1/23/2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
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"thursday 19 Jan 17 used my senior French cultural center membership to
RSVP me and Gee Julie for cine-club de l'alliance: L'enlevement
de Michel Houellebecq. "french comedy-drama...famous author...kidnapped
and held for ransom during a promotional tour in 2011." I did further google
and Michel in Parisian Review says "do you want to hear some Stooges?"
(he's two months older'n me) PLUS Iggy had read his work! otherwise Gee Julie
said "everybody was so deadpan" Me: "that is SO Linda Garreau"
whom woulda said this was a quintessential French film with everyone smoking,
slouching, pouting and sitting around having existential conversations....Gee
Julie DID note Michel sat around with his captors basically "rapping"
so was he really captured or was it a hoax? Funniest was the mother of the kidnappers
who coulda passed for a Miss Lyn relative...."I liked Joplin..any of the
music between 1966 and 1970 was good" (agreed), to Michel: "do you
want a hooker?...I have a porn film, it's my husbands" (later he DOES get
a hooker name Fatima, and you CAN google all THAT full frontal nudity also if
you desire)....there's also a 400 pound Israeli who claims to be of gypsy stock
and looks like John Kalishes (Susan, RIP), he's quite funny. More films
coming soon, get my $40 membership worth!
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Patsy Cline
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saturday 21 jan 17 was a work day made palatable by the BBC! BBC radio scotland
heard a bloke with a country show interview Lee Ann Rimes whom I DO like
coz of that '90s song she did that sounded totally Patsy Cline; she was
only 11 when recorded it! damn good singer and her cover of "Krazee" i would think
virginia patterson hensley should enjoy; let's add Ken Hensley of
Uriah Heep on keyboards! Then I switched over to BBC radio Wales (getting
my Celt on, yo!) and in addition to some quite interesting Goth sounding music
(sorry didnt take notes) those ever melancholy Taffies keep playin' the SHITE
out of 50th year Doors album so "break on through" and "The end" on BBC
radio wales?!?!? That was saint david's day to me (1 March) even if the Morrrisons
trace back to some outer Scottish islands (Jimbo's bro-in-law did the research;
I merely quoteth!). Then Gee Julie and I tooned into Jimmy Jay on WMEX, he played
Little Richard's "keep a-knockin'" and you CAN sing "jailbait janet" to
the chorus (we did) except Richard's "whoos" come after line four of chorus, the
Kenz of the Korps did them after line two of chorus then "Nobody's Gurl" smashed
a Japasonic guitar during Blank Generation all-stars two weeks previous when we
did the basics. Jimmy Jay also played Otis Redding's "i been lovin- has
my been my fiasco -too long"; I stole the "lovin' you" four note climb from side
two of the Hendrix live at monterey vinyl album. Richard and Otis on a saturday
night in AM mono?!?!?!? lastly, WRKO was good too, though all I remember was Kingsmen's
"louie louie", but again, those keyboards in mono on a lil AM radio...as the Coasters
DID say "THAT is rocknroll"".....
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Kale Soup vs John Cale
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sunday 22 jan 17; Gee Julie made me some Portegei kale soup versus Linda Garreau
being a fan of John Cale; either/orchestra, I tuned into (i-phone 5) a
Portegei station in Fall River (birthplace of Miguel D'Amour!) on the AM
playing what kinda sounded like ole 78s in Portuguese, kinda tango-inspired; a
new obscure form of music to explore and forget whom is in White House (clann
MacLeod! I'd rather have Lance Loud!) (or "Laff Out Loud"...)....Getting
my Kraut on und kultur, concert Goethe-institute boston FREE (wunderbar!) students
of the music high school schloss belvedere in cooperation with the University
of music Franz Liszt weimar, deutschland (no Kaiser university, please note!).
These 11 and 12 year old kids were amazing, Rapjael Zinner violin cello fretting
like Eddie Van Highland; cf. this Highland ca. '73-'74 on The O. Rex Story
(Gulcher). set list was Haydn, bach, chopin...no pre-Kaiser (wilhelm) musik! (or
Cabaret for that matter). Reception: wein/kaffee/crackers (me?)/cheese/snausage/chockolat
cookies.....wunderbar! And then I walked to the Globe restaurant since I had EONS
to kill but ate healthy, veggieburger and salad and watched Green Bay lose. Met
some Bills fans on way to loo (I wear my hometown....on my head; it's fucken cold/rainy!)
and these Buffaloians with Irish surnames HATE Tom Brady and even have letters
saying they are banned FOREVER from Foxboro....well they aint the first western
NYers banned in Boston but they did say "come on down to the Harp!" (Bills fans,
north station). WEEI I lissened to Patriots win and there was GREAT trash talking
about Green Bay's quarterback as they played Boys II Men's "goodbye to you" or
whatever it was....and trash talkin': 40 years of Ken Kaiser on Krash
Kourse for the Ravers saturday 11 feb 17 followed by a club linehan-a-go-go
gig at out of the blue (mike quirk's birthday)....and may he and the still
illin' Matt Burns have a Patriots victory though the Gizmos DID get jockstar
treatment in atlanta last year".......
Friday, January 27, 2017
"25 Jan 17, day of WODIN: vacation day, WJIB going, Bob Bittner plays
"the sparrow" by Simon and Garfunkel! on first album, track four, ACOUSTIC, original
version of sounds of silence closes side one. NOT a hit album and
like the Gizmos, Art Gizfunkel continues his studies. quite a sad tune about whom
will care for the little sparrow (lyrics
on line!) and the earth finally is the one that will care since "dust ye were
and dust ye shall be" or something in Elizabethan English. recorded 31 march 64,
Angus Young's 9th birthday and let's see what other rockers were doing....Beatles
filmed that Hard Day's Night live sequence in same day, Phil
Collins, age 13, in audience; Stones played in Ramsgate Kent (there's
a historical marker!) and "not fade away" was THE 45 versus "cant buy me love"
("little children" in UK was Top of the Pops) and england's newest hitmakers not
released yet; and Bob Dylan's Times are a-changing album was out,
he toured in a station wagon, heard "i want to hold your hand" and heard "i get
high, i get high, i get high"; in April, he experimented with psychedelics and
at route 2, Box 241, attending a four room segregated school in Manassas Virginny
was an 8 year old boy scout name Ken Highland, obsessed with Civil War,
which, in a "there are no coincidences" turnabout, Ma's grandmother Jennie Veilleux
Blodgett, her uncle Lewis Vahue (Louis Veilleux) did indeed die in the second
battle of Bull Run....and all this while Simon and Garfunkel recorded "the sparrow"
which Bob Bittner (whom spun records in brockport NY!) played on WJIB, produced
by Tom Wilson and check HIS pedigree: Dylan/Blues Project/Velvets/Animals et al.
"1964.....bay bay" (was Iggy in the Iguanas yet?)".....
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Al Ciner
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ok so i had an earworm of "tell me something good" so i decided to research: Al
Ciner! ok that's a rare Chicago guitarist but check this: about a half dozen
45s with Gary and the Knight Lites whom morphed into the american breed!
youtube of "bend
me shape me" has a future STYX producer singing and Al on rhythm guitar in
back. influenced by Sly, they got heavier/funkier, became Smoke in '69
(singer went on to....produce STYX!!!!!) (another item ENTIRELY!) (Goldmine becomes
"landmine")....then with addition of singer Paulette McWilliams in '70 became
Ask Rufus. THIS is the mofo-in' early '70s Sly mo-fo jams! on you tube,
from an unreleased Epic album but on 45s at least, Ida May: Brand New Day/Read
all about it. Brand New Day wrote by Al Kooper for The
Landlord and that movie predicted ALL; gentrification of da hood, 1969
classic, check
it out on youtube! b-side could be a soul tune from HAIR and Paulette McWilliams
DOES have a tale to tell...also a 45 "fire one fire two fire three" sounds to
me like it's about interracial dating, but then their kids are "holding each other";
flower power soul and check out Rotary Connection! also of interest is a slowed-down
Sly-ed out version of chuck berry's "havana moon" (1956 b-side to "you
cant catch John Lennon stealing lyrics about NJ turnpike in the wee wee hours");again
Al Ciner on ALL of this! with his big ole mutton chops.... Lastly, Soulful
Detroit discussion group mentions that american breed bassist Chuck
Colbert (the dapper black gent on bass) got Rufus signed to ABC after Epic
fell through and Paulette McWilliams let her friend CHAKA KHAN join. Al
Ciner played on first two Rufus albums and has made note as a rhythm guitarist
on "tell me something good"; the brother with talk box also wails, influences,
Hendrix/BB King/Wes Montgomery! (a Hoosier NOT in the Gizmos!) Al Ciner and the
original members all kinda quit on Chaka after second album, but that 1970-1974
lineup is quite da bomb or maybe I only like it coz it's.....Hopelessly Obscure!".....
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