The weekend before last marked the 21st meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d decided […]
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Monkey Power Trio 21… 60 hours in the Cleveland suburbs with a bullhorn
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged Airbnb, Aunt Esther, Brooklyn, bullhorns, Caleb Brokaw, catfish, Cleveland, couches, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, Geographic Midpoint Calculator, Glenmorangie, Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban, Jimi Hendrix, Mars, Matt Krizowsky, midgets, Mike Bell, Olympus Mons, Potosi, Redd Foxx, Rodney McMillian, Sanford and Son, scotch, Steelyard Tavern, West Side Cleveland Market, Winnie the Pooh, Wisconsin 16 Comments
Tom Snyder, new wave, and Kim Fowley
I’ve got work to do tonight, but I can’t seem to find the energy. So, I’m procrastinating, watching old episodes of The Tomorrow Show, and bemoaning the fact that we don’t have good, substantive late night talk shows anymore, or, for that matter, television hosts like Tom Synder. For those of you unfamiliar with Tom, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Media Also tagged 1977, Cherie Currie, dog meat, Google, jail-bait rock, Kim Fowley, new wave, offshore tax havens, punk, punk rock, Runaways, sex kittens, The Runaways, The Tomorrow Show, Tom Snyder, Tomorrow, villians 11 Comments