Thanks to archivist David Jones for providing the jpgs that I transcribed. Thanks also to Richard Schaefer for the kind words: "were greeted by MISS JENNY STERN [aka LENS], their numero uno fan and famous paparazzi in her own right." If I only had any idea that as early as February 1977 I was a "famous paparazzi," well, I wouldn't have felt like such a nobody, that no one appreciated what I was doing and wouldn't have been so shy about asking for photo passes and setting up poses (which I rarely did, I just wanted to be invisible and shoot what was in front of me, never putting people together or telling them what to do). When Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein called me a "paparazzi," I asked them what it meant. I was so clueless! I'll post shots from this party in my party section, eventually . . .

GABBA GABBA WE ACCEPT YOU ONE OF US!
Street Life, Richard Schaefer, February 1977

Tantalizing sounds of the skirmishes of desire, of lips surrendering cheap kissed in the other room, brought torture to anyone who listened. We stood between the jungle and the stars, both of us trying to keep our balance as we fought. DEE DEE was a madman at my throat an my eyes, trying to gouge them out.

At last he got me — right in the eyes — his fingers sinking in . . . My brain seemed to burst and I saw “Carbona Not Glue.” He was still in my eye sockets, still digging in! My brain felt ripped open. Then I saw a little out of my left eye. It was BLONDIE! She cursed and panted in frenzy trying to come in for the kill. My hand went for that sensuous mouth. I wanted her kiss-print. She clenched her teeth and sun keep “In the Flesh” on my hand. I had never seen a more beautiful, ravaging animal. She bellowed d with laughter and staggered back toward the punch-bowl.

Rock and Roll was re-born at the SCREAMERS house in Hollywood. It was 2 in the morning as the party was just starting. Up the winding, vinyl staircase they came, NEW YORK, TOKYO, ROME, SEATTLE, PARIS and AZUZA, dueling with EL LAY’S punk elite to honor the RAMONES and BLONDIE on their successful Whiskey A Go Go gig.

The boppers were bopping. JIMMY DESTRI, keyboards for BLONDIE, was the first to make an entrance, with CAT WOMAN [Hellin Killer?]. SCREAMER TOMATA, a vision with erotically torn T-shirt and black continental boots, manipulated his guests from room with promises of champagne and kisses. And the boppers were arriving. RODNEY, the mayor of Sunset Strip, arrived carrying two PHIL SPECTOR Greatest Hits LPs and headed for the carousel wet bar and a Diet Pepsi. BOB MORRIS got a coke. KIM FOWLEY was caught sojourning thru the steamy hell of 350 party-goers in search of who know what, perhaps another HELEN REDDY. VENUS AND THE RAZORBLADES escorted him flashlights and yardsticks. The RAMONES made the scene and were greeted by MISS JENNY STERN [aka LENS], their numero uno fan and famous paparazzi in her own right. She unleashed her inner lusts in a frenzy of flashing light bulbs and camera straps. JOHNNY RAMONES plunged teeth first into a Jack In The Box super taco, satiating his craving for south of the border delight. But he drank less easily, and his bulging eyes rolled in their sockets and became bloodshot. PHIL MILLER, that noted rattan furniture king, accidentally shoved that “Sorrow” boy, RICK DERRINGER head first into the chilly caverns of the Frigidaire, showering him with designer nudie-ice-cubes. Undaunted, Mr. D fixed himself another Galliano.

Out on the piazza, things were getting hotzza! FAYETTE, draped languorously over the bust of MEDUSA, queried to JOEY RAMONE and noted surrealist film-maker STEVE ARNOLD “Just what is the mystic rationale behind the ancient burial motifs in the Valley of the Kings?” JOEY quipped “MOTHRA is one of my favorite flicks.” By the flaming hibachi fire, PHAST PHREDDIE put his hot hands down LISA ROBINSON’S dashiki, serenading her by lip-synching to ABBA’S “Dancing Queen.” DANNY FIELDS, 16 editor and RAMONES manager, was closed-lipped to everyone except TOMMY GEAR of the SCREAMERS and confided to him the secrets of how to be “Adonis of the Month.” GEAR wondered aloud “Where is Nico?” GARY VALENTINE of BLONDIE answered “NICO lives on PICO, have your heard her sing “Tico Tico?”

The omni-present LAPD joined the party at about 4:30, but thanks to the chicanery of a mysterious red-head called Cherie the Penguin, they soon left. The orgy continued at a Marquis De Sade level now. The howling voice of JOHNNY ROTTEN came over the P.A., screeching “destroy,” as windows shattered, fists of fury went thru the wall, light fixtures were ripped from the ceiling and ARTURO VEGA, artistic consultant for the RAMONES danced the Pogo. DEBBIE BLONDIE was screaming “Let me have some air!” CHRIS STEIN laughed sardonically as he put out a cigarette on the tender neck flesh of a 13 yr. old girl from Van Nuys. It was damned and damned again.

GO GO GOMEZ of the MONITORS, his bony shoulders shivering under the wool prison shirt he wore, tried to keep a low profile from the Immigration authorities and hid in the pantry all night. DANNY, lead singer of the QUICK, mobbed by several teenage nymphos, locked himself in the little boys room to repair an otherwise perfect persona with band-aids and peroxide.

And the bacchanalia went on, tantalizing sounds of skirmishes and desire, of lips surrendering cheap kisses in the other room, brought torture to anyone who listened.