4/10/2017

Monday, April 3, 2017

NH guy

april fool's day midway walked into the ever improving Stigmatics; lots of Kenne-cum-Keith-cum-Clapton type bluesy classic rock leads, Pete sang and played a Rickenbacher in a Real Kids-y way and Randall Gibson IV keeps a heavy tyme, somewhere between charlie watts, keith moon and an on-beat John Bonham. talking to Pete afterwards, swapping GG Allin tails, met a fellow booking shows in manchester NH, whom also knew GG, so IF this gig happens: thank you GG Allin!

Mars Man had left the now-Jam power pop 1978 trio of New Frustrations but like I said: 1978, power-pop, Jam, good stuff AND a cover of "teenage head"! people even came up from Plymouth! (which, ironically, as a descendant of Richard Warren of the mayflower, as are those Allin boys from Malpractice, MY, Mayflower ancestors were hangin' in Plymouth with GG and Merle!). Lastly, since I'd paid $8, State of the Union was a VERY pleasant surprise! More power pop, I read about Clash, Buzzcocks, etc. on their website, more 1978 UK power pop-punk, very listenable. an encore of "beat on the brat"= last song I ever heard ramones play in '96 and second song Ken Kaiser and i ever played friday 11 feb 77.

folks i ran into with local music news: Robert Alan Colby WILL be having his 65th birthday in august before he moved to Tar Heel state, i mention manchester NH gig, lotsa GG tales, Jeremy from Mystery Train and Keith from Rocket Records talkin' 'bout.....RECORDS!!!!!!! lastly, soundman Mark Davis (who DOES read this misghigas!) and Danny whom was roomates with Dogmatics drummer saw Rick Berlin (the Waiter) at Doyle's when we ate there; Mark conferred he was doing sound at the Underground tuesday 9 sept 80 when Heroes played with Big World and Danny had brought Nash Cato to frank rowe's midway birthday in auguste.....SO if I DO hear Urge Overkill covering "she wants the kielbasa".....

Mark Davis at Doyle's

Danny at Doyle's

Healthy meal at Doyles

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

"Gee Julie did a VERY nice birthday for me at Fire and Ice with the Korps, matt Burns from V and Paula from WMFO BUT Yardbirds "turn into earth", fucken Billy Nighshade died! He was an MBA student at IU fall '77, answered ad for punk-rock band, that being the Gizmos; Gizmos Mach II moved to NJ, then the Unattached moved from Worcester Mass. to Boston and by thanksgiving '82, they opened for Nina Hagen at channel, so i met Clann Fraser. 1982-2017 is 35 years worth of memories but I'll be tellin' tails like i do about Gg Allin (gone, not forgotten). lettuce just say "I'm so glad" eddie flowers booked a Gizmos versus Gizmos gig in bloomington last summer and THE last tyme i saw Billy Nightshade, our clanns (MacBheath and fraser) were dueting on that Gizmos ode to "French love" (the auld alliance lads!) therefore, like Duncan Macleod he WILL come back (Highlander) and 'is soul took the short way back to the Highlands (Fraserburgh?). Daryl o' clann Fraser was a "warrior/poet....he played (bass) like Scotsmen". say hi to william wallace for me"....

Dave Sulak, Ken Highland Daryl Frasier, Ted Neimic

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

On Muddy Waters birthday, Gee Julie took me to see Zucchero at wilbur theatre. a friend had came from it'ly with his tape, she liked it. ok, Gee Julie and I agree: the Italian Joe Cocker. this review: Mad Dogs and Italians! the Leon Russelli of the band started riffin' on "cry me a river"! I was sold. Like Nick Cave, coming soon, Zucchero loves amerika first roots music, only Nick Cave is more wild west/country and Zucchero prefers gospel/r&b/blues. The septet was multi-instrumentalist, go to wikipedia page of Zucchero black cat world tour, written in Italiano! He also sang gospel/r&b in italian plus a projected pavarotti on a screen duet. Lotsa dressed-to-the-nines black-haired italian wimmen with majestic noses and jumping onstage, italian flags waving; like when i saw Brazil's Os Mutantes somerville theatre, these folks WERE boogyin'! so let me mention three amerika first session players with zucchero, worth mentioning coz of pedigrees: Dave Pettibone, pedal steel etc. got his first guitar lesson from Andy Summers of Police AGE EIGHT; west virginny's Andrea Whitt played fiddle and had toured with Shania Twain; but my "discovery" was Kat Dyson, from Norfolk Virginny whom had played with Prince. imagine a tall italian dressed in black trenchcoat singing r&b in italian with a captain beefheart top hat and Kat sang gospel harmonies and one guitar solo was like an even blusier version of Clapton on "while my guitar gently weeps". also the two ladies in the band reminded me of Prince's Sign of the Times band movie. commercial roots music, and certainly not Sonic Daze/the Valentines or the Rokes but nonetheless I dug it so another world music person turnt onto me by Gee Julie!"...

Thursday, April 6, 2017

"gigs keep pouring in and i'm alive to do them: next one (i think) is club linehan-ago-go c-note hull mass sunday 28 may 17 BUT always "dealing with the dead" (Plan 9 poem i read on an lp on midnight in '84 maybe), Billy Nightshade HAS communicated to me! I found his dad's grave in pelican rapids minnesota on find-a-grave and billy's grandad born illinois november 1864 (Civil War!) (I was scouring those census so much i took leave of my census!). How, like everything, does this tie into ME: Billy Nightshade's great-grandfather born 1822-1823 in virginia; parents born in Maryland like Dad's father, the MockBees. 1850 census has Frazier's as farmers in Sandy, Ohio (near Canton and due north of Columbus where there's a Gizmos cd on jukebox);this is three hours NW of where my great-great John McBee was a blacksmith in Basnetssville virginia. of course also a Buckeye with a maryland McBee granny was Glen Buxton of alice cooper who descends from a reverend Buxton in Homer, Licking, Ohio whereEVER the Grand Funk that is. Billy's great-grandfather Frazier was shirley a pioneer: born virginia, 1850 in Ohio, then 1864 illinois finally, like Buddy Holly dying in Clear Lake Iowa. trying to narrow down Fraziers in maryland and their trek from scotland equals my McBees, and this writin' SHOULD go in Vulchur almost for Dead People Facts but I found Frazier's in st. john parish, maryland (that's fort washington) where my great-great-great and father McBee were before moving to western virginia. there also was a Frazier kidnapped, sold into white slavery (indentured servant) southern maryland where my MockBee landed and THIS is THE ultimate tribute: the north carolina Fraziers, like Bonnie Raitt, were scottish quakers (as were some McBees) and I want y'all to remember billy frazier/daryl nightshade as, unlike me, having a Quaker type personality. RIP again and on my fucken birthday too"....