pete the cat: rock on mom and dad episode
When they played at LaLuna, Joan was bald and as mean as ever. Vic Mizzy, 93. The political conversation was part of the DNA of the Irish. It was clear that they were still in love with Americana and that this album would be a monster. The band embodied the punk ideal of erasing the barrier between bands and fans. When I was offered a teaching assistantship in London for an Emory study abroad course, I packed my bags. I tried to be super-cool with her but in the photo of our encounter you can see a big streak of Clearasil on my jaw that I forgot to wipe off. my complete submission to the joyous Harry Styles album, How I Learned to Stop Fearing Teenage Girls and Started Loving Harry Styles. Now I couldn’t name you a single One Direction song. But we were all more excited about being close to Dylan. Hip Hop I arrived at the platform and the word was out that the Bobbies were busting ticket scalpers right and left. My first real rock concert was when I was 12; Queen with Thin Lizzy opening. Let me back up a space and say, at this point, at age 25, I was hyper-hetero. He was born and rested in Atlanta. So I was excited to see Sommerville’s new group. I could do this. I thought this blog might be a good place to publish some of the chapters. Maybe Bono would see me and pull me onstage to play another song. She was on a package trip and they were headed to London next. August 2001 In this blog I have marked the sociological significance of the passings of David Bowie and Chuck Berry. July 2010 In June, Cherie reposted a YouTube video I had linked to my page of nutjob Arizona governor Jan Brewer claiming that illegal immigrants were coming to America just to have babies (Brewer later claimed that they were all drug mules and beheading people). There’s a constant flow of creative energy. An industry person. 9/11 Sure, Tom Cruise was “good looking,” but I wouldn’t say it without the quotes. You say you want a revolution? Bob played three more songs but I raced behind the stage to meet up with Leslie, Steve, and Bono, all who could not believe that they just performed with the actual guy that every busker in Ireland was trying to become. It was agreed that I should plan on spending the summer of 1984 in Dublin and I could work as a roadie for the band. And Special Portland Topper: Jared Mees – Life is Long Besides being a perfect album, it gave me the theme song for my podcast, Recovering Asshole. Bum Rush the Show, 1997: The Spice Girl’s debut and Radiohead’s OK, Computer. Damn you, Limhal! We weren’t East and West anymore. It was also the last day of classes of my wild college career. And also, Andrea. It was a downer travelouge but highly educational. The French girls next door would occasionally dress me and I played Velvet Underground songs with the Irish buskers and, one night, told stories about hobbits during a party where everyone was on LSD but me. There is one pop album and one underground album that truly defines the decade. That was the last conversation I had with Bono. All over LA, the streets must’ve looked like a Seventies cop movie as U2 fans raced to ticket booths. But I knew punk looked wild and David Dickens was a punk. I could see the direct link from “Madame George” to “Bad.” In a pause from the geo-political discourse, I looked at Bono and said, “You know, I understand where the magic of The Unforgettable Fire comes from. For those of us that grew up on Kiss and The Ramones. ROCK ON MOM AND DAD: Pete wants to give his parents a gift for all the nice things they've done for him. He became Drivin’ N’ Cryin’s manager after I was fired, and later he was Courtney Love’s boyfriend (which means he’s in this book). I had front row center for AC/DC’s historic Back In Black concert at the Fox Theater and took the first girl who said she wanted to go. Tim had moved into the Treehouse and Kevn was sleeping on our couch. After the show, a few jokes were made about the “gayness” of the audience but music fans were music fans and The Communards sounded amazing. Way back in London, in 1982, I had learned to sublimate my Americaness. Everybody loves JEOPARDY! Available on Prime Video ROCK ON MOM AND DAD: Pete wants to give his parents a gift to thank them for all they do for him. My love of underground bands was the source of great interest for Bono. Shoes began raining down on the new wave combo and the B-52’s began to look nervous, like they were going to be devoured by an angry mob of backwater zombies. They told me they had just bought them from some guy outside for a hundred bucks each. Just turn on KMHD radio and forget about the train wrecks (both literal and not) for a moment. I had just started dating Starla, who was an Emory freshman and working model. But, can he figure out just the right gift to give? I’m so sad about his passing. He paused before he said anything, like the wanted to make sure he said the right thing. Feature By 1989, I had a good 7-years in protesting the Reagan-Bush arms race under my belt. From Cream's Disareli Gears album the song Politician(pete brown} should be Slick Willie's theme song: Hey now baby, get into my big black girl. It seems like each show I was farther and farther away from the band. Holla! So I spent a good bit of time trying to break them in Ireland. I was 21 in 1985, and not going to miss this gathering of the tribes. But I was the guy with the great concert tickets. Oh, yeah, chicks. There is also a DylanChat and the BDX, an exhibition of Dylan art by Dylan fans. Sandy loved the story so much she dragged me over to Cherie and made me repeat the whole tale. August 2002 The Europe I knew was on the frontline of the cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As I get older, the rate of friends and comrades passing away will only increase. I started to notice a new subculture in the West End, Russian tourists. It was such a departure from the strident War album. It’s a scene. I hit the deli tray and scarffed cheeses while Mary got the band to sign her Boy poster. There were so many people on the dance floor for this song, no one could move. Apparently he’d had heart troubles and a recent gall bladder removal. I pretty much went to every single concert after that. We had a great night with Shannon & the Clams and Portland garage kings The Shivas. I spent the next few days bumming around London. I will ring… and thanks again. That might have been a good thing, since shortly after that, the RUC opened fire on the crowd that Galvin was speaking to. For US airdates of a foreign show, click The Futon Critic ... Rock On Mom and Dad & Gotta Be You : Season 2 : 14. I was immediately interested because it was produced by Steve Lillywhite, who had recorded some XTC albums I was obsessed with (and my favorite Siouxsie & the Banshees song, “Hong Kong Garden”). Maybe 2018 will be our 1968. They were right about The Beatles. Pitchfork Is it streaming? Based on the New York Times #1 best-selling children’s books, “Pete the Cat” is a fun, musically driven series about exploring your world and trying new things; while being optimistic. In the past year, I had become a student of Irish history and “the troubles.” When I was a student in London in 1982, the IRA had set off a series of bombs. In Tua Nua were about to be signed to U2’s new record label, Mother Records, with their new singer Leslie Dowdall (who had replaced one Sinéad O’Conner). I explored Switzerland, Southern France, and Northern Italy, where my (now former) girlfriend, Starla, was living. There was really no way to find this music in Podunk Town in 1977. But I began to question the idea that anybody is exclusively anything as far as sex goes. One search, and I was off into the clickstream of random short clips (with not an ad in sight!). While I waited for River’s limo to rescue me from Long Island, I wondered where all this adoration would end up. It all began in late 1984 when Bob Geldof, of the Boomtown Rats, cornered Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about butter. The concert would be a chance to experience the intersection of Irish and rock history. Pete highlights the groovy lessons life can teach you. The hall opened in 1900 as the Camden Theater but had been the Palace since 1982. September 1996 Bono, placed the guitar on my shoulders and gave me the chords for Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” – G-D-C, G-D-Am. November 1996 August 2010 The band returned and ended the song in a big crash. (I streamed it on Spotify because my autographed vinyl copy is framed.) Limhal was the poofy-haired singer of Kajagoogoo who were topping the pops that summer with the airy hit, “Too Shy.” Despite the rumors that he liked boys, Limhal scooped in and purloined my fraulein. I was practically living at 688, crashing on couches in Pershing Point, Atlanta’s short-lived East Village, and occupying space with punk artists at the Blue Rat Gallery. David Bowie played my least favorite Bowie song (“Modern Love”) and my most favorite (“Heroes”), which brought another round of tears. If I had my summers off from college, there was no reason I couldn’t spend them in London, seeing bands and shopping for mod clothes on Carnaby Street. I noticed a few cassettes in the trashcan and quietly slid them into my pocket. I knew my way around. (When two tribes go to war, one point is all you can score.) Jason Isbell’s “White Man’s World” is a chilling take on election day and I must have played “Fuck Donald Trump” by YG a hundred times on the binks jukebox. It was March, 1989 and Soundgarden was touring in support of their first album, Ultramega OK. In 1984, I had tried to see George Harrison’s English house in Henlely-on-the-Thames only to be told that Beatle George had moved his family to Australia out of fear of nuclear war. I spent a lot more listening time in 1964 than 2017, perhaps as an escape from the endless bad news of America going into the ditch. At the show, the crowd was beyond excited. JFJO I gave her Patti Smith and she gave me Café Tacvba. A Taste of Everyday! September 2011 I knew the locals. August 2012 You’re meant to live with Mom and Dad until they die. My house on Birch Ridge Trail was only near other houses exactly like it. Since it was summer, the flat was never too cold and two more Irish roommates and a cast of visitors made my new home seem very warm, even if the hot water only came on once a week. I needed to find another member of the Columbia House Record Club and get access to the database (again, music websites were almost twenty years off). That was me. Maybe he thought people were going to start quoting everything that came out of his mouth. Before I got the job at Turtles, I would find out the release date of a new album and what time the store got its shipment and be there with bells on. There will be some great sociological discussions, but I have a feeling the best part will be charting her reactions as I lay some Dead Kennedys and King Crimson on her orejas. I remember the first time I logged on thirteen years ago in my office at Portland State. There was a mad dash to the trains to get to any pub that had satellite TV (a rare thing in 1985). She formed a band with the surviving Gits called Evil Stig (Gits Live backwards) and did an album and tour to help fund the investigation. “Introduce me to The Edge!” The best I could do was suggest that if you wanted to meet the band in Atlanta, just hang out at Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tomb on Auburn Avenue. And when they opened with the song, “Gun,” and Kim Thayil’s exploding guitar riff, it was on. The band launched into “I Love Rock n’ Roll” and the crowd went nuts. I had heard glimpses of their new album, The Joshua Tree, through Steven who was still the on-call fiddle player. But I was at the Agora Ballroom in 1981. forms of debauchery you are pursuing up in that college town. I would listen to the hypnotic “Bad” in my dorm room and think about the early version I heard Bono working on in Windmill Lane. The window of my squat in Brixton looked out at a massive mural of a nuclear holocaust. The booming bass of “Neon Angels on the Road to Ruin” drove my neighbors in the Woodridge subdivision to drink (or crank up their Waylon Jennings). My music highlight of the year was Beyoncé’s musical film, Black is King, released during the summer. A few Kiss albums, A Rock N Roll Alternative by the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent (I didn’t want to my ass kicked). By the summer of 1984, The Nightporters had a single, were selling out shows at 688, and had opened for The Clash. I even learned a bit about religion. April 1999 The June 29th show was at Dublin’s Croke Park and since In Tua Nua was on the bill I got in again as a drum roadie. Boy was a hard sell in Stone Mountain. I had to be as close as possible. November 2011 April 1997 After the show, the band came back to the stage to break down the equipment. First of all, he was actually listening to all this music I was sending him. So this isn’t the best new albums of the year, just the ones I enjoyed the most, while Andrea painted and Cozy built increasingly impressive towers of blocks. 2) The band was then comprised of: Stewart Copeland- drums Pete Carniff- guitar Pete Whybro- bass guitar Chris Khai- … With a pint of the black water (Guinness to you), there were no strangers or off-limits topics. It was a truly out of body experience. Some rambling thing that might have been a song. Queen staged a massive comeback and had the entire place acting out the video for “Radio Ga Ga.” And then Paul McCartney appeared, complete with a broken P.A., to end the show with a version of “Let It Be.” It wasn’t a Beatle reunion, but it was a Beatle. Galvin was an Irish-Lawyer who had been banned from entering Northern Ireland because of his leadership of NORAID. August 1995 Flying into Dublin from New York was much different than flying into London. I learned about them in Creem magazine. Was it a Christian album? Beck and Spoon on the Portland Waterfront were mass entertaining. I’m occasionally posting some chapters from my “rock memoir,” Jukebox Hero. Steve snapped a picture of us there and I have the goofiest look on my face. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices. All the way through to Justin Bieber. April 2004 I got to meet the rest of U2 after the show, Larry, Adam, and Edge, but it was all a blur. Turns out after all that, the dude couldn’t play the guitar at all. No Sex Pistols. Joan had been turned down by 23 record labels for the Bad Reputation album and just decided to create her own record label, Blackheart Records. The next morning I snuck out of the girls’ dorm at the Sorbonne (with the dorm master chasing me down the street and yelling rude things in his native tongue). They would be standing in a payphone on Rathmines Road and I’d be in a payphone on North Decatur Road and one of us would tell the international operator it was a collect call. Their encore included a version of Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown.” I felt in that moment how the kindred souls of artists crossed oceans and decades. February 2000 Some of Pete’s most notable traits include his Herculean strength, thunderous cackle, and namesake peg-leg. It’s time to start saying, “thank you.” David Dickens, thank you for letting me in. I wanted to get away from Stone Mountain and get closer to the music I loved (especially all things Beatle-related). It was the Love Gun tour and my head exploded. I was the Osmond they never talked about, Randy Osmond. Music had the power to ferry us through massive historical shifts. They brought the house down with The Runaways’ “Cherie Bomb.”. It's always good to see another AnCo fan. I attended the Portland premiere of The Runways on April 5, 2010. Similarly, some of my favorite albums of 2020 came out at the very end of 2019 (Harry Styles, The Who). The booed and shouted homophobic slurs, but that Athens party band partied on. However, my All Access Pass meant that I could watch Dylan from a castle on a hill or from a few feet way. Probably that I was an idiot. I had one of those filet of sole dishes where the fish face stares right at you. The band was now firmly in the zone. The second song on SNL, “Ever Since New York,” was even better. Since R.E.M. It was a great store, next to Piedmont Park and in the heart of Atlanta’s gay community. U2’s set ran through their more political a fare, all your MLK songs, “Sun City,” a Beatles song (“Help”) and two Dylan songs (“Maggie’s Farm” and “I Shall Be Released”). His persona was larger than life and as soon as I saw him, I knew I didn’t have to go to London or CBGB’s to find my tribe, it was right there. I went against all I was brought up to be; I moved out of home, wouldn’t take any help from my parents [her internet entrepreneur dad and his Lady business partner wife] and supported myself with waitressing jobs and stripping. We both value the totality of a great record. They all had the same puzzled look when I began to speak in my fake Irish accent. And then the far cheesier “We Are The World” finale, which didn’t really seem that cheesy any more. Here there was space to be your true self. There we ran into Bono, who was relaxing in the days before the big homecoming concert. I’d be living the high life of a drum roadie now that In Tua Nua was on Island Records and my A&R work was being sponsored by Bono himself. March 1996 I looked up and saw Princess Diana wipe a tear from her eye. Books Then I ended up at Ansley Mall Turtles. Leslie looked great in her black leather skirt and very un-Irish tan. Soon I got my hands on those Ramones records. June 1996 During the spring, I was on top of my game. I just listened to the lyrics about the new Europe bounce around the crumbling old regime. If teenage girls loved them, they must be devoid of any musical quality whatsoever. I went into a panic. I drove up to Mullholland Drive to the winding sound of “Where the Streets Have No Name.” It was bliss. Bono mentioned spending time with MLK that afternoon and then they finished the concert with “Pride.” But no one was going anywhere. Talk about paradise. Bay City Rollers? I watched the show, precariously perched on a newspaper box so I could see over a fence. I respect the hell out of veterans like my Dad… Sandy wasn’t the teenager I saw 20-years earlier in the wrestling hall, but she rocked full on, banging the drums like a construction worker (which she was at that point). Along with his pals - Callie Cat, Grumpy Toad, Sally Squirrel, Emma the Quebecoise Pug, Gustavo the Platypus, Pete brings you along on their adventures. (I think you might guess where this is going.) How butch are you today? About a year later, drivin’’n’cryin’ was signed to Island Records, U2’s label, and I have to think that getting that cassette tape to Bono had something to do with it. Jackie Fox went to Harvard and got her law degree. Are you riding the crest of a wave – Are you still in love?? Artists promoting their latest release would hang out in record stores and sign autographs. 17. In 1998, I was in LA for a sociology conference or something, and staying with my friend Jim Barber. It wasn’t exactly the Summer of Love 2.0. He knew there were scores of brilliant bands that would never have the success that U2 had. March 2008 Our own. Hip-hop In 2003, Vladimir Putin told Paul McCartney that it wasn’t Ronald Reagan that ended the Cold War, it was The Beatles – that once Russian kids heard that sound, they stopped caring about the Communist Party and just wanted to join the world party. I started my own channel in 2009 to “vlog” a cross-country trip, from Portland to Atlanta and back to Portland, that stopped at numerous famous crime scenes. It was also No Business As Usual Day, a day of national protest against Ronald Reagan, the military industrial complex, and the race toward nuclear annihilation. And this is long before Jumbotrons. On June 21, 2013, Jerry’s voice was silenced. And it’s been like that for every moppet that’s come along since then. April 2008 Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. And now I was managing a band on Island Records. More radical U-turns as kids heard the news along with the brilliant new songs. Viewers might enjoy that sight more than me explaining why a guy from Fugazi producing a Bikini Kill record matters. It was an open field even though 11 fans had been crushed to death at an open-seating Who concert in 1979. Chicago Sun-Times I was an insider. I would be back in Atlanta on the date, so I just enjoyed the music with the windows rolled down in the Nissan. He’d tell me the band was “whiney” and would never go anywhere. The 14-year-old tweeted a picture of herself strumming an electric guitar at her home on Sunday, captioning the snap ‘“#bass #jammin #music.’ Visit … Guthries Billions. The theory sort of falls apart with the death of the album in the 2000s. As she made her way out of the Hollywood Theater, I cornered her with my Queens of Noise album, the one I got from the record club in 1977 that Joan Jett signed in 1982. Once we docked in Holyhead, the band hopped the speedy train to London and I was stuck in the more “scenic” coach.
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