Sunshine & Lollipops Sunshine & Lollipops AROUND A MEMORY! And a damn shame that is....
Tonight we bid sweet ado, to the 70's....The 70's that was Johnny Thunders.. It's history, as history as history gets.... And if you underestimate what part the 70's wuz J Thunders, you best find another line of work.....
Yesterdays gone! Yip yip yip, there's at least another cliche I'm missing. Something just slipped into the past. It did, it did.. And it's all oK.
First band! I caught.....<down from !>....I don't know who the f890ing hell they were... I didn't care... Oh yeah, the subject heading should be "STRAIGHT AHEAD ROCK AND ROLL!!!!! YIP YIP F890ING-A YIP!" Really tho... All this stuff wuz straight ahead R'N'R {rock'n'roll fer you Desert stormwindows}... First band I noticed, wuz one lonesome, happning dude. Cheetah Chrome! OK, I caught Bebe Buell, who has tits that don't stop, and she's really not a bad singer at all, coulda influenced Maria Excommunicata for all I know.... Straight Ahead rock n f890 ok...you have to be there to understand what I mean by strait a head rcok and rllo. But if you be, you just will know you heard it before...DONE WORSE! ALL THE BANDs TONIGHT, AND THERE WERE QUITE A FEW PLAYED STRAIGHT A-HEAD ROCK N ROLL...for johnny!!!!! yip yip yip....AND ALL DID IT BETTER THEN YOUR MOTHER OK! MEANING THEY KICKED AND KILLED DOIN IT, ok except for circus of power, and the la kinda lame ass band right before them....
ok CHEETAH CHROME KICKED!!! ACOUSTIC,,, HE BLASTED, HE BASHED, HE'S GOT A VOICE FROM HELL!!!! SOUNDS LIKE BRUCE SPRINGBOARD, BUT WATCHING CHEETAH UP THERE, IT LENDS A WHOLE NEW WAY OF COUNTING NUMBERS TO THE EQUATION, no not the equator! hih huh heh.... Me hates acoustic, except when it be Cheetah Chrome and John Cale, you figure it out from there...
After cheetah....yES there is life after cheetah... MAINLY CAUSE CHEETAH IS WELL INTO THE FUTURE...SO THERE IS LIFE BEFORE CHEETAH! Who wuz next, who wuz next, me queeries meself....HMMMMM.....[running for NO MORE REPORTING ON TOMPKINS WE MADE BELEIVE ON THE PRETENSE, AND INTITALLY REPORTED TOMPKINS SQUARE, BUT WE *ARE* OWNED BY REAL ESTATE INTERESTS, SO IT DISSAPEARS NOW, VILLAGE VOICE]....
How's this for a line up... JT memorial [which you b hearing about now]
Tommorraaa PETE HOLESAPPLE and CHRIS STAMEY..
The next day, AMYL Night Train, with the UNSANE featuring Clint Ruin, and Vinnie Signorelle, from FEOTUS INC.... Mebbe, the WALDOS on sattidy, it's very tempting... but mebe not that much.. Mebbe, PHEOBE LEGARE on monday, that's much more tempting.. BUT DEFINATELY.............CYCLE SLUTS FROM HELL..tuesday! CBGB"S! AND DEFINATELY......july 13 THE DICKIES + LUNACHICKS!! AND DEFINATELY......july 17th EINSTURZENDE NEUBATAN/CABARET VOLTAIRE! AND DEFINATELY......july 16th [that's before 17th] THE BUZZCOCKS!!!!! AND DEFINATELY......july 19th SELECTOR!!!!
Yip yip yip yip yip F***CKING AYE! YIP.... those definately's mean I'll definately miss those shows!!!!! [think negative Mike].... Otherwise, I'll be dying tommorra, kiss me goodbye!
Where wuz I? Ok, Johnny Thunders! You can't put you're arm around a memory, so don't try, ok....The Dragons, ok , eh, alright, straight ahead going nowhere.... Patti Palladin, [we want Bat Cave! yip yip yip]...can really sing...she did it up...Her and Steve Klaussen, both of whom worked quite a bit with JT, were a nice spot in the show...NOTHING OVERWHELMING NOTHING OVERWHELMING MIN YOU...tho patti came close...but solid..and happening...good stuff... you'll never ever hear the names again.......
Sylvain Sylvain did the Cheetah like, but less mucho, had the audiance sing[damn I should remember,can't] his favorite dolls song, while he plucked his geetar, and did a kicking version of Frankenstien...much to F's wife's glee!! yip yip yip....
In attendence wuz Meg Griffen, and Vin Scelsa, from the classic rock abortion, WXRK....they have no rights to live, much less play host to something that has something to do with Johnny Thunders...I'm sure they ran home well self deluded right after the Doll's or Thunderless Dolls, played... They s*ck sh*t...they think they've got credibility...well the absolutely nill amount of credibility they had wuz shot when VIN [corporate butt kisser] said LENNY KAYE, were the 'TRUE HEROES OF NY ROCK'N'ROLL' [cause they played no more heroes by the stranglers right before the 'COMMERCIAL'..] lENNY WHO???? Lenny 'suck my f890ing bic?' they do...BAD COMPANY'S SHOOTING STAR, AT A SHOW FOR JOHNNY THUNDERS! go f890ing figure... but it set the context of what wuz going on in the 70's when real music wuz happing...so I actually do give them credit there... but this wuz a memorial for JOHNNY THUNDERS, AND A FUNERAL FOR THE 70'S...IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE... Mind you *every* band wuz technically on the ball big time...they could take all the 70's m ega stars and make mulch out of them..
Even if Vin and Meg shouldn't have been there...they suck their living out of people who killed Johnny thunders, the dolls, and the heartbreakers, 15 years ago, that's why someone should have lit a fire in the middle of the room and dropped those two lame losers in.... There's one person at KROC, That's crock fer you uninitiated..... who had a vision and did what he had to, and that's Howard Stern, all the rest think they're revolutionaries, but were well bonded, bound, and gagged by the system,, who laughs at who..
NY DOLLS! Three songs...very 70's, a lot of fun....DAVID JOHANSON, musta let his hair grow, und his beard grow for a week or two in preperation. MR. schitzofrenic become BUSTER POINDEXTER, tommorrow, fer some music on the water cruise ship dealy... gO FIGure...he wuz well confused I think, but done fit in, and did it up, as best as the 70's can do..... wASN'T THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW.... that's the NY DOLLS, not just david J, think everyone but the memorialized wuz there....
After they played, many 'people' I use that term lightly, I use cum s*ckers much more definately.... [UGLY , REALLY, OOGLY CROWD OF THE CENTURY GOES TO THESE VOLKS, TO MANY ROCKS N POSES WANNABEES...UGLY F890S! IN ATTENDENCE].. But airing out wuz going down...then the two MTV favs Circus of Power and [who knows, who cares].... played more people split...which LEFT JUST ENOUGH ROOM FOR US TO KICK TO THE WALDOS!! WALTER LURE!!! THEIR SECOND SET, BUT THE HEARTBREAKERS FIRST!!!! JERRY NOLAN ON DRUMS! WALTER LURE, HEARTBREAKER THRU AND THRUE ON GEETAR,, TONY COIRO, JT'S BUDDY, ON BASS!!!! AND THE WALDOS GUITARIST ON UDDER GEETAR [me seen waldos do bunch of Hbrkers songs last time I saw em, they KIll...wuz no surprise! yip yip yip] HEARTBREAKERS ROMPED AND RULED AND KICKED AND KILLED! NO F890ING JOKE! THEY *WERE* GREAT! fun fun fun....*f890ing-a fun volks! rilly, it ain't cummin to your town, I hope i didn't miss most of what I made mental psycho kookoo note of... but I'll try to get back on it if I did...
ALL IN ALL......volks...JOHNNY THUNDERS DIED! AND HE TOOK HIS SEVENTIES WITH HIM.... There's a lot of people out there that need to find new jobs.. Not the people who were close to him, dont get me wrong... I'm talkin the majority.... IT'S 1991 yip yip yip, get used to it.....