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well, that was fun...i almost got kicked off the Gretsch Pages for a) telling people not to insult "hippies" cos i more-or-less am one and b) telling them exactly what i think of Billy Zoom (who is a GP celeb since he has a signature model Sparkle Jet and posts there frequently). i suspect nobody's gonna try to lay down "i blame hippies for everything" on my watch in the future. it's particularly funny/galling that most of this crap comes from unreconstructed rockabilly gits of the sort that think The Beatles "ruined music." sorry we've moved on from 1956.

What exactly do you think of Billy Zoom?

second-rank rockabilly guitarist with a really shitty attitude, totally full of himself with an ego in no way justified by his work with one of the worst LA punk bands (actually, "punk" should be in quotes here) when LA punk was already unquestionably the shittiest subspecies of punk to ever exist. hasn't learned a thing since 1959. or whenever the fuck it was that he played for Gene Vincent in his last days, when Cliff Gallup wasn't having it any more.

What about his amps?

is he making amps? i know he was selling a over-priced spring reverb a little while ago.

well, i *do* like his guitar...

My coworker was talking at me unsolicited about music shit, and said "By the way, Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of 'Voodoo Child' blows Hendrix's away. Jimi Hendrix wasn't that good of a guitar player, Stevie and Eric Clapton were the shit. I don't know why everybody only talks about Jimi Hendrix. I think it's a minority thing."

Wut.

kill him now.

FWIW Clapton and Townshend were so boggled and terrified the first time they saw Hendrix that they wound up standing in the back and holding each other's hands for reassurance. truth: PT has talked about this in interviews for years.

Yeah Clapton was scared shitless of Hendrix because Hendrix was everything Clapton was wanted to be but way fucking better.

Would have loved to hear what Hendrix could have written in the early-mid 70s period when guys like Clapton, Harrison and the Who kind of reached a new echelon of songwriting and record making.

i would kill puppies to hear what he could have done with modern effects. my god, can you imagine?

well, this is even more fun than trashing B.Zoom...i'm currently decimating a so-called "Deadhead" who is all about stocks, money, and profit motive.

Amazing that Zoom lucked into the one band where he wouldn't be the biggest crank in it (thanks to Exene "Crisis Actors" Cervenka).

Do you think John Doe was really tryin' to strangle her?

dubkitty wrote:well, this is even more fun than trashing B.Zoom...i'm currently decimating a so-called "Deadhead" who is all about stocks, money, and profit motive.

I worked with a guy named Vince. He followed the dead for years as a "homeless" deadhead. He sold socks to get to the next show (a sock-broker to tie it in). If he saved up enough, he would check into a motel and sell showers to other deadheads. He had a kid with another deadhead and they had a kid. The kid and partner got into meth when the kid was in high school (San Diego area). They were pressuring him for child support so, he claimed, they could keep up the meth.

We were moving shops and it was just Vince and I left load pallets for the forklift. Vince takes off his shirt and says, "Hey Shaggy, what do you think of this?"

He turned around and had a full back tattoo of a swastika. "Us white boys got to stick together, eh? Seen Oildale lately? It's Mexican now"

I told him to shut his mouth and get out of my face in a much more crass manner. Sent his ass home and told my boss to fire him. As he got on his stupid Honda motorcycle I said something like, "You ever mention any of that racist bullshit around me or this shop, you won't be talking for much longer. This shop doesn't tolerate Nazis or Peckerwood assholes."

Like 2/3 of our work force were Latino as was/is my partner. Fuck that guy. I think he came back a for a weeks but and kept trying to appologize but he eventually just kind of faded away and no one really noticed. He never came back. I was/ pissed that guy thought because of the color of my skin I must abide by some prison politics crap.

Chankgeez wrote:Do you think John Doe was really tryin' to strangle her?

John Doe and Exene were really nice when I met them around 2000. Exene took time and talked to me for a bit (I don't remember what about) and signed a book for my girlfriend at the time. John Doe just mulled around the crowd and cheered on Exene.