This week on Transmissions, author, producer, archivist, and musician Pat Thomas. In the late ’80s, he helped take the Paisley Underground overground with his label Heyday Records. Later, he helped bring out reissues by artists like Judee Sill, Sandy Bull, PiL, and more. And as if all that wasn’t enough, he’s the author of a number of essential counterculture histories and a musician himself. He joins us today on Transmisions.
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The Rolling Stones in 1969 :: Beyond Baroque
Angelenos: Thursday, December 13, at Beyond Baroque in Venice, noted author, music historian, and friend of Aquarium Drunkard Pat Thomas will host a live Q&A discussion with Ronnie Schneider, manager of the Rolling Stones’ mythic 1969 tour — documented the classic film Gimme Shelter—about his new book Out Of Our Heads: Rolling Stones, Beatles and Me. Schneider’s career dispenses with the “Beatles or Stones” binary; he worked extensively with both.
Did It! :: A Jerry Rubin Player
In the last years of the 1960s, pop culture and revolution felt synonymous. “The late 1960s-early 1970s were an era when on a college kid’s dorm room, there would be […]
Jerry Rubin :: From Yippie to Yuppie
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention, where hippies, Black Panthers, the MC5, and many others clashed spectacularly with The Man, few figures seem more […]
Ghana 45 Mix :: Highlife and Afro Blues 1969-‘76
Following the release of last year’s Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band , Strut Records returns with Coming Home, a career retrospective compilation for the Ghanaian highlife master and ” Golden Voice Of Africa”, spanning his […]
Pat Thomas And Kwashibu Area Band
“The Golden Voice Of Africa” – Pat Thomas . A regular collaborator with Ebo Taylor, Thomas was a mainstay of the ‘70s and ‘80s Ghanaian highlife, afrobeat and afro-pop scenes. Via Strut […]