5/2/2022
Monday, April 25, 2022
"Greek Easter Sonntag 24 April 22. WHRB's
last song on blues show was John Lee Hooker's "Motor
city is burning"; I had this MC5 b-side on 8-track
AND album! lyrics on line; "well it started on twelth and Clairmont";
Wikipedia says the 1967 riots started at a "blind pig' at 9125
12th street, Detroit; my grandparents were at 12708 Hartwell, Detroit;
5.3 miles west. a 12 minute drive in an AMERICAN car back then,
though I doubt my grandparents went in that area.either way, nice
to have lyrics on line Justin case I ever do cover this blues progression
in E! (great opening riff,too)..to further the KenC5 KENnection,
besides the fact that dad had already died in February '67 before
the riots, in '66, before Dad went to 'Nam, Wayne Kramer
was getting out of Dad's "old school' (I ended up in Annandale
in '76) in '66 BUT booking MC5 gigs. Here is Dad's Cooley High photo
from 1952 before the marines,two wives (hey wait!...) AND five kids
from three different wimmen (well, I have 'all this more and more'
vinyl from three difrent labels)".....
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
"Dienstag 26 april 22. Rik Biskit Roth on WMBR if six
was nine excellent as usual. Today's mindblower: "Tombstone
shadow" off CCR's Green River album. fall '69 I did
buy "green river" but John Fogerty's stinging guitar on
"commotion" "really got me' (when I first heard "psychotic
reaction" on a budget oldies album I thought the guitar/drum/no
bass intro echoed CCR 'commotion"). I was so impsired (two
cups of coffee of course!) I played along with Fogerty's stinging
BB King, key of G fills! "13 years of bad luck"...ok,so
he's echoing "born under a bad sign" (oh yeah man....that
Cream song....)….BUT Coast to Coast listeners; I first borrowed
from laurel Maryland (where George Wallace got shot) library a copy
of green River album when I was guarding the NSA; later
coz John Cameron Fogarty US Army, disgruntled vet had wrote "fortunate
Son" anti-war toon, NO WONDER the NSA went through my garbage!
And I still had a Top Secret security clearance; time to sing "Mr
Security" off that berserkly comp (that was early '76 when
I'd already signed up to join the Corps; joined THE KORPS two years
later!)".
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
"Dienstag 26 april 22, part two of the great If Six
was nine show, WMBR, Rik Biskit Roth. He played the
Kinks british b-side to "Mr Pleasant", which
is "This is where I belong'; I almost would wager I had Kinks
Khronikles Fiddy years ago RIGHT FUGGIN NOW but this leads into
a tale of Two Simons. Carl Biancucci, whom drew
Ophelia O. rex is O. rextasy had a VARULVEN band name tea
in China playing At the rat day of Wodin FREE (audition
night: also had seen Bones (Joe Harvard) and Sickness
two previous 1981 evenings; daze before the muzak Died.
Also on bill was varulven band The Daughters (it
was kinda may '81; I drank a pitcher at father's Five, Marlboro
street then went down the rat for FREE music...louve the price,
lassie!). So "The First Tyme I saw Simon" (Ritt) was NOT
"the last tyme I saw paris"; he was DRUMMING and singing
"this is where I belong"; I drunkenly was in awe of drumming
and singing both. Another dumb-ass drunk joke was he and guitarist
joe mazzari had matching shags, so I called Two
Saints (WHICH Carl biancucci played in after this 1981
meeting!) "The Two Simons". Sober, it ceases to be funny.
Like ole Chuck manson say (no kin to Marilyn or garbage singer):
'cease to exist". Anyhow BROODING (about the brood?) second
cup of coffee that "sweet Tuesday Morning", flippin' off
the world with me BAD finger....thank you rik Biskit Roth!
Kinks b-side! REALTIVELY obscure....medium rare?"....
Thursday, April 28, 2022
day of Thor 28 april 22. Zoomer radio TORONTO Canada,
740 Am (same as Bob Bittner WJIB in new England!). After old-tyme
radio like The Shadow Knows et al., is Midnight Blue.
Times I've had my phone on before Coast to Coast AM WRKO 680 AM,
I HAVE heard some splendid Obscure To Me old r and b 78s. reading
my half awake chicken scratch ( and not a creature was stirring,
not even two cats! (photo)) is Midnight Blue. Song that knocked
my socks off: Julia Lee and her boyfriends; "I
didn't like it the first time" (this song ON
YouTube!). Discogs says "The Spinach Song" is a
shellac ten inch 78 rpm, draped Snoopy bust (oh wait! that's COINS!)
released January 1949 when my cuzzin Ma was "18" and
DID she like it? 1974 better for me....genre; blues; style; "jump
blues". A RECORD COLLECTOR forum: "Julia Lee's song
is NOT about sex; it is about marijuana!" "exhibit A"...wikpedia:
"she became best known for her trademark double entendre
songs or, as she once said "the songs my mother taught me
not sing". sadly she died 8 dec 58 when the Gizmos were in
diapers; being only two years old "beat on the (Marine) Brat"
camp Lejeune NC (something in water; I can apply for radioactively
or some such) , she WAS married to Frank Duncan, a star catcher
and manager of the negro League's Kansas City Monarchs. Finding
his BASEBALL CARD WOULD be....da modd-fockin' ballz!"......
Friday, April 29, 2022
maybe it was day of Wodin 27 april 22, about 0230 during Coast
to Coast AM...but first let's try to sell some Kenne
records...
There's a YouTube
listing Johnny and the jumper Cables the complete recordings,
photo of me in a late '80s Diet Pepsi shirt! (that don't fit no
mo'). This "fan' has also put all Cables vinyl on YouTube,
so the glory of this 33 minute bit is I can hear VINYL SNAP AND
POP! Maybe I should protect them from the Boogie man.
and "Howl of the She Wolf ' album
dinorecords.net.
I DO pre-humously enjoy these 2004 recordings; Man of the
match
is mach Bell from Biggie Ratt doing maracas AND a FANTASTIC Keith
Relf impression on "Princess of the trailer park'; I need
to overdub him on the next album! From MY book: Once a Rocka,
Now an Alta kaka; "I "landed" in Boston (through
Resolved White, my mother and I are mayflower massHoles) and had
just seen the real Kids Saturday 12 march 77 At the Rat.
I would reckon ANOTHER Resolved White descendant would have introduced
me to Mach Bell ("ken, you'll love these
guys! They're like Brownsville Station meets Slade": the
ALWAYS right Solomon Gruberger of O. Rex (versus: "you could
have knocked me over with a puff of smoke" re; alice Cooper's
Killer and "Grand Funk's version of "gimme shelter'
is 1000 times better than the Stones"; me taping on cassette
from my radio Shack turntable/radio/cassette combo. mach
Bell quote of the night: "yeah, I'm helping build
the stage, the Runaways are playing here next week'...next week
I was guarding the NSA against Commies, tho LITTLE did they know
I was lee Harvey Highland! "it was a dark and stormy night":
Snoopy writes great American novel, first. NOW to my dream: looks
like I was sitting in the main thee-ate-er over to Somerville
and "Princess of the Trailer park" (distant cuzzin)
comes up and "hey"; me: 'hey". She; "I didn't
really die; I faked my own death" me; "oh". Then
she sat the aisle towards the back and I was seated to her right
and we watched a movie...though ONLY Miss Lyn can explain the
ringing of the doorbell with noone there and my door opening and
NO cats! cue up "Haunted house" by gene Simmons! (Not
"dear Ken , eat shit, gene simmons, another story for my
TALKING book!)".....
(Let me translate the above...Kenne had a dream that he was
in the Somerville Theater and woke up to Linda Garreau (Highland)
standing in the aisle next to him and she told him she was still alive.
Linda is the "Princess of the Trailer Park" and the "she"
above. Now to the noises -Here at BGN HQ, I keep hearing what sounds like someone
ringing the door bell three times at night but it only happens when Kenne
is home, his door squeaks really loud and he doesn't want me to
WD40 it because he thinks it sounds like a haunted house, it also
sounds like the doorbell which obviously doesn't sound anything like what you would think a doorbell should sound like. So I asked him if maybe my cats pushed
open his door and he said no it was closed. So we don't know what that noise is. Ghosts ringing the doorbell??
does this make sense or am
I getting as cryptic as Kenne?! Oh no!!!- ed)
Saturday, April 30, 2022
"Saturday 30 april 22. A GREAT mad painter practice
last night and a BIG shout out to Gee Julie and Natalia
Mustatova, whom coulda been Goody goody Gumdrops/ Cockettes/
Jukebox Angels. Gig: Friday 6 may 22 Natick common street
spiritual center. sunday 8 may 22. in studio vlada brofman
(check my spelling). Friday 20 April 22, 6-9 pm, mad painter
OPENS (get there 6 pm!) at the Jungle 1/4 mile from BGN
HQ! sunday 29 may 22 Leon Rich at lily pad; drummer
Is Al Hendry, whom drums with mad painter and my Air Force; opening
is captain easychord and Sharon Crumrine of Ginger Ibex. I'll deal
with June when it happens; right now; KWYG- Wyoming Gospel Radio!
35 degrees there today (hey! I did news and weather as a high school
punk on WADD-AM, Brockport NY, station manager was Bob Bittner,
WJIB 740 AM; if he wants pledges to keep station on air, cough it
up, ye pocky bastids"...
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