Mykel's Oldies

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Mykel's MRR Column for MRR 155 You're Wrong April 1996

Maximum Rocknroll April 1996

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Me & Morton Downey Downtown 04-13-1988

One of my few adventures on network television. Morton Downey was the
Rush Limbaugh of his age. Illustration by John Holmstrom.

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Thursday, October 26, 2023

DOWNTOWN November 23, 1988 -- LIES ABOUT THE CMJ CONFERENCE

I wrote this piece as satire, but wanted it to appear as a real report. I guess the DOWNTOWN Gods were afraid of getting sued or something, so they wrote in big letters:

SATIRE

Still they did give an intro on the front page:

Friday, October 20, 2023

NY Press OCT 7-13 1992: TOKYO GENERAL

Actually it wasn't Tokyo at all. It was a small hospital in a hick suburb... Soubudai to be exact. I was the only foreigner in the Japanese hospital... And here's the story:

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Mykel's MRR Column for July 2003 or "He Touched Me"

MYKEL'S July 2003 Column or "He Touched Me!"

YOU'RE WRONG..

MYKEL'S July 2003 Column

He Touched Me

by Mykel Board

Monday, September 18, 2023

DOWNTOWN SEPT 31, 1988 -- SCUMROCK

Mark Rentzer once told me that I named Scumrock. It was an aw-shucks, yeah-right moment. Then I found this and think he might have been right.

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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Downtown Oct 21, 1992 "World of Cover Bands"

WORD... A visit to coverband city
by Mykel Board

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Friday, July 28, 2023

BLISTER Mag, #2 1982 Mykel's Interview

Here's an interview I did for BLISTER FANZINE in 1982... Seems it was still ART times. Photos by (RIP) David Svilken of the YOUNG AND THE USELESS

Monday, January 17, 2022

High Society June 1995 -- The Lies of Thailand

This one they changed the title and added pictures (some of them mine) to appeal to their audience. I understand. It is a "men's" magazine, after all. I hope some people were disillusioned just the same.