THE SENILITY PRAYER : God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference.
Silly mindless facebook games have been occupying my precious time as of late. I’m so easily hooked on shit. Nothing mind opening/altering, plain silliness. I guess there’s nothing that says a human being’s time has to be occupied by something thought provoking or world changing. Without that though I have nothing going on in between the synapses to share here. Oh well no loss, there’s always music to reflect on and that speaks for it’s self.
This buddy of mine at work (the only far right fundamentalist Christian who isn’t a relative, that I call a buddy) was talking about KISS the other day and we were reflecting on having been fans when we were kids. He mentioned that Paul and Gene had a band together before KISS called Wicked Lester, so of course I had to hunt that down (and I thought I WAS a fan). Not KISS, as that band was a response to Alice Cooper, the New York Dolls and the like, in an effort to play a little harder and to have a gimmick. WL is has more of a funky vibe with a definite 60′s hippy influence. Their album has never been released, I suppose at one time because it might taint the KISS image. I got the whole thing at The Metal Missionary, but here’s the first track and in my opinion the best…
Wicked Lester – What Happens In The Darkness
I hate to direct people to other places especially when they’re cooler than mine, but I would not be your chum and your pal if I did not recommend that you go and check out this site that an old trippin’ buddy of my turned me onto, The Acid Sweat Lodge. Not sure where they get all their pics from but, I’m in awe.
Ever heard of this guy, Jandek? I was trippin on old Son House vids…
“you know I didn’t feel so bad,
until the good Lord sun went down.
I didn’t have a soul,
to throw my arms around.”
…and I don’t know how I ended up with Jandek, something along the lines of someone calling him “avante garde atonal blues”, which peaked my interest, so here I am. Trippy stuff, I’m not sure what to make of it, but his story makes good reading. I’m not done exploring yet but this was a pretty good tune off his first album from 1978…
Jandek – Show Me the Way, O Lord
In the process of hunting down music from Mr. Jandek, a pop up page happened and started showing the first episode of the Jackie Chan Adventures. My son and I used to watch that cartoon…enjoyable.
One man band time. Picked up this one for cheap without knowing anything about it. I like those mystery purchases when the music turns out to be enjoyable. Both these guys do the one man band thing which must be popular in France as that is where these guys are from (I think). Kind of a bluesy vibe, definitely rockabilly with a little hipster thrown in (the kind of guys in San Diego who drove 40′s and 50′s bombers slammed to the ground, whitewalls, a spotlight, chop-topped, painted primer black and where dress, tatted, and side burns, like Mike Ness these days). I dig both of them although I think I favored Bud McMuffin. These guys have style though, something I have always pathetically lacked.
Like you I’m stupidly addicted to silly Facebook games. Had no idea that there was a band before Kiss.