4/3/2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
"saturday 26 march 77 at CBGBs; mark thor/dmz/thundertrain/third
rail/willie loco, reviewed by me in O. Rextasy. That was two score
years ago and after shopping at Haymarket (though i'd rather be Bathing At Baxter's),
Ken and Gee Julie drank coffee, heard Cat Steven's version of "here comes
Jenny Hurricane dancin' to MOTO
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Smit E. Smitty diggin' Search & Destroy |
my baby" on AM 740 toronto british invasion show 6 pm, then 8 pm, German
plate at Doyle's and 9 pm: HELLO SUZI! smitt e. smitty, Fireking's be-fezzed
drummer put together this one-off for pop overthrow and fucken open with "september
girls" and "BABY BLUE"! (big star/badfinger!) where WAS my skinny
tie? George Perkins of Litehouse dresses like that kinda and REGRETS
missing those toons, so a one-off, this is a two-off....can we get a three-off?
JV McMoto said an echo and bunnymen toon was done (her an early '80s
fan) so that equals SMITTY'S figures on a beach roots. lastly was a Bev Bevan
(my facebook friend!) two-fer: "mamama belle" ELO and fucken the Shazam
version of "hello suzi"! Move fans RIP: solomon gruberger and alpo,
and smitty did the bevan drum break "note for note" so that's my O.
Rextasy review. Modern Day Idols had Tony Savarino in a Marine
haircut looking more than a little like Gy. SGT. Byron Highland USMC (RIP) and
he was wailing like Jeff Beck meets Hendrix on the Strat BUT the fills were
right for pop songs, one was some Ian Hunter cover. Good band! also excellent
was MOTO, they now are "Midnight MOTO" with Midnight Creeps
drummer AND guitar player plus Jenny Hurricane bopping in audience
and doing merch. So the Midnight Creeps dude plays a Les Paul with a
Rory Gallagher paint job and Paul does Thunders leads and my view was "Now
you have a Sylvain". Still poppy, Buzzscock-y melodies and the out-of-print
"I hate my fucken job" is a TRUE mantra! Lastly, Greg Allen's
former guitarist who knows Rich Coffee of Gizmos and Gee Julie
says looks like Peter Gabriel (though Curt plays WAY the fuck better
ROCK) sounded like a Johnny and Jumper Cables tribute band! yea THAT good! tall,
skinny, tattooed singer with rockabilly hairdo is Miss Lyn's real husband and
good singer too! Doing Pistols "did you no wrong" b-side (as covered
on Never Mind the Gizmos) had true Mick Ralphs licks and Curt a self-admitted
fan. He also played Chuck Berry pinkie tricks like a 20 year old Ken Highland
covering eddie and hot rods "teenage depression". Lastly, fucken "search
and destroy" was a Highland-worthy cover; if i had a nickel for everytyme
Rich Coffee and I covered Raw Power, we'd be....DMZ 40 years ago!"......
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Lunch at the Landing
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Lunch
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1600s Church |
1600s House |
sunday 26 march 17 Gee Julie headed down the Cape to hang with her writer cuzzin
whom wrote a history of Marina Bay, Quincy so I headed to the North Shore instead,
130 pm train to Lynn. All the Gizstorical stuff was closed and Central Square
looks real funky but the God of the Puritans is with me and there's a bus to
Marblehead! Now I can get my WASP on, yo! All the Giztorical stuff was closed,
but just seeing houses built in 1600s was splendid plus clones of my mother
dressed in Burberry raincoats, walking their beloved dogs and smiling and saying
hello...they MUST know my mother was a Blodgett! Maybe it's my overbearing bearing!
Maybe with my sci-fi marathon watch cap I look like the "son of a son of
a sailor"....maybe Jimmy Buffet shoulda sailed on the fucken Titanic!!!!!
ok, so since Gee Julie was NOT around to cook healthy food, I SHALL send the
BGN photos and highlights of this "day tripper" yeah was I was recommended
Mattie's which looks like a yuppie Yankee version of that Perfect Storm
bar in Gloucester. No place to sit so "winner by elimination" was
The Landing. caught some March Madness, good fish AND they had an old-timey
band there! walked back to bus and passed Elbridge Gerry's house and on way
back to Boston discovered Miss Lyn is NOT akin to him, but her Gerry ancestor
was in Charlestowne Village BEFORE the Devon Gerrys...yet another day trip,
yeah for the Swamp Yankee Groupie News! " (Kenne Highland has single
handedly destroyed all my family genealogy myths!!-Ed)
Miss Lyn's relatives?
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North Shore Beach
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Old Time Flag
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
"WMEX contacted Gee Julie and the Zombies cancelled due to illness
so we have a rain check BUT as i waited for her at Upper Crust pizza in coolidge
corner in the rain, I went on family search and discovered Patti Smith's
given-away-age 20, born 1967 daughter has Patti's family tree for me to lift
mah laig on! (some people play fantasy baseball, others those stupid fucken
games; I'd rather deal with dead people!!!!!!!!!). And Patti's ma has a New
England kennection! Her ma's a Williams born 1920, Bridgeport (Lathe), KENnecticut.
Patti's grandaddy Frank Milton Williams born 14 december 1899.....wakefield
Mass.! house looks like it's standing about a mile from the wakefield comuter
rail; Isn't this north of John Keegan? didnt i find a shitload of remainders
of Leo Giroux Jr.'s The Rishi in a bookstore in Wakefield? it's was twenty
years ago today; tyme to return! 1910 census: Williams family in.....east somerville!!!!
fucken Rush Street, kinda off Broadway, near Cross, pretty obscure....1920 connecticut
adresss. man, they rambled like dad's McBee family COZ: Patti's great-grandaddy
Joseph Lee Williams born raleigh NC! Ma was a Hart from Illinois....and a post-1865
marriage like that only leads to a...surely you heard of the Cybil War, Sherman?
ka-klunk".....
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Vikki Porter
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"since y'all COULD be reading this on that holiest of holidays sunday
2 april 56, 61 years after I was unleashed in northern Virginia, let's unfortunately,
delve into the "No Future" of "Future/Now" gigs.....saturday
8 april-jiblantos midway cafe pm show, then pete's bar in quincy Gee Julie's
Sabbath Cuz who was the SECOND drummer in 2 million BC (Harlequin know him)
is doing his Iron Maiden tribute thang SO if you went to UFO/Saxon on my birthday,
head-bang with me to a guy who i've sang "search and destroy" with!
(christmas sang ole country and elvis with Mark George's/Gee Mark's cuzz and
uncle! Gee Julie has sang also; dang! almost the Carter family! Cee June Cash?)...vikki
porter, whom sounds a bit like Salem 66 (tavern at end of world thursday
before memorial day. club-linehan-ago-go got TOO many fucken gigs
and MJ Quirk in five bands? But let's just start with memorial day sunday
28 may 17 versus 30 may 1630 when the mary and john landed with the ancestors
of Johnny, Jumper Cable (me), Bebe Buell and Britanny Spears! either we sang
Puritan hymns or bawdy tavern songs..."know thee she craves the keilbasa"?
and father's day out of the blue, go fund Tom Tipton! "know ye verily that
spring cometh and the wenches are rising"....so know THEE that I SHALL
be in a tavern acting non-Puritan 11 generations later and know ye also I talk
not out my hindquarters! Make Amerika Great Britain again and make EVERYONE
speaketh elizabethian english! if not, thou mayst fornicate thyself"....
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