RE/Search Conversations

Bassist Mike Watt (the Minutemen, Iggy Pop Stooges Band, and more) visits RE/Search headquarters. The conversation involves Watt's musical childhood and his career as a musician, including anecdotes about gigs, stolen basses, and punk philosophies.

Mabuhay impresario Dirk Dirksen goes deeper into the types of performance art, including comedic acts, that were "allowed" to play at the Mabuhay. Part 2 of 2. (Interview from 2004, two years before Dirk died, Nov 20, 2006.)

Dirk Dirksen was the entrepreneur and impresario of Mabuhay Gardens Punk Club in San Francisco. Here he talks about booking the club, the range of performances, and counterculture movements, punk and otherwise. Part 1 of 2.

We visit Diane DiPrima and she fills us in on her life as a working writer.

David J talks about Bauhaus and counterculture movements in America and in the UK.

David J of Bauhaus fame visits California on his Living Room Shows Tour and comes by RE/Search office for a visit.

Director Christopher Coppola visits the RE/Search office to discuss filmmaking with V. Vale and Marian Wallace.

Thorsten Schutte, director of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, joins V. Vale and Marian Wallace in the RE/Search office.

Part 2 of our conversation with Daniel Miller, creator underground hit single, "Hot Leatherette," an electronic pre-digital composition inspired by J.G. Ballard's "Crash."

Daniel Miller's first claim to fame was his home-made (done in his bedroom) underground hit single, "Hot Leatherette," an electronic pre-digital composition inspired by J.G. Ballard's "Crash."