09/17/2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
"saturday 8 sept 18. Andy Excuse
and Rachel Lee of 2001's The garage-mo-nauts had
booked Club Linehan-a-go-go up The Hearing Room in Lowell,
Mass. and let me praise this room! Kinda like Zeitgeist
gallery meets Store 54; cool stuff, good p.a. backline etc. ok wait,
wasnt that Warhol's factory? either way, velvet underground, live
in art gallery; i even invited my facebook friend Maureen
Tucker who did NOT unfriend me for this. John Keegan
was "the man goin' 'round takin' names", so a solo artist
went up and kept name-checking The Exploding Plastic inevitable,
then we joined him for 'waiting for the man". MJ Quirk knows
the set list and Lady Caroline was "Nico"; some
of her sons were there including Damien who was the cover child
in Auguste Pages when I was stationed at Fort meade Md.
(maybe mine and walt disney's cuzzin Miss Lyn re-nem-buh? - I
do not renembuh that!!- But the NSA did go through our trash, right?
-ed). Billy Squire, who was NOT in the Sidewinders,
did sound and ran some video montage behind us; rumours of videos
and photos are abounding. Go to my Facebook wall, where the action
is! Rachel Lee be illin', so WE got a rain date/return date, as
in NOT BANNED! Lowell has a lot of empty lofts and potential, I
know Cal Cali is doing a ramones thing there at another gallery
(sorry my facts are so vague, long ass weekend PLUS X-Files marathon
on BBC AMERIKA, FIRST and my copy of Jeff beck's Truth is somewhere
out there!). Last but NOT least, as Gee Julie went to grab some
7-11 white trash coffee on chelmsford street, I stayed in the "drive
my car" (Miss Lyn's butcher cover copy!- Sold to Jeff Connolly
in the early 80s-ed) and checked out a doo-wop group I am in.
Circus magazine summer '70, brockport NY, I sat on the
school BLEACHERS reading about velvet underground's LOADED! age
14, no guitar yet. "i found a reason" "had doo-wop harmonies like
the Flamingos" and I was an "oldies" fan then, so anyone with a
50s influence, I checked out. (a year later; Lenny Kaye in circus
ravin' about Flamin' Groovies and "yeller sun records from
Nashville"...took some tyme get these albums in Brockport Ny but
by God I did! So: doo wop= velvets=Gizmos BUT: in Brooklyn! (Sol
Gruberger grew up hearing street corner harmony, so toss in O. Rex!);
a doo-wop combo: THE QUINNS! (youtube).
Joe Quinn, club linehan bassist DID agree (as did his cuzzin
Jody Moore! Quinn ancestry!) that THE QUINNS was
a GREAT name for a band, tho MJ Quirk remembers i told him about
a Rochester NY garage band THE QUIRKS. All i get is Brian hyland
and he aint no kin! Sunday at ocean state job lot, Tewksbury, the
'muzak" played Bowie's "Jean Genie" into Bay city rollers "saturday
night"; glam/pop as you shop for bargains!"......
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
"sunday
9 sept 18 hingham mass memorial service for dead poet Christina
Angell. Cal Cali sang Highland/Moore's "you can
be free"; a stones riff/byrds chords/rubber soul harmonies and a
Who modulation. Then folks read her poetry as i set music to it;
any letter above M was 13th fret plus whatever; N chord= F (Peter
Mork of WZBC: 'so that's how it's done!" Me: "no, recording with
Pep Lester; "ken hit a B, an E and a D....coz we standing on a bed"
(actually cambridge mattress on floor). Gee Julie
thinks Christina's poetry is BETTER than Sylvia Plath and since
I have 20 minutes at out of blue gallery benefit, looking to be
Kenny Laye and Patti Smith with Gee Julie and poetry...not an original
idea, but for me, something new".....
Wednesday, September
12 , 2018
"Tuesday
11 sept 18, got a call from Auguste Phenomenon drummer Robin
Baltimore that Love and Flame (as reviewed
by Blowfish Rat Beach Party) will be at CANTAB (upstairs) 9
pm sunday 16 sept 18 plus a couple more. mad painter practice
is 5-7 pm sundays, seven practices before 2 nov 18 Hull
debut. Of course THIS Sunday is also Farewell Bob
Colby but i WILL be at Large that day. But just to relax,
gee Julie and I watched My Favourite Martian on youtube,
season one, 1963. There's on my wall, a photo of me at my sister's
baptism, holding a chalice; my nose hasnt grown a bit!".......
Thursday,
September
13 , 2018
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"
day of Wodin, 12 sept 18, Cal Cali text "meet me
in the bakery", middle east ,then run into carl biancucci
(tea in china) and adam sherman (private lightning),
posed on street corner as my new doo wop group (The Quinns?). Sonia
is old TT the bear's, done over nice, Red Invasion
studied 1977 punk same way Stones studied Chess blues only if they
were from Revere like Scorcher whom Hopelessly Obscure played with
at Channel august 1984. The Ghost Wolves (facebook!)
sold me from the minute Carley Wolf hit an overridden
Delta tuning, much like Obnox at memphis Gonerfest 2014. drummer
played synth and drummed with other hand, she was a ball of fire
leapin' around playin' distorted Delta blues; imagine Suzi Quatro
on hillbilly heroin playin' John Dawson Winter III's "mean town
blues" off Johnny winter and album at 45 rpm. Smitt E. Smitty,
figures on a beach, also a fan and bein' from Austin Texas, she's
the nahs-ist lady t' tock tuh ,as nice as missippi's evil
engines! I spent $20 to watch Cheetah Chrome/Johnny
Blitz play Young Loud and Snotty note for note
and if they only made ONE good album in their life, let it rank
next to Real Kids's Red Star album; I only wish Music to Kill
By had BOTH albums guitar sound. Replacing Stiv has been "controversial"
to say the least but Gizmanager Marvin Goldstein
does know the guy (from a Dead Boys tribute band! JOURNEY got a
singer from a Journey tribute band, would you rather have that?)
and his makeup and moves was similar to chesterfield kings
greg prevost with a touch of lux interior
perhaps. encore was "aint it fun" and none of these "21st century
dead boys fans" knew who the Grand Funk was Peter Laughner. "son
of sam" also, the felix pappalardi album. Young kids mosh/slamming
like Sid and Nancy extras and "the old guard": smitt
e. smitty band, V, cryptic edge, stop callin me frank, GIZMOS (uber
alles!), Keith from Rocket Records, Blowfish, Unatural axe....look
at photos if i forgot ya. got home just in tyme for coast to coast
AM; 0100, I truly had a ball!"........
Friday, September
14, 2018
"Thor's
day 13 sept 18, outside the paradise with Boston
poet Lee Litif, someone said "there's brother Wayne!" and this lil
short guy walks by and waves: WAYNE KRAMER MC5!
Bought a spare ticket from popgun manager Stu Ginsburg who
ran THE POND, fresh pond circle club and then it was ME holding
court outside! Finally met Rob Basso who played
guitar on first GG Allin album which resided "further on up the
road" at 25 walbridge street, allston mass 02134. Detroit
Cobras sound more like Black Souls than
i realised! "putty in your hand" (Jayne County does the BEST
version of that song!!-ed) and "leave my kitten alone" were
covers and highlights and singer rachel nagy mentioned
Scrabble and said she had six cats! (!!!!-ed) (normally
she acts Amy Winehouse tuff and both great soulful singers!). I
was standing next to Peter Wolf, near sound board, then HE's onstage
doing the "brothers and sisters" rap. Kick out the jams in it's
entirety! Wayne Kramer like a wind-up toy, i should
only be so limber. Zen Gorilas singer Marcus Dorann (?) totally
channeled singer Rob Tyner. By now, Tony
Kacynski (Figures on a Beach: DETROIT!) and I were singing
along with call me animal/high school/shakin' street off that MC5
back in the USA album i had Miss Lyn buy at harvard coop early '77
(I had never heard of the MC5 before that so thankyou Kenne!-ed)
plus "Future/Now" off my $1,27 high tyme album brockport NY june
73. encore: i can only give THEM everything/american ruse/lookin'
at you....Jams were kicked out, SO worth it, go to my facebook wall,
fans still goin' viral and see you Sunday at Once at farewell bob
colby (who WASNT there)"..........
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