Name: When Can I Fly?: The Sleepers, Tuxedomoon & Beyond
Brand: Michael Belfer

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HZB-009

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Colour

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format Books US

Paperback

Format detail

2nd edition 

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Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

9781735998503

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Artist

Michael Belfer

Genre US

New Wave & Post Punk

Label US

Hozac

Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about ’70s San Francisco underground music, here we have Michael Belfer—one of the SF scene’s earliest progenitors, who straddled two very different worlds playing guitar in two of the Bay Area’s most creative musical groups, The Sleepers and Tuxedomoon. By far two of the most unique bands in the early San Francisco musical landscape. <i>When Can I Fly?</i> is a harrowing memoir filled with stories encapsulating the seedy side of the San Francisco punk and post-punk scene in great detail, from the opening of the Mabuhay to the closing of the Savoy Tivoli and every back alley overdose in between. Tracing the earliest roots of The Sleepers in Palo Alto in 1975-76, Belfer was privvy to witnessing the nascent SF punk scene development as his bandmate Ricky Williams (aka Ricky Tractor) was already playing drums in the first lineup of CRIME at the time. This memoir offers a glimpse into the inner workings of the complications of street-level avant-garde musicianship, as well as the drug empire that was fueling the fires within the movers &amp; shakers of the late 1970s in seething detail, and on a few occasions with grotesque precision. 225 pages

When Can I Fly?: The Sleepers, Tuxedomoon & Beyond

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