Boston Groupie News - Kenne Highland @ Large

1/1/2024

Monday, February 5, 202

"Freitag 2 Feb 2024. Somehow Facebook announceed the demise of Brother Wayne Kramer. Somehow Labour Day weekend '72, I had acquired Kick out the Jams and was enamored by "ramblin' rose" so much, I MADE O. Rex record it on a Gulcher cd. Umpty-nine MC5 covers later etc and I DID see Wayne Kramer and his faux-Five play the Paradise. I was hangin' wid Jabber Rob Basso, whom had recorded wid Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson wid my sixth cuzzin Jesus Christ Allin. Dennis the drummer only one left alive of that lot, just like Iggy is last remaining Stooge. RIP Wayne Kramer!"....

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

"saturday 3 feb 2024. 88 rewind WMBR. 5 feb 62 (drinkin' da camp lejeune water) and survey sez KEEL,710 AM, shreveport, lousiana. lotsa great r &b ,natch'lly but 0648: "I'm blue (the gong gong song) by the ikettes. My parents had this 45! Ma sez they gave away some r&b records with a box of potato chips, this was maybe 1964 Manassas virginia. I decided to wikipedia this and Tina Turner is background vocals! "lead vocal by Delores Johnson" (Hopelessly Obscure Ikette). As a young lad whom were still fightin' both Civil and Sybil War and hadnt not yet heard the Beatles, her voice was PENETRATIN'! it would be 21 sept 68, 99 state street,brockport NY before i heard a voice that intense; i.e. two Big Brother 45s, "piece of my heart" and "down on me" (89 cent plus nickle tax at a Main street drugstore!). ok, so i missed Crow Follows but the Ikettes at 0648, my whole day was already "Maid of sugar, maid of spice!"...

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Sonntag 4 Feb 2024. Middle east upstairs 6-10 pm show. Dead Harrison opened up. Schmel Herbie Hind said Happy the Clown played with them. Bassist is Mr. Lucretia Dagger. They were kinda goth/metal/heavy BUT Sharon Crumrine liked and pointed out their high a capella harmonies, so nice contast and good band. I also enjoyed Force us to Stop. Guitarist played in a Zeppelin/grunge/Goth vein, mainest riff bein' "nobody's fault but mine"; this is kinda the Physical Graffitti era but still Goth (huh?) Singer was interesting too, playing a bit of keyboards but mostly doing flamboyant "Move like Jagger" moves. Ginger Ibex headlined and in attendance was me, Schmel Herbie Hind and the Post-Moderns drummer. Notes: "Britney Spears cover" that Sharon Crumrine said sounded nothin' like Britney and was instrumental, so, like the Dead Lennons, I was in The Dark. Fantastic double violin playing by Betty and Mal, which Schmel said "ELO" (never thught of that infleunce,but hey! Greg Shaw at United artists sent my fanzine Rock On a promo lp first ELO with Roy Wood and as a major Move fan, it DID "pick up where "i am the walrus" left off"). Ginger Ibex is a cat-lovin' band! Thus a toon name "catnip". Last two numbers Sharon Crumrine played flute, then final toon Sharon sang, Mal played piano. One last comment: Crow Follow's drummer commented drumming was good and dudes: dese ladies got SERIOUS music degrees....me "Roll over beethoven, tell Ginger Ibex da newz"...

Dead Harrisons

Force Us To Stop

Friday, February 9, 2024

Monntag 5 feb 2024. 0500, channel two PBS. YET another episode of Funny Woman, so let's cut to my favourite scene of this splendid Absoultely Fabulus meets Austin Powers modfest: the telly show crew enters a SWINGIN' nightclub as Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to love" BLARES, then the gang gets offered tabs of "LSD for brekkie" and you hear Pink Floyd's "Insterstellar overdrive" play as everyone has PSych-Out level acid trips. I wuz stationed in charlestown SC and wuz in a charity shoppe and snagged BOTH Pink Floyd Tower albums a quarter apiece back in '79...Psychedelic Southerners? hmmmm.....ask the 13th floor elevators with Roky bein' "Leader of da Gang, he em"...

Saturday, February 10, 2024

saturday 10 feb 2024. Tyme to promote that Matt Burns memorial show sunday 24 march 2024. 2-7 pm. That all that happenin' at all but watchin' a Louvin Brothers documentary and best part is how they made the cover of Satan IS Real, an album I ONLY wished I'd bought at Wierdo Records! So come celeberate Matt and I'll get back to sin/redemption/the bottle/smashed mandolins/drunken wives etc.!".

Monday, February 12, 202

"S_A_T_U-R-D-A_Y night 10 feb 2024. watchin' da Boston Groupie katz (en jammer cats) so 7 pm channel 2 PBS, maybe, was the Little Richard American Masters "The King and Queen of Rock'n'Roll"on the telly; how I fell asleep during all those "whoos!"?; well, it was "a hard day's night"! Hearing those Speciality 45s i used to own blaring through the telly soundin' like da Sonics singin' "jailbait janet"....if schmel herbie hind became Schmelly Gurl/valley gurl, he/she would say "Totally Testicular,dood!" (akin to Keanu Reeves goin' back in tyme in a phone box to ancient Greece and So-Crates"..

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

sonntag 16 feb 2024. 0500 0r so after coast to coast AM 680,i switch to wmbr 88.1 fm and catch a re-run of Space is deep (normailly Til Tuesday at midnight which,of course, detracts from George Noory). Not sure from trackblaster wuz dis re-run but example: "Space shepherds. band froom Dooblin. their first 2020 album was two 30 minutes tracks". i heard, in my neo-slumber, LONG-ass wah-wah jams ala Evert/UFO/Hawkwind et al, ealry '70s, aboot '71 maybe, me....I DO recommend tooning into dis show and wonder what will be the next zero-dark-thirty rerun! (TBA est Le Ronde!)"

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Monntag 19 Feb 2024 0600 WMBR. this tyme o' the 'morn, a re-run of the 8 pm normally saturday night show Backpacks and magazines. Usually, after a "Hard day's night", I am in "endless sleep" but after first cup of coffee, dig this: "post-punk, industrial, synth-op" etc. No track-blaster set-list but they did mention Modern English and some other Brit-synth band; ALL influences on Figures on a Beach and ,like, Totally '80s! "My Flash(back) on you": let's say 1981, 25 walbridge street, allston <Mass (where my subscription to Creem went) and WMBR playing "Enola Gay", like, a LOT! Synth-pop,funny haircuts and Ronald Reagan and hard-core: "Mississippi goddam", I miss da '80s!".

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Monntag 12 feb 2024. Bats in da belfry WMBR. 829 PM Lovers/Deceivers: "rochester NY". YES! there is a Goth scene! Vertex is da club; make that a 425 mile Greyhound ride when I walk down the way to manray. vertex is 1.1 miles south of Lydia Lunch girlhood home of 880 clifford avenue, rochester, THOUGH she invented Rcohester goth in '73 and they's photos! vertex IS on youtube also, did i say like 'em on facebook? There WAS a Cure tribute band in Rochester, i read AND researching my homegurl Anderson Mar (RIP and that WUZ Demaris, c'est vous plais and here's her tribute page!), some person claimed she sang with SOLACE (Hopelessly Obscure to me). ok, tyme to pass out sober in my black clothes"....

Friday, February 16, 2024

"Dienstag Morgen 12 Feb 2024, babe-bra-ham Lincoln's birthday. 0500. PBS channel 44 maybe. Funny Woman episode six "all this and more" i watch on my PBS app. Ok, THE soundtrack MAKES it, swingin' London, so...Pretty Things "SF Sorrow", Seeds "pushin too hard" and Dave Davies soloing on Kinks "all day all night" in some hip club...to wit, our Funny Woman and her co-star, he sez "Mick and Marianne have invited us to Keith Richards place". Her: "Keith Richard? blimey ! what'll oi say t' 'im?". Him: "well Keith's not much on small talk, what you can understand of 'im'...Bloody BRILLIANT! here's to season two, ole chap!".

Saturday, February 17, 2024

saturday 17 Feb 2022. Last night wuz a great mad Painter practice jammin' on "crocodile rock"and a buncha "Head's in '73" Uriah Heep covers" alex gitlin-keyboards/vocals; sharon crumrine-keyboard; schmel herbie hind-guitar, me-bass; al hendry-drums. DO like mad Painter on Facebook. as for Kenne Highland's Air Force two items: Lt Larry Newman USMC AND Nikki and da corvettes mixed some of my Trump-era/Covid recordings and he sez dey iz da ballz! Of note to BGN folk: we brought in Willie Loco for my Delta blooze version of stooges "down on the street" (well, the asheton brothers DID cover "She's my best friend") and Larry sez my guitar sounded like one of Howlin' Wolf's guitarists ("who iz Hubert Sumlin"? blues-rock Jeopardy) but Willie Loco: "Thelonius Monk meets Mick Garson!" Yes, who WILL love A Lad Insane? ("'73!"), LIKE Kenne Highland's air force on facebook and my only present gig is Matt Burns memorial Palm Sunday 24 march 24, worthen tavern, Lowell; "James Matthew died for somebody's sins but not mine