Saturday, November 19, 2005

C'mon, C'mon


I couldn't believe my ears yesterday when I heard Cmon Cmon by the Gigolo Aunts on a commercial for the Food Network. Their Cmon, Cmon and Sloan's Cmon Cmon are both songs I sing all the time. Both pure Power pop at it's best. Yeah for the Aunts making some extra $$$. Wonder if they are still together, their last record was brilliant, seems like that has been about 2 years ago now.
So is there a full moon, or some cosmic weirdness in the earth's core? 2 weeks ago I spent two wasted days reading my journals that anguished on about two certain guys and then two weeks later I see them both one day after the next? What are the chances? I have yet to leave the house today, too scared who I may run into next.
Scotty J agreed to meet with me yesterday to help answer some music business questions I had for the novel. It was mighty kind of him to respect that I am serious. We're old pals anyway so I was glad to just hang for a few minutes and hear his demos for his solo record anyway. I figure if I ever were to get published, I would never want any of my musician friends to read it and say "that would never happen" I want accuracy in my fiction. Well, you know where this is heading, I walk out of Mayberry and there's Robin. It is always so wonderful to see him, I certainly don't run into him enough. He came and sat down with the Blaze kids and I at lunch, talked college radio and why KASR is KASC now. He brought up the Romantics, told him I loved them, he does too. After he left, my two girl directors were busy oggling that they met two Blossoms. I wasn't sure if 18-19 years olds would still be impressed with that but alas..a rock star is a rock star right? One said-"We were all about them at my elementary"... old I am, OLD...Blossoms are older though ;) The Blaze kids also toured the studio which they loved.
I am not shy abut my years adoring Robin because I know it was always so innocent, I never pursued it and eventually told him, never affected our friendship, etc.. Hopkins used to rail me about it so hard...it was a precious morsel of knowledge for him and he teased to no end...he had a happy go lucky side..not many remember that. His favorite line to me was "get over it" Since I am reminising, I recall we had only seen the Blossoms once, the infamous first time we stumbled into a show (Jesse was still the lead singer at the time, we kept saying to each other, "They should let the other guy sing more") Any way, I was on a guest list to see a band called Love Tractor at the Sun Club. We were just hanging out and Robin walked by me and smiled and nodded. I didn't know him, not sure why but I turned to KV and said I was hooked, that was it....I knew he was from the band we saw a few nights earlier. I plotted out with her my plan to tell him I was the PD of KASR and ask him if they want to come by the station, my big lure to get to talk to him. The best part of the story was not that fact that I did, that I gave him my little hand stamped card but the fact that Doug was standing behind us the entire time, listening to my plot. He was alwys noisy like that as we later found out but we didn't know them all by face after only seeing them once. By the way, we went to see the GBs a couple days later. Robin didn't remember me-heart break! After that night, we probably didn't stop going to see them weekly until they got signed and left on tour.. An era was born at Love Tractor at the Sun Club.

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