This week Kenne went out of town which also means
he went without a computer while away. So he's only got two entries but he's crammed
an awful lot in there as you can imagine......
Monday, October 27, 2014
After work yesterday and lissenin' to a 99-cent cd on K-tel of oldies from
UK which has Christie, whoever did "son of my father" AND a
Chris Spedding cut, bought at Somerville
Grooves, Union Square, Somerville, where you can buy the Beachmasters
AND Moose Mudbug's Milk Crate Takeover on vinyl featuring Solomon
Kaiser's great-nephew; then went to Sally O'Brien's, Natalie Flanagan
singing in her husky Chrissie Hynde voice Velvets "what goes on"
and a special treat Dylan's "visions of johanna", ably backed
up by Trick Wallace and Tony "Gee Julie oughta be mein doppelganger"/"I
bought the Gizmos cd at Cheapo records" Kacynski on bass (maybe
our editors will dig out those '80s haircut photos of Figures on a Beach;
wicked rare!). Leon Rich and Al of Clann Hendry are old mates
from Geezer's Garage Night in Quincy and Leon played guitar, some VERY off-beat
subject matter, "sounding like the Gizmos recorded in a tin can with Frank
Zappa producing" or whatever that fuggin' (Mailer reference!) UK paper
said back in '77....anyway folks WERE dancin' to songs about "Goldfish"
and "Dead Squirrels" (harmony WAS done by Rochester NY's own Anderson
Lynne Mar (RIP) and I first met Leon as her guitarist in Sans Nomeclature;
this of course was after I was Sans Kilt)....
this is startin' to read like Willie Loco and Deep Thot go On
the Road but THAT is ole Dunkin' Donuts! ("it's like rocket fuel",
WA to KH March '86, Hopelessly Obscure "shoot that girl" session;
also "I wanna play my piano under Kenne's guitar like Johnny Johnson did
with Chuck Berry" so that's a big "Fugue U" (Blues image) to
Moses Kaiser's great-nephew as Ken and WA discuss CHUCK BERRY (Bob Colby's 60th;
WA to KH "I thought the guitar solos all sounded like Chuck Berry"
AND one mo' fact, Johnny Johnson born Fairmont, West Virginny, which = Marion
county, WV, my great-great-granny McBee buried there plus there HAS been Bigfoot
and UFO sightin's in that county!)....
lastly WEEI had world series, Mean Ole Frisco won, so Til Tuesday or that day
of Wodin to put this series to rest; then 0330 maybe, i went from George Snore-y
to George Norry as coast to coast AM talked about dudes on campin' trips thought
they were with their friends then these shape-shifters gave them a powder, they
had amnesia; were they abducted? Something to ponder in the "Wee Wee Hours"
(a chuck berry BLUES b-side and Max Gruberger's grandson's and Jack the Bruce
are jammin' on it RIGHT NOW in rock'n'roll heaven, but Joey Ray Coughlin HATED
the blooze, so he MIGHT be in rock'n'roll hell right now".....
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014
Goethe-Institut Boston presents East Side Love Stories ($5, cheap!, to quote
Mad magazine!) :Coming
Out (GDR 1989). ok, married guy realizes he's gay BUT it's Commie East
Germany! "premiered on 9 November 89..the evening the Berlin Wall came
down"; and this Cold War vet (me, CPL KE Highland, USMC, not A draft-dodger
like Ted Nugent and Bill Clinton!) was in WBCN rumble at Paradise with Johnny
and Jumper Cables BUT I guarded NSA for two years, so I helped FIGHT commie-nism!).
The bars ARE the best though and a jung fraulein read a script how "regulars"
(though NOT "regular dudes"!) in certain East Berlin bars were the
backdrop...ok, lemme tell ya 'bout the Sodom and gomorah a-go-go; the "straight"
bar had our hero and wife dancing to Abba-esque Euro-dance music ONLY Metal
Mike Saunders would like but the "gay" bars...honey, Jacques meets
Cabaret and they DONT need to "Be more flamboyant"! ("oh, MISS
Lyn" as the '70s Other Side queens usedta say, origin of THAT name!) there's
a outdoor toilet cruisin' scene "straight" (not quite!) outta "Cruisin'",
which was 1980 and a dance scene with East German Village People stereo-types
(or '80s fashion, since '89 movie) had lil mustaches AND, as the 25% German-Canadian
Gee Julie pointed out "it's Mullet-ville!" lastly, a pink triangle/"Nazi
Concentration Camp Blues" survivor tells the Young Dude, " you have
it so easy....(Kraut name) and I were pulled out of our tents (gays in the German
military? Nazi homoerotica? was ist los?!?!?!?) sent to (concentration camp_"...."after
the war, I joined the party from the first hour". Commie homos?!?!? I LOVE
these East German propaganda films and THEIR view of the West! ok, so there's
another film next Monday when i get back from Gizmos world tour columbus/Cleveland-
It's Time of
the Storks
(Zeit der Störche) and Monday 17 November is an Austrian play; The
World Fixer. KH to GeeJulie: "We should take Miss Lyn to this for
her birthday"; Gee: "but Kenne would she wanna go?" Me:"TUFF
SCHIESS! der geldt is only $10; such a deal! Ich liebe du alles!".....