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Your blog is great.
And I was so happy to see your post about The False Prophets.
You're so right that they were under appreciated because trust me;
no one on that Lower East side worked harder at their band than Stephan Ielpi!
I came to the city in 1981, a 16 year old girl who was mad for music & became friends with him.
He'd drag that bag of props & tricks round with him everywhere he went; promoting the band.
I think a lot of the Hardcore bands respected them & liked Stephan, but the comic side didn't resonate with the more black & white sensibility of the time.
But I will say that he was a sensitive, intellectually curious person under the Chaplin stash.
Would love to know how he is now, have a cup of tea with him & go down that nauseating road of nostalgia.
Anyway, I'll forward your blog to some people who will appreciate it, if they haven't seen it already that is..
Spiritual Adultery in the East Village: Revisiting False Prophets
As New York City punk bands go, False Prophets never seem to get their due. Led by the charismatic and sartorially adventurous Stephen Ielpi (a CBGB regular ... and possible employee, if memory serves), their name was everywhere at the time, but they don't quite get the same recognition of oth...
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