Re: (TV) Howdy / Kinks

["Nick Powell" <nick@powelln.freeserve.co.uk>]

I reckon you beat me there Joe.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
To: tv@obbard.com <tv@obbard.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Howdy / Kinks


>"Nick Powell" <nick@powelln.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> Most pissed person I've ever seen on stage though was Steve Diggle of
>> Buzzcocks fame who came on stage for an encore with the great Naked
>> Raygun..............very embarrassing. There are good drunks and bad
drunks!
>
>Hey, Philip!  Welcome back!
>
>Drunkest performer?  Easy.  Root Boy Slim.  Actually puked and passed
>out midway through song #2.  The band just shrugged, put down their
>instruments and left him there.
>
>A close second (only because he neither puked nor passed out, but should
>have) was Jaco Pastorius, who arrived without a bass or band, and havintg
>borrowed a bass, slurred into the mic that it was his son's birthday and
>"played" Happy Birthday for almost an hour.
>
>He showed up the next morning (Sunday) at the radio station I worked at
>and said he was "ready for the interview."  Fortunately there was a jazz
>show happening then, so they faked an interview (Jaco mostly mumbled
>and swore), and then they tried to shepherd him to the train station.
>On the way, he saw the car owned by one of the DJs, an old restored
>Volvo (think The Saint).  Immediately enamored of the car, he asked if
>he could take it for a spin.  Amazingly, the DJ handed over the keys to his
>precious car!  90 seconds later, it was firmly embedded in the trunk of a
>stalwart old tree, and Jaco came shambling back, looking for a ride to the
>train station.
>
>
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