KICKS BOOKS PRESENTS… CHARLES PLYMELL IN PRINT & IN PERSON • FRIDAY NOV. 8 NYC Join the Kicks Books crew in celebrating the publication of BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY by America's last standing, guns-blazing, full throttle roadmaster versificator Charles Plymell at a very special evening at NYC’s historic Jefferson Market Library NYPL on Friday, November 8, at 7:30 PM. Gerard Malanga Charles Plymell will be introduced by his friend, fellow legend, poet, artist, and photographer, Gerard Malanga, who's been there and back. We're gassed to have him aboard. Admission to this event is free to the public. Books will be available for purchase. Come meet Charles and Gerard! Poet/author/artist/small press publisher (legend!) Charles Plymellroared out of Kansas with tires blazing while the Beat scene was still in training wheels. Weaned on jump blues, true grit and Dr. Gimmy Gommy’s Goodies, Plymell redefined the fast track with blunt force, map zap and brute strength forged of desperation and attitude. Born on the high plains in Finney County, Kansas in 1935 in a converted chicken coop during one of the blackest dust storms of the day, he would spend his sprouting years kicking up even more sand. His father was a cowboy born in the Oklahoma Territory; his mother was of Plains Indian descent. Life on the loose held more appeal than classrooms for young Charles, who dropped out after ninth grade. He worked at various laboring jobs throughout the western states, then racing the highway between Los Angeles and Kansas City during his hipster years, stoked on hillbilly howls and race music-- R&B, blues, and jazz. Charles Plymell lived in San Francisco in the early 1960’s, sharing a house with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. His writings from this period were published in his first book APOCALYPSE ROSE, which appears complete in BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY, along with his killer roadmaster autobio THE LAST OF THE MOCASSINS. Plymell raised a lifelong ruckus with a wild bunch that included friends Ginsberg, Cassady, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac-- and a cast of thousands. Charles Plymell eventually settled in upstate New York. He has published, printed, and designed umpteen underground magazines and books with his wife Pamela Beach. He put Ray Bremser and Herbert Hunke, whom he identified with from the hipster 1950s, into print, and was influential in the underground comix scene, establishing artists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson, whom he first published in Lawrence, Kansas. Plymell was the first printer of Robert Crumb's Zap Comix. Charles Plymell opposes the National Endowment for the Arts and has criticized it in print, claiming it has become a politicized, unjust system feeding on its own mediocrity and self-contradiction. His views were mentioned in the New York Times in "Notes on People" and again in "Washington Talk". He was subsequently blacklisted and has never received any funding from any federal, state, or academic agency to pursue his creativity. PLYMELL IS ON THE AIRWAVES OCTOBER 26! RADIO BALLYHOO! Dig honkin' rhythm & blues sounds "Picked By Plymell" as he chats live with Fool's Paradise Show host Rex and the Kicks/Norton crew at WFMU on Saturday Oct. 26. The show begins at 1 PM (EST), and Charles is scheduled for a 2 PM call-in. We are EXCITED! Tune in for this segment -- direct from the Wichita Vortex! Kicks Books is the world's only publisher to issue a fragrance with each book. Two fragrances are available for BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY . LOSER represents LAST OF THE MOCASSINS and is aimed for gents. The fragrance, APOCALPYSE ROSE is available in four different floral packages for the ladies, one for every mood. Kicks Books now presents BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY, which includes the first ever republication of Plymell’s long out of print first book of poetry, APOCALYPSE ROSE, his first prose book, LAST OF THE MOCASSINS, and a new autobiographical introduction which speeds you into the wild world of Charles Plymell where his words warp one’s horizontal, and stand one’s vertical on its pointed little head. Benzedrine Highway is published by Kicks Books, Box 646 Cooper Station, NYC 10276 PURCHASE BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY HERE For further information, kindly contact Paige Turner at Kicks Books headquarters. kicksbooks.com • (917) 671-7884 Also by Charles Plymell: Apocalypse Rose, Dave Haselwood Books, San Francisco, CA, 1966. Neon Poems, Atom Mind Publications, Syracuse, NY, 1970. The Last of the Moccasins, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 1971; Mother Road Publications, 1996. Moccasins Ein Beat-Kaleidoskop, Europa Verlag, Vienna, Austria, 1980. Over the Stage of Kansas, Telephone Books, NYC, 1973. The Trashing of America, Kulchur Foundation, NYC, 1975. Blue Orchid Numero Uno, Telephone Books, 1977. Panik in Dodge City, Expanded Media Editions, Bonn, W. Germany, 1981. Forever Wider, 1954-1984, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1985. Was Poe Afraid?, Bogg Publications, Arlington, VA, 1990. Hand on the Doorknob, Water Row Books, Sudbury, MA, 2000; Some Mother’s Sons, Cherry Valley Editions, Cherry Valley, NY, 2005; Mindeater, Verlag Peter Engstler, Germany, 2009; Eat Not Thy Mind, Glass Eye Books/Peace Eye Library, Northampton, MA 2010

Norton Fall Events & New Releases

NORTON BLASTS & NEW WAX • AUTUMN 2013 Ring, ring goes the bell-- and new Norton releases are IN SESSION! We're nearing the one year mark since Sandy and have a lot of reasons to celebrate-- we're doing so by releasing some our greatest records ever, and we have blasts going all fall long- it's an autumn almanac for… the record books! Before digging in, two big news bits--Grand Theft Auto 5 has just been released, and features a Norton track -- Hasil Adkins' GET OUT OF THE CAR … and… the New Surfsiders have been featured onbeachboys.com!!! With these stellar moments in mind, come aboard the Norton train for one wild, wild ride! Also be sure to check our non-Norton records on the Norton website- we have just added several hundred single copy out of print and hard to find LP's and 45s. Use the pull down menu for VINYL and rev up! SEPT 22 (Sun) A-BONES/LENNY KAYE/ANDY SHERNOFF/CARLA RHODESWAGGYTAIL RESCUE ROCK AND ROLL EXTRAVAGANZA BENEFIT Bowery Electric (New York City) Help ante up much needed funds for homeless hounds! OCT. 3-5 (Thurs-Sat)PONDEROSA STOMP (New Orleans) Sonics, Standells, Boogaloo, Ty Wagner, Chris Montez and more! Plus daytime panels and interviews including Chris Montez interviewed by Cyril Jordan of the Flamin Groovies and the Sonics interviewed by Michael Hurtt and Billy Miller! See you at the record show there! OCT 3 (Thurs) HIP DROP(New Orleans) PONDEROSA STOMP KICK OFF DANCE PARTY OCT 4 (FRI) INTERVIEWS! CHRIS MONTEZ is quizzed by Flamin' Groovie CYRIL JORDAN 1:30-2:30 and THE SONICS tell all to BILLY MILLER and MICHAEL HURTT 4:30-5:30! Don't miss! OCT 5 KIM FOWLEY - LORD OF GARBAGE BOOK LAUNCH (Los Angeles) Join author Kim Fowley as he launches his LORD OF GARBAGE hip pocket paperback! OCT 19 (Sat 11 AM) LA LA BROOKS on the MICHAEL SHELLEY SHOW! Michael interviews La La and plays her new record(s)-- tune in worldwide at wfmu.org OCT 19 NYC RECORD + CD EXPANSION SHOW (New York City) Norton will have two tables at this show with thousands of records including tons of $2 Norton singles! OCT 26 (Sat) FOOL’S PARADISE 1 PM,WFMU (Worldwide web radio!) Rex will be joined by Billy and Miriam from Norton Records yapping about wild records! OCT 27 (Sun) 5.6.7.8s /A-BONES/GUITAR LIGHTNIN' LEE AND HIS THUNDER BAND (Bell House, Brooklyn) Japan’s rock n’ roll gals' only US club date is gonna be a hi-octane fueler with the A-Bones burning rubber and Guitar Lightnin' Lee and band gunnin' engines and bustin' gaskets! NOV 8 (Fri) CHARLES PLYMELL An evening of motorvating with the great road poet beat originator CHARLES PLYMELL, introduced by GERARD MALANGA! BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY rolls off the presses Oct 15! Met you at Jefferson Market Library NYPL, 425 Sixth Ave (at 10th St) Friday Nov 8 7:30 PM Free kicksbooks.com NOV 9 (Sat) CHARLES PLYMELL (original publisher of Zap Comix!) will stop in to sell and sign at the first annual Comic Arts Brooklyn Festival at Mt. Carmel Church, 275 N 8th St, Brooklyn, NY Show runs 11 AM to 7 PM but Charley will only be in for a short while so git him while the gittin's good! NOV 15 (Fri) SONICS - FLAMIN GROOVIES plus DADDY LONG LEGS wit DJ's Josh Styles and Todd-O-Phonic Todd (Warsaw, Brooklyn NY) Scenic Presents Norton Records Hurricane Sandy 1st Anniversary Blast (Day #1)-- details to follow on this massive weekender! Tickets on sale Friday at noon at TICKETWEB! Doors at 8 Show at 9. The Warsaw, 261 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn NY 11222 Tickets available at the venue or thru Ticketweb.com NOV 16 (Sat) REIGNING SOUND with Very Special Guest LA LA BROOKS/ A-BONES with MICK COLLINS/ BLOODSHOT BILL-- followed by NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP with DJ JONATHAN TOUBIN! Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn NY Day #2 of the Norton Records Hurricane Sandy First Anniversary Blast continues the fun and debuts La La Brooks with her new Norton album! Dig the A-Bones with Mr Collins on guitar! Come early for BB's fine eats and stay late to work it off with Jonathan's legendary NIGHT TRAIN midnight ramble! NOV. 22-24 WFMU RECORD FAIR This is the big New York City record show- washed out by Hurricane Sandy last year, now it is back with a bang! Check out all the new Norton wares at our usual double tables! Plus lots of Sandy wax and rare and unusual fare! NOV 22 (Fri, midnight) KNON 89.3 FM Join Miriam Linna, Homer Henderson, and Randy Reeves live in Dallas as they start off this dark night's legendary Mansion Of Madness show, exploring the making of Norton's Tragic Songs From The Grassy Knoll . Streaming worldwide! Tue in at midnight sharp CST. NOV 23 (Sat, 2-5 PM) TRAGIC SONGS FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL: JOHN F. KENNEDY 50th ANNIVERSARY RECORD RELEASE EVENT (Top Ten Record Shop, 338 W. Jefferson Blvd, Dallas) Join Norton crew two blocks from the Texas Theater as we quiver to these rare and unissued 1963 recordings, and quake to the haunting and accurate music of HOMER HENDERSON, live in person. Details coming soon! DADDY LONG LEGS TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED! A farewell to NYC at BB Kings and then the boys storm Europe! Mark your calendars, globe trotters! BLOODSHOT BILL FALL DATES ANNOUNCED! Just back from the Far East, Bill gets right back on the road! Ink these dates in, folks! NORTON AUTUMN 2013 RELEASE SCHEDULE OCTOBER 15 376 VARIOUS – SAND SURFIN’: EL PASO ROCK VOL. 9 (LP/CD) Latest volume features Texas surf and garage rarities! 390 LA LA BROOKS – ALL OR NOTHING (LP/CD) Explosive new set from the lead singer of the Crystals produced by Mick Collins! 112263 VARIOUS ARTISTS - TRAGIC SONGS FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL: JOHN F. KENNEDY ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION (LP/CD) Heartfelt JFK country tribs includes two Hasil Adkins songs! 45-178 BLOODSHOT BILL - SHACKIN’ UP/DADDY LONG LEGS - ALL THE TIME Norton stars perform each other's hits! 45-180 LA LA BROOKS - WHAT’S MINE IS YOURS/THE ONE WHO REALLY LOVES YOU La La does King Khan and BBQ and a non-LP take on Mary Wells! KB8 BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY by CHARLES PLYMELL (Kicks Books) Out of print for decades, Plymell's first collection of poetry, APOCALYPSE ROSE, arrives complete with his mind shattering road novel LAST OF THE MOCCASINS with new intro by the author- the rhythm n' blues beat king from Wichita- read him and REV UP! NOVEMBER 12 388 VARIOUS ARTISTS – GOLDEN GROUPS VOL. 56 (LP) 389 VARIOUS ARTISTS – GOLDEN GROUPS VOL. 57 (LP) We continue the legendary Relic Records Golden Groups series with two volumes of vocal group jumps and ballads from the vaults of Norton! 391 SUN RA – MY WAY IS THE SPACEWAYS (LP) Fourth spoken word set direct from Saturn! 392 THE DING-DONGS – RAMA LAMA DING DONG (LP) Killer second album from Bloodshot Bill and Mark Sultan! 45-177 PURPLE MAJESTY - IN THIS DAY AND AGE/I CAN’T KEEP FROM CRYING Mickey Leigh's 1967 garage band produced by 15 year old Joey Ramone! 45-179 JERRY AND THE DEL-RAYS - I NEED YOUR LOVIN’/QUESTION MARK Unissued 1964 Detroit teenage rock n' roll! 45-181 FLAMIN GROOVIES - SOMETHIN’ ELSE/TOO LATE FOR YOUR LIES Teenage Head warm up blast b/w Flamingo demo! NEW ADDS TO OUR POPULAR DEMAND SERIES 883 DELI-CADOS - GRANNY BABY/SHADES - VOODOO WOMAN Insane vocal group calamities! 1405 NEW SURFSIDERS - DANCE DANCE DANCE/LUAU Subtract some music from your day the New Surfsiders way! As featured on beach boys.com! This is their fourth 45 for Norton! ©2013 Norton Records | Box 646 Cooper Station NY NY 10276

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Mid-August Update-- New Norton Releases!

Post-Sandy progress, 300 days in- loads of new repressings and reprintings await you at nortonrecords.com - plus we're totally gassed to show off these new releases.

NORTON'S EL PASO ROCK SERIES ROLLS ON

El Paso may be in Texas, but it borders New Mexico, home state of our hallowed Yucca Records, a star in Norton's ever growing constellation of able labels. Yucca’s output in the 1950’s and 1960’s is equaled by the number of world class recordings that sat in the can for fifty years. Available now for the first time ever comes the absolute motherlode, selectively scattered throughout the ever-growing Norton Southwest series called EL PASO ROCK. Norton’s EL PASO ROCK series is available on LP and CD, with some 45's to thrill the seven inch set. Collect them all!

EL PASO ROCK VOL. 8: EL VAMPIRO (375) Here’s the latest in our popular EL PASO ROCK series! This special volume features seventeen roaring 1963-64 surf instrumentals – eight of them previously unissued! Ride the wild sand with the Monarcs, Torquetts, Los Vampiranos and more! No letting up here with EL PASO ROCK! MONARCS Sour Grapes*/ TORQUETTS (Who’s Got The) Tortillas/ TORQUETTS Side-Swiped/ TORQUETTS Bacardi/ LOS VAMPIRANOS El Vampiro/ CHUCK SLEDGE White Heat* / CHUCK SLEDGE La Bamba*/ CHUCK SLEDGE Caterpillar Crawl*/ FORTUNES Chi-Wa-Wa/  MONARCS Talisman*/ MONARCS Forever Lost/ KEY MEN Sun-Burstin’/ KEY MEN Up To News/ COUNTS Surfers Paradise /COUNTS Chug-A-Lug /EMBERS Canutillo Stomp* /MONARCS Sour Grapes (alternate take)*/ MONARCS Talisman (alternate take)* Norton ED-375 LP and CD-375 CD)

BLOODSHOT BILL • NEW ALBUM • WILDNESS

BLOODSHOT BILL - THE LONESOME ROAD (Norton 386) LP only  Here it is at long last is the world’s greatest living one man band’s second album featuring sixteen high geared winners! Catch him on tour at your local fracas palace! Dig all the Bloodshot Bill releases on Norton! Baby Don’t Go / It’s The Way You Are / Baby Don’t Like It / Lonely / Don’t Bug Me Baby/ Come Back To Me / Sittin’ With You / In Love Again/ Moon Is Hiding / Oh! Baby / You Know Why /Two-Timer / Tell My Mama / I Love Her Just The Same / Blue Days, Black Nights / It’ll Be You

COLLINS AND KROHA SET FOWLEY TO MUSIC

MICK COLLINS & DANNY KROHA: WINTER BLUES & GREENS: EPITAPHS & ELEGIES BY KIM VINCENT FOWLEY (Norton EP-1701) 2-EP set  Gories members deliver an amazing double EP of seven Kim Fowley poems from his second KICKS Books tome PLANET PAIN set to music. Poignant interpretations reminiscent of Arthur Lee. Summer Storms / Welcome to the Cemetery Club/ Red /Winter Blues and Greens /Whispers and Pretty Horses / Blue / Infinite Sadness

Keep up with Kim Fowley in print at Kim's Kicks Page and on record at Kim's Norton Page

LA LA BROOKS TACKLES STONES FOR NORTON

LA LA BROOKS - PLAY WITH FIRE / THE PIGGIES - PARACHUTE WOMAN Norton 45-9665  The fabulous lead singer of the Crystals returns with a fiery take on an early Stones ballad produced by Mick Collins! The Piggies (featuring Andy from the Little Killers) work it out on Parachute Woman – get all 26 of Norton’s Rolling Stones split singles! Play With Fire / Parachute Woman

SONNY GEE  45 • TIDAL WAVE • GREEN WAX

SONNY GEE AND THE STANDELS - TIDAL WAVE/INGRID Norton 45-176 Demented 1963 surf vocal issued here in reprint of mega-rare sleeve and on green wax like the original!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

VARIOUS - DADDY ROCKIN'  STRONG  (CASSETTE)

V/A - DADDY ROCKIN' STRONG (Cassette!) Our friends at Burger Records did a limited cassette edition of our vinyl long player Nolan Strong trib album, as a Norton/Sandy fundraiser! God bless these guys. Only a few last few copies.

NEW FROM KICKS BOOKS - ROYSTON ELLIS!

GONE MAN SQUARED by Royston Ellis KB7 First appearance of the British beat king's early works in over 50 years! Royston, who vanished from Britain in 1963, was THE Paperback Writer- as referenced by those Beatles guys. In fact, the Silver Beetles (with Stu Sutcliffe) backed Ellis and his "rocketry" in Liverpool, as did Jimmy Page, who wrote the foreword. These writings 1958-1962 fill in an unwritten chapter in British beat history. Dig it now- watch for Kicks Books news with a full-on update on our hip pocket paperbacks!

FLAMIN' GROOVIES

Original Flamin Groovies Cyril Jordan and George Alexander are coming to town with Chris Wilson and Victor Penalosa in tow! This Sunday night is special indeed, with the incredible Daddy Long Legs opening the show at Maxwells. First it was the Groovies playing the last days of the Fillmore West.. now they're playing the last days of its East Coast equivalent-- Maxwells! Wonder if Maxwell's boss T. Lance Abramson is going to yell at them like Bill Graham did! Show's sold out, so its captive audience will know if history really does repeat itself! Catch the Groovies at the Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night, too-- Shake Some Action, everybuddy! 

Ticket info!

A-BONES/FLESHTONES 

Lordy hoody, what a night-- when Flesh & Bones blast away at their mutual last nights at Maxwells. Both combos were "discovered" by impressario T. Lance Abramson back before the wheel and Marshmallow Fluff! Come on down to the closing nights of Maxwells for a memorable soiree which will end with clanking tankards and long lines for Maxwells luxurious washrooms!  

Wednesday, July 10

MAXWELL’S, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, NJ

HARLAN ELLISON L.A. BOOK BLAST 7/13

BROOKLYN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD as KICKS BOOKS heads West to present author HARLAN ELLISON at the esteemed  LA LUZ GALLERY & SOAP PLANT for a reading/signing/blowout spectacular unlike any  the world has witnessed... the event begins at Sweeney Todd's Barber Shop, the legendary hangout and sheer salon to  greasers and pomp hoppers everywhere! Coif sculptor impressario Sweeney Todd has created, especially for Mr Ellison and this day in history, the "Cheech Beldone" cut. Get one for the occasion! Then run the half block gauntlet to the SOAP PLANT to experience Mr. Ellison reading, for the first time in history, from his 1959 writings, collected now by KICKS BOOKS in the twin volumes PULLING A TRAIN and GETTING IN THE WIND!

Ellison Event Link!

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INTOXICA RADIO + NORTON CREW

Norton gassers Billy & Miriam haul stax of wax to Intoxica radio for an on-air loud sound blasteroo! Join host Howie Pyro at Intoxica Radio on Tuesday July 16 at 9 PM for wildishness from the Norton vaults! Let the games begin!