heh...i remember back around the same time going with vapourspace to
meet up with john for a party they were both playing at in london. it
was a rickety old barn and it was probably about 30 degrees out. marks
gear, which was about as much as you used to travel with back then was
set up in the loft part, which we expected to collapse any second, or
at the very least what passed as the stairs stranding us up top.
apparently the farmer wasnt quite aware of what he had agreed to, or
was misled as to what would be transpiring and starting about 130am he
would come out every 20 minutes or so to pull the plug on the
generator. he allegedly appeared with his shotgun at one point. the
more i think about it i cant even remember if mark or john even wound
up playing or if the party continued. i wonder if those were the same
kids?
actually, i think the only party i even went to in london that wasnt
thoroughly backwoods country was the one you played at in the old
whorehouse with all the secret passageways. ahhh...those were the
days, eh?
next time you talk with acquaviva ask him about riding back with
omegaman from the party at antioch college in ohio that the SWAT team
showed up at in full-on riot gear before it even started because the
university found out what was going on. rumor has it that there might
have been a strip search involved ;)
On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:02 PM, telepat...@comcast.net wrote:
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>
