Rawk 'n' Paris

Thanks to the Advice Goddess, full of good ideas, I recently met with Sue Rynski. I don't live in Paris just for the cheese but because of the amazing people I meet here from all over the world on a regular basis.  I'll remember this next time I am cursing the customer "service" here.

Sue was an integral part of the 70's underground music scene (read article) documenting heroes and heroines of mine and was kind enough to spend two hours under close questioning - straight from the "Horses" mouth - geddit? - yes, Sue has photographed Patti Smith too.  I found out about what it was like to hang out with Destroy All Monsters the band formed when Ron Asheton (ex-Stooges) and Mike Davis (ex-MC5) hooked up with an eclectic group of art school rockers featuring all important femme-fatale and "Tab" (the drink) freak, Niagara.  Funnily enough, I'd just read an interview with Niagara by friend Suzy Prince in her magazine Nude.   

I never really got a handle on the rock scene here in Paris (and now I miss it) and was discussing this lately with an ex-New Yorker friend with a penchant for guitars.   She gets her fix in the Pop-In on rue Amelot. I'm a fan of the Planete Mars on rue Keller for special reasons and I love the owners. I can't go there very often because it has a strange effect on me, it must be the red walls.   Or maybe because they serve beer in "pintes" and I'm not used to this hardcore British way of drinking anymore.

Sue's suggestions du jour are Le Gambetta, La Feline (have yet to find this one, good luck) and La Fleche d'Or which has free entry (but expensive bar) this Friday and Saturday for "International Garage Rock club" GLORIA - who I think have been spinning at Planete Mars sometimes and they're good.  For a weekly listing of concerts and an insteresting forum see sdz and their blog.  To hear about good rock concerts happening each week, listen to the Substitutes radio show, with Vincent and Isabelle, Tuesdays from 19h30-21h on Aligre FM 93.1

 "On y défend une certaine idée du rock n roll. On y écoute du Garage Rock. On y danse sur de la Northern ou de la Southern Soul. L'esprit du punk rock (D.I.Y notamment ) y règne. La Power pop y est acceuillie à bras ouverts.." 

I'm there.

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