10/14/2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
"til tuesday 1 oct 19. RokKenne Erikson practice, me singing
Roky with Triple Thick for 24
Oct 19 tribute gig at Thunder Road; "the club formerly
known as Jaspers". Mitch Murphy tapes EVERYTHING;
I would love to bootleg me on Hate/Vulcher in Italy! Schmel
Herbie Hind, wayland groupie news: "is that you,
mon???? you sound black!.....NY Dolls? David Johansen?....this
sounds like the Rolling Stones!" ok, so I learnt how to sing
off a mono copy of Out of Our heads back in '69....Greg
Flanagan, formerly of Ali baba and 40 thieves and Ashara
with "Jill" Kurtz (whom was in Triple Thick with Howie
Fergusson at one point, Mitch Murphy giving me the gene genie).....was
pulling off some gary Rossington-esque leads; Lynyrd Gizmo? (THOUGH
Rossington admits HEAVILY to Paul Kosoff of Free as Major Influence;
though not quite an influence on major Stars!). Treats were Korean
non-sugar gum c/o Mrs Mitch! Afterwards ("tradition!"),
"slabs" in honour of Dave Bass at Pinoccio's Pizza in
Harvard Square; I told Mitch where I'd met Lester Bangs summer
'80 (wherever Popcorn Records was) AND Henry Shaker III joined
us! This practice was SO good, we wanna go FURTHER with this;
in fact I COULD have sang with Triple Thick sunday 6 oct 19, midway
cafe, but "A promise is a promise" (Lyres), so Mad painter
practice instead.....everyone just fuggin PLEASE take a number
with Mister Highland, "I can sing or dance or anything
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
DAY of thor 3 oct 19. first off, for tavern
at end of world, a Cal Cali Band practice
with "Clark Dark" on drums, which was awesome! Dylan
AND 60s covers; lovin' it! Then "drop and roll" (schmel
Herbie Hind-ism) at the Jungle and sadly I missed the Legendary
Cazbats BUT when you read this, they'll be starting "60s
dance party" at Jungle on Sundays 6-8 pm and a fine
buncha Nuggets covers they do! Tsunami of Sound always
excellent, especially "Misirlou". Triple Thick
Mitch also there, lobbying for RoKENNE tribute band,
gigs that COULD happen (well, I hustled Cazbats and Tsunami).....a
fun night all around!
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Kenne & The Muffs (Kim, Ron, Roy)
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Freitag 4 oct 19. sadly heard Kim Shattuck of Muffs
had died, via facebook. Bob "do the Boob" Colby had turnt
me and Linda Garreau Highland onto them and we saw them TT the Bear's;
John Felice, Real Kids, had walked into my immobile home (Disgraceland)
and LOVED them. October '14, gizmos world Tour, WFMU, new jersey
and the Muffs were in studio so the "Muff Divers" and
Muffs took photo together. A nice lady, she was and my 'baby' sister
age,"still i’m sad". But on a more upper note, Gee
Julie and I watching the Boston Groupie Cats,"TV eye
on ME!" and SHE wanted to watch the Andy Griffth show! (I WAS
Opie's age in North carolina so me and my cuzzin Ma usedter watch
it). Gomer and Goober made appearances! "hey andy! watch Goober
impersonate Cary Grant! aint he good?" and other ridiculous
impersonations, on a level with me drunk off my ass 1981, dancing
"better than james brown' to my Hot pants 8-track....Folllowed
by Gomer Pyle! "LSD for breakfast and THAT was my military
career!".....
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Frank Rowe
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saturday 5 oct 19. Tavern at end of world. ever since 19 nov 77,
Frank Rowe plays with me, only not Afrika Korps/baby's
Arm BUT Frank solo, which is equally awesome; check out his finger-picking
on guitar! One song he even ADMITTED he stole from Lovin' Spoonful's
"Daydream"! Like Ma always says "my grandmother was
a Rowe" (their village in England, due west of first Black
Sabbath album cover...it ALL goes either Back to Sabbath or BACK
"to Comm"!)....Sara and Scaliwags, another
good set (I've almost seen 'em all!), she's getting more comfortable
on stage, I compare to QFO a year ago....taking my advice and "Be
More Flamboyant"! Though, between singing/drumming, it's the
SONGS that are "Winner by Elimination". "Fisherman"
sounded a little more country this tyme, but the b-side of the 45
should be "Oblivious". Tim Sprague Junta
D'Amour was there: "come to Lilypad! sat 12 oct 19; benefit
concert and art display for border crisis victims. CROW FOLLOW"...you
may read this day after but you shoulda gone! ok, on this postcard
I scrawled (reading "Highland glyphics!"): "Oblivious":
60s Airplane folk-rock. "she has funny cars". Bo Diddley.
"Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess"...Bosstown sound J.
Airplane-sounding band; MAYBE what i mean is cowboy chords by Schmel
Herbie Hind and a husky Grace Slick intonation? "everything
I say is cryptic/I'm so obscure"! Sara, write more songs!!!
Lastly, Cal Cali does Dylan and Blowfish already
rated him as front man (chet's after party at Once), but having
blown harp since 1970 (Hohner coz i read Brian Jones played them
in Hit parader! my first instrument! Miss Lyn will tell you how
all harp players are drunken losers! Tales From Groupie Towers "how
her naked ears were tortured" by me playing Disraeali Gears
sat 12 mar 77 and snorting out hard liquor through my wee irish
nose!)....Schmel herbie Hind and Captain
easychord were Bloomfield/Kooper aping Mouse and the traps
(this WAS garage Dylan ala Mouse AND terry Knight and the pack's
"Dimestore Debutante"; I'm as proud to play with this
combo as I am to play along with Floyd Dakil's "dance franny
dance"!). rhythm section of me and Clark Dark was
almost the bar Keys backing up Otis as Monterey! I mean, I play
a lotta Jack bruce-cum-soul bass lines but Clark Dark is like Pistol
Allen! GizMotown? sara scaliwag sang with Cal on Kinks/Yardbirds
covers et al. HEY! James matthew Burns of V came back TWICE to Tavern
with Beatle haircut Bob, so they MUST be fans! (They Might Be Giants!
They Blinded me with science!")....I had so much fun I got
back 'ome to the Boston Groupie Cats at 0300!"......
Friday, October 11, 2019
Tom Baker GOT it!!!
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sonntag 6 Oct 19. over a cafe prive in der morgen, Gee
Julie might have read to me from Facebook about Ginger
Baker's demise. "sunshine of your love" was
third 45 i bought, rochester democrat and chronicle morning paper
route money and I have butchered it on at least TWO occasions!
late 1976 with O. rex; besides butchering the
first ramones lp (O. Rex cd on Gulcher) is also "sunshine
of your love",me drumming with Gruberger brothers (Eddie
Flowers released the whole cringe-worthy cover on O. Rex, Gulcher).....and
if Solomon Gruberger sans guitar singing "sunshine of your
love" at Fort Meade Maryland rec center (Slickee
Boys opening!) isnt wretch-worthy, Ken kaiser
getting out from behind drum set and standing in front
whilst soloing; I HAVE seen a video! Rest in peace, Ginger
and enjoy jamming with jay Gruberger and Eric
Stumpo of Plan Nine! But "let the living flow"
(NITZINGER!!!! 1972 capital records promo lp, i still dig it!)
and "My head's in '73' with yet another mad painter
practice! In addition to the lp, we jammed on Aphrodite's Child
"Rain and tears", Deutschland's Randy Pie AND "a
white shade of Procol"! That Alex Gitlin
is a damn talented keyboardist, but Blowfish already wrote that.
Just for "anarchy imn the UK" though was the Schmel
Herbie Hind original I'm de-composing: "Pizza Delivery Moves"!
(to paraphrase Pep Lester, a P chord is 13th fret (M) plus three
more frets; D for delivery and E is 13th fret and letter (M);
even Tom Baker GOT it at Bronwyn one nite (insert photo of Tom
baker: he's GOT it!) and as Pep Lester DID say about '81: "B....E...and
D....coz we're standing on a bed"....(and thank you Pep for
hopelessly obscure live at maverick's 15 apr 83 plus also 1982
Radiobeat studio outtakes!)....My final thought for this week,
thank you Schmel Herbie Hind: "Drivin' the wrong way down
a one way street/ get outta my way, folks need pizza to eat! it's
a pizza delivery move/ he's got pizza delivery moves/he needs
pizza delivery/ pizza.....delivery...moves"! If handsome
Richard manitoba LOVED Be More Flamboyant, this'n shirley bee
The Dictators go Gizmo Krazee!!!!!!!".
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