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6/18/2018
Monday, June 11, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 sunday 10 june 18, MJ Quirk did book a successful
show through YeeYee Mgt.,where you're not just another puppet! I
borrowed Billy Connors Vox amp and set it to "US
Metal", riffed on some Blue Cheer and club linehan-ago-go went into
Monkees theme, then Pretty Things "midnight to six man. An all around
great-rockin' set with Jody Moore singing Stones "tell me" and JR
Cash "jackson". Billy Connors was excellent also,
I have new four song cd with David Minehan on bass!
Me joke to Billy: "your bass players keep spontaneously combusting!"
(Spinal Tap humour; current guy is also in Drive-By Truckers). Adam
Sherman kept ripping out these yardbirds leads, Zombies
vocals and Kinks khords and this is a VERY good thing and Ray
Boy Fernandes, as usual, NOT overplaying, thus giving opening
number a Rockpile sound (another GOOD thing!) Blowfish,
in absentia, missed a great set! Jody Moore up
next, "No you dont" by sweet, through Billy's Vox plus MJ
Quirk and John Keegan have worked on that
Les Paul copy I got from "Nobody's Girl's" husband so with toggle
switch and feedback, I turnt it into "the good's gone" (who). a
great Jody set and there WILL be Moore! (to come!). lastly,Tokyo
Tramps REALLY out-Robin Trowered themselves and Satoru
did some Hendrixian throw Strat on ground tricks, did "all along
the watchtower" solo NOTE FOR NOTE (thus, as usual, blowing me away),
Yukiko did a bass solo, there was a drum solo...long, long Troweresque
jams and I was LOVIN' it! After-party at Midway with Rick
Berlin-the Waiter; there went my gig money! a lot of rock
trivia so I have one for Ken Kaiser: Yukiko saw
Kiss, rock and roll over tour at Budokan, tokyo and gig geekage=
april 1/2 and 4 1977! WILL it coincide that I saw DMZ/Johnny
Barnes at the Rat, 2 april 77, my 21st birthday? of course
AFTER seeing Ace Frehely (AND marrying a VERY excellent guitarist)
she also IS a Kenne fan (though she named her cat Q, after mike
quirk).....as I told Kaiser in Kaiser stadium friday 11 feb 77,
teaneck Nj: "I play better than ace frehely!" we'll let my twin
brother Chip Langille decide! Nice to have him headbanging in front
row!"........
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Marvin Nunley of the Royal Guardsmen (whose German introduction in "snoopy" begat "ein zwei drei fier" in Afrika Korps!) saw photos of club-linehan-ago-go and asked when were photos taken. I replied "yesterday's gig" and then in a long Frank Lima re: Kinks rave about "dude, side two of your album had "bo diddley" AND "roadrunner", you turnt me onto Bo...."thanks Kenneth".....hey I got my Gizmos fans so I KNOW! So next up MJ Quirk and I discuss covering the Guardsmen album and he's down with "Peanut Butter", but then "Bears"! so today's Hopelesly Obscure fact is from WordPress.com.ironleg.sprin... Springfield Rifle-The Bears/ iron leg. So basically "Bears" written by folkie Roger Perkins, early in folk-rock scene, gigged with Jorma (airplane) and david freiberg (quicksilver) and I even found a book mentioning Janis (and sunday at MY gig I found out Janice from the Boston scene saw JANIS at the Boston Tea Party; Hendrix too! Maybe I bowed....)....
Now I could ask Marvin Nunley hisself, but looks like Royal Guardsmen learnt "Bears" from Springfield Rifle on Jerden (same label as my $1.00 copy of Introducing the Sonics!). Late '68 Quicksilver DID record "Bears", non-lp flip side but no youtube-age of it. as for Springfield Rifle, check out 100 or Two by Springfield Rifle-Vancouver Pop Music Signature.vancouversignturesounds.com.hits.1... "in november 1966 the band released a tune called "The Bears" which was a top 30 hit in Rolla, Missouri (in Ozarks where Nancy Foster of New Age Magazine, Greensboro NC, her maw iz from)...."Snoopy" was heatin' up the charts, but first Guardsmen lp is a lotta fun North West frat-rock like the Raiders! (but no one as cute as Mark Lindsay; just ask Miss Lyn-say, if she had married him!) "100 or Two", next Springfield Rifle hit was "a fusion of sounds as diverse as the Buckinghams and the Outsiders. Their sound straddled garage band mid-60s punk and sunshine pop"...a genre I explored at 25 cents an album when I lived in Bloomington, Indiana 1975! So yes, am now a Springfield Rifle fan. you can hear "Bears" by Royal Guardsmen on facebook or better yet, you CAN friend Keytar Bear on facebook also! video on facebook wall".. Thursday, June 14, 2018 there's been a "rain of death" lately in classic rock; danny kirwan fleetwood mac, rob basso, whom played in Jabbers with my cuzzin GG allin (Jabbers drummer also died sadly also), so Rob was youtubing classic Fleetwood Mac and at Midway Cafe soundcheck through a Billy Connors Vox (no relation to Nobel prize winnin' "like a buick six"!) riffed on "oh well" and "green monalishi". then Clem Clempson whom played on Humble Pie's Smokin' had been in Coliseum, on his page mention (since i'm his facebook friend, Andy Pyle too), drummer Jon Hiseman. Coliseum was a brilliant band I listen to in hindsight; WCMF, rochester NY DID play their music but was I ever gonna find it in Brockport NY? BUt "not necessarily stoned, but beautiful: hippies of the 60s and beyond" group that I belong to, tho i aint no hippie (more like hippo!) put up a youtube, on my wall "over the cliff", Hiseman out-jazz drums MITCH MITCHELL (hard to do!) and fucken Jack Bruce on UPRIGHT BASS! Dick Heckstall-Smith impersonating John Keegan, Jack Bruce playing like Jay Gruberger unleashed....."some serious ornette coleman influenced jazz here". "not necessarily stoned" runs down all whom Hiseman played with, records i SHALL listen to on youtube! lastly the "Jimi Hendrix information institute" (Jay Gruberger COMMANDS me to join these groups!) says 8 june 18, Amen Corner guitairst Neil Jones succumbs to cancer. the Move covered "hello suzie" on shazam and check this: november-december 1967 package tour: hendrix/move/pink floyd/nice et al. a lot of sadly deceased artists from then but yes the music really WAS better Fiddy Years ago! (BLUE CHEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)".......
Friday, June 15, 2018
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