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1998 Stories by Bill Wyman

• Riff Raff

  published April 8, 1998

  Working on the Bomb Six weeks ago, the time it takes for some spring flowers to grow from seed to bloom, three members of the Gun & Doll Show --... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published April 1, 1998

  The Sultan of Rap Sometimes you're just laying down some soulful grooves at your favorite local club and a prince walks in, or very nearly. Last... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published March 25, 1998

  What the Fuck Is Greil Marcus Writing About on Page 2 of the New York Times' Arts Section Every Monday? The first of the year saw Berkeley's Greil... More >>

• Beat the Press

  published March 18, 1998

  A Most Indelicate Subject It was 1968 and Larry Hatfield was frustrated. He was working for UPI in Washington, but the news agency wouldn't... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published March 18, 1998

  Static KUSF Music Director Jason Knuth loved free jazz, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and Cecil Taylor. He could talk endlessly about the Sun City... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published March 11, 1998

  No, Mike, It's an All-Day Sucker What happens when several hundred gallons of liquor collide head on with a multitude of walking egos? The newly... More >>

• Beat the Press

  published March 4, 1998

  Jerry Carroll's Reign of Error You've probably noticed the Chron's Lively Arts column, an item-filled affair on Page 2 of the paper's... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published March 4, 1998

  Black Comedy To outsiders, goths might seem like angst-ridden drama queens parading around in vampire pajamas. Well, they are. But goths share a... More >>

• Love Hate

  published February 25, 1998

  1) The Postmodern Tabloid Nick Broomfield's biggest asset is his ability to keep a straight face. The British documentary-maker's several... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published February 25, 1998

  Selvin Watch: We Meet at Last Joel Selvin and Dave Marsh -- longtime friends, colleagues, and even bandmates in the rock-crit group called the... More >>

• Beat the Press

  published February 18, 1998

  Sphere of Influence In Citizen Kane, after Kane's paramour gives a dreadful opera performance, Orson Welles finds Joseph Cotten back in the... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published February 18, 1998

  Swing Low After years of toil and custom tailoring, the New Morty Show are on the brink of breaking into the big league -- the band's first... More >>

• Liver Than You'll Ever Be

  published February 18, 1998

  Mighty Marty Perez, the rock photographer, grew up in Chicago, but got his start in Seattle in the crucial late '80s, as the American independent... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published February 11, 1998

  Death of a Disco Punk Dance Club The Trocadero is in trouble. On Feb. 16 the SOMA nightspot and concert venue will forfeit two after-hours permits... More >>

• Beat the Press

  published February 4, 1998

  Missing Details at Fifth & Mish The San Francisco Chronicle is not one of the nation's more respected metropolitan newspapers. Two recent... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published February 4, 1998

  Real Life Rock "An obsessive sport" is what D.A. Pennebaker calls cinema verite documentary filmmaking, a line of work he's indulged in for some... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published January 28, 1998

  This Is How It Works After two years of booking local bands at the monthly "Fillmore Sessions," promoter Joe Paganelli finally sold out the old... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published January 21, 1998

  Talkin' Bob Dylan Academic Conference Blues What the man with the bald pate was talking about was unclear. He was Englishman Christopher Ricks, a... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published January 14, 1998

  The Last Laugh Sonny Bono hustled pop both crap and sublime as a promo man in the early days of rock 'n' roll, and did essentially the same with... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published January 7, 1998

  Perry Tale Bring out the menorah, the dreidels, and the rock stars -- it's a Bill Graham Hanukkah. Twenty-five years ago the late rock promoter... More >>