Golden Strap-on of Truth

[Just Some Girl]

No but it sounds awesome. Les Art San Frontiers.

[Doctor Rock]

Les Arts Sans Frontieres, Karen. 

Lordy, when was the last time I corrected your french?  Must be years! 

[Just Some Girl]

I was going to write (en francaise) the equivalent to: Please excuse my roast beef, for all of the small French that I have.

I never claimed to be bilingual.

[bebopbalogna]

mike watt tonight at the handlebar.  i'm gonna have to get one of the kitchen peeps at sluggo's to agree to tend the bar after midnight tonight so i can get over there.  handlebar shows never start before midnight and deadly fists of kung fu (the band i'm supposed to do an ac/dc set with in june) is opening.  so i just need to get there by 12:30 or so.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Keep rocking!

[Bizarro]

It's actually an amazingly shitty time to be a locksmith.

[Just Some Girl]

But elevator repair?

You could get in on the ground floor.










Yes, I deserve to be punished.

[Just Some Girl]

This doc about the Yonge Street rock 'n' roll scene in the 60s through to the early 70s looks pretty good. Stuff on the usual Canadian suspects, but also Rick James (bitch) when he was in the Mynah Birds with ol' what's his face, that Canadian all y'all like.

It's 3 x 1 hour, starting tonight on Bravo! (that is, the Canadian arts channel one, not the US Bravo), and there's more here on the project page, and I hafta say, I'm almost just as interested in viewers' stories/pics that they can post, as in the "official story." None of those early rock bars (and considering it's just one stretch of one street in Toronto, it's a pretty dense rock population) still exists, except for Zanzibar, and it's now a strip club, albeit owned by the same family. Yonge is now almost all exclusively shopping now. A Hard Rock Cafe sits at the location of one of those old live music joints...

If any of y'all want, I can check the interwebs later and see if there's a download. I do think it'll be interesting.

[captqitn]

But elevator repair?

You could get in on the ground floor.










Yes, I deserve to be punished.

bad, bad girl.

[Just Some Girl]

You calls 'em like you see 'em.

[Bizarro]

I liked that pun. Moving over to "Awesome Granola" now...

[Just Some Girl]

The first installment of that doc is pretty good, btw.

Started in mid-50s (not 60s like I thought) and the emergence of R&B bands, and blues musicians coming up from the US and finding a boozy (and musically open-minded...considering how "white" Toronto is) wonderland here, etc. Many of the taverns were actually burlesque houses that featured live bands. (Others were country and western bars that let rock 'n' rollers play on Monday nights.) Pimps/prostitutes and rounders and thieves were plentiful. The old footage was amazing. I know many of you live in a city with a long, rich musical history, and I knew T.O. was something in its hey-dey but hard to imagine staid old Toronto now compared to the craziness of all that neon and mayhem. One of the US musicians says he's never seen a street like Yonge Street in the late 50s/60s anywhere else in the world...

Yonge is impressive, I suppose, just being the longest street in North America. But considering the stretch of LIVE music venues (not just bars) was maybe 15 or 20 blocks, the old footage makes it look like it cold rival Vegas for craziness.

Ronnie Hawkins brought some crazy to the interview parts, so that's fun.

Anyway, looking forward to part two.