I guess this will also be remained unsolved...
The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski - BBC doc
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well, this is the missing issue of WRITE-magazine.
cirerita
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Haven't seen this book before either, but it looks like a hardcover. Blow it up and it appears to be a three word title (the first mostly obscured) with the second word ending in an apostrophe s and the last word Live. But it doesn't match any Bukowski title that I know of. I too would guess that it's on him but not by him. The picture on the cover is one that I've seen before and it's of the younger Bukowski, the head used only. The book itself is a mystery. Good luck.
Looking again at the still, comparing the size of the mystery item with the recognisable books there,
I'd say you are probably onto something suggesting that it may be an audio cassette.
I get the impression that the edge actually reads 'BUKOWSKI LIVE' so it's probably just some short run bootleg, probably of the Hostage reading or the Viking or some such.
Cover from a Sam Cherry photo perhaps?
Best guess. I'll ask the spirits later :cool:
Tape 1 is "an hour of Radio/TV profiles of Bukowski from around the world" Tape 2 "Bukowski talks in-depth about his life of Booze, Loose Women, Job Madness, The Track, Writing and Fighting the world!!"
I think I got this many years ago from that Rikki Hollywood guy in England. (By the way, who IS that fellow?)
I think I got this many years ago from that Rikki Hollywood guy in England. (By the way, who IS that fellow?)
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It sounds like an interesting tape. Too bad the content's not on CD too.
Yes, Rikki Hollywood published the "Bukowski Scrapbook" after Buk's death. A big part of it are Buk obituaries taken from various newspapers, some Buk poems, Buk book reviews and various articles about Buk. Nothing too exciting, unfortunately.
It's been over three years since I posted this thread, and I just realized that I have not found the source of those clips from the 60s nor what's in the chapbook/book (a cassette???) in the pic below. Any ideas?? Or should we definitely give up??? ;)
Ah ha. Nearly 7 years since cirerita's original post and one of these tapes is currently for sale in Australia via eBay.
The recording is described as being a recording of a Bukowski reading in Los Angeles in 1980, although from the track listing I would strongly suspect that the recording is in reality a bootleg of the 1972 San Francisco reading (originally released on vinyl as 'Poems and Insults' by Bitter Lemon Records in 1975 and then again as 'Bukowski Reads His Poetry' by Takoma Records in 1980).
no other person than buknet's own Rainman could remember and provide this information.