Monday, June 17, 2024 saturday ides of June 2024 approximately 545 pm. tuned into a Brazilian channel; on online radio box. I wuz cruisin' da Portuguese stations and saw Brazil playing Mad Purple/Deep Painter's "Strange kind of woman". Followed by Rita Lee "lanca perfume" from 1980 where Mad painter's Alex Gitlin gits into disco/schlagers, so I researched it and there IS a video of Brazilians roller-skating to an Olivia Newton John-ish song. Sharin' wid both bands, captain Easy chords (KNOWN record collector and music wonk,'e is) sez "former Os Mutantes singer",gave me a text on dis '60s Brazilian psych-band AND "I be seeing what's left of Os Mutantes at Crystal ballroom on 2 July"; Suz Motta, Roma booking agent sent me and Ritchie Pah-sons (Unatural axe) to see de Somerville Thee-ate-er and I DO advise folks to do same! Wid dis week's "Heatwave", I need some SOUTH AMERICAN '60s PSYCH!

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 Sonntag 16 June 2024. 0600-0800 maybe, on Reelz TV, a "Behind the Music" of Johnny Cash. Actually, all the good stuff happened before I wuz born! Parallel Lines: Cash went into USAF 1951; my dad USMC 1952, Cash: Deutschland, Dad-Korea. bought a five dollar guitar and wrote songs in Deutschland; ma bought me a $9 Sears acoustic and I brought my best lyrics guarding the NSA in DC (Moin World!); I was a NSA guard; Cash, a radio man, listening to what the Russkies were szaying (answer: "Empty bottles" by Mad painter!). Cash signed to Sun easter sunday 1 april 56; Sam Phillips impressed by "hey porter" recorded the afternoon I was born (0809 monday 2 april 56,quantico, virginia; Dad drove truck in Korea whilst Elvis worked at Crown electric). Thanks to a Gismo toon wrote in '73 on a $35 Japanese solid body, 1998 get royalty check from Sweden and go to Memphis, go to Sun! There may be more parallels but if ANY Sun artist equals Krazee Ken Highland, it's ole Jerry Lee: dang, ah married distant cuzzins to me BOTH tymes! "Great moddafockin balls of fire)

Thursday, June 20, 2024

day of WODIN, Juneteenth 2024. Ken and gee Julie watching TOON In WITH ME on Me-tv 0700 and it's the Tazmanian devil's birthday! (19 June 1954..."he's gonna be 70? he acts 12"....hmmm,"what gismo iz dis?").
There wuz TAz trivia wid some Taz wonk. ANd last but not least, Gee Julie's favourite Taztoon but da one where Daffy Duck tries to calm Taz ("always hungry...musik calms him down"...hmmm....)...comes out in tam o'shanter playing bagpipes and ole taz grabs hold of 'em and stomps on 'em! Leave it to Beaver at 0800 just didnt measure up, "TV eye" on me

Friday, June 21, 2024

Saturday, June 22, 2024

saturday 22 june 2024. LIKE mad painter on facebook and next gig is mad Painter/ The Holy Oaks at the Rendezvous , Turner Falls,Mass. also check the Mad Painter video. LIKE Kenne Highland's air force on facebook and next gig: ,matt burns memorial the burren sunday 28 july 2024.

Last night's practice wuz Alex gitlin and Gee Julie jammin' on Sir Reginald KENNETH Dwight's "Border song", then everyone outside bein' yentahs channeling Heavy Metal parking Lot.

and TODAY"s online radio box is WNWI 1080 AM in Chicago; found it under Polish but also has Serbian/Armenian and right now catching The Caldian hour! Seems like it's Syrian/Lebanese/Hi-energy vintage exotic Mideast music; actually they just made a announcement of Dearborn Heights, Detroit; maybe leased. and I WILL tell you that's where Casey Kasam and George Noory hail from. Think the 1994 Page/Plant on MTV tour playing Zep songs on North Afrique instruments.