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7/3/2017
Monday, June 26, 2017 friday 23 june 17, club-linehan-ago-go live at McGann's, North station, ALMOST Chet's! Johnny Plankton wore a WAYOUTS shirt and that is how at cantone's 13 march 82, I met Richard D. Mirsky, whom also played in Wayouts, through Brenda Lee Argabright (RIP) from Vienna Virginny, so since "my guitar will be HAPPY for you to play it", I RAN to the bar, did a Superman-sans-phone booth change out of work clothes for an 8 pm and, post-set to Mirsky: "I did EVERY Link Wray lick onstage in honour of Brenda!". opening with Hawkwind's "silver machine" what HAVENT I said and the Remake/Remodel NEW EDITION of troggs "i want you"/MC5 "I want you right now" (done Rat balcony KRAZEE Ken Highland and METAL Mike Saunders) was a good excuse to do Hendrix licks behind my head (and let's not forget Axis: Bold as "Seasons in the Sun"!). Johnny Plankton was THE best I seen him with Hixx backin' him like the Band backing up Sir Van in the Last Waltz (only Levon Helm didnt play like Bonham!) but fucken TWO guitars: Richard D. Mirksy had "support" for lead fills on Bowie's "queen bitch" and "we like EARLY alice cooper" "Be My Lover"...ok, already a fan but late '70s punk covers and "you woulda heard this on 'BCN in the '70s"...."well come on over baby and step into my TIME MACHINE!"....BUT, and Ted Niemiec DOES say that with two T's, GURL POWER was our "best bette"....why? the fucken '90s!!!!! DIDNT quite catch the name but a female-fronted quintet with TWO guitarists using Cry-Baby wah-wah; lissen to Farner's intro to "paranoid" on Grand Funk's Live album and tell me my distant cousin didnt invent grunge!!! Grunge wun't nuthin' more than Leigh Stephens-era Blue Cheer as if produced by Terry Knight....yeah, Lapeer, Michigan's Terry KNAPP, an ARIES like me, invented fucken GRUNGE by producing the first six Grand Funk albums SANS Craig Frost, Fabulous Pack keyboards, in fucken CLEVELAND! (same studio as James Gang if your "Head's in '71"....)...This lady projected well, emphasize the visuals, kinda Joplin-esque or maybe even Ann Wilson, Heart, SEATTLE! My dunkin' donuts (seniour discount AARP card!) sez Ann Wilson singing grunge and Ken Keegan (John Highland?) AGREE that "black hole sun" (soundgarden? how the fuck do I know?) was superb and again that Grand Funk live album wah-wah...roll that doobie brothers on a gatefold album cover! I remember Copperfields had grunge tribute bands, maybe with Club Linehan doing Kinks/Stones/Chuck Berry we were "classic rock"...a lotta "young dudes" who dug it, photos by John Keegan, fun was had and now through a work discount I got a Direct TV app, 120 channels! (no gigs til Gizmos in three weeks in chicago so "TV Eye"...on ME!!!!!!!!"..... Tuesday, June 27, 2017 After shopping at Haymarket, Gee Julie and I agreed to use my Kendall cinema passes and catch 830 pm new selma hayak. Beatriz at Dinner. Ken and Gee Julie are like siskel and ebert on this'un; me: I woulda wasted
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
"Facebook invite for filipino independence day city hall plaza sunday 25 June 17. Gee Julie took photos of me with the grand marshall and there were some vets there; when i was stationed at camp pendelton California, same place as Lee Harvey Oswald, I had a Mexican corporal whom had been stationed in Phillipines, so age 20, I learnt Spanish, Tagalog and wrote "gimme back my foreskin" (after firing M-60 machine guns all day). Food by asian food mart, 779A south franklin street, holbrook mass and Quincy has a Filipino restraunt and store near where i usedta buy scottish guds. a lot of native dance by Hoy Pinoy etc. BUT: PINOY ROCK: Take The Stage astoria ny, an emo filipino-american band - they are teens! Guitarist had a Fender Jaguar, his cousin on bass and 13 year old brother doing Mitch Mitchell rolls on a cocktail drum set; the Amazing Kenskin sees "Superstardom is my destiny!" (Jon mendelson rolling stone). Imagine the Clap live at the Teaneck NJ tennis courts performing Hello World (Kenny's toons) in Tagalog and, as sure as Oscar Gruberger didnt smoke a kaiser cigar: "sign 'em up!". A Spirit-sounding lead (some fuzz/Gizmo thing that i eschew) I dug plus singing pop hits in Tagalog.....Gee Julie re-enacted the March From Bataan to the Boston Public Library and Pvt KE Highland, who did indeed hate "califawnia gurls" was having Post Cali SD walking in the sun, totin' the M-60 up mount muthafucka".... Thursday, June 29, 2017 ELDER ABUSE!!!! Boston Groupie News SCANDAL!!!! Gee Julie makes ancient Marine veteran KE Highland walk from government center to boston public library, re-enacting the March from Bataan!! But "Hapiness is a warm"...Coffee! ("oh yeah"...) and a seat in the WGBH cafe, plus a bio on: RITCHIE BLACKMORE! ok, we're both Aries and both great guitarists but the first half of the book is pre-Purple! and quite impressive....QUITE a session discography, to rival Jimmy Page; when Gee Julie and I arent watching Doctor Who on BBC America (FIRST!), I should youtube these Hopelessly Obscure 45s. The chapters on Joe Meek are brilliant enough as they are, and then Screamin' Lord Sutch?!?!?!?!! Meek and Ritchie both interested in "spiritualism", talking to Buddy Holly's ghost and what-not....and let's not forget mention of "Telstar", the Korps 1978 pre-gig intro in Kaiser Stadium (post- Gruberger but Elston Howard still neighbour; collect those baseball cards!). Of REAL interest, "Telstar's bassist is some Kraut named Heinz, whom Blackmore backed up; und das ist gut musik! Lastly, first Deep Purple album on Tetragammon, couple of blokes in the band turned Ritchie onto VANILLA FUDGE, so that whole first album is slowed-down versions of fast toons....something the Kenz should try! and when we go from "Telstar" to Vanilla Fudge, you NOW know why the Korps only lived together a month back in '82"..... Friday, June 30, 2017
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