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11/3/2014

This week Kenne went out of town which also means he went without a computer while away. So he's only got two entries but he's crammed an awful lot in there as you can imagine......

Monday, October 27, 2014

Figures on a Beach After work yesterday and lissenin' to a 99-cent cd on K-tel of oldies from UK which has Christie, whoever did "son of my father" AND a Chris Spedding cut, bought at Somerville Grooves, Union Square, Somerville, where you can buy the Beachmasters AND Moose Mudbug's Milk Crate Takeover on vinyl featuring Solomon Kaiser's great-nephew; then went to Sally O'Brien's, Natalie Flanagan singing in her husky Chrissie Hynde voice Velvets "what goes on" and a special treat Dylan's "visions of johanna", ably backed up by Trick Wallace and Tony "Gee Julie oughta be mein doppelganger"/"I bought the Gizmos cd at Cheapo records" Kacynski on bass (maybe our editors will dig out those '80s haircut photos of Figures on a Beach; wicked rare!). Leon Rich and Al of Clann Hendry are old mates from Geezer's Garage Night in Quincy and Leon played guitar, some VERY off-beat subject matter, "sounding like the Gizmos recorded in a tin can with Frank Zappa producing" or whatever that fuggin' (Mailer reference!) UK paper said back in '77....anyway folks WERE dancin' to songs about "Goldfish" and "Dead Squirrels" (harmony WAS done by Rochester NY's own Anderson Lynne Mar (RIP) and I first met Leon as her guitarist in Sans Nomeclature; this of course was after I was Sans Kilt)....

Norry this is startin' to read like Willie Loco and Deep Thot go On the Road but THAT is ole Dunkin' Donuts! ("it's like rocket fuel", WA to KH March '86, Hopelessly Obscure "shoot that girl" session; also "I wanna play my piano under Kenne's guitar like Johnny Johnson did with Chuck Berry" so that's a big "Fugue U" (Blues image) to Moses Kaiser's great-nephew as Ken and WA discuss CHUCK BERRY (Bob Colby's 60th; WA to KH "I thought the guitar solos all sounded like Chuck Berry" AND one mo' fact, Johnny Johnson born Fairmont, West Virginny, which = Marion county, WV, my great-great-granny McBee buried there plus there HAS been Bigfoot and UFO sightin's in that county!)....

lastly WEEI had world series, Mean Ole Frisco won, so Til Tuesday or that day of Wodin to put this series to rest; then 0330 maybe, i went from George Snore-y to George Norry as coast to coast AM talked about dudes on campin' trips thought they were with their friends then these shape-shifters gave them a powder, they had amnesia; were they abducted? Something to ponder in the "Wee Wee Hours" (a chuck berry BLUES b-side and Max Gruberger's grandson's and Jack the Bruce are jammin' on it RIGHT NOW in rock'n'roll heaven, but Joey Ray Coughlin HATED the blooze, so he MIGHT be in rock'n'roll hell right now".....

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014

Goethe-Institut Boston presents East Side Love Stories ($5, cheap!, to quote Mad magazine!) :Coming Out (GDR 1989). ok, married guy realizes he's gay BUT it's Commie East Germany! "premiered on 9 November 89..the evening the Berlin Wall came down"; and this Cold War vet (me, CPL KE Highland, USMC, not A draft-dodger like Ted Nugent and Bill Clinton!) was in WBCN rumble at Paradise with Johnny and Jumper Cables BUT I guarded NSA for two years, so I helped FIGHT commie-nism!). The bars ARE the best though and a jung fraulein read a script how "regulars" (though NOT "regular dudes"!) in certain East Berlin bars were the backdrop...ok, lemme tell ya 'bout the Sodom and gomorah a-go-go; the "straight" Zeit Storks bar had our hero and wife dancing to Abba-esque Euro-dance music ONLY Metal Mike Saunders would like but the "gay" bars...honey, Jacques meets Cabaret and they DONT need to "Be more flamboyant"! ("oh, MISS Lyn" as the '70s Other Side queens usedta say, origin of THAT name!) there's a outdoor toilet cruisin' scene "straight" (not quite!) outta "Cruisin'", which was 1980 and a dance scene with East German Village People stereo-types (or '80s fashion, since '89 movie) had lil mustaches AND, as the 25% German-Canadian Gee Julie pointed out "it's Mullet-ville!" lastly, a pink triangle/"Nazi Concentration Camp Blues" survivor tells the Young Dude, " you have it so easy....(Kraut name) and I were pulled out of our tents (gays in the German military? Nazi homoerotica? was ist los?!?!?!?) sent to (concentration camp_"...."after the war, I joined the party from the first hour". Commie homos?!?!? I LOVE these East German propaganda films and THEIR view of the West! ok, so there's another film next Monday when i get back from Gizmos world tour columbus/Cleveland- It's Time of the Storks (Zeit der Störche) and Monday 17 November is an Austrian play; The World Fixer. KH to GeeJulie: "We should take Miss Lyn to this for her birthday"; Gee: "but Kenne would she wanna go?" Me:"TUFF SCHIESS! der geldt is only $10; such a deal! Ich liebe du alles!".....


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