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11/13/2017

 

Monday, November 13, 2017

Kenne at Large
"veterans day 11 nov 17, i went to kendall cinema, movie passes from work and caught LADY BIRD coz as usual it was the next movie playing i hadnt seen. so this teen girl angst, sacramento california "the midwest of california" class of 2002 is nothing new....when girl hooks up with jaded shoegaze musician; "this song sucks" versus her digging dave matthews "crash", it coulda be 1974 with "Jailbait Janet" signing yearbook to her boyfriend "Just you and me" (wimpy fucken Chicago song! Terry Kath RIPS on Transit Authority album!). girl to dad re: some fucken alannis morrisette song on car radio "she wrote this in ten minutes" dad: "it sounds like it"; if it was MY fucken kid i'd have added "and sky saxon wrote "pushin' too hard" in ten minutes and it's a better fucken song!" thank God, the Highland line ends in my fucken scrotum....otherwise gurls at all-catholic high schools have been gittin' drunk and gittin' laid since....1962! forty years previous and american grafitti! I could rave on more but as a soundtrack geek: "as we go along" by the Monkees from HEAD, "porpoise song" b-side!!!! and in the end (sorry greta gerwig) HEAD was the better fucken movie! hey i'm brian wilson's cuzzin too SO "I guess i just wasnt made for these tymes" (2002?!?!?!? what a shit year that was! ANY day after y2k has fucken SUCKED unless it was a Gizmos gig....."....

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Rat T-shirt
"sunday 12 nov 17 i could have gone to lyres at out of blue but only made it flann o'brien's brigham circle, brunch and big ass irish brekkie. world cup qualifiers was on (morphing into Billy Giz Sports palace!), nor'n ireland versus switzerland and switzerland advanced. Greece Croatia was next game but Croats advanced. on my facebook wall; Dianne "Fly" Beer (Devonshire ancestry) asked about Iceland and there is a FIFA app and also page on facebook! (what the grandfunk isnt on facebook?) rock'n'roll note: met "Fly" thursday 14 april 83 dangerous birds InnSquare Men's bar; hopelessly obscure/dogmatics/volga played storyville "the night before". my facebook wall notes also note that after no'rn ireland's loss, the "mates' turnt to buffalo-new orleans saints and buffalo got their ass whupped but still number two behind the Pats. rock fans of New Orleans saints; Susan Broussard, who through Ma Cowsill has sae quebecois ancestor as hillary "lock er up' clinton. "susie cowill' is my facebook friend but for a rhiode highlander, she has adopted New Orleans quite well, jambalaya and big new orleans saints football parties; i get to glimpse her offstage life through her "wall". and let me end with the youtube video of her singing beach boys "sail on sailor" where last verse she raises her voice a soulful octave; yes she got soul! and hrother is now beach boys drummer, damn good drummer, seen him on tv live. Ken Kaiser DOES know Tom taber (FDR cousin! and Kinks kollector!) was right! "I saw janis joplin and and the cowsills were the better act";tight/rehearsed vs. drunken mess/ tomtato/toe-mah-to etc. apples/oranges....yeah yeah yeah and "a buncha liltin' lament" (Ken Ono Gizmo In His Own Wrong)"....

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Kenne at Large
"tuesday 14 nov 17 ken and gee julie in eggleston square Rocksbury, Mass. i used to live on kensington; when i first moved there in 2006, I was hangin' with Skippy White at the store, askin' about eatin' places and he said "there's some nice Spanish places on washington street". and he's right! D& D restaurant, 3141 washington street (north of midway cafe, which is in JP), like them on facebook. "the BEST Dominican food". In my sojourn there I hadnt tried them, we did $18 fed two people DAMN good! we got to watch TR3s channel (also on facebook), Latin videos; Gee Julie and I figgered out "Adios Amor" was "goodbye love" and let me quote me in a 1972 issue of rock on, lovin' the Carpenters coz Roy Wood did mostly coz of guitar solo at end of "goodbye to love", which could almost be "adios amor". another video i enjoyed was guy/gurl/love/CLASSIC CAR/"Havana Moon"! (actually unlike that chuck berry b-side covered by Rufus it was sunny) but "forget that gurl" (Monkees); the fucken '50s car was a real "Boss Hoss" since all the made in DETROIT cars in Cuba were pre-1959. Gee Julie enjoyed the neighbourhood, mom and pop stores everywhere for the blue collar Dominican neighbourhood; Herr Drumpf did NOT built wall on Miami Beach!"...

Friday, November 17, 2017

Gene Dante
Kenne and Gene Dante
Thor's Day 16 nov 17, Rat whatever the fug for Wrong Turn (drink do drugs and DIE muthafuckas!-Nashville Kenne) in yuppie-ass hotel at 528 comm ave. walking into this swank joint music wants Rat but RAT PACK and George Noory, coast to coast AM said he WOULD go to desert island with his Frank Sinatra records as shirley wood James Douglas Morrison. ok, so willie Loco ;i reviewed sat 26 march 77 CBGBs live at the rat review in O. Rextasy and stood next to Ken Kaiser: Hello World! (or MOIN in roky's grandfather Erikson's native Denmark). WA and Mark Chenevert, sax from Dr. Black's Combo, then joined on drums by David Maclean and a lot of Boom Boom toons; "gourmet baby" and yes the Korps saw WA do "at the rat" covered by afrika korps cantones sunday 21 aug 77 ("a flat, you dummy!"-solomon to Jay gruberger channeling Kinks/Oasis/Eberles sibling rivalry). Next up Nervous Eaters and the Crickets classic two guitar/bass/drum lineup STILL sounding fresh but with a Loaded/Velvets 1969 feel; that would be Lou/Sterling/Yule and Mo, NO John Cale art-rock here, just straight ahead rock. "talk to loretta" i am glad Herr Kaiser saw double trading Chuck Berry licks on this "jailbait janet' ripoff in B and (see notes on facebook wall) "hot steel and acid" had an MC5 "lookin' at you" solo as Anthony Kacynski, Fugires on a Beach, witnessed "dirty water" done Motor City style! (i stole that quote from FEZ (13 points in scrabble!)-wearing Smitt E. Smitty!). Emily Grogan was superb, Inky Spoon and her projection was very '90s Four Non-Blondes, but she is (blonde) (sic). "did i steal this lick from "bridgeport lathe" by 2x4s?" Hell fucken yea! Gene Dante, that Future starlet, also an Emily fan posed for a photo op with me, photo by Gee Julie as he and i wait for our closeup in Velvet Goldmine II. laslty Dogmatics played revvep-up Chuck Berry ala my songs on Afrika Korps live at cantone's (gulcher!) though "gimme the shakes' could pass for "fox lane" "I want you everyday" "you're a tease baby' (Solomon gruberger songs). Ritchie Pah-suns got up to sing a couple Unnatural Axe toons with Dogmatics as band and it was fucken Dot-rock! (that's dorchester rock for y'all). Got a "swag bag", Rat cap, signed the Rat t-shirt, thank ewe Gee Julie, Randall Gibson IV to left of Kenneth Highland I. who'd i see? folks Still alive and well but this is the boston groupie news not fucken backstage at Max's Rock scene! that's Miss Lyn NOT Lisa Robinson! or as house guest Jayne County (she used my plunger for Toilet Love at the Middle East !!!-ed) said the once "Snoopy? ah thought that cat's name was Sloopy" (insert snoopmeister photo) unfortunately I do not have a Snoopy "The Meister" photo available but he was a funky wonderful cat who loved Kenne very much-ed."....

Kenne at Large
Scene from Live at the Rat DVD

 

 


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