Music Billboards from The Sunset Strip, 1974-1975

I hadn’t thought about Licorice Pizza in forever.

They were one of several now-defunct chains in LA that included Music+ and others I can’t remember. Looking at this photo, I can almost smell that odd L.A. mix of eucalyptus and car exhaust baking in the blazing, shadowless smoggy sunlight.

In addition to the Sunset Strip, you’d find them in most malls. We used to shop at smaller stores for obscure imports with our cool friends but whenever the family went for a drive, we’d drop in to one of these for all our dirty top 40 needs.

[That double bill of 5th Dimension & Deodato sounds like a swingin’ good time, too.]

Billboards on Sunset Blvd. #19

Billboards on Sunset Blvd. #26

Industrial Records Studio 1980 by Chris_Carter_ on Flickr, also Carter Tutti 2012 Tour update. Follow them on Twitter for more info.  https://twitter.com/#!/Carter_Tutti “We are working on a series of live international performances for 2012. These shows will be variously performed as Carter Tutti, Chris & Cosey and also a few special events as ‘Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti’.” - Carter Tutti Industrial Records Studio 1980 by Chris_Carter_ on Flickr One of a couple of very rare shots of my equipment at the Industrial Records studios in Hackney, London - sometime in 1980. Roland SH-7 Synth Roland CSQ-600 Digital Sequencer Roland TR-808 Drum Machine Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo (flight-cased) Roland 181 Controller Keyboard Roland 100M 190 containing two 182 Analogue Sequencers Roland 100M 191-J containing various Roland modules Roland 100M 191-J containing self-built Digisound modules Roland 100M modules x2 freestanding Seck 6-2 mixers x2 Self-built Digital Delay Self-Built 11-Band Graphic Equaliser Self-Built dual phaser/flanger unit Boss BF-1 Flangers x2 Boss KM-4 Mixer Boss MA-1 Mascot Amp Accessit Spring Reverb TEAC Cassette Deck JVC Amplifier JVC Portable Pro cassette deck TG EM Box Flight-case containing: Eventide Harmonizer Self-built Harmonizer sample trigger controller Serge Modified Casio MT30 keyboard Boss DS1 Distortion Boss BF1 Flanger Boss CE1 Chorus Boss KM-04 Mixer BOSS MA-5 Micro Monitor Via -  cargohoo: oscillateur: hisuix
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Industrial Records Studio 1980 by Chris_Carter_ on Flickr, also Carter Tutti 2012 Tour update. Follow them on Twitter for more info. 

https://twitter.com/#!/Carter_Tutti

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“We are working on a series of live international performances for 2012. These shows will be variously performed as Carter Tutti, Chris & Cosey and also a few special events as ‘Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti’.” - Carter Tutti

Industrial Records Studio 1980 by Chris_Carter_ on Flickr

One of a couple of very rare shots of my equipment at the Industrial Records studios in Hackney, London - sometime in 1980.

Roland SH-7 Synth
Roland CSQ-600 Digital Sequencer
Roland TR-808 Drum Machine
Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo (flight-cased)
Roland 181 Controller Keyboard
Roland 100M 190 containing two 182 Analogue Sequencers
Roland 100M 191-J containing various Roland modules
Roland 100M 191-J containing self-built Digisound modules
Roland 100M modules x2 freestanding
Seck 6-2 mixers x2
Self-built Digital Delay
Self-Built 11-Band Graphic Equaliser
Self-Built dual phaser/flanger unit
Boss BF-1 Flangers x2
Boss KM-4 Mixer
Boss MA-1 Mascot Amp
Accessit Spring Reverb
TEAC Cassette Deck
JVC Amplifier
JVC Portable Pro cassette deck

TG EM Box Flight-case containing:
Eventide Harmonizer
Self-built Harmonizer sample trigger controller
Serge Modified Casio MT30 keyboard
Boss DS1 Distortion
Boss BF1 Flanger
Boss CE1 Chorus
Boss KM-04 Mixer
BOSS MA-5 Micro Monitor

Via - 

cargohoo:

oscillateur:

hisuix

(via bbook)

Source: Flickr / chris_carter_