Re: (TV) Re: OT: You know, reading this list hasn't been half as fun since last Tuesday...

["leif joley" <leifjoley@hotmail.com>]

An hour ago I made a phone interview with Graham Parker from his home near 
Woodstock, upstate New York, and he kept coming back to the terrorist attack 
all the time. He's about to go on tour with The Figgs but he really didn't 
had his heart into it, or how he put it. His friend and former drummer from 
The Rumour, Steve Goulding (feautured on the new GP record "Deepcut to 
nowhere"), lives downtown Manhattan, so Parker was horrified when he heard 
last Tuesday's news on the radio during a car ride to Boston to rehearse 
with The Figgs. One of the last things he said to me was that one could only 
hope that music can somewhat heal the pain after last Tuesday's events.

He sounded as a really nice person, and he's my all time favourite artist, 
apart from the TV gang; he's probably friendlier than any of them, too. On 
an early stage of our talk I mentioned that I hadn't any idea about what his 
new book was about, but that I had read his first, "The great trouser 
mystery" (1980). On a later stage a wondered if he ever considered to write 
a song called "I'll never play Malmv again", because there's a song on the 
new release called "I'll never play Jacksonville again", about a trip to a 
concert in Florida. Those who listen to the tune will find the lyrics quite 
nightmarish, but the story behind it all made me laugh out loud: He came 
with his guitar to this joint during a rain storm at midnight, and there was 
this warming-up-singer who sounded like Neil Young in the verses and Johnny 
Rotten in the choruses. "I thought: either the audience really like this or 
they are idiots, or both", Parker said. Song after song after song sounded 
like that. There were two couple and one mental case in there. The couples 
didn't sat next to each other. The nuthead wandered around in the place, 
stood in front of one of the girls and inspected her legs, and then wandered 
around some more. When he took a second look at the girls' legs, her partner 
headbanged him. The staff joinded the outraged boyfriend and participated in 
the beating. Through all this, GP sang and played his songs at maximum speed 
so he could get out from there as fast as possible.

This horror gig in Florida was much worse than the one in Malmv back in '93 
or '94. Then he was to play an acoustic concert in a place called Heartbreak 
Hotel, and the thing is, at that particlar gig in Malmv I approached him 
with the first published book and got him to sign it for me. All of a sudden 
GP said, "Now I remember! A huge country & western style place, with almost 
no audience at all!" "That's right", I responded. And then he said: "Was 
that you with my book?"

Leif J, Sweden


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