited the place after one too many magazine articles had mentioned his residence there, resulting in one too many adoring fans knocking on his door at four in the morning. He moved to an apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard. Then to a house in Silver Lake. From there he slept in a series of seedy motels until the day he headed for the Big Apple...
...Kinks package is not the first to link vinyl and video tape, but it is the first to reach the market. A previous try spotlighting Blondie, the only socially acceptable punk outfit, was withdrawn when union negotiations prevented release of the tape. The new tape, marketed by TIME-LIFE Video, costs $39.95 retail. For anyone with the ante, and a taste for some high-spirited, high-stepping rock, One for the Road is one of the more notable music events of the year. It is a tidy audiovisual chronicle of fierce, reckless endurance, a gone-to-hell charm that...
...opening act at concerts in six East Coast cities last week was billed. Some kind of new rock-'n'-roll group with a sultry chick singer who sounds ... a little like Cher. Even looks a little like her, but not much. That ragged punk haircut, hardly any sequins and not one costume change. But by the time each hard-rocking set was half over, word had rippled back from the front rows to the poor souls clutching binoculars in the cheapest seats: the lead guitarist was former Boz Scaggs Musician Les Dudek. So? So Les is well known...
...already a man. As initiation to a street gang called the Sons of Satan, he had to run a bloody, 20-yd. gauntlet of flaying fists. "I stole, beat up on people, hit on my teachers," Ramos confesses, "just to prove I was bad and not a punk." He had seen a dozen men shot or stabbed over drug deals and street-corner dice games. He had faced a man with a revolver who was threatening to blow Ramos' brains out because he had thrown a snowball. "By then," he says, "I knew that...
Hamill has a way to go before he writes like Breslin, but there's depth to his stories, and sides to his characters, that never crept into the columns of the New York Daily News. As the cop says early on. "Tommy Ryan is a slimy little punk who couldn't have sniffed your old man's socks...