Monday, April 16, 2018

sunday ides of april 18, used a $10 Miss Lyn Brattle gift card for a $9 matinee and a dollar off popcorn for: Claire's Camera.

south korean director Hong Sang-soo also had a retrospective at harvard film archives and reviews of this movie in variety/new yorker et al compare him to Eric Rohmer (?). so it takes place in Cannes, a young girl is fired coz she'd had an affair with her bosses boyfriend, but innocent young gurl didnt know this....these characters all Korean then camera lady shows up and they attempt to solve the mystery. I think i've seen some Eric Rohmer, so if surreal french films (by Korean directors) are your bag, check it out, my curiosity now wetted to see other films of Hong Sang-soo, though they seem like "arty" harvard film archive fare but again: I was fucken BORED and I didnt pay for the movie neither! and hangin' in coop and raven used bookstores a good thing to do on a shitty weather afternoon".....

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

16 april 18, "rainy days and mondays" DONT keep Highland/Quirk down coz they can jam to the "limey metal blues" Spotify channel whilst "waiting for my man" al hendry on drums; i mean fucken TASTE and ten years after 'i woke up this morning"?? and we were in toon! So for friday's gig; Al Hendry and I had jammed on Jimi's "crosstown traffic" but this version was like Grand Funk playing Blue Cheer's "magnolia caboose babyfinger"! (second album, played at 0700!). During punk, AL HENDRY was in chicago/BS&T berklee bands but graduating same year as me, our love for Grand Funk is equal to Mike Quirk's. "time machine" (XMAS '69 present on 45!) and "rockandroll soul" (fall '72, AM radio, rochester NY!), then Al says "heartbreaker" and "inside looking out"; the Q REALLY bellows this Animals cover quite excellent, i must say. Al suggests a bit of Stones so I have my Stones-cum-Dawgs "around and around" and MJ Quirk sings "last tyme" as i play it like my Who cover 45 that i had....was it....'73???????!?!???!?!!?!? also on Hit Parade, will be Tokyo Tramps guest spots, so Satoru as other guitarist on fleetwood mac's "rattlesnake shake" ("you can make fun of my platform shoes/as you're diggin' on your Limey metal blues") and Yukiko will have "when will i be loved"; our "woman from tokyo" is a big Linda Rondstadt fan! all those AM hits while I was a Marine slaving away in Hopeless Obscurity, but Linda DID have "cred" with me for covering "oldies"; chuck berry/roy orbison/everlies....i think i heard her do "back in the USA" as i was selling blood in Laurel maryland thinking "well its not the MC5 but chuck berry IS getting royalties!" Friday granite street cafe, quincy, will be fun, MJ Quirk JUMPS on every gig offer there, so as long as I'm STILL ALIVE AND WELL ("tho every now and then it gets a LITTLE hard to tell"!) i'll be playin' them gigs then nuthin' til 10 june 18 midway cafe".....

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

"a true British gentleman: Mick Underwood, drummer, new Facebook friend: "good to meet you here kenneth". Now I know back in '78, Blowfish, in the New Wave, woulda said "oh ANOTHER close personal friend of yours" but look on my wall: Mick Underwood's first gig, age 14, was with Jet Harris right after he left the Shadows! lots about Mick Underwood on wikipedia, but, again BGN quote, Young Snakes Dave Bass favourite drug: "Hopelessly Obscure 45s!" and I even this morn wrote Mick telling him I'm a big Episode Six fan! wikipedia: no UK commercial success, NINE 45s, but minor success in Beirut!" (maybe Joseph and Nabil Middle East heard them?). "genre: psychedelic pop-pop rock" like when in Spinal Tap they do the flower-power song! Though actually, REALLY doing my homework, Mick plays on the 1968-69 45s, the 1966 pop stuff was a different drummer. BUT on bass was Roger Glover, whom you heard thumpin' that one note in "smoke on the water" and vocals were ian Gillian (of Scottish descent!) whom of course influenced me with "come on! come on!" "space truckin'"-cum-"kilebasa", which of course when one hears 1966 covers of hollies "put yourself in my place" and beatles "here there and everywhere", you wonder "THAT'S the "smoke on the water" bloke? cue up that youtube! either way i shall be cuing up more of Mick Undwerwood's career, Quartermass sounds like a splendid British progressive rock band that I did NOT hear on WCMF, Rochester NY though i could back then havce bought it at House of Guitars import"....

Thursday, April 19, 2018

"a quite pleasant surprise whilst listening to Coast to Coast AM 0445 ("you can call George Noory at"....)....coz I was "invited" to "like" James Williamson and the Pink Hearts. "like" my facebook friend who played on Raw Power? a "no-brainer" as they say.....havent checked the music yet but "upcoming events" say friday 22 june Behind the Shade (cd/lp/digital) release; friday 29 june live in LA;sat 30 june live in Frisco. i was invited by Frank Meyer who is from the Streetwalkin' Cheetahs;THAT name alone tells me he heard "search and destroy"! Petra Haden plays violin, she looks "punk/glam" (hate these fucken categories that's why all is in quotes!). there's also interviews with James about the Stooges/Raw Power/Bowie but hey the dude is still CURRENT! So, sound unheard, check out his new stuff, when did James Williamson EVER make a bad record? and now to answer Mick Underwood, whom, read wikipedia, played with early Ritchie Blackmore/Joe Meek etc AND joined Episode Six though Peter Grant wanted him and Terry Reid to join some band called Led Zeppelin...so they got those Black Country blokes Percy and Bonzo instead!"....

Friday, April 20, 2018

so Petra Haden (whom i've tried to friend!) playing with James Williamson in Pink Hearts. Since "Gene Genie, lives in your genes" i thought....any kin to Charlie Haden? and....I'm the "winner by elimination"! His kids are ALL musical (wikipedia) but let's do a Friday salute to ole Chas, pater familius. Ornette Coleman albums as bassist in the '50s! "Hey Beat Mon"! But let's forward to Brockport High Ken Highland, who bought On the Road in '69 and Yoko Ono/plastic ono band in '71....in between John, Sir Ringo und Herr klaus Vormann is Yoko and Ornette Coleman and other "free jazz" "cats" (cats in beatnik berets playing jazz instruments, cigarettes dangling from mouths?). That Yoko stuff was even before Raw Power! and Beatle John on guitar.....her b-sides were brilliant!) Maybe I'll drink espresso, put beret ("if i were any more French, i'd look like a fry!"-J. Lydon, Pistol, not knighted YET, God Save the Queen) and snap my fingers a la Thing in Addams Fambly. Dig on the Haden family, two generations, amazing discography; rivaling AP Carter and kin!"...