My new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones has been printed, I've autographed the publisher's preorders, and the mighty Rare Bird Books will start filling those preorders ASAP. Things are moving as they oughtta. And with the book's publication, the attendant hype, press, and parties are likewise getting set.
First: author S. W. Lauden was instrumental in connecting me with Rare Bird a few years back; otherwise, this book would not have happened at all. I was delighted to agree to a new Gabba Gabba Hey! interview for Lauden's essential blog Remember The Lightning. His piece "Talking Ramones With Carl Cafarelli" is now available, and I can't thank him enough for this, and for everything else.
So let's hear it for all things S. W. Lauden! Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) recommends pop fans check out the two power pop appreciation books Lauden co-edited (with Paul Myers) for Rare Bird, Go All The Way and Go Further, Lauden's own Forbidden Beat: Perspectives On Punk Rock Drumming, his novels That'll Be The Day: A Power Pop Heist and Good Girls Don't: A Second Power Pop Heist, and his new periodical Remember The Lightning: A Guitar Pop Journal. And then there are his Greg Salem mystery novels Bad Citizen Corporation, Grizzly Season, and Hang Time. And that's just for starters! Of course, we should ALL subscribe to the Remember The Lightning feed on Substack. Hey-ho! Now...GO! Get it ALL!
A previous post here mentioned my Monday May 8th appearance on the morning TV talk show Bridge Street on Syracuse's ABC affiliate WSYR News Channel 9, and a Saturday May 13th live-music book release party at The 443 Social Club and Lounge on Burnet Avenue in Syracuse. Billed as "the loudest book release you'll ever attend," the 443 gig will feature performances by 1.4.5. and Perilous, and will be a righteous good time. Tickets are very limited, so if you're planning on attending, do not delay: Ramones Book Release Party tickets.
Barring any scheduling complications, I will be doing an in-store at Syracuse's way-fab Parthenon Bookstore on Thursday May 18th at 6:00 pm. Rare Bird's marketing director Alexandra Watts is working with the good folks at the 443 and Parthenon Books to have copies of my book available to purchase at both venues. Parthenon is located very near the former site of Economy Bookstore, a place that meant a great deal to me when I was in the theoretical process of growing up. Most of my Economy purchases were comics or fantasy related, but I did pick up my Sex Pistols and Suzi Quatro posters there, and it's an absolute thrill for me to be hawking my own book at downtown Syracuse's independent bookseller Parthenon. (Parthenon is also MY go-to for new books. As it should be.)
I will likely be doing some podcast and radio interviews, and I will share that information as it becomes available. If you have a media soapbox you'd like me to stomp upon, feel free to contact me.
Finally (for now), I will be doing an in-store at Generation Records in Greenwich Village. The specific date is TBD, and details are still being sorted, but we're looking at the last week in June. A Boston appearance is also a possibility that week, if it works out.
But I guess she already knows. I believe in miracles, 'cause I'm one.
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Carl's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is now available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!!
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