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PUNK new issue, and John in Oklahoma

An intriguing package with the illustration of the familiar looking monster over the portrait of Iggy Pop!?
Yes, it finally arrived!

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It's Iggy's new album with new issue of PUNK Magazine #22!!

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Whooping 64 pages filled with great deal of information!!
Photos from old-time PUNK photog Roberta Bayley and Godlis, and all those brand-new illustration for this new issue!
And pages with hand-lettering by John san himself looks exactly like the pages from 70s issues, and better!

And we have something like this too:

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We thought this is "ad-free" issue?
Well, these are the parody album covers John san produced for us while back!
Do you see what parodies they are?

By the way, he just posted on his blog about his birthday trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma and the radio show:
John Holmstrom blog 
https://johnholmstrom.com/blog/cains-ballroom-tulsa-oklahoma-1112023

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He made an appearance on the local radio program first thing in the morning:

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And in the evening, he was on the live radio program/podcast of the 45th anniversary of the Sex Pistols show at Cain's Ballroom. The place was packed with people, and John san talked about his birthday 45 years ago and his memories of the Pistols; the podcast is at the link below:

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Cain's Ballroom podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-okpop-radio-hour/id1497357334?i=1000595292583

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Tulsa happens to be the town where the renowned director Francis Ford Coppola shot his masterpiece, the Outsiders; between the radio appearances, John san managed to visit the house they used in the movie.

"A lot of people asked me about my recent trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I'm happy to say my trip to Tulsa was the best birthday ever! (Well, except for 1978)"

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