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Peter Bell on the Rise of Ten Ten
Part two of the Peter Bell story. Ten Ten rises to the almost top. Originally published in October 1994.“Ten Ten had a following right away because The Rage fans came out to see me and The Dads fans...
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Peter Bell on the End of Ten Ten
Part three of the Peter Bell story, originally published in November 1994When Ten Ten’s album “Walk On” came out in 1986, Peter Bell remembers it was destroyed by the British music critics. “In...
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Peter Bell in 1994
The last interview in the December 1994 issue updated where Peter was then.“Ten Ten got no respect in Richmond, and I always talked up the town in interviews all over the world, what a great music...
View ArticleTwenty Years Ago in Shockoe Bottom
It seemed like an easy assignment. Saturday night. Leave at 10 p.m. Go to Shockoe Bottom. Pop in the Main Street Grill and see Spike the Dog. Pop in Moondance, see Lil’ Ronnie and the Bluebeats,...
View ArticleThe Origin Story
Ray Bonis of the Cabell Library archives at Virginia Commonwealth University wanted some background information as the library prepares to put all the Journals online. He asked a few questions. I gave...
View ArticlePermission to Kill Yourself
In Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, there is a fascinating study about how suicides of prominent personalities set off chain reactions of suicides, as if the first gives permission for the others...
View ArticleElegy for a Printer -- How Newspapers Used to Be Made
I donated my HP Laserjet 2100M to the Swift Creek Mill Playhouse office in Colonial Heights in 2009. A young man carried it out of my car, up the stairs and left it on a table in the hallway. I said a...
View ArticleWhine Fest at the End of Three Years Doing the Paper
This article appeared in the November 1996 edition of the Richmond Music Journal. Italics reference new background info that is probably long forgotten. Slightly edited because I am a better writer now...
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