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David Ferguson (impresario)

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David Ferguson was an international outsider-culture impresario, activist, music producer and concert promoter. [1]

66 relations: Adolescents (band), Agostino Giuntoli, Arsenal Pulp Press, Avengers (band), Bad Brains, Barry McGee, Beat Generation, Big Boys, Bill Graham (promoter), Billy Bragg, Black Flag (band), Black Panther Party, Butthole Surfers, CBS Radio, Charles Osgood, Circle Jerks, Clinton Fein, Communications Decency Act, D.O.A. (band), Dead Kennedys, Dicks (band), Drag queen, East Bay Express, Electronic music, Experimental music, Henry Rollins, Holly Hughes (performance artist), Iggy Pop, Institute for Unpopular Culture, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jerry Mander, Joan Little, John Lydon, Johnny Cash, Los Lobos, Lydia Lunch, MDC (band), Michael McClure, Minimal Man, Minutemen (band), Mojo Nixon, Naked Raygun, New York Dolls, NPR, Paul Krassner, Photorealism, Pointillism, Post-punk, Promoter (entertainment), Public Image Ltd, ..., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rotring, San Francisco Chronicle, San Quentin State Prison, SF Weekly, Subhumans (Canadian band), Sylvia Massy, Tales of Terror (band), Technical pen, The Cockettes, The Offs, Thinking outside the box, Tool (band), Undertow (Tool album), Vaughn Bodē, Vietnam. Expand index (16 more) »

Adolescents (band)

The Adolescents are an American punk rock band formed in Fullerton, California in 1980.

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Agostino Giuntoli

Agostino "Bimbo" Giuntoli (September 22, 1903 – July 25, 1992) was an Italian-born American nightclub owner and entrepreneur.

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Arsenal Pulp Press

Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Avengers (band)

The Avengers is an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in San Francisco, California.

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Bad Brains

Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977.

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Barry McGee

Barry McGee (born 1966 in San Francisco) is a painter and graffiti artist.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Big Boys

The Big Boys were a pioneering punk rock band who are credited with helping introduce the new style of hardcore punk that became popular in the 1980s.

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Bill Graham (promoter)

Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.

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Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.

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Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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Charles Osgood

Charles Osgood Wood, III (born January 8, 1933), known professionally as Charles Osgood, is a retired American radio and television commentator and writer.

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Circle Jerks

Circle Jerks (stylized as Ciʀcle JƎʀᴋs) were an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California.

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Clinton Fein

Clinton Fein (born 1964 in South Africa) is an artist, writer and activist, noted for his company Apollomedia's controversial website Annoy.com and its Supreme Court victory against Janet Reno, United States Attorney General, regarding the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act in 1997.

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Communications Decency Act

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

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D.O.A. (band)

D.O.A. is a Canadian punk rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978.

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Dicks (band)

The Dicks were an American punk rock band from Austin, Texas, originally formed in 1980.

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Drag queen

A drag queen is a person who usually dresses in hyper-feminized or gender non-conforming clothing, and often acts with exaggerated femininity and in feminine gender roles for the purpose of entertainment.

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East Bay Express

The East Bay Express is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland, and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Henry Rollins

Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.

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Holly Hughes (performance artist)

Holly Hughes (born March 10, 1955) is an American lesbian performance artist.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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Institute for Unpopular Culture

Institute For Unpopular Culture (also known by the acronym, IFUC) is an alternative and outsider culture organization based in San Francisco, California.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist.

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Jerry Mander

Jerold Irwin "Jerry" Mander (born May 1, 1936) is an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.

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Joan Little

Joan Little (pronounced "Jo Ann") (born 1953) is an African-American woman whose trial for the 1974 murder of a white prison guard at Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina, became a cause célèbre of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-death penalty movements.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Los Lobos

Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch, June 2, 1959)Martin Charles Strong.

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MDC (band)

MDC (Millions of Dead Cops) is an American punk rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1979.

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Michael McClure

Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.

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Minimal Man

Minimal Man was an American industrial and experimental rock project, formed in 1979 in San Francisco, California by leader Patrick Miller.

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Minutemen (band)

Minutemen were an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980.

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Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon (born Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr.; August 2, 1957) is an American psychobilly musician.

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Naked Raygun

Naked Raygun is an American punk rock/post-punk band formed in Chicago in 1980.

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New York Dolls

The New York Dolls were an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) is an American author, journalist, comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958.

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Photorealism

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

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Pointillism

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Promoter (entertainment)

An entertainment promoter in industries like music, wrestling, and sports is an individual or organization in the business of marketing and promoting live events such as concerts/gigs, sports events, professional wrestling (wrestling events), festivals, raves, and nightclubs.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.

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Rotring

Rotring (stylized rOtring) is a German technical writing and drawing instruments company based in Hamburg.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Quentin State Prison

San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California.

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Subhumans (Canadian band)

The Subhumans are a punk band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1978.

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Sylvia Massy

Sylvia Lenore Massy is an American entrepreneur, record producer, mixer and engineer, author and artist.

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Tales of Terror (band)

Tales of Terror was a Sacramento hardcore punk band which was active from 1982 until 1986.

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Technical pen

A technical pen is a specialized instrument used by an engineer, architect, or drafter to make lines of constant width for architectural, engineering, or technical drawings.

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The Cockettes

The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus (George Edgerly Harris II) in the fall of 1969.

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The Offs

The Offs are a punk/ska band from San Francisco, started by guitarist Billy Hawk and singer Don Vinil, and later joined by former Hot Tuna drummer Bob Steeler and a rotation of horn players including Bob Roberts, Richard Edson and Roland Young.

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Thinking outside the box

Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box or thinking beyond the box and, especially in Australia, thinking outside the square) is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.

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Tool (band)

Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Undertow (Tool album)

Undertow is the debut full-length studio album by American rock band Tool, released in 1993.

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Vaughn Bodē

Vaughn Bodē (July 22, 1941 – July 18, 1975) was an underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferguson_(impresario)

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