| And great music played with edgy joy. I am not exactly a Rock and Roll encyclopedia, as Popa would have you believe. I have huge gaps in my musical knowledge, many chapters missing, but I do love it, always have. My first memory of Rock and Roll is being out playing in a park outside of a YMCA in Toronto, at about the age of 4 or 5. I began to hear the sounds of a live band; guitars tuning up, and drums bashing about, coming from the basement of the Y. I abandoned the swings and grass for a spot lying on my stomach on gravel, with my head down in the window well, not minding the cobwebs, but wishing there wasn't chicken wire and frosted glass between me and this wonderful noise. |
 My 1st Chubby! 
The finest in garage rock! |
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All my life I have sought out the music, moved to the front and basked in it. Live shows have sustained me and thrilled me, I came up in the '60s and '70s when there was a lot going on musically. Radio ruled, and Television offered me glimpses of all of it via The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Soul Train, and American Bandstand. I also got healthy doses of Country Music straight from the 8-track and my trucker Dad's favorite station CFGM. Loved the Outlaws, loved the punks, loved the New Wave, loved the noisy ones from Detroit, and the cool ones from NYC. |
Creem magazine...my bible |
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It was only when I married my New York guitar player that I was moved to pick up an instrument. I recall sitting on the arm of the couch playing tambourine during one of our Brooklyn living-room jams, and just feeling so lame. So... "This will not do. I ain't no tambourine player; I'm a bass player dammit!". So, at 37, with two 6 month old baby girls, and 7 and 11 year old boys in school, I decided to take up the bass. Going was slow, and I'm still not that slick almost 9 years later, but I love it. What a thrill to hear a song and realize that I could figure it out and play it. Popa taught me a little, and the rest I learned by venturing out and playing live. I love and thank all the players who put up with me train wrecking their songs. I love and thank Popa for pushing me to get out there when I would rather have saved myself the humiliation of tanking. I tanked quite a lot. |
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Anyway, I wrote a few songs of my own, and Popa and Dixiefrog gave me a shot. I had a blast making this record. I really hope you like it. I have covered some of my favorites too. Songs by Bo Diddley, Willie DeVille, Professor Longhair, and Robert Johnson for example. Thanks for checking it out. |
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