10/15/2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
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Jackets
guitarist
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"friday 5 october 18,middle east opened with the maxims;
bruce hamel whom played bass on my gemini on
a full moon cd described this hard-rock trio as "biker-rock"
but then they ended with "down on the street": by stooges and i
love both genres! The Jackets from switzerland
had a guitarist with alice cooper makeup who made some shel talmy-produced
dave davies/pete towenshend feedback whilst doing ballet poses and
crowd surfin; the drummer is a Yank, knew rich coffee of gizmos
when he was in unclaimed! nice folks or volk since they sprechen
swiss-deutsch. Muck and Mires ALWAYS sound like
the Knickerbockers at 78 rpm; i been watching evan shore
since The Pets at jumping jack
flash in 1985 when they sounded like the knack; amps cranked,
jams kicked out AND melodies! lastly, the Woggles,
whom i "discovered" in 1998 still doing sped-up blue-eyed soul,
still excellent: alex chilton fronting the Sonics? glad i went support
local music!!!"...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
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Frank
Rowe
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saturday 6 oct 18. what a busy day! Mad Painter
practice, new bassist, things fitting in very well for 2 nov 18
in hull with harlequin, if you DONT need a dose of our early '70s
madness. jammed on Beck's "i aint superstitious" and next practice
we try Heep's "easy livin" and purple's "black knight"! (non-lp
45!). Met the Count near the regent theater,
onto out of blue benefit. it's acrost from
o'brien's and in same building as loony tunes
records but no tyme to shop, walter noons
had to sing his protest toons before me and Count. Count taped
set, I played through p.a.; i know we did "i'm your captain",
"sister ray" and "somebody to love'. Did QFO
follow? this is mike quirk/sarah billinglsey
covering UFO; this tribute thing IS gittin' outta hand but if
yer a fAN, YER A fan, be interesting to hear them with full band.
Blowfish DID
cover this show, so without repeating: Frank Rowe
was THE BEST bossa nova/jazz chords and witty Tom Lehrer-ics
and "my little tarantula"; Jon Richman rubbing off? Cal
Cali was good especially Dylan's "I want you", captain
easychords on keyboards and Al on guitar.
used Al's amp, plugged in the bradkey, grabbed an unrehearsed
Mike Quirk and tossed Cal on
djembe and (Blowfish
video) did boxtops "cry like a baby" and stooges "down on
the street" john lee hooker style. closing was a young lady doing
'90s covers plus originals, a lot of alanis morisette....how'd
Cal get her with us geezers? Cal Cali promises a spring event,
I am THERE! ready to sit in chair and play delta blues again,
that was fun!
Kenne and Cal
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Thursday, October 11, 2018
sunday 7 oct 18 was a day without music or work and seems EVERYBODY
wanted to see a movie at coolidge corner cinema, so all but a
star is born was sold out. 62-plus SENIOR discount
and the word is: GAGA!!!!! yes i'm gaga over gaga!
the country-rock band is willie nelson's son and they're damn good,
but when gaga sits at a piano, dressed (for her) like plain jane
(versus Sweet) doing gospel-inflected rock, it's fucken LAURA NYRO
redux! between that and the standards lp with tony bennet she really
CAN sing and cross genres. when her husband gets piss drunk the
awards, Giroux-approved actions (and me) are cranking up "pretty
woman" to link wray volume, then pissin' down his leg as he stumbled
up to the stage and Gaga has to use her gown to cover him up; been
there, done that! so for a "Lazy Sunday", I DO recomend the movie
and since amy winehouse is dead, the soundtrack may as well be commercial
lp of the year, for lack of competetion"
Friday, October 12, 2018
day of wodin 10 oct 18; a double practice: Hopelessly obscure, thursday
18 oct 18, chet's movie in gloucester and velvet underground cover
band in wakefield 19 oct 18, friday, in wakefield with Cazbats.
this is my LAST reminder on both, next is review/memories.....and
i'd rather NOT drive a truck (Rick nelson,"garden party",'72,
best year evah!"...
Bane
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"day of THOR, 11 oct 18; middle east had a metal band from serbia...ok,i'm
am curious (Georgia, USSR, not the south!). rainy, shitty halloween
night and middle east east is PACKED with kids in sleeveless jackets
with patches, lots of beards, tatoos...Transmanican MC? Heavy-set
Goth gurls too...this was a death metal tour! Gee Julie
came along, had fun, had been to german metal fest (WACKEN!!!)....Bane
came out backs to audience, then did lotsa head banging and hair
twirling, sounding like '80s metallica with cookie monster vocals.
shirtless drummer. afterwards Julie and I bought a $10 cd of their
set and Branislav (lead singer/guitar), very nice
guy! smart too, he and Julie discussed cyrillic writing on a t-shirt
and Serbs and Greeks both write in cyrillic! other merch tables
had antlers and other camp pagan effects; death metal DOES give
worship to WODIN! we dined, missed second band,but PANZERFAUST
(a weapon used by...Afrika Korps? see, they ALL steal from us, whoo!!!!)
put on QUITE a show! Bane's singer had moved from Serbia to MONTREAL
and Panzer were also canadian. Now, to blow my
mind...red, white and blue light show (my pictures suck) shirtless
drummer again, guitar and bass faces are painted (did they stay
over at Ken Kaiser's house?) but then a singer was on high rise
(drums in front) dressed like iron maiden's mascot growling unitelligible
god knows what, band was LOuder than God!!...imagine Black sabbath
covering alice cooper's "black juju" on bvlue cheer's Vincebus eruptum
as covered by Kill Slug....I'd get divorced also! Death metal fans
are nice! one kid saw my sci-fi festival ball cap and i gave him
all kindsa info on "the 'thon"....Bane and other
bands had VINYL for sale,so glad these "niche" crowds have their
collectors....it WAS a school night, missed headliner, but i saw
what i wasnted to see: CANADIAN DEATH METAL! with nary a Giroux
or a Boucher in the band!".......
Kenne at Merch Table
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with Branislav of Bane
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