This upcoming June 12 and 13 at the Record Bar, radioman, podcaster, label owner, trivia host, burlesque dancer, DJ and all-around connoisseur Robert Moore is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his freeform music show Sonic Spectrum (now heard on Saturdays on KRBZ 96.5 FM and as a podcast via Present Magazine) in typical fashion*: two nights of kickass local music for 10 bucks each.
Friday, June 12
9 p.m. the Dactyls
10 p.m. Actors & Actresses
11 p.m. Olympic Size
12. a.m. Be/non
Saturday, June 13
9 p.m. Cowboy Indian Bear
10 p.m. Organic Proof
11 p.m. Dri
12 a.m. DJ Just
*Actually, I think this is the first year that hasn't featured a national act.
CLOSING DIGRESSION
Speaking of Robert Moore and national acts, I ran into Robert after the Pierced Arrows played last night at the RB. He'd just seen a little documentary about the old Cowtown Ballroom venue. I observed that Steve Miller nowadays looks a lot like the comedian Fred Willard. (Even their names sound alike.) That led to a discussion of Fernwood 2 Night, the 1970s fake talk show hosted by Willard and Martin Mull. I'd never heard of it, so when I got home, I dove into the YT and found something pretty amazin' ...
Not only does it feature Tom Waits playing a snippet of "The Piano Has Been Drinking," it also has him uttering -- possibly for the first time the phrase was ever heard -- "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
Well. After I posted that video on Robert's Facebook page, folks chimed in discussing the phrase's origins as possibly being either with Dorothy Parker or from the eponymous song by Randal "Dr. Rock" Hanzlick, a physician based at Emory University who apparently first read the example of chiasmic reversal on a bathroom wall in the 1970s. His song, however, came out after that episode of Fernwood.
This morning, I wasted a whole hour digging through this new biography of Tom Waits, The Lowside of the Road by Barney Hoskyns, that I've had by my bedside for about the past month, but it doesn't mention the phrase or the episode of Fernwood. It's got lots of other good stuff in it, though.
Anyway, good clip.
Oh yeah, and Sonic Spectrum: Fifth Anniversary. June somethingth. Record Bar.
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I'd all but forgotten Nick at Nite! I used to watch Laugh In, Mr. Ed, My Three Sons, SCTV ... yes!
Yes, but that's what Nick at Nite was for. Before they showed six hours of the George Lopez Show and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, they showed stuff like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Fernwood 2 Nite and SCTV. And it was awesome.
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