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Monday, April 22, 2019
Marathon Monday, ides of april 19. Glider practice
and the songs are a cross between Ramones and PIL; simpler bass
lines coz they fit! In keeping with their Ramones-cum-Afrika Korps
sound,guitarist Al showed me the Kinks "til the end of the
day" but I said "afrika korps covered that AND "heart
full of soul" on music to kill by!" "Get Back to
where you once belong"....Cal Cali HAS booked a friday
10 may jeannie johnston pub gig, jamaica plain (competing
with various Grateful Dead nights!) and Captain Easychords had me
"Under His Wheels": Duppy Conquerors, Bob Marley tribute,
at sally o' brien's....Union Square, Somerville, picking up where
Western Front left off!"
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
day of Wodin 1`7 april 19. club linehan-ago-go practice.
playing along with Human Sexual Response album.....lettuce say
COULD be a future surpirse! No gigs in May, but let me start promoting
June. saturday 1 june 19, middle east up, bands
who PLAYED the Rat beach party....the next day sunday
2 june 19, out of the blue gallery benefit, club linehan-ago-go
starts off the day about 2 pm or some ungodly hour..."Hot
Fun in the Summertime!
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
The
Man Carl Biancucci!!!
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day of Thor 18 april 19. Glider practice and highlights
were Al on guitar showing me how to play Yardbirds "Little
Games" (I learnt all the Clapton and Beck riffs, never advanced
to Page-y really) and what REALLY sticks out in my mind is Cal Cali
singing Outsiders "Time wont let me" (some Rochester NY
AM radio "oldie" "Back in '72" (they'd play
Bob Seger's "Smokin O.P.s" also!), Al
had guitar parts, Cal Cali sang and drummed, Captain
Easychords did a "96 Tears"-ish keyboard part
but, as a self-taught bassist, watching Carl Biancucci
channel Motown's james Jamerson when he played Midway with Black
Souls; first time I ever played this song on bass IN MY FUCKEN LIFE,
I "nailed" it. Jay Gruberger is Still Alive and Well in
my fingers! (paraphrasing someone who signed my 1973 yearbook: "Alvin
Lee lives in my fingers" or some such schoolboy rubbish). again,
Glider gigs: friday 10 may 19, jeannie johnston
with legendary Cazbats and Brian Young's band; saturday
11 may 19, Mach Kennedy, then the Classic Carls, then Glider
(Carl Biancucci opens for ME!!! "I can outplay you with one
finger"-Jay Gruberger,1974) and F.U.s close, good to see ole
Sox....maybe I'll wear my Holy Sox....thus canst saith I, am "holier
than thou!"
Thursday, April 25, 2019
saturday 20 april 19, a busy day....Brattle membership, $10 The
Juniper Tree, a Brothers Grimm tale starring a very young Bjork;
wikipedia says HER first album came out December 1977, age 11 (Gruberger
Brothers moved their equipment out of kaiser stadium) and if in
1978, I HAD gotten stationed in Marine Barracks, Iceland (I
am pretty sure that was Greenland Kenne-editor), I could have
recorded Skol! Valhalla! with her! But reality is Mad Painter
at C-Note in Hull Friday 3 May 19 and young Flynn
Young was "tired" after a night of Heroes, then
rehearsing with some high school mates covering System of a Down,
THEN we had Mad Painter practice. On bass and drums, he and I riffed
on Gary Numan's "Cars" , then Alex Gitlin guided
us through Mad Painter album (youtube) and Paulie Miller REALLY
fittin' in good on guitar. and "to love somebody" sounding
more and more Small Faces every tyme.....I forgot what toon but
I channeled Ron Wood on bass on Jeff Beck Group "shapes of
things" during a Paulie solo...finally gigging out! Lastly,
the Book Rack, 13 medford street, arlington mass. a shitty "one
more rainy day" (Deep Purple b-side!) so five bucks for a phillip
norman hardcover (no dust jacket!) Paul McCartney bio....what DONT
I know about Beatle Paul? "mixed Irish/Scots ancestry"
and even self-admitted "skinflint"....I now have a new
favourite Beatle! George and John were always so bluidy Badfinger
melancholy with their Welsh bluidlines; they should be fighting
the Roman Empire NAKED like the ancient Britons my father descends
from!
Friday, April 26, 2019
Easter Everywhere Sunday 21 April 19. three bands and four practices
a week equals "crash and burn" BUT on the fucken Hallmark
channel (NOT my choice; like the Jetsons on Gulcher "My baby
loves crime"!) (I only kept it on coz YOU were SO interested
Kenne!!!-editor) was Murder, She Baked- A Chocolate Chip
Cookie Mystery. A cookie making blonde solves mysteries in
upper Minnesota (has Viking name too). Drives detective boyfriend
NUTS for being a "meddlin' dame". This is fucken Murder
She Wrote meets Fargo. I STILL got sucked into but fucken middle
America....First! To quote another great Gizmos toon on Gulcher
"the midwest can be alright!" And wait'll I go on the
merry-go-round again! "oh well" (parts one and two),beats
the "Terry-go-round"!
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