3/18/2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
 Norris the Terrible |
saturday 9 march 2024. Gee Julie and I got some
Wade's bbq
WHICH you can take into the Jungle to eat; Saint James
Ryan has blessed! Wade's Hoodooed BBQ AND good Jungle musik! On
Facebook, Norris
the Terrible
told me of their "Saturday Gig"; opening set and "Red
Painter" (as dubbed by Brian Doherty of Crooked Mirror) had
followed them at Square Root. They played some excellent shit-kickin'
Southern Fried Americana wid me and Gee Julie dancin' the manure
Mambo! Influences: three guitars ala Buffalo Springfield/Moby Grape
into Southern Rock (with a lap steel on couple toons!); vocals echoing
West Virginia's own Billy Matheny (we have a mutual Fluharty ancestor)
and of course Jimmy Miller-era country Stones rock; Exiled on Sanborn
Court or wherever we wuz. Some slow toons, others were ravers; great
sound system at the Jungle! BUT, as a "Human garbage disposal":
wade's and Jungle has a agreement; you can bring into there Wade's
food, in fact, they will even go into club and DELIVER it to you!
Tell me this aint my new local, ole chap"...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
saturday 9 march 2024. wuz in a reggae mood so googled on-line reggae
radio or such. UK
Roots FM- 95.4 FM -London's Foundation Station iz fockin'
fee-nom-inal! all da old stuff, mon! like dem on facebook,mon! have
nt deducted greenwich mean tyme but I remember DJ Tiger 2pm-4 pm
wid the reggae bus and dirty harry-4 pm-6 pm muzik masta show. plays
classic dancehall worthy of the 2013 cancelled ROCKERS on WERS 88.9
Boston mass. I DID hear a LOT of Yellowman 45s wid surface noise,
so I was NOT in h'agony,mon!"
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Dientsag 12 march 2024. "I saw the news today oh boy"...Raspberries
Eric Carmen RIP. Couple three thoughts: Metal Mike Saunders,
pre-Angry SAmoans wuz writin' 'bout the Raspberries in various '70s
fanzines (in other he praised Uriah Heep, so blame HIM for my Heep-dom).
"Back in '72" (Bob Seger) Ma heard "go all the way"
in a white '67 Chevy she "picked up in the Detroit riots";
SHE thought they were singing "Dont walk away" ala Left
Banke and Rene, I told her the REAL words (Brat Simpson that I was)
and she was mortified! "Back in '73" I did INDEED steal
from Eric Carmen for "that's
cool" by Gizmos: "boy asked the girl do you wanna
go all the way" ("one of the best damn rock and roll records
ever made" :saint Michael John Koda; eatin' SUPPER at Victoria
Staion wid Brownsville Station!). Lastly, Raspberries played Hilton
NY high school (couple towns from Brockport) and me-n-"Jailbait
Janet's " boyfriend STORMED the dressing room and I was a manic
Rainman wid Raspberries fax; somebody (Carmen) axed "who iz
dis guy?"(they damn sho found out two years later in Creem!)
and we also got Wally Bryson to autograph a Blue Oyster Cult 8-track....Fast
Tymes at Brockport High"!!!
Thursday, March 14, 2024
saturday 9 march 2024. youtube had a A Giz-tory of da Jamai
BBC document-terry Roots, Reggae, Rebellion.can
musik, mon, more like '50s/'60s. NOW I can pinpoint my introduction!
Beatles white album purchased december '68,maybe, "ob-la-di-obbl-da"
was listed as "blubeAT"; sIR pAUL would have heard it
before I and I. Then '69-'70-ish, WCMF Rochester NY DID play Millie
Small's "My boy lollipop" in pretty heaven rotatin
as an "oldie" (on FM sixties groovy radio,man....) (with
Bob Bittner as univeristy of rochester student before WJIB and RIP)....but
"winner by elimintatin": Desmond Dekker's "Israelites"
in DAILY rotation! I liked the h'accent and da guitar pickin', even
though i wasnt playing yet. wikipedia sez: #1 april 1969! I had
got Rubber Soul from Capitalist Record Club (you know,man...CAPITAList
records,mannnnnn...)...and #1 that , month was Beatles "Get
Back"! (which,per usual, "dont let me down" ended
up getting more airplay on my kindergarten sister's close-and-play
at 99 State Street, Brockport NY. SO, even though I started Indiana's
first punk band (da Gismos), reggae fan since 1970, which equals
almost as long as i play da Gistar,mon".....
Friday, March 15, 2024
freitag ides of march 2024. somerville grooves 2020 lockdown purchase
for $1.99 is: a Charlie Rich 1 jan 70 Sun records
reissue: A Time For Tears. sad country
songs, yes:I remember that post-Altamont tyme, the Sun reissue albums
I wuz buyin' wuz Johnny Cash/Jerry Lee Lewis, so it only took me
fiddy years to check out ole Chaz. My favourite is the album opener:
"Gentle as a lamb": "some girls like it rough and
be tossed around/just like Marlon Brando in all those movies you
see" (DEAD PEOPLE FACT: my mother and Marlon Brando both descend
from Hartford Ct. founder Thomas Spencer!); BUT Chaz
sez he's "gentle as a lamb" and he has a nice Elvis type
bass voice, so "let me be your teddy bear"/"lamb"....get
it? (did NOT play the record backwards for secret message!). This
song and album all on youtube,
so check it out! Good stuff!"....
Saturday, March 16, 2024
"freitag ides of march 2024. mad painter practice.
In atendance: Alex Gitlin-vocals/keyboards; sharon crumrine-keyboards;
schmel herbie hind- guitar; me-bass,al hendry-drums. two next originals,
we worked one: one had a Grateful Dead "truckin'" groove
and Schmel SANS distortion (WHAT?? Really??
-ed) did a great "casey Jones" Jerry solo! Schmel
and I recently discovered we were Deadheads back "then".
Another heavy riffer with a "rock and roll hoochie coo"
riff had the same feel as Bloodrock's "Melvin laid an egg"
(which HAS been sampled in hip-hop!) rounding out what i remember
was Uriah Heep's "circles of hands" and lastly, Gee
Julie went to Arax ArmeniaN store in watertown
and got Schmel and Crow Follow's Ramona Armenian food and coffee
and some light-up gimmick Schmel wants to see in BGN. dont forget
to like Mad Painter on Facebook! same with Kenne Highland's air
force whom play Matt burns memorial sunday 28 july 24 the burren.
lastly,galaxy cake the jungle saturday next 23 march 24 and wade's
bbq WILL deliver to you, so have your Galaxy Cake and/or eat shit
too".....
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