Well the year is come to an end 2025 at the product some of us are happy some of us are sad about the political situation and in America but onward and upward we go. The first thing I want to talk about is the death of Inger Lorry. She was in band called and dance very famous in the underground Los Angeles music scene she passed last month and we’ve been arranging tributes to her all over the city the first at the Redwood the one I suggest next is in January la Luz d Jesus gallery put on by Billy Shire and myself to honor this wonderful creative singer guitarist. The viper room is planning to also have a tribute for her in the upcoming months so keep your eyes on that it’s hard to believe the viper room is still open but it is so use it or lose it. I took a tour of London as I am over there looking for work checking out the nightclubs the pubs the art galleries and the general lifestyles of the people. There’s nothing like an English fry up in the morning there’s nothing like an English breakfast pass the tea. The Dublin Castle was alive with music by the Polestars. They were playing some massive scar I know that Bad Manners is planning to tour after Christmas so lucky England. I used to be a personal friend and assistant to Buster Bloodvessel I recorded an album with them with my friend matrix and Harry the dog who’s a band that I was in in the 2000s. The song is called what you going to do I wrote it with Buster and recorded it with John X Ska is alive and well people are dancing I don’t see much dancing in the US these days I miss all the jiggling and wiggling so it’s nice to see reggae sky band still operating in the UK.I noticed that Lynn Matlock would soon be playing Dingwalls. I was determined to see art galleries and museums so I went to the tape where I saw the Yoko Ono show which had lots of footage of her as a young girl performance artist she was way ahead of her time long before she met Mr John Lennon. Before he came along she was an up and coming star in the art world and well deserved the work she did wasn’t given enough credit I personally thought she was a genius and taking music destroying it reconstructing it and doing it her way you can say a lot about Yoko but you can’t say she isn’t an original because she is. I’m from Cleveland Ohio where we have the Rock and roll Hall of Fame. Lemmy said the best exhibit in the place is the gift shop he also said he donated one of his Motorhead jackets to them and that it disappeared he said I bet some directors girlfriend is running around with it and I wouldn’t be surprised I think he thought it was a monumental waste of space of course they only gave him credit for stuff like his Metallica remake or his songs he wrote for Ozzy he was a good friend of mine and we discussed the state of rock and roll often. He was bored with all the trite music long before it was popular to be bored of it all but when you’re creative you don’t have to settle for less. You can do it yourself and he did. I have music out on Mystic records I’ve been singing with Robbie Krieger from the Doors. We recorded Alabama song or rather the Whiskey song together a couple years ago and in May I was lucky enough to sing seven doors tunes with him at an art gallery called Moda where I housed the Punk Museum installation last year. I went to see his new band The Soul Savages. At the Baked Potato. I also saw him play with his Doors band where he has his son Waylan singing Jim’s part I don’t know how Waylon could look so much like Jim Morrison but that’s another story.. quite a strange coincidence . I’ll be working with Paul Picasso Hollywood on a new gallery called dig it all which is a play on words from digital which were opening December 7th I’m looking forward to the new project and I’m looking forward to the new year. This year I’ll be acting in at least four movies so I’m excited working with director Philippe Mora directorous Kim Durbin director Chris Morrissey and I have a few more irons in the fire please give a listen to our podcast called thePunkast.com where we interview people on the art of Punk and the history of the underground scene. We just interviewed Nicole Panter Daily who managed the Germs early Punk Rock she is a super cool chick and she was in the movie Decline of Western Civilization . Rest in peace Alan Sachs who did the podcast Peter the Acid King. The series is about New Wave Theater the first TV show to feature punk rock in Los Angeles I was the Booker with my partner Richard Skidmore we went under the name do monkey productions and scour the city for music to put on the show every week we literally had to go to three clubs a week every week and pull six bands a week to put on the air if you go to the international archives you will be able to see some of our episodes Peter Ivers was our host and he was murdered in a lot downtown under mysterious circumstances. He was a very close friend of mine and I’ve never gotten over losing him he introduced me to so many great people he was so nice and everyone loved him I still love him and miss him decades and decades later. The podcast is a gym and it was The voice d by director Penelope’s Spheeris who created The Decline of Western Civilization movie, He was a really great person who I’ve known for decades he was a great director and he will be missed. I go to the rainbow on the Sunset strip to hang out with Lemmy statue in the very spot where we used to hang out and when I was in London I followed the trail to all the clubs that he used to hang out at he was such a great guy so funny he and Phlthy Animal were my great friends just know it’s nice to have friends on the other side looking out for you all your friends are there that aren’t here now stick around let’s make this world a better place. I put together the gothic Punk Museum at the Crooked path in Burbank where I’m doing special events including the Young kings of midnight with Paul Roessler formally of the screamers and Gitane Demone formerly of Christian death Nervous Gender and a new young 🌱 band called ICBN. A great mixture of new music. Speaking of new and old this Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols are touring and due to hit the US yes I’m sad that John lighten isn’t a part of it but Time Marches on and he’ll always have public image limited which he liked a lot better he’s also touring Europe right now and I hear that they’re going to play the rebellion festival this year I bet it’ll be dodgy as f*** if they end up on the same bill there’ll be a slap down for sure. Get the mud ready boys there’s going to be a wrestling session anyway the new Sex Pistols are wowing Europe and I’m happy to see the boys get their due Steve Jones , Glenn Matlock, and Paul Cook created the original pistol sound and they deserve to be heard. Three out of four Sex Pistols can’t be bad and they’ve been tearing it up for sure. Keep your ears open keep your mind open and don’t let the bastards get you down.