Moe Tucker, that is, the drummer from the Velvet Underground, who was recently spotted at a Tea Party rally. Ew.
Well, I guess she did drum to this:
But still. The Tea Party?
You probably don’t give a hoot about Moe Tucker. That’s understandable.
It’s different for me. Because Moe Tucker was my drumming mentor in those halcyon days of forming a band.
The date was 1985ish. The place was Iowa City, Iowa. And the players were a few rebels trying to get a clue. Ah, a band, indeed.
Since I’m tone deaf and was known to tap, tap, tap on everything around me, I was “picked” as the drummer. Lucky for me, about the only thing being played in the apartment at the time was the Velvet Underground. And so I studied the drumming of Moe Tucker.
Even luckier for me, the studying of the drumming of Moe Tucker doesn’t take long. Here, as I recall, were the words I uttered in my first Eureka-drumming-moment:
“Holy shit, I, too, can count to four!”
One. Two. Three. Four. See?
And so it was. The next step was to procure something to bang on.
Another Eureka moment: “Look, pots and pans and Tupperware!”
So, please, give me a day or two to let the news that Moe Tucker is a fucking moron sink in. Because it’s not like I can change how I count to four or something.
This helps:
Velvet Underground & Nico: Femme Fatal
Oh my.
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A note to my devoted followers (with a wink toward the dog): I will be appearing at Cedar Circle Farm this Sunday, October 10th, to drive a team of horses and a bevy of eager passengers around the pumpkin fields in search of the…well…pumpkins. I guess it’s not that complicated.
It’s in Thetford, Vermont. And you should know about Cedar Circle.
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This, too, must end.
Lou Reed once did commercials in the ’80s urging young men to register for the draft–part of those Reagan draft/drugs campaigns. He should have said “Just say no to the draft” and “Call me for Heroin.”
What’s David Crosby up to lately? Writing campaign songs for Christine O’Donnell? (so he can deflower her?)
Nico was a babe. Not as much of a babe as was Grace Slick , who was an original Tea Party activist at the White House in 1969.
Donny Osman needs a Marie. Then we’re all set.
Michael,
I want you and Boots and JD Ryan to get Dubie on audio/video, when he thinks the cameras & mics are off, saying that the voters are a bunch of sheep & morons who’ll buy any bullshit lie he tells. That’s worth a night in jail, ain’t it? But you’ll be a hero–a potential candidate for Gov yourself in 2012. Then I can do it to you.
See 1957 movie: A FACE IN THE CROWD.
Just do what I tell you–I’m the ‘idea’ man. And get some juicy shit up on this blog–you’re losing advertisers.