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4/20/2015
Monday April 13, 2015
wikipedia facts on the Kingsman film tell the council flat where filming was AND pub scenes in the black prince pub, KENNINGTON, London (i THINK Gee Julie had ancestors there); LIKE it on facebook! Tuesday April 14, 2015
Wednesday April 15, 2015 the ghost of Solomon Gruberger had me tune into WFAN, NYC to lissen to some of the Mets game; the O. Rex boys also liked the Brooklyn Dodgers "back then"; 31 december 73, stooges, NYC, Crecenzo Capece of cretinous contentions 'zine heard "rocky mountain way" over the p.a. and said 'baseball rock" ("bases are loaded and Casey's at bat"); i sent an article on same and Creem rejected me! well fuck them, I got the BGN and Gulcher! did somebody just play "scorpio QUEEN"?
as George Noory says "there ARE no coincidences! My great-grandmother Highland descends from Tabitha Tefft Gardiner of RI; read The Tefft papers: "the shannock (where plan 9 live) purchase" was made on "vacant" indian lands (bury my hog at wounded knee!) by an uncle and two cousins, one of whom descends from the Tefft that got drawn and quartered for fighting for the indians! this is all due south of my other cuzzin Mercy Brown the vampire....southern rhode island rules! they even have Great Swamp tours!"....
Thursday April 16, 2015
Friday April 17, 2015 per usual, WJIB gittin' me on the late '60s "Time Machine" (a grand funk 45 i got Gzimas '69): tri-fecta: Ida May: "try a lil kindness" by glen o' th' Campbell clann! intro IS same chords as "comunication brekadown"! Ken Kaiser should not try this at home with his "white rabbit". then, I heard this as an "oldie" on WCMF rochester NY, where Bob Bittner was when at RIT: "my boy lollipop"-millie small; i loved doin' Chuck Berry chords during the "middle 8" AND John Ono Lennon liked Delbert McClinton's harmonica playing, so he STOLE a harp in Europe (Beatle facts!) leading into my august '68 purchase of Meet the Beatles (John plays "mouth organ" on "lil child"!) and ole Bob Bittner plays "til there was you" NOT released on 45 in '64! These Beatles facts woulda been ground for divorce, but i actually prefer Brian Jones harp playing on first five stones albums, plus he is four tymes more Welsh than John and probably 16 tymes more WELSH than my dad and.....they're all DEAD!"...
a pleasant surprise on my facebook wall; my facebook friend Jerry Mcgeorge, rhythm guitar, shadows of knight made a couple comments on first buffalo springfield album, to wit; "they called it their abortion...then the vision of the second album" (paraphrased!) AGREED! though i commented that back Door Man was a damn good second lp too! Jerry also liked a SECOND (disraeli gears) Cream lp with outtakes; read wikipedia! after shadows of knight, he played bass on first HP Lovecraft lp and still doin' music; as for me; first shadows of knight lp was $1 and i respected the gurl more! XMAS '72, 16 and Savaged!"...... so i'm lissenin' to first two Grand Funk albums and i know Mark Farner's Yankee granny had western NY/New England roots; our mutual ancestor is John Rathbun of lincolnshire to RI. rootsweb had some REAL good facts: ole John had an affair with his 19 year old cuzzin...this is my great-grandmother Highland's side, SO much inbreeding on Highland side PLUS he was an original owner of Block Island and some Newport farm he had owned by Jackie Onassis, oh yeah..those Rhode Islanders lived like english lords/southern gentry, lotta slave-owning on my dad's side too....interesting facts and a reason for my two great passions: historical societies in RI (must visit) and GRAND FUNK RAILROAD! (been a fan since age 13, 1969, bay-bay)....
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1985, James Mathew Burns of V at my jumpin' jack flash
birthday (mentioned in whack the cat!) 30 years and many bands
later, receive gift card to Somerville theatre (built in 1914 and dad's mother,
Frieda Maxine Highland born Detroit 14 june 14!). $7 2 pm matinee was: 
Boston Groupie sports report for Opening Day and it IS Rat
related: I would Get Nervous Behind the wall o' sleep whenever the
Bristols played the Rat on opening day with Captain PJ in
attendance (friend PJ LeBlanc!) openin' day '81 ran into Jimmy Dufour
of The Loners and he said he was opening a recording studio;
that was Radiobeat and for $15 through Joe Harvard in NJ you
can buy my five beers ahead of his tyme stantion park lp! (radiobeat
sessions during the WONDERFUL years of ronald reagan!) got home and
a lotta westwood one sports news, that 21year old kid winning the open...just
call me Highland S. Thompson-Meltzer on sports! (I picked up WFAN in
NYC; Yankees game! gotta hold the antenn-er a certain way...)....and
then Coast to Coast was sayin' the ancient Greeks/ancient Sumerians
never disappeared, they're ridin' 'round in spaceships! "I had
too much to dream last night"...why dont i lissen to Cactus's "let
me swim" on youtube; lissen to that bass intro, it's SO Carl Biancuci!
yep, our incestors sailed from London april 1635 on the increase and
landed in harvard square/newtown july 1635.....3 months at sea....hi
ho!....actually found Carl's illustrious Puritan kin buried in both
the ole Mt. auburn cemetery (find a grave) AND the ole harvard square
burial ground on Mass. Ave.....hmmmm...Carl's been on Mass. Ave. as
long as I have! (it was Cowpath Lane then....bring back the "Whippin'
Post"!)
coast to coast AM, Kelly Milner Halls and 
"let me also mention the pre-Dog Night career of Cory Wells. Between wikipedia
and youtube, the Buffalo, NY member of the band who sang the blue-est-eyed soul
numbers (LOVED his raspy voice!) lissened to gospel out of store fronts like
i played about 10 years ago, blue hill ave., dorchester vs. Buffalo; when he
sang "a change is gonna come": "I was BORNNNN by the NIAGRA river"...still
fishes in dunkirk home of tom bingham who interviewed me for FFFAAAAANNNNNZZZZEEEENNNN
in '79! but a quick mention of cory wells and the enemies and 
a little NBA action on WEEI AM, then Coast to Coast AM had bumper music with
Deep Purple's "Hush" from 1968;99 state street brockport NY, bob richert
at SUNY BROCKPORT and Bob Bittner at RIT. ditto this morning on WJIB AM when
Bob Bittner played the New Colony Six's "I will always think about"!
1968 i bet i first heard Deep Purple and New Colony Six on WCMF rochester; i
even finally kinda figgered out the chords! D-C-G-A i think and chorus is B
to E like a Lyres garage-pop toon. lastly, havin' a blood test acrost
from Johnny D's, Somerville and i get an ear worm of "when i put a spike
into my vein.....and things aint quite the same"...singin' Lou Reed's "Heroin"
with a needle in my arm....yea.....what the fuck....and these actions ARE Giroux-approved!".....
'twas one o' my brockport high classmates birthday (she posted pictures of
her at watkins glen in '73;That '70s show!) and besides remembering brockport
facebook group, they have Barge In, Stumble Out group! just-a buncha brockport
townies remiscin' 'bout a bar IMORTALISED in song by me in "jailbait janet"....yep,
I AM the Bruce Springsteen of Brockport! other point i learnt through facebook;
my ole classmate's older brother brought Kinks to SUNY Brockport in december
'75 AND Elvis Costello/Willie Loco to SUNY Brockport, which means Steve Walker
tells WA hello, WA in Gloucester, Steve in Brockport, me Stuck inside of mobile
with the memphis blues again! (meaning had a ball at Gonerfest, so pledge money
for Gizmos world tour and MUTANT fest so i can be in Pitssburgh at amtrak station
that Dad's father was PBRRR railroad clerk at a hunnert years ago"....