Sorry Eric. I’ll refrain from further Vomit lyric writing during meal times! LOL!!!

Oh Micky, you said it. After Vomit I created Mass Insanity which was themed as Frank Zappa meets Motorhead - again, not a great path to the top! But then I played in classic rock cover bands, and then finally one last band of my own that was just an ecclectic mix of rock, neo-pagan sorta folk, blues, psychodelia, etc. Finally I wound up as a one man act doing half covers and half my own stuff. Much more mainstream, I suppose. But lyrically I tended to be a little heavy and avoided songs about love and sex (booooooooring). I was never mainstream enough to make it, I suppose, but the crowds used to love me and lots of people in the biz told me that I could have been huge had I just had the drive. But I didn’t. So I quit. I never gigged all that much anyway. It was a pain in the you-know-what and just wasn’t worth the effort. It’s a difficult, and frustratingly sleazy business. That and most musicians are morons.

JMJ

I just finished my lunch an hour ago, and would prefer to keep it down.

I am one grossed out moderator.

eric

“Just scrape it up off the floor, and put it back on your plate, ’cause people - vomit is good food.”

JMJ

JMJ

Said what? I thought the Kennedys were hilarious! My first band, Vomit, emulated them. Our songs often had a political bent, but outrageous humor and pushing hot-buttons came first and foremost. Our “Abortion” song was so extremely nasty (I wrote it, too) we had to stop playing it a couple of times. I won’t even get into the rest of that playlist! But people loved it and seemed to usually get the joke. Our tapes are still floating around out there. Once in a while some old friend will pop up and sure enough - “Hey man, I still have a Vomit tape and I still love it!” Then they’ll go on to sing some of the lyrics - “One minute to lift off, three minutes to doom!” (Take a wild guess what that was about!) I’m surprised no one actually tried to kill us!

JMJ

Ewww…

No, I don’t like any of them. When I was growing up, it was Motorhead, Ozzy, Floyd, DK, The Clash, Paul Simon, the Beatles, Billy Joel, Judas Priest - a pretty ecclectic mix. I pretty much have always detested most contemporary pop music, with the exception of only a very few really big stars.

JMJ

JMJ

Speaking of The Dead Kennedy’s, my life has intersected twice with their brief vocalist Brandon Cruz. I guess this was just before he joined the band, he enrolled his kid in Cub Scouts and we were at a training together. One of my friends recognized him from their childhood together and started chatting it up. Last year, I took my daughter to a Halloween party and was hanging out when I saw a guy dressed in leathers with all kinds of really cool buttons so I asked if I could look at them. After a bit we discovered we sorta recognized each other from years before and he told me he used to be the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys. I knew of the band, but not anything they recorded, until I just wiki’d them. I’m hugely fascinated by celebrity so I thought it was cool (at the same party my wife refused to point out an actress I would have recognized because she was afraid I’d just walk over and start talking to her — which is exactly what I would have done). So, who knew someone who was lead singer of such a foul-mouthed, anti-establishment band could be such a cool, supportive dad? Anyway. That’s my brush with a kid star and one-time Kennedys lead singer.