Present Tense, Rock and Roll and Culture

 

Living By Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock & Roll Band is an essay written by Jeff Calder. This piece is included in "Present Tense, Rock & Roll and Culture", edited by Anthony De Curtis, Duke University Press, 1992. You can link to the Swimming Pool Q's official site, and read the essay clicking here.  Please note, the essay is divided up into 9 chapters for easier online reading.

 

A Tomorrow of Moons is Jeff Calder's ongoing memoir of Florida in the 1970's. An excerpt from Jeff's introduction:

The following recollections begin in the 1960s, though the main current runs through the 1970s between the dissipation of Hippie & Radical and the advent of New Wave & Punk. Even then, this was much derided as a goofy period of complacency not unlike the Eisenhower years. Looking backwards from 2008, the middle of that decade was a healthy moment for creative pop music. It was a time when mainstream models of success were so remote as to be nonexistent, while there was no alternative rulebook under any obligation to be obeyed, as yet….

To read the essay, please click here. 

 

For additional writings by Jeff Calder, please visit his personal archive at the Swimming Pool Q's official website.

 

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 The Madcap Speaks: Dedicated to the Artful Interview

For an extremely extensive multiple part interview with Jeff Calder, you can visit online magazine The Madcap Speaks. The Madcap Speaks was created by Lisa King in the late nineties, and it features long form interviews, surrealist free form exchanges and audio commentaries with New-Wave, Post-Punk, Cult and Underground Heroes.

Lisa has conducted interviews with Underground heroes such as David J from Bauhaus/Love and Rockets;  Ian Webber of the Tender Idols/The Pets; Pat Fish of The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy; Jeff Calder of the Swimming Pool Q's; DJ Gnosis; Johnny Marr of The Smiths/The The/Electronic; Travis Kotler; Daniel Lanois; Tim De Laney and Brad Lewis of Kopernik; Glenn Phillips; Tom De Laney of Tragic Plastic; Zollie Maynard; Marty Willson-Piper of The Church; David Greenberger: Creator of the Duplex Planet; Nikki Sudden; David Lovering of The Pixies; Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket; James Hall and Grant Curry of the Pleasure Club; Tony Levin; and Trevor Tanner of the Bolshoi.

 

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