Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Lee Rocker Hits Town
If you got the email and didn't go too bad for you! What a great time even for a Sunday.
Lee Rocker is a long time bass player that we all first heard about when the Stray Cats hit the scene. That's not where it started though, if you check this link you will see Carl Perkins using Lee up front for one of his shows back in the day, and also in his back up band were heavy hitters like Dave Edmunds, George Harrison and some dude name Ringo. (They tell me him and that Geo guy are pretty famous.) What I find funny is while Carl Perkins uses Lee Rocker for his "Big Show" bassist, he has his son in the back ground playing an electric standard Precision Bass....why bother?? Maybe it was a make work project for the lad, but then with the hair cut he was sporting for the day I guess he would have needed all the help he could get.
Look for Carl Perkins & Friends, pay no attention to the suspicious looking hair on Carl....that's just natural for a guy who is somewhere between 70 and death...
O.K. I am being smart....sorry
So Lee rocker has been impressing people for some time now, and it turns out they are a great bunch of guys full of wisdom and advice.
Here is a shot of Lee giving Clem some tips on the business. He said "Clem you are going to go far....you can start tonight by heading down the street to the bus depot......." Actually they both have something in common besides chiseled good looks, they both play King Basses.
Here the band is hanging around in the management office. That's our buddy Darren between Lee Rocker and Clem. Notice Clem is the only one drinking.....well it is Sunday after all.
Darren has been promoting bands ever since I have known him and currently runs the "Roxy on Broadway" in Saskatoon. He always treats us great, and we love him for it.
We were really fortunate to meet such a great bunch of guys who put on a super show. Don't miss them if they get any where close to your town! ....
...And what were the rest of us YOBBS doing while Clem was talking business.....
Labels: Clem, Drinking, hot rod hullabaloo, King Bass, king Doublebass, Lee Rocker, Monty P Marshall, Stray Cats, The Roxy on Broadway
Saturday, March 24, 2007
No one reads my Blog...
So I have been writing about current events for a while now and the only comment I have ever got was from Scott Boy, that's only cause I slammed his girl friend (Joni Mitchell). I am trying to figure out what I need to do to attract more attention to my blog, I mean comments make for great conversation right?
One of my buddies said I need to post more pics of "BooB" shots.
I don't think this is what he had in mind....
So now I am on a quest for some one to send me a pic that I can post, comment on or maybe just make fun of.
Like this one here of our keyboard playing buddy when we were in Mexico.....He's not red cause of a sun burn.
So I do a search and type in Hot Rod with starteling results;
I didn't realize how close Hot Rod is to Hard Rod, Meat Rod, Hot sex, Hot woman, Hot .....you get it....
Here was a nice little sumary from another guy who doesn't think people read his blog
If no one reads your post, does it exist?
What do most people get out of blogging? After all, most blogs are virtually unread by outsiders...
The act of writing a blog changes people, especially business people. The first thing it does is change posture. Once you realize that no one HAS to read your blog, that you can't MAKE them read your blog, you approach writing with humility and view readers with gratitude. The second thing it does is force you to be clear. If you write something that's confusing or in shorthand, you fail.
Respectful and clear. That's a lot to get out of something that doesn't take much time.
So thanks to some guy named Seth who realizes that no one reads his Blog.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/02/if_no_one_reads.html
(p.s. it turns out this is a guy who has written a number of business / marketing books that are really cool. Check out his site http://www.squidoo.com/seth )
I think I will send him a comment.
Finally Carolyn said today that reading a blog is like snooping through or firends diary. Everyone is always tempted to do it, but if you did you would NEVER say anything about it.
Maybe she is right and that the electronic diary of our generation is still viewd as personal, even though you post it for the world to see.
So when your reading some one's Blog, do you feel a bit like a voyeur peeping into the window of some one elses life? If you do then you are looking for the boob shots right?
Labels: boobs, breast, Clem, head, hot rod hullabaloo, Lou, mexico, Monty P Marshall
Who Stole the Ash Tray Lamp?
Note the lamp on the leftAny one who has seen us live may have noticed our unique light show. It is no accident that we posses some of the coolest vintage lights from some of the better basements of Western Canada. Some of these gems we have found stopping at garage sales along the way to a gig, others just came from friends or foes or the landlady from the last tenants. Some Clem has found at the dump while looking for building material for his trailer.
But occasionally we carry a treasure that has deep sentimental value, or a sortied story.
The Ash Tray Lamp is one of those.
As legend goes, a young Lou Fontaine came across a Grand Master circus announcer one day while looking for empties along the side of the road. This fellow looked kinda creepy, and had a smell of smoked meat and day old liquor. He introduced himself as Ebru Labadon of the Shrine Circus, then said his friends all called him Eb. Eb was concerned that he did not have an Heir to teach the ropes of show bizz to. All his skills and abilities would end with him if he couldn't find a young squire to follow in the ways of the RiNG MaStER.
As a young man Lou was always egar to see what happens behind the curtain, so he said "Youz got thems Monkeys too?" To which wise old Eb said "driven away from Tobit's fiancee bit, by bit ye the stink of burning fish hangs around yer neck." Lou: HUH whaat?
EB: Err...never mind.. then punched him in the nose. Blood shot out like a water cannon and old EB laughed like the sound of thunder. He said to Lou, " squires always sign in blood....that makes it forever....." "But if you stop crying I'll let you spank thoses darn monkeys!"
So from that day forth Lou became the student of Eb the ring Master. Things were great for the first few months. Lou got to eat all the snow cones he could and at night try to peek into the trailer of the bearded lady.....but then one day it all came crashing down.
It seemed Eb had a lot of Friends that would come around at all hours of the night and they all seemed real interested in helping old Eb dig this real deep pit they kept calling
"Angel of deepness the Archfiend" Lou thought meant "Those NDP tax collectors can rot in the bottomless pits of hell" which makes sense to all of us...but it must have been a big hole to hide all the money they made so the government wouldn't find it.
"Angel of deepness the Archfiend" Lou thought meant "Those NDP tax collectors can rot in the bottomless pits of hell" which makes sense to all of us...but it must have been a big hole to hide all the money they made so the government wouldn't find it.
As curiosity got the better of him, Lou crept to the edge of the tent covered pit that strangely glowed with the embers of something exciting yet scary. The sound of laughter, crying, moaning and groaning mixed with the occasional clank of empty bottles, the sound young Lou knew too well . He stumbled upon "The After Hours Party." Lou may have been young, but he knew this was no ordinary party. The cries of pleasure sounded like the cries of agony Lou would hear when he was tasked with the deed of spanking the monkeys night after night.
Ever so softly he crept not to disturb the sleepy however watchful eye of De moine, the half man half goat that worked the freak show tent during the adult shows.
Then it happened, Tiny, the little circus monkey that Lou liked to spank jumped up in front of him and let out a harrowing cry, no doubt a warning to the others that Lou, YES LOU, the Monkey Spanker himself was stumbling into a forbidden event that would scar a young man for the rest of his life. The jig was up, Lou was caught. The girls were emberrased and the carnies were pissed.
Wise old Eb, (who's friends sometimes called him Bell zee k Bub ba.....cause he was from the south...the deep south.....) knew that Lou's time would come but he was just too young. Eb gave Lou his walking papers with a special parting gift. You guessed it, the red glowing Ash Tray Light. Eb left him with the instructions that when ever you feel like spanking the monkeys again, just chant the magic words.....
So if the lamp were to fall into the wrong hands, say the hands of a lamp thief, then I emplore you for your own good bring it back and let us kick the shit out of you.
As of right now your desteny is old Eb himself waiting to deal with you. One night in the near future at three a.m. you will be waked by the sounds of four legged beasts scratching at your door and you will know it is the 'wisht hounds' of the circus sent by Eb to hunt you down.
The only way to stop the onslaught of the hounds is that before you go to bed every night you must start by standing in front of your livingroom window with the lights on and the blinds wide open. In your mom's thong, with a small hand miorror look deep into your own eyes and yell the words
" Ladies and Gentlemen, children off all ages, in the centre ring I give you ME, THE Lamp Stealing MONKEY SPANKER. "....and I hope for your sake it works.
Labels: Clem, hot rod hullabaloo, Lou, Lucifer, Monkey, Monty P Marshall, spank
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Lee Rocker Here??? No Way??!!?!?!?
Lee Rocker, bass player from the legendary “Stray Cats”, is playing at the Roxy on Broadway on Sunday, March 25th. Tickets are just $15 (advance) and available through ticketmaster.
This will be one of the coolest shows that rolls through town in a while. Lee is supporting his latest album entitled “Racin’ the Devil”, which features twelve songs of scorching rockabilly, roadhouse romps and straight-ahead, old-school rock ‘n’ roll. Opening the show will be Saskatoon’s own “Hot Rod Hullabaloo”.
This will be one of the coolest shows that rolls through town in a while. Lee is supporting his latest album entitled “Racin’ the Devil”, which features twelve songs of scorching rockabilly, roadhouse romps and straight-ahead, old-school rock ‘n’ roll. Opening the show will be Saskatoon’s own “Hot Rod Hullabaloo”.
Labels: Clem, hot rod hullabaloo, Lou, Monty P Marshall
