Monday, February 5, 2018

"numero uno: Miguel D'Amour, Hopelesly Obscure needs a roommate! 617-470-7422.

saturday 3 feb 18, was lissenin' to radio BBC ulster and question: WHAT song was #1 this week in 1969? no callers and i was stumped! UK number one single 1 feb 69 for one week was.....fleetwood mac's "albatross"! which the Beeb then played. so wikipedia is da bomb, yo and let's look at those UK charts: previous, "ob-la-di, ob-la-da" by marmalade! and bluidy fookin' 'ell! they were froom scootland sauld a MILLEN copies globally by april 69 (first Gizmos DID sell a million, but.....and i do say that with two t's!)...also, from wiki: "they appeared on BBC One's music programme Top of the Pops to perform the track in KILTS!"they're froom thuh east end of glasga; is that AC/DC before Oz, ah doon fookin' know....thar's a Campbell in thuh bahnd! 'ope 'e wun't wearin' MacDonal tartan! a year later, in Brockport NY I did hear their great Hollies sound-a-LIKE hit, "reflections of me life". two weeks in future, "Blackberry way" by the Move was UK number one 5 feb 69, wikipedia has ALL kindsa facts on that great 45 that never broke in the states and i had to hear an early '70s cassette copy from Solomon Gruberger of O. Rex quality before I bought an import mailorder to brockport NY somehow. Meanwhile, back in the states, you've got "albatross" as number one and we have....."crimson and clover"! sure, Bubblegum Music is the naked truth (and Kim Cooper is my facebook friend) but sometyme later that year WCMF-FM would play "good times bad times" and december 69 WBBF-AM both fine Rochester stations would play the 45 version of 'whole lotta love' (mono radio!)....it took Metal Mike Saunders dave clark five article in Flash fanzine 1972 to make me appreciate american, first Top 40!"......

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

"superbowl sunday (enjoy that Philly cheese steak!). there were TWO Indian films playing the fenway cinema near olde Sears building, so no trip to Fresh Pond circle for me! 1255 pm Humble Politician Nograj was playing only ONCE and til 330 pm; there's a facebook page PLUS it was kinda on tour so I got to see.....a Hopelessly Obscure Indian film! facebook, wikipedia: ALWAYS cite your sources, but in Kenglish, a vain, narcissistic, corrupt politician (who DOESNT say America First!) gets into a down-and-dirty political battle (you Yanks think it 'appens only in thih Staites; it's fookin' worldwide! listen to Coast to Coast AM with George Noory! my fucken guru!) this is versus a fair, pure, honest politician. There's a lot of over-the-top caricature of "yes-men" and as for your Humble Politician; imagine Borat trying to get votes but SO OBVIOUS. What DOES stick in my mind? trying to get votes in India's slums and one lady wont even LOOK at Humble Politician...and he keeps going "hello....hello.....slum lady.....will you vote for me?"....imagine if ANY of our presidents went to da 'Hood or da Woods (Appalachia!). SO this is a good review from me and Turkish food and Turkish coffee after at a Turkish place washington street, brookline (Anatolia ). I truly am bad, I'm Gizmos World Tour wide!".......

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

"Ulster Groupie News: saturday last, 3 feb, whilst Miss Lyn and i were at Phoenix landing, was some "cracking entertainment" at Clanree Hotel, Letterkenny, donegal for 79 pounds. 60s weekend it was with the Tornados and the Fourmost! Tornados have only one original member but nice to hear "telstar" on radio ulster; entrance theme for the Korps in Kaiser Stadium, Teaneck NJ! a caller phoned in "is Clem Cattini still in the band?" before Blowfish reads wikipedia, 'e quit in '65 'e did. heard also the Fourmost wi' "hello little girl", a 1957 Lennon composition which has same Buddy Holly chords kinda like the Korps "talk to me karen". (proof that they ALL stole from us! sunday 11 feb 77, 41 years of the Korps! after i had Ken Kaiser join O. Rex or were they afrika korps already?).....lookin' at notes on me facebook wall, this morn, day of Wodin 7 feb 18, hopelessly obscure bassist Jim Condon woulda been 58 IF, they opened with the Move's "Flowers in the Rain"! a caller calls in and it's aboot LSD....this was BEFORE brekkie! Sean Coyle's show this all is 0530-0700 our tyme but 1030-1200 in ulster.

one wee last bit; besides brunch at the Burren yesterday waiting to 'ave me eyes checked (and it's aye t' me eyes, a gud thing!), an' lissenin' to ulster-cum-apple-achia music, i knew of KilKENNY but ne'er oov Letterkenny, Donegal. So turns out there's a HIGHLAND RADIO thar AND.....THE MUFF LIQUOR COMPANY! Irish potato craft gin....and the lerks: "have Muff cocktail on the rocks"....a new meanin', it 'tis! Justin tyme fer Saint Paidrag's day!"......

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Did ice stop Clann Henderson-ago-go from pracitcing on this day of Wodin? NAY! the Scots-Irish combo of MJ Quirk/Joe Quinn, me and fill-in drummer Al Hendry, clann Henderson AND he played in Bob Cenci's Battle Green at Billy Ruane memorial 2010 (?) had a "pub-rock" sound last night (though I still wanna do "loo-rock"!). since "my baby thrives on I-IV-V", quite a bit of Chuck Berry covers for MJ Quirk Cantab birthday gig saturday 8 pm, so you've already missed it, losers! I'm still "stuck at home with my Beatles and my Stones" so Blowfish WILL be glad to know my two NEW songs to sing are "around and round" (Al's berklee jazzbo degree put to good work with the AAG/AAG, then IV and V solo in middle; he can play like Charlie Watts but during the "swing" section he was "Stompin' at the SAVOY"!); me other toon, my old 7th grade copy of Beatles VI: 'dizzy miss lizzy"! MJ Quirk nailed that two noye lead and Joe Quinn learnt a I-IV-V! (I know what Solomon Gruberger WOULD have said/thought but he's fucken dead, so tuff shit!). other "possibles": on Jim Condon's 58IF birthday, MJ Quirk blew my fucken mind with "candy says"! (third velvets album; a Lou song i did NOT know! though, same album, I taught Metal Mike SAUNDERS "I'M SET FREE" and he covered it on some Angry Samoans album). other "joke" since I am, at 284 versus 250 pounds "BIGGER THAN ELVIS", an almost hardcore version of "Burning Love" as done by Hopelessly Obscure august '85 perhaps opening for children of paradise. the joke is i'll get out, front the band and shake leg and belly; can I get a rhinestone jumpsuit please? I saw plenty at Graceland when Reverend Al Green's wife drove me there sunday 13 sept 98, but being 35 pounds heavier'n elvis when he died, they WONT FIT! maybe Jackie Gleason has a three piece suit i can borrow....and AWAY WE GO!"....

"just to reiterate: friday 16 feb 18, Ken Mike and Matt 11 pm sally o'brien's jittery jack first then stop calling me frank, thanks for goig guys! a "my head's in '73" cover set that Blowfish NEEDS to hear! (ESPECIALLY the Grand Funk covers!".....

Friday, February 9, 2018

"what better way to celebrate MJ Quirk's 13 times four birthday than with the start of the TEN DAY sci-fi marathon at somerville theater? especially the 24 hour marathon; there's a facebook page from which my "winner by elimination" is: I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE! the sci-fi marathon; as old as the Gizmos! (feb/march '76!".....