Journal, News, Guests by Jim Fitting
Banjo Buys Farm
what a week for headlines. Did you have a favorite? Believe it or not I was very sorry to see the aformentioned banjo hit the floor. I was just glad I hadn't done it. But what a week it was..
"Will Scooter Skate On Perjury Rap? " (War in Iraq)
"Walter Reed Gets Black Eye"
"Indonesia tries Concrete Balls To Plug Mud Volcano"
(Nearly 1500 orbs are dropped into mire spewing hole.)
"I.C.E. Agents arrest hundreds For Deportation" (Kids? What Kids?)
"Satanist Gremlins Infest Beertown!"
(Newest release from Session Americana to include warning sticker: "Satanic Messages May Appear")
Ho Ho Ho, so Kimon picked up 1,000 copies of "Beertown The Tabletop Collective Vol. 3" on Tuesday.
By Wedneday noon we had crept through the condemned parking garage of Umass and were in full rollout mode on WUMB. By evening we had popped BTTCV3 into the turn of the century CD deck for maximum audio effect...
The words did a digital crawl, just like Times Square: "I Hate God And Christ" Who the hell put that in there?
I guess you could call it an instant collector's item.
...two nights, one table and the wind ripping up Mass Ave on the coldest night of the year. Thursday night when we had Rose Polenzani and JPo (John Pohida) down makin' us look good. Andrea Gillis chippin' in " If my pals don't like 'em I don't like 'em. I can say that without cussing!" Talk about the sound of doom. "I can't stress this enough." she said in her best Mahalia voice. So we kept our hand on the plow. Pretty soon we got floppy. Floppy. And Rose played piano , kicking ass on the muppets, and killing us with "Soft Parts". Yes JPo had his Prince on and Hall & Oates too. Smiling at those harmonies brothers, wheew!
No it doesn't smell. I just can't type>
JPo sure gave Dinty a start, sneaking up with hot chocolate octaves on "You Sexy Thing". By the second set we had Jerry Lee on John Brown. Only 2 hours to say "You Always Hurt The One You Love"....But Matt had the sound down, smooth like a lizard belly. The crowd was down, like a basement...And we were feeling no pain.
Chis and Joe called Billy first thing the next day, to let him know that the gremlins came through on the car stereo Thursday night on the way home...Score!
Friday was not so cold; and packed with Merry Amsterberg, Peter Linton and Laurie Sargeant on the bill. Peter and Merry wasted no time and took us down in the valley. I swear you could hear Billy Jo dropping something off the Tallahatchee bridge. It's the damnded thing, just like when Kimon sings...Then you put Laurie, Dinty and Rufus together, and she sings "Love Divine", man. Baby don't go is what I said but she talked about the neighborhood and the prettiest girl...
However at one point there was a mac attack, I was checking the sound, Sean said Oh Boy, and Billy kept the monkey back. Jenny's got a pony and it's another night with the boys.
Thanks to Charlie and all that mess for having us. For KC at the bar and Dan Kellar on the bow... thanks for coming out.
"Will Scooter Skate On Perjury Rap? " (War in Iraq)
"Walter Reed Gets Black Eye"
"Indonesia tries Concrete Balls To Plug Mud Volcano"
(Nearly 1500 orbs are dropped into mire spewing hole.)
"I.C.E. Agents arrest hundreds For Deportation" (Kids? What Kids?)
"Satanist Gremlins Infest Beertown!"
(Newest release from Session Americana to include warning sticker: "Satanic Messages May Appear")
Ho Ho Ho, so Kimon picked up 1,000 copies of "Beertown The Tabletop Collective Vol. 3" on Tuesday.
By Wedneday noon we had crept through the condemned parking garage of Umass and were in full rollout mode on WUMB. By evening we had popped BTTCV3 into the turn of the century CD deck for maximum audio effect...
The words did a digital crawl, just like Times Square: "I Hate God And Christ" Who the hell put that in there?
I guess you could call it an instant collector's item.
...two nights, one table and the wind ripping up Mass Ave on the coldest night of the year. Thursday night when we had Rose Polenzani and JPo (John Pohida) down makin' us look good. Andrea Gillis chippin' in " If my pals don't like 'em I don't like 'em. I can say that without cussing!" Talk about the sound of doom. "I can't stress this enough." she said in her best Mahalia voice. So we kept our hand on the plow. Pretty soon we got floppy. Floppy. And Rose played piano , kicking ass on the muppets, and killing us with "Soft Parts". Yes JPo had his Prince on and Hall & Oates too. Smiling at those harmonies brothers, wheew!
No it doesn't smell. I just can't type>
JPo sure gave Dinty a start, sneaking up with hot chocolate octaves on "You Sexy Thing". By the second set we had Jerry Lee on John Brown. Only 2 hours to say "You Always Hurt The One You Love"....But Matt had the sound down, smooth like a lizard belly. The crowd was down, like a basement...And we were feeling no pain.
Chis and Joe called Billy first thing the next day, to let him know that the gremlins came through on the car stereo Thursday night on the way home...Score!
Friday was not so cold; and packed with Merry Amsterberg, Peter Linton and Laurie Sargeant on the bill. Peter and Merry wasted no time and took us down in the valley. I swear you could hear Billy Jo dropping something off the Tallahatchee bridge. It's the damnded thing, just like when Kimon sings...Then you put Laurie, Dinty and Rufus together, and she sings "Love Divine", man. Baby don't go is what I said but she talked about the neighborhood and the prettiest girl...
However at one point there was a mac attack, I was checking the sound, Sean said Oh Boy, and Billy kept the monkey back. Jenny's got a pony and it's another night with the boys.
Thanks to Charlie and all that mess for having us. For KC at the bar and Dan Kellar on the bow... thanks for coming out.
