Jimmy Ballard Rides Again
Author: Simon Sellars • Aug 18th, 2007 •Category: Ballardosphere, literature, music
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LEFT: Johnny in his Crime days (1977; photo by James Stark).
Johnny Strike, lead vocalist and guitarist with original San Fran punk legends Crime, has just released a new collection of short stories published by Rudos and Rubes. Entitled A Loud Humming Sound Came from Above, it features ‘Jimmy Ballard’s Hospital Review’, first published here on Ballardian in 2005.
Johnny certainly has form: he’s also been published in Ambit magazine, which, along with its editor Dr Martin Bax, has long been associated with Ballard (JGB was Ambit’s prose editor in the early 70s).
Here’s a recent interview with Johnny.
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