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4 unusual facts about Johnny Strike


Johnny Strike

His writing has appeared in Ambit magazine and Headpress Journal, and in 2008, with artist Richard Sala providing illustrations, Rudos and Rubes published his short story collection: A Loud Humming Sound Came From Above.

In 1977 they began wearing police uniforms and putting on their own shows at a Filipino supper club in North Beach called the Mabuhay Gardens prompting mentions in Herb Caen's column.

Johnny Strike (born Gary John Bassett, June 6, 1948, in Bryn Mawr, PA and raised in Harrisburg, PA) is an American writer, mostly known as songwriter, guitarist and singer for the proto-punk band Crime based in San Francisco.

Strike also interviewed Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri, Herbert Huncke and traveled, with extended stays in Morocco, Mexico, and Thailand where he set his fiction.



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