Stiff Sentence by VCA/HIS video, mid 80s featuring David Ashfield

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Another band with a different name in the US—apparently there was already an R&B act out of Philadelphia called the Mission. (Note the coin/medal on the cover only has The Mission). The Mission (aka the Mission U.K.) started with two veterans from Sisters of Mercy, joined by Mick Brown from Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and […]

Hunk poses for David Hurles of Old Reliable in the early 80s.

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Three Black Studs, photos by Old Reliable featuing Dennis Johnson, Leonard and T-Bone.

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Debut solo album from Klark Kent, a psuedonym for Stewart Copeland of The Police. Released on 10-inch vinyl but with a 12″ die-cut sleeve so that it fits alongside full-size LPs. Not sure why the name is misspelled on the label as Klerk Kant—maybe copyright issues with the owners of Clark Kent aka Superman? But […]

Eric Johnson photographed by David Hurles for Old Reliable

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The debut shop features pieces from the author’s personal collections by Manolo Blahnik, Prada, Marc Jacobs and more.

Great early 80s pop – look at the outfits on that back sleeve. The Parachute Club were a Toronto band and this was their second full length following a self-titled debut. Reminiscent a bit of Level 42 (strong baselines) but with a more mainstream pop sensibility. “At the Feet of the Moon” was a hit […]

It may never have been cool to be a Billy Joel fan. It certainly was not among my friends in 1982. But this is a great album. Joel’s 8th, it was produced by Phil Ramone and includes “Allentown,” “Pressure,” and “Goodnight Saigon.” And that’s just side one. Also I no longer care if it is […]

What does your watch smell like?

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Second album from Coventry’s own The Specials, with Jerry Dammer, Sir Horace Gentleman, John Bradbury, Dick Cuthell, Roddy Radiation, Lynval Golding, Rico Rodrigues, Neville Staples and Terry Hall. Several members of the Go-Go’s join for backing vocals: Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, and Jane Wiedlin (who would co-write “Our Lips Are Sealed” with Hall). My copy—via […]

Some hustlers keep coming back to David Hurles house with more and more tattoos across the late 80s and early 90s, Jamus seems to have been one of those regulars.

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Falcon poses for David Hurles of Old Reliable in the early 80s.

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This might be hard to believe more than 40 years later, but for a brief period in 1984, the most talked-about movie in America was Silent Night, Deadly Night. The Christmas-themed slasher movie, which debuted in theaters on November 9, was advertised with a poster featuring someone in a Santa suit descending down a chimney while wielding an axe. Meanwhile, the movie’s TV spots also centered…

Another live vinyl bootleg from The Cure (said to be an FM radio broadcast), this one from November 1st, 1987 at Forest National in Brussels Belgium. Many tracks...

Graduating from tasteful nudes in the 80s to Versace campaigns and celebrity photography in the 90s American photographer Bruce Weber had the versatility to photograph everyone from Madonna to Leonardo di Caprio to the boy down the block.

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If only we had those power walls.

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Another bootleg claiming to be from an FM broadcast, this one features The Cure at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle Washington, from October 21, 1984. (It’s actually from...

"They believed there was nothing that could stop wind more than neon jackets."

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Dennis Johnson photographed for Shorty and Inches magazine by David Hurles of Old Reliable.

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Rasslin Rascals, photos by Old Reliable, write up bu Butch Murdock mid 80s.

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David Hurles photography for Old Reliable is so iconic I can tell it on sight; but I have no clue who this tattooed 80s hustler smoking the cigar in a wife beater is.

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Rod Phillips stars with Lee in Skin Magazine's "Trouble Shooters"

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Images from Pledge Masters by Falcon, starring Steve Hammond.

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Trapped featuring Clint Lockner and Mickey Squires, 1980s

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This was the third studio LP from Boston band The Cars, situated between Candy-O and Shake It Up. Includes “Touch and Go.” An underappreciated album in The Cars’...

Garage (1980) included on the reel "Impulse #6" and promoted in Pantheon magazine in 1981.

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Chad James poses for David Hurles of Old Reliable in 1987.

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Pete C poses with longer and shorter hair during two different sessions in the mid 80s.

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Buck modeled for David Hurles and appeared in the August 1989 edition of Inches.

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