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12/12/2016
Monday, December 5, 2016
"riding the 714 bus from Hingham with biker LONER, braided beard, driving (cutoff t-shirt in this cold weather: BAD mofo, but nice, like me!) I passed the C-Note and saw Draw the Line/Count Viglione; Houston, I've got a gig! so after supper and forensic files, moseyed down to club, 9 pm set. playing Lou Reed covers with the Count for $200 is where it's at! Gary Soprano and I added a lot of Beck/Page raveups to some of the toons (called "how we gonna end this one?"; f all else fails, end EVERYTHING like Grand Funk Live Album!). sound check; Highland/Quirk jammin' on Grand Funk's "Paranoid" and damn if Mike Quirk don't have done Question Mel's bass part! stooges "down on the street" played over p.a. and I jammed along and Mike Quirk played bass to Uriah Heep's "stealing"; this club is a fucken Brockport NY biker Barge Inn tyme warp! let's not forget John Keegan on sax and "rock and roll"-cum-"Mississippi Queen" cowbell; Lady Caroline singing "vicious" and "femme fatale", John Morrill of Psych-o-Daisies on drums and the Count....just being the Count! ("should I try and swing from this pipe like I did 40 years ago?")....but LET me praise Draw the Line (LIKE them on facebook), wicked good South Shore people, Aerosmith tribute band. They did TWO sets and the wimmen all wore tight designer jeans/peasant tops and high boots like it was THEIR 1978 (NOT the punk 1978!). Guys looked like they rode their hog there BUT "you're my favourite guit-tah-rist"; Humble Me: "what about these guys?" "I know them". I WAS wailing; new crowd, I try harder. So Draw the Line has THE LOOK, like it was Beatlemania on Broadway but they also sounded like May 1975 aerosmith/wet willie/les variations, Indianapolis arena, so I was, once again "Hey 19". BOTH guitarists good plus doin' b-sides like "lord of the thighs" or album cuts with Yardbirds raveups like "woman of the world"....these guys don't do any BAD aerosmith toons only good ole ones. Lou Reed used to babysit the Tallerico-ish singer (a Count fact!) and they ARE good people, offered us more shows, so, 2017 COULD be like forty years ago...I also haven't learned any new licks since then! PLUS I have Blowfish's gig in this Gizmo-esque septet! a lotta ostrich guitar through a Korean Les paul copy called a Bradlee and Gary Soprano "this feels like my Les paul". me: "it was free!"".... Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Food also is good, radio works so I can listen to Coast to Coast AM post-gig. lastly, through my great-great grandmother Charlotte Elizabeth "Libby" Highland who probably never left Michigan in her life, I am 14 generations descent from William Phelps (Wikipedia!) the Mary and John landed on Nantasket Beach 30 march 1630, so ironic I finally got there 380 years later ca. 2010! "there are no coincidences"-George Noory! and a grey deserted beach = Let's Make America Great Britain Again! maybe Atlantis is in the middle?".... Wednesday, December 7, 2016
since it IS summer daown under where Gee Julie and I have cuzzins that landed in Melbourne during the aus-stralian Gold Rush, I kicked out the jams on the I-phone five for "tazmanian country music". what a treasure trove! the country music daown under, kenn-ed-a and apple-achia all based on English folk and Scottish ballades so stands to reason. one web site is History of Country Music in Australia; and were the Gizmos "Bush rangers" also? So I found me some Tazzies, the Singing Kettles, three brothers from Taz whom would rival those brothers Gibb, though Kettles are maybe more Everly Brothers than Simon AND Garfunkel's Tom and Jerry! January 1970 saw the release of "toy telephone" 'bout a lil gurl calling heaven to talk to her dead ma and like ALL big burly men you'll cry in your Nancy New Age Foster's Lager for bluidy well sure! the Hadley label did as much for Taz country as Gulcher/Varulven for 1976 punk and surprised if Tom Bingham DIDNT mention them in Gulcher's Little Labels (Tom Bingham of course thinkin' 'bout early '70s indy labels!) also a joy was Bill Kettle marrying Kathy Thomson (that a sept of clan Campbell, i think; Kettle name found in Fife, scotland) but "we 'ad to 'ave our wedding in Tazzie so oar rela-teeves could attend". this also on youtube! maybe when I research more, more pieces of great Oz country artists!".....
Thursday, December 8, 2016
more Tazzie and western: Dick Parry with "Goodbye Tazzie"; NOT Dick Parry born kentford, Suffolk, UK who played sax on Pink Floyd's "Money" but Tasmania's yodeling hillbilly! you see why I like Tazzie and western so much; ewe kin play spoons wi' it! Dick had quite a career but the "Big 10 inch"...record...I'd loik has covers by Wilf Carter, Slim Whitman and Red Foley, so it's Tazzie and western with a daown under slant. this "Big 10 inch" is Hillbilly Cowboy 1956. lastly, he DOES get mention in yodel in hi-fi; from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica. gone, but 'is legend leeves awhn. and lastly, hopelessly obscure and the count at Cantab Christmas party Friday 23 December 16, always try to plug upcoming gigs. three-day long off-line weekend, so who knows WHAT i'll be doing!"....
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