Re: [bomp] Dylan at a club last night

["Immortal Porpoises" <immortalporpoises@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee: looks like it's all piano again. It was cool watching him pitch way
down & forward to sing over the keyboard, cool that he covered it with black
cloth so as to not advertise for the manufacturer, and cool watching him
play harp without the wire neck thingie. There were a lot of harmonica
solos.

It's impossible to say I actually enjoy Johnny Maestro or Jay Black in the
ordinary sense of the word "enjoy.". But I can lighten up and have a campy,
really stoopit good time now and then, and I live in the sticks nowadays and
the Stooges didn't come to the Chance or the Mid-Hudson Civic Center
(although Twisted Sister and Alice Cooper are both due there soon, and I'll
be skipping those, Twisted Sister because I'm scared to mingle with their
audience, and Alice Cooper because my wife won't let me go).

Jay Black was playing the Orange County Fair, and I wouldn't have gone
because it was a pricey ticket and, well, you'd have to see the Orange
County Fair, which comes laden with about a million in-bred reasons to stay
far away, but I won free tix answering an easy triv question on local radio,
so what the hell. I'm telling ya, if you can just do the Hitchcockian
suspension of disbelief right at the beginning, you can have a great time.
And somebody should do a proper cover of Let's Lock The Door. Plus I have a
6 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing with Jay: one of my best friends, a trumpet
player who played with me on a couple of Fleshtones tracks on Solid Gold
Sound and also plays on my Immortal Porpoises EP, was in the Americans horn
section during the period when what was waiting to become Steely Dan was
playing keyboards & bass in the back-up band.

For a few years after departing the Fleshtones, I did regular work,
frequently in a tux, with a bunch of Richard Nader-type acts, including but
not limited to the Cleftones, Vito & The Elegantes, Laverne Baker, Randy &
the Rainbows, The Chimes, and one 9-hour gig at the Nassau Coliseum where I
played in the pit for way more acts than I could ever remember except one wa
s Cynthia's aunt and another was a late addition to the lineup that forced
me to violate a long-standing rule against playing Wooly Bully because it
was Sam the Sham himself and he was a real gentleman. I started to dig
seeing these older audience members having such a good time, and many of the
performers were real class acts (of course that was around 1993-96, so by
now those "older" people having such a good time is me at a Dictators show).
Ever since those days, if an oldies act is conveniently located and
affordable, I give it a shot.

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