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Re: (TV) Re: OT: You know, reading this list hasn't been half as fun since last Tuesday...
An hour ago I made a phone interview with Graham Parker from his home near
Woodstock, upstate New York, and he kept coming back to the terrorist attack
all the time. He's about to go on tour with The Figgs but he really didn't
had his heart into it, or how he put it. His friend and former drummer from
The Rumour, Steve Goulding (feautured on the new GP record "Deepcut to
nowhere"), lives downtown Manhattan, so Parker was horrified when he heard
last Tuesday's news on the radio during a car ride to Boston to rehearse
with The Figgs. One of the last things he said to me was that one could only
hope that music can somewhat heal the pain after last Tuesday's events.
He sounded as a really nice person, and he's my all time favourite artist,
apart from the TV gang; he's probably friendlier than any of them, too. On
an early stage of our talk I mentioned that I hadn't any idea about what his
new book was about, but that I had read his first, "The great trouser
mystery" (1980). On a later stage a wondered if he ever considered to write
a song called "I'll never play Malmv again", because there's a song on the
new release called "I'll never play Jacksonville again", about a trip to a
concert in Florida. Those who listen to the tune will find the lyrics quite
nightmarish, but the story behind it all made me laugh out loud: He came
with his guitar to this joint during a rain storm at midnight, and there was
this warming-up-singer who sounded like Neil Young in the verses and Johnny
Rotten in the choruses. "I thought: either the audience really like this or
they are idiots, or both", Parker said. Song after song after song sounded
like that. There were two couple and one mental case in there. The couples
didn't sat next to each other. The nuthead wandered around in the place,
stood in front of one of the girls and inspected her legs, and then wandered
around some more. When he took a second look at the girls' legs, her partner
headbanged him. The staff joinded the outraged boyfriend and participated in
the beating. Through all this, GP sang and played his songs at maximum speed
so he could get out from there as fast as possible.
This horror gig in Florida was much worse than the one in Malmv back in '93
or '94. Then he was to play an acoustic concert in a place called Heartbreak
Hotel, and the thing is, at that particlar gig in Malmv I approached him
with the first published book and got him to sign it for me. All of a sudden
GP said, "Now I remember! A huge country & western style place, with almost
no audience at all!" "That's right", I responded. And then he said: "Was
that you with my book?"
Leif J, Sweden
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