We've got 10 days left and a mere $5000 to raise to finish the editing ofthis important American cultural documentary! Thanks to the wrasslin' fans who have been so generous so far. Tell your neighbors! Tell your relatives! Tell your enemies! Tell your postman! They must get in onthis soon to be award-winning film!

Meanwhile, here's another Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin' take on wrestling from one of the old-school sages of wrestling from the ''60s-'70s--Len Rossi!

Hotter than July here in Memphis. They say it's the hottest summer since 1980. We say, "It's not the humidity; it's the Memphis Heat!" And it is coming on strong. Enjoy another tasty morsel sneak peek preview from Memphis Heat and wrestling legend Billy Wicks right here:

And if that's enough, catch an interview with Memphis Heat executive producer Sherman Willmott and New England Championship Wrestling owner Sheldon Goldberg on The Mouthpiece Radio Show out of Boston.

Yet another tasty cut from the awesome documentary Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin'. The always incredible King of Memphis Wrestling, Jerry Lawler!

Please check out our Kickstarter site to see how you can become a "special producer" of the film or pre-order a dvd!

Barbarian Records' Jim Blake spews more Memphis Heat! Yet another dose of the soon to be released Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin'. In which Mr. Blake explains the greatness of one Jackie Fargo, a hero for many generations of Memphis wrestling fans!

Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin' documentary is humming along! Almost done and the hits just keep on coming! 

Don't forget to pre-order your dvd or become a special producer of this amazing film!

Meanwhile, feast your eyes on the inside scoop from a very objective, fair man, Referee Jerry Calhoun with his perspective on the Jerry "the King" Lawler vs. Andy "I'm from Hollywood" Kaufman battles. The greatest ever!

Check out a snippet of outtakes coming from Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin'! This is sure to be on everyone's early Academy Award documentary list for the fall of 2010! Stay tuned!

Ladies & Animals, great progress has been made on one of the finest documentaries to hit this great nation. Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin' is almost finished. We have busted our budget like Tojo Yamamoto choppin' your chest with a karate chop. So, we now offer you a chance to be a "special producer," become a friend of the Memphis Heat crew, or pre-buy your dvd at Kickstarter.

It's almost that time: Memphis Heat time! After a year and a half, Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin' is almost nigh.

Check out this nice little outtake from what is surely to be the film of the year at Cannes!

Well, my auspicious radio career began in January, 1985, as Sherman the Rock 'n Roll Gorilla (see photo above of guy in new wave glasses--no, not the guy wearing the Duckie Pretty in Pink costume--the guy wearing the hillbilly overalls trying to sell pumpkins) at KSPC Pomona College in January, 1985.  My ratings (competing with former Memphian Rick Dees, no less) on the West Coast were so high that I was instantly hired by WCFM Williamstown for a spell there in the mid-'80s.  I took summers off to host jazz shows at the now defunct WLYX Radio Rhodes (defunct thanks to a horrible decision by arts & music-hating/former industrial carpet salesman & President of Rhodes College James Daughdrill).  Word got around to Memphis InstitutionWEVL, who gave me a massive signing bonus and a 10 year contract in the '90s to handle "the night shift."  Apparently some of my legendary air-check tapes started making the rounds on the you tubes and my good friend Justin Bieber er, Justin Gage, hired me on as asidekick to his show on Sirius Aquarium Drunkard Radio Friday, June 11th at noon & at midnight.  I invited my good friend Doug EZ Easleyto sit in & talk about the good ole days with me.

Check it out and vote for your favorite moldie-oldies at Sirius/XM.  Thanks to all the little people who keep mailing in those requests.  It's what keeps me going down to the station.  You just can't keep a good d.j. down, right, Dewey!

Here is a taste of the tail end of the glory era of Memphis music...the late '70s.  Check out this Billboard magazine from January 1978...it's got it all for Memphis music fans!  Quotes from Sam Phillips about Paul Ackerman; tons of hype & advertisements on power-pop should-have-beens the Scruffs and Power Play Records; a great mention about how Memphis vice-squad cops were checking out the Sex Pistols in Atlanta in advance of their Memphis show; tons of great articles on the burgeoning new wave scene, new wave bands, new wave records and imports (JEM!!!); but, most importantly, a great article on Memphis' best record chain of all time, Pop Tunes.  I think the photo in the article is from inside the Summer Ave. Pop Tunes, where I bought my 1st 45 around this time, C.W. McCall's "Convoy," and where I waited in line with various Raleigh/Frayser stoners for most of my teenage concert tickets (Cheap Trick/Kansas/Foghat/Aerosmith/etc).  Be sure to read the whole article about the ridiculous way customers had to purchase records at Pop Tunes.  Their methodology was similar to the way Service Merchandise sold vacuum cleaners or the way hard-working homesteaders bought sugar, meal, and other staples from Mr. Olson's Mercantile in Little House on the Prairie.

It's hard to believe Pop Tunes lasted as long as it did with this method--from 1945 to 2009.  It was sad to see this legendary Memphis record retailer/wholesaler whimper away so ignominiously in 2009, but at least the downtown Pop Tunes' sign is slated to end up in a museum unlike the gorgeous Summer Ave. sign, which was destroyed by morons who took over the property about 10 or so years after the damn thing wasrestored to its splendor for Pop Tune's 50th anniversary in 1995.

P.S. The Taliesyn Ballroom where the Sex Pistols played is now aTaco Bell & the original Shirley's Poplar Tunes, started in 1945, is soon to be a sandwich shop.  Yum. 

(Photo Jim Shearin, courtesy of the Commercial Appeal)