Thank you No Thoughts magazine for featuring four pages of my early photographs their new issue # seven. I will never forget this moment! Love, brad
San Fernando Valley Girls signed print for Naomi.
When I was growing up and living at my parents house in the San Fernando Valley, I had this yearning to get over the hill to the Sunset Stip. It was an yearning to get over the hill to the action and freedom. By 1976, I was still in my teens and I was pretty well established at my own pad on the Sunset Strip and my trips back to the valley were seldom and only to see my family. One day in the summer of 1977 Cherie Currie called to come over to her parents house deep in the valley. She wanted me to take some photos for The Runaways Japanese record company. I was never thrilled going to the valley, but I knew that I could make some cool photographs of Cherie at home. Joining in the photo shoot was her twin sister Marie and the drop dead gorgeous Vicki Razor Blade from Venus And The Razor Blades, a Kim Fowley creation. Today, I still stay out of the valley unless it is to visit my family. I hope that you enjoy this frame which has never been published before. It’s entitled “San Fernando Valley Chicks”.
This photo was taken at a friend’s birthday in Encino around 1978. That fox on the left is Vicki Razor Blade and then you have Steven T and Cherie Currie of The Runaways. Of course Kim Fowley has his name written all over this photograph. It was Kim’s dream to have blonde haired and green eyed rockers touring all over the world!
My pal Harvey Kubernik had his birthday party at a party house out in Encino in 1977. Everyone was there including Vicki Razor Blade and legendary producer Kim Fowley. Kim discovered both The Runaways and Vicki. He created Venus And The Razor Blades just for his queen, Vicki. Oh yeah, as you can see, I was not the only photographer at the party, that is my mentor and pal Richard Creamer in the middle of the photo!
Thank you Italian Vogue for using my Cherie Curie photo on the front cover of the Photo Vogue section today! There are more photos!
Thank you Nick Hardy from Factory 311 in London for setting this up for me!!
Vicki Razor Blade from Venus And The Razor Blades was so drop dead gorgeous! Like to die for gorgeous. That’s Cherie Curie lead singer of The Runaways on the right. This was a San Fernando Valley shot from around 1977.
