Stephen Ronan is an artist poet musician who performed on KPFA and made recordings
with Don Joyce of Negativland. His new wave era band, the original Red Aunts,
performed in SF and Oakland and had local and widespread air play.
Later band God Nose videos are pushing 100k views on YouTube.
An early Punk adherent, he became acquainted with many of the original figures
and hosted book parties at City Lights bookstore by David Byrne and Laurie Anderson.
For a lark he began taking single sleeves to shows to get signed in 1978-98.
"I would go to multiple shows a week often on the guest list."
The singles offered here were almost all signed at shows at peak popularity,
in person with cordial chats that sometimes led to hanging out.
A life in music including study with Archie Shepp and others
recognized for his poetry and his scholarship on the Beat Generation,
Ronan compiled and published the first comprehensive annotated discography
Of the Beat era, Disks of the Gone World in 1996.
He produced 3 box sets on the Beats for Rhino and he
was an historical consultant on The Source, The Beat Gen X.
Chuck Workman and appears in the film, which heavily
depended on his legendary archives which are credited onscreen.
His radio programs were distributed on cassette
By ARTWARE of Wiesbaden Germany.
He Interviewed The Residents, Negativland and others for
for Mondo 2000 magazine in the 1990s.
He delivered a paper at the Stanford Conference on Bob Dylan in 1998.
Dylan management had the Conference professionally videotaped
and it's available for viewing at Stanford library.