A Damned Quick One

The 1977 Damned in a composition taken from The Who's 1966 album, A Quick One. Maybe a rejected cover for Music For Pleasure? 

The Return Of Twiggy and the Stooges

Twiggy and the Stooges' Funhouse
C. Earnhart 2013
Concept by Dr. Johnson

Trying out Derwent watercolor pencils and nighttime sinus medication.

Ramones Rumored Return

Wigs all around: Meet the new Ramones [l-r] Rici, Pauly, Marky and Gigi.

   Marky Ramone is rumored to be adopting some new brothers to play with. Founding Kiss members, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have been in talks with Ramone about touring under the Ramones' name. Simmons commented, "After going over the figures with Mark, it looks like we could make even more money being another band." Kiss will still be touring this summer with stand-in members [rumored to be earning minimum wage] while Stanley and Simmons work as Pauly and Gigi Ramone. Former Cars front man, Ric Ocasek will also be joining the family as lead vocalist.

New Drawings

Bela Lugosi's Waiting

My 44th birthday drawing, black ink and brush 10/1/12. October 20th will be Bela's 130th birthday.

Some other early October birthdays...

The guy I consider to be the Godfather of British Rock, Eddie Cochran. Born Oct. 3, 1938 in Albert Lea, Minnesota.

 10/6/12

Johnny Ramone

Oct. 8, 1951

10/8/12

FREE! The Who's John Entwistle coloring page

Oct. 9, 1944

10/4/12

Still Sick

A cross-hatching nightmare version of Bal's cover art for Rockabilly Psychosis & the Garage Disease. Worked on occasionally over the past year or two between tattoos.

One of my favorite comps that still sounds just as good 25 years later. In the years following my purchase of this record I would get to see the Cramps, Gun Club and Meteorhead, live. In 1994, Gary Burns and I were putting a band together with Grant of the Geezers, we joined Deadbolt instead, as "the Wall of Thunder", replacing departed bassist R.A. MacLean with a bass duo. Playing with Deadbolt gave me the honor of sharing the stage the Cramps, Guana Batz, the reformed Geezers, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and the late, great Hasil Adkins.

Johnny Come and Get Me...

Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Illustration by Chris Earnhart Oct. 2011

No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones

"I don't think about that stuff. I just think about who's doing what to me and what I'm going to do about it."
Joe Strummer on politics, 1977

"Although they are talented musicians, they seem to have dug themselves into an unoriginal Who hole out of which it may be difficult for them to climb."
Caroline Coon on The Jam, 1977

The nutty sound of 1979 in '82.

The Gangs of New York

The Velvet Underground

Ramones

Talking Heads

Indestructable

Buddy Holly
Pen and color pencil 1988

So, Don McLean was wrong and Rancid are right. 51 years after the plane crash I still listen to Buddy Holly.
"cause through music we can live forever"
Here's to everyone who has ever made a record. No matter how old or unknown, it's someone's favorite song.

The Who - 44 Years Before The Super Bowl

Small Faces
I found a used copy of the 'Early Faces' LP in 1984 and bought it because Kenney Jones was in The Who. They have been one of my favorite bands since then.
Their over looked masterpiece, 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake' was the first CD I bought, a few years later.

The Kinks
'Something Else' is another record you should own.

The Who
Half of them will be playing the Super Bowl half time show, this weekend. I think they should play 'A Man in a Purple Dress' in place of the best-of-medley. That would be punk rock.
'Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy' was my first record, it deserves a better CD release. It's a powerful collection of their first five years. I didn't hear another album like it until finding the U.S. version of the first Clash LP.

Hot Rod Boris

Karloff's monster as Hot Rod Herman
pencil drawing 2007

Pettibon Plagiarism

The Gore-Gons - Norvus Breakdown EP 2008

5 tracks we left off the cd for various reasons we no longer remember.
Dolphin with rabies/Hey weirdo/I like my women bad/Kill me baby/Nurses for sale

The cover art is of course taken from Raymond Pettibon's artwork for the first Black Flag release. It features Jello Lugosi's breakdown at our last show at Zombie Lounge, a bar frequented by middle-aged skinheads.
Lack of interest on all parts leaves this release without a bar code but I know where you can get one. Of course, Nervous Norvus' influence is omnipresent.

A Man That Mattered

watercolor 2005


San Diego 07/07/02


The beautiful thing about Joe's voice was it's truth. Do yourself a favor and listen to the Mescaleros.

Heaven Needs Cretins

Watercolor 2001

I did this one soon after Joey's death as a gift for Third Degree Burns of Deadbolt, the biggest Ramones fan I've ever known. Dee Dee and Johnny went too quickly for me to keep up.

Elvis Frankenstello

The color version of my original 2003 drawing. It was supposed to have been a painting but was instead used for a t-shirt by my band...

The Gore-Gons t-shirt 2004