Chicago Stories

by Joe Carducci

Brand new. Straightfrom Joe Carducci's warehouse. Multiple copies available. CHICAGO STORIES is the third collection of Joe Carducci's screenplays. Bullethead and City Final follow Detectives Mazurek and Santana on their southside rounds. Unsolved follows widower and Ret. Detective Pollard as he counsels a northwest side college class in criminalistics on their investigation of a cold case. And Ghost Dance takes place on the upper Mississippi as a small town cop joins a reservation sheriff on the trail of an exceptionally skilled killer of four hunters on the season's first day. Other volumes of Carducci's screenplays available are Wyoming Stories, and Western Stories. JOE CARDUCCI is best known as the author of two books of music history, Rock and The Pop Narcotic, and Enter Naomi - SST, L.A. and All That..., and another on film history, Stone Male - Requiem for The Living Picture, plus the collection, Life Against Dementia - Essays, Reviews, Interviews 1975-2011. Carducci was born in Merced, California in 1955 and grew up in Naperville, Illinois. He quit college after 1974, moved to Chicago and was first published in the Tucson anarchist paper, The Match!. He moved to Hollywood in 1976 to write screenplays but got waylaid by punk rock and the west coast record business, spending a decade with the companies Systematic Record Distribution, Thermidor, and SST Records. He resumed writing in the mid-eighties, principally screenplays and occasional books or issues of the blog, The New Vulgate. Carducci has lived in Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Berkeley, Minocqua, and Laramie, working in and around music, radio, film, publishing and real estate.

275 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Donald Joseph Carducci is a writer, record producer, and former A&R executive, formerly most closely associated with the influential record label SST Records.

He was born in Merced, California in 1955 but grew up in Naperville, Illinois. He also lived for a time in Chicago in the late 1970's where he ran an independent mail-order record retailer. From 1981 to 1986 he was an A&R man, record producer, and co-owner of SST Records, working with, among other bands, the Minutemen, Saint Vitus, the Meat Puppets, Black Flag and Saccharine Trust.

He wrote lyrics for the song "Jesus & Tequila" by the Minutemen (Double Nickels on the Dime, 1984) and "Chinese Firedrill" from Mike Watt's 1995 solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. He now resides in Centennial, Wyoming, where he runs Redoubt Press and O&O Recordings. Carducci is probably best known as the author of Rock and the Pop Narcotic.

Carducci wrote the screenplays for the 1998 films Rock and Roll Punk and Bullet On A Wire, and has other script projects in the works. Carducci has also been known to contribute to bimonthly rock periodical Arthur the Aardvark.

In 2007, Carducci published Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That..., which contained his reflections on his time at SST Records and the life and death of former SST photographer Naomi Petersen.