Wed July 6th

Wednesday July 6

The Show

The show was a bit tricky with performing band complete with tiny amplifiers as well as a snare kit arriving when the tattoo had not yet been completed. Other than that, everyone was fun to have around. We spent time discussing the firing of Danny Bonaduce, one time member of the Partridge Family, more recently a morning DJ on another local radio station. We gave away Pat Benetar tickets and one of the ticket winners gave his ticket to the woman being tattooed. I was probably a little harsh on "War of the Worlds". I called it a turd which might not have been the best or most accurate adjective. I was disappointed by the film to say the least.

The Guests

Lisa Harjo wrote us a heart-wrenching letter about the very rare
disease she has and suffers from. Only 30 people alive have this disease. She said she loved the show and she also loves NASCAR and wanted to get a Tony Stewart "smoke" logo on her arm so we moved things around and called the people at Rubes Tattoo Parlor in Arcadia and the very talented Adam Portillo came by and did the inking. He was accompanied by the Rubes' "jack of all trade" Mr. Rockfish, who's been on the show like four other times and is always fun to have around. The cast of So Alone, which is what Chuck termed a playsical
(combination play and musical), arrived and set up to do some songs. So Alone is the story of Johnny Thunders and was written by William Mittler (go to www.stagesentertainment.com for information). The two covers they performed, "Born to Lose" and "Chinese Rock", sounded quite authentic to me.

The Songs

1. Kill Your Idols- We've Tried Nothing and We're Out of Ideas
2. Partridge Family- I Woke Up in Love This Morning
3. Housemartins- Get Up Off Your Knees
4. Towers of London- On a Noose
5. Beautiful South- Everybody's Talkin'
6. Cloud Room- Hey Now Now
7. Pennywise- Pennywise
8. Weezer- Good Life
9. Replacements- Kiss Me on the Bus
10. Horrorpops- Baby Lou Tattoo
11. Rank and File- Rank and File
12. The Cars- Doncha Stop
13. Foo Fighters- Miracle
14. OP Ivy- Take Warning
15. The Clash- Stay Free
16. PJ Harvey- Down By the Water
17. Adolescents- It's Tattoo Time
18. Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen in Love
19. New York Dolls- Personality Crisis
20. R.E.M.- Don't Go Back to Rockville
21. The Skids- Into the Valley
22. Bad Manners- Lorraine
23. The Monroes- What Do All the People Know
24. Bouncing Souls- Kate is Great!
25. Wet Willie- Keep on Smilin'

Trac 1 Wanted to play some hard and fast modern day punk rock.
2 In honor of Danny Bonaduce's firing. He's the bass player.
3 Got so muchattention last Friday.
4 Was in the PRM and I hadn't heard the band or the song yet so I was really curious to check this out.
5, Having played number 3, and there is so many Chavez sent songs I want to get to by both bands, that I thought I'd shoot this Harry Nilson cover in to start things off.
6 Dick's Pick; I really like this one a lot.
7 Local boys, local punk rock.
8 There are songs by these guys that I do like.
9 Classic Mat's.
10 Very apropos request.
11 Real upbeat memory lane stroll.
12 Deep cut from this hit machine.
13 Mellower track from the double disc.
14 Never a bad time for these guys.
15 The men who wrote the book.
16 Thought I'd get a little sensitive.
17 Kind of a tatuesday tradition.
18 My favorite by a band with so many greats.
19 Played this because the cast came in.
20 Always enjoyed this one called Rockville Rockfish and managed to only make myself laugh.
21 Little known and overlooked.
22 Fantastic ska love song.
23 Pop perfection that time forgot.
24 Just a real good modern day punk song.
25 Superb choice to end the show if I do say so myself. Keep on smiling, Dicky.