A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man (45 page)

At A&M Studios in Hollywood with Lux and Ivy mixing the Cramps’
Songs the Lord Taught Us
, 1979.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID ARNOFF

Panther Burns onstage at the Well, Memphis, 1979 (from left): LX Chitlin, Eric Hill, Rick Ivy, Tav Falco, Ross Johnson.

PHOTOGRAPH BY EBET ROBERTS

Panther Burns’ New York City tour, September 1979; onstage at Snafu (from left): LX, Will Rigby, Tav, Ron Miller.

PHOTOGRAPH BY EBET ROBERTS

Alex poses for publicity pictures around the release of
High Priest
, 1987. “He was in such a great mood that day and started duckwalking across the floor,” Ebet Roberts remembers.

PHOTOGRAPH BY EBET ROBERTS

Alex’s trio is joined by Paul Westerberg onstage at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1987.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TED BARRON

Alex and the author in the dressing room at Tramps, New York City, February 10, 1992.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAN HOWELL

Big Star reunion at the WCOU Springfling, Columbia, Missouri, April 25, 1993 (from left): Bud Scoppa, Jon Auer, Alex, Jody Stephens, Ken Stringfellow, Jim Rondinelli (who recorded and mixed the set).

COURTESY OF BUD SCOPPA

Ben Vaughn, Alex, and Alan Vega in the Knitting Factory dressing room following the gig supporting their collaborative album, 1995.

PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE CHERNIKOWSKI

Alex signing autographs at Greville Records, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia (with fan John Gantner and store staffer Louise Connell), October 1995 (note the copy of
Bach’s Bottom
behind him).

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARY MIHELAKOS

The Stick Man onstage at the House of Blues in Hollywood during the Box Tops’ first reunion gig, April 18, 1997.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT MATHEU

Alex with Robert and Jack Warren outside his Tremé home, March 1998.

PHOTOGRAPH BY HOLLY GEORGE-WARREN

Alex performing with the trio at the House of Blues in Hollywood, July 6, 1999.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT MATHEU

The Box Tops live at the Plaza at the World Trade Center, July 17, 2001.

PHOTOGRAPH BY BRUCE ALEXANDER