7/1/2019
Monday, June 124, 2019
Kid
Gulliver
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Freitag 21 June 19, Summer Solstice and oi went pub crawlin'
oi did, singing 999's "Boilermaker" (not really, I just
wanted to mention 999 so that Miss Lyn doesnt revoke my Spit card/my
Rat card and my "New wave cool!" plus my sketchy-as-such
punk rock credentials; dudes, to me it IS the red Grand Funk album,
early Sabbath and the original Ramones!). Kid Gulliver
was my objective ONLY because Simone Berk usedta
work at pennsylvania company with Ken Kaiser.
I've said it before but there is a mid-70s punk-pop thang that
even Blowfish likes! ramones chords with Mike Quirk on Gemini
on a Full Moon (Dino) leads and Simone uses a
capo doing G-C-D while the other guitar does A-D-E (the Korps
"Talk to me karen"); I've not seen two guitars play
same chords but different postions since Children of Paradise!
(one guy tuned down, no capo...I think HE was a ken!). AS I've
said before, after I had a rectal-cranialogy (head from ass surgery)
Simone Berk DOES sing like Blondie's Plastic
letters and after club linehan-ago-go has lady Caroline (Varulven)
sing "Denis Denis" (Randy and Rainbows toon) THAT is
what I hear; I even think Solomon SPECTOR would like it eating
passover pizza! lady drummer was totally kickass doing patented
Ken Kaiser drum rolls....when Kid Gulliver covers
Hello World "will the circle be unbroken"! Next up,
whatever the fuck was P.A.s lounge....Union
tavern? "ah say ah say, don' mention the wuhd UNION around
me"; ah DID have cuzzins and an uncle "gone to Dixie"!
(thus fighting a Sybil War with micelf, agin). Boston
Rag
superb as always as i walked into hearing "Nobody's Girl's
theme 'wish i was back in Annandale. John Keegan
could fill a house with every band he played with! Jiblantos/club
Linehan ("Tis Himself!")/GLiDER....even
AL HENDRY from
bubbaloaf! cal cali and dancing with "the babes in the bar"
and we didnt even get called asshole like Pablo
Picasso! (arschlock woulda been a cat name Picasso that Miss Lyn
lived with a Mission Hillbilly!). Captain Easychord
has a savant memory for records so he knew every song and what
album! We even had Bob Roos there! Still thinking
of a 1973 Midnight Special Steely Dan performance as a quintet;
Johnny Angel and I agreed on this back in '78
debating music above Cantone's. The bag Boy on bass told me and
the captain there's a return Boston rag gig, Union tavern' Cal
Cali band got a gig and lastly; she and Frank Drake wuz in a band
opened for NIRVANA at an MIT pig roast! Gotta reasserch THAT!
wasnt the Nirvana/Cheater Slicks green street station gig neither".....
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
CLAGG
Quincy Porchfest
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saturday 22 June 19. Gizmo's world tour of quincy porchfests.
club linehan-ago-go played west quincy, I sang
"ramblin gambling man" and "manic depression",
"my head's in '68!" and kevin linehan,
drums sang "circle sky" and maybe "chevy van';
lady Caroline always awesome on that Varulven
b-side "Of yesterday". "hand of God has struck
the hour' when the winds blew the tent down on my face...Supernatural
forces at work! gee Julie drove me to north quincy
where all the bands played in a long-ass driveway. We caught Baabes
who rolled on the floor like GG Allin in Jabbers
or a 1977 ken Highland with the band being a hyperactive version
of DMZ at CBGBs sat 26 march 77.
Kenne,
Easy Chord, Theresa, Schmel
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GLiDER followed and more "acts of God";
rain while I'm singing "you're gonna miss me" but I
used my mental powers to make it stop! Such miracles of Biblical
proportion aint happen since GizMoses turnt a rod into a Young
Snake in front of SAM THE SHAM, the Pharaoh! captain Easychord
WAS "psycho" during "Psycho"; we really sounded
like baabes on this and Cal Cali and Scalawag
Sara projected well on "I got you babe" and
what a PISSER band! Schmel Herbie Hind on guitar;
MJ Quirk on bass; Captain easychord-keys
and Joe Norton-Thighscrapers drummer.Thighscrapers
were up next, keep getting better and better, sounding
like NY Dolls April 74. Dont remember much after this but maybe
three hours of Charlie Dont Surf with Theresa
Powers singing along on EVERY song (those first two albums
were pissa!). Even got a visit from "My Ex-bette" Betsy
Shaw of Quincy whom we saw the Clash on Fridays on tv
doing "London calling" (they were at top of game then)
as THE RUNES played JACK'S! (Hopelessly Obscure '86 with THE STRIKE!).
Great fun tyme, three dollar hotdogs and it was glorious seeing
EVERYBODY!"
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Sonntag 23 June 19. Reno from harlequin
had busted a rib, so just like Mel Schachter of grand Funk railroad
was stand-in bassist for ? and the Mysterians, I was stand-in bassist
for matt Gilbert of harlequin. I'd been wanting to be a stand-in
bassist since 1973! Be careful what you wish for...Head still in
'73, there was Alice Cooper and Dolls songs, an ACDC song where
I throbbed the A string like "all right now" (Andy of
clan Fraser was facebook friend); I should mention Jerry
on Djembe and this was mick the poet at outpost
186. showing films maybe. Warholian? art gallery/music?)
there was some long jam in E where I started doing Cream's "I'm
So Glad'and I WAS fucken glad, sittin' in a chair channeling jack
of clan Bruce and Jay gruberger of O. rex/Afrika Korps. We jammed
for about an hour, good and fun! I left Matt and jerry up there
with a lady named Holly who pretty much channeled Lou reed; loved
the ostrich guitar strums! perfect for an art gallery....so support
Outpost 186! to quote the Amboy Dukes "Inside
the outside/what a lovely place to be"
Thursday, June 27, 2019
day of Wodin 26 June 19. for the first tyme in 20 years, the
kenne Highland clan with bruce hamel
of john felice's devotions on bass played and
practiced their gemini on a full moon
record plus "she's not just another girl (she's a darling)"
plus MC5's "looking at you". amazing what one can do
with a traditional two guitar/bass/drums format like Buddy Holly's
crickets! (guitar- MJ Quirk, drums- Matt
Burns of V!!!). Bruce was full of great tales but I'll
keep this SHORT if you can believe
that....Michael DesBarre of Silverhead played "My Girl"
off the Be More Flamboyant cd! That led to "rollin'
with my baby", a Solomon Gruberger favourite, then Bruce
said DMZ usedta do "Hello New York" (I blasted into
that solo electric)....ok, day was MADE! Then Bruce listed what
a hotbead of rock Arlington Mass was; to wit: "Jon
Macey lived one street over from me and in junior high
he brought Willie Loco to a junior high dance
in Ahlington....Michael Beiderbeck (RIP) first
brought me to the Rat March '76; he was that kinda wierd kid had
Stooges and Velvets albums..." (wait that was ME in brockport
NY/Bloomington Indiana!)...a splendid practice and also next week
(Wednesday July 3) at Brass Union Somerville Easy Ed (WMFO)
and Ty Jesso (the Itchies!) spinning rockabilly and garage!
More fun than Lyres at Cantones 4 July 80
Friday, June 29, 2019
day of THOR! 27 June 19, regent thee-ate-er, ah-lington, mass
730 PM PARALLEL
LOVE ($10).
The Story of a band called Luxury. wikipedia: "in the
1990s, Luxury is rocketing towards fame when members in bus crash.
(I'm paraphrasing). They survive, three become Eastern Orthodox
priests". wow! AND there are freemasons from Boston's hardcore
scene and one's a Unitarian minister! Well, the Vitale brothers
AINT shot that movie (YET!) but this'un name good! being a punk
band at a christian college in northeast georgia? why, the "georgia
peach" (Lil Richard) would say "ooohhh my soul....it's
the DEBBBIL's music! whooooo!!!!!!". Actually,
some wise-ass rock scribe (NOT me!) desribes the two brothers whom
became priests in the band as "Morrisey vocals/Fugazi guitars";
I actually liked something new!!!! SHOUT HALLELUJAH!!!! I've been
to eastern Orthodox churches, even have an icon next to photos of
my Dad and a deceased girlfriend and I LOVE all the FLAMBOYANCY,
parading the crosses,
kissing icons, crossing yourself with yia-yias....SO DO check
out movie and band (LUXURY) and weekend wrap up: friday
5 July 19,Koto salem,mass; Kenne Hghland clan/sara and sclaliwags
and GLiDER!"......
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