As of 2011, Big Audio are back — and they’re as BAD as ever! The band, originally started by former Clash co-leader Mick Jones, re-formed with the original 5-member lineup they had in the mid-’80s, with their first couple albums, This Is Big Audio Dynamite and No. 10 Upping St. Here is the band in a new promo shot:   The older and wiser Big...

Here are some more photos from this Big Audio Dynamite concert in NYC. This is in response to one guy who wrote me suggesting that the backstage BAD at Irving Plaza photo (With David Bowie et al) was not only not mine — but it was his, and had been stolen. Um, no. If I stole one picture from him, how would I have these other photos from that night? Besides...

In April 1987, while my friends from school were off to Tahoe or Hawaii or wherever for spring break, I caught a plane heading east, and met up with friends of mine — first in Boston, and then New York. The timing was rather fortuitous in that BAD happened to be playing in those two cities that same week. The Boston leg of my trek was great, but NYC truly was...

When: March, 1987 Where: The Galleria in San Francisco (March 12 & 13) and Santa Cruz And: My friend — a different one to the time before — and I saw the band perform twice in SF, and, lucky devils we were, got to hang out after the show with them and about 200 other people. (We even got to drive to the gig in the van with the band one night. Color me...

When: 1985 or 1986 Where: Kyoto Hotel & The Fillmore, San Francisco And: It turns out that I have more pictures of Big Audio Dynamite (aka BAD) than any other band. Seems about right, as I have seen them about 14 times — in three states and two countries, no less — and things with this particular group were really amazing from the start. The guys in...

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