That photo reminds me of the time I was booked to do a gig in London, Ontario. It was an early 1990's ISDN hookup which was supposed to link this auditorium @ the University in London, Ontario with Noam Chomsky in Cambridge and Timothy Leary, Genesis P-Orridge and Ogre from Skinny Puppy in Los Angeles and I was booked to travel to Canada to play the after party. Since I spoke to Tim and Gen and confirmed they were supposed to be involved in this event I committed just before I traveled to the UK to do a bunch of gigs over there. Which meant I couldn't do The Orbit club in Leeds because I agreed to do this gig. Unfortunately, the kids promoting this gig were the most disorganized lot of idiots I've ever encountered.
Normally, I would visit John Acquaviva and crash at his house on my travels to and from Detroit but his wife was having their first child that weekend so I flew to Buffalo, NY rented a car at my own expense so there wouldn't be any trouble with work permits since I traveled with a substantial amount of equipment at the time. Then I drove to the hotel and the room wasn't paid for so I had to put my card down for that. Finally got in touch with the promoters and was hanging out in my room with Richie Hawtin's buddy Rob Calisto and the promoters had to spill the beans. The University didn't like what they were doing and they didn't want any rave to happen on campus and they pulled their ISDN connection which were quite expensive to do at the time. So no Noam Chomsky. Because Timothy Leary lived in Beverly Hills he knew some computer whizzes who could link up and transmit to the University auditorium. Genesis P-Orridge lived in Northern California at the time so he didn't make it to LA because the promoters didn't sort that out and I guess Ogre just blew them off. So I traveled all the way there and they got some of the money they guaranteed me delivered to the Hotel which didn't even cover the costs I had laid out. They asked if I would make some sounds in the auditorium that would not be able to be heard but would be transmitted to LA so Timothy Leary could hear it which I agreed to. Now Tim was pretty deaf and wore hearing aids so this whole booking was devolving into idiocy but they guaranteed my fee but they said they couldn't pay me the balance due which was substantial. So I got them all in the station wagon which I rented and explained to them that we were going to go around to all their bank machines and collect what we could. Then they tried to pay me off with magic mushrooms. One of them then made me drive to his brothers, who was a drug dealer and they came up with most of the cash magically! These kids were really arrogant and thought they could pull this whole event off while they were all f*ed up on mushrooms and it was a complete and utter disaster. So I collected most of my fee and called John Acquaviva and went over to his house, chatted, had a nightcap laughing at what a bunch of idiots they were. When I got back home I called up Timothy Leary and we had a funny chat about the whole event. He was completely hammered and hilarious with the students. When the Q&A happened he just nailed them because these kids were all tripping their brains out and couldn't string a coherent sentence together and Tim was merciless on them. He just called them out on their "mindless blabbering" and scared the sh*t out of them. Ahh, memories... telepathic regards, the kooky scientist ----- Original Message ----- From: "KiDD*e" <3...@qui-design.fr> To: "Three-One-Three" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:33:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: (313) funny detroit pic of the day I can easily imagine Noam Chomsky enjoying subtle Detroit-Techno. — K* Le 20/10/2009 23:16, kent williams a écrit : > I don't know this Nicole but she friended me out of the blue on > facebook. I do know a) she's from the D b) she DJs, and c) this > picture of her made me laugh: > > http://www.cornwarning.com/images/chomsky_detroit.jpg>
