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Paul Kantner dead. One of the founders of the original San Francisco rock and roll. I used to ride my bicycle past their Haight mansion when I lived there in the 70,s. ROLL ANOTHER ONE AND ROCK ON!

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: November 05, 2015, 10:21:02 AM »

Last sonf with two years ago: This Queer Don't Run"....interestingly enough Bubba The Love Sponge was paying here in FLA. Paul Branin is hoping there is another gig in SF in the spring?

?? Possible?

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: October 30, 2015, 06:23:02 PM »

So how do you get back into this? Perhaps to tell Mitch and The City Boys Conan just returned from Scotland paying tribute to "The Cocaine Queen Of Aberdeen?"
to Vinnie: the snowfall was not quite as nice as the Gig at the Knockout.....Hope all the City Boys are still kickin it. As a quote goes "Ill be back>' Conan

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: June 18, 2014, 10:34:46 AM »

So what's going on with the City Boys?

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Music Shit / Re: Lou Reed: Dead

« on: October 27, 2013, 05:15:12 PM »

Good bye old friend and pioneer...you've counted well of yourself.

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: October 27, 2013, 05:14:05 PM »

Mr. Velvet Underground, pioneer rocker....gone.....made it way past normal time for a rocker.....thank you for your inspiration and leading us by example

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Music Shit / Re: Moon Studios, Sacramento

« on: January 27, 2013, 03:54:49 PM »

O recorded 8 of the 10 songs on my album "Tell Ol' Anita" in the mid 70-s i knowthis is old but what thew heck...trying to get ahold of Dave Houston myself today

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: September 30, 2012, 10:31:49 AM »

Magoo, report to studio1 for recording "White Line Fever" dedicated to Vinnie

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: March 06, 2012, 02:02:54 PM »

Vinnie, I thought you had left THE CITY!

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: June 16, 2011, 06:02:41 AM »

The gig at the KnockOut Club was the epitome of what City Rock is all about. It represents the dark side, the determined but sometimes destitue....IRREGULARS, in the shadows, in the heart of every big city with with a rock and roll soul in its belly. It is the clubs where everything imaginable might take place, the activities which would make any college jock squirm and avoid. There is no normal and everyday sexual orientation as defined defined by the politically correct, regardless of which leanings you might pursue. The Rocker doesn't find need to include the subject in conversation. The City Rocker lives and runs on day to day survival both for sleeping quarters, food, companionship, and hope. It is day to day existence with a deep yearning and determination in your guts to survive each damn day as you still dream way down deep inside. You dream dreams you dare not share lest you be called a fool or just another burnout. You've always got your back to the wall making sure no one is going to take you down. You do the right thing to others even when others are not doing the right thing to you. You will do some things others might find repulsive in order to make it through one night all the time knowing that particular situation is only temporary in your long range dream and perhaps no one will know about it but you. During the down times everything you eat drink, wear or sleep on is generic. You are like a chameleon on the streets....you change your appearance, both socially and physically according to each incoming situation. You are a survivor but you are always ready to be loved, to love, to be honest, unless someone in front of you is a pathalogical hustler, then you become a worthy combatant. Your inner passion and talent is for writing it all down into song and playing it back to the players. The gig at the Knockout Club was captured quite well with it's dark dark appearance. How many there would have wanted to be seen clearly on a video to be broadcast around the world, or have bright lights in their faces? When you are perhaps a bit high//// Yes Vinnie? It was a night of $2.00 Michelob versus a black and white can of beer which said simply "beer"..It was a place to feel safe amongst your peer group...from as far away as New York City. Everyone on that stage was a true City Rocker, by the above defined description of City Rocker. Some flew in by plane, drove in, hitchhiked, took a bus...some walked....it was a time to celebrate one more day of living....in...The Heart of the City." Carolyn, you captured the essence of the event. It was more than enough!

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: June 16, 2011, 02:51:22 AM »

First off i want to thank each and every one of you involved in the May 19th gathering at the Knockout Club. I am grateful also to the tech support group at Tampa Bay Community Television station here who did their best to lighten the video. In hindsight, it is always easy to say this or that about any gathering such as this was. If you want a professional video, you pay the money and bring in a pro. If you want the lighting for a volunteer video person, you bring the lights up (which would have pissed everyone in the audience off)...When i hear myself screaming to sing I wished i had paid more attention during the sound check....It is easy to be a arm chair quarterback I am most grateful to everyone involved for exactly what we did manage to pull off. I mean...every single one of you....Mitch, you had your hands full with this 3 day affair and you did great....Musicians one and all you performed great. It was a long await pleasure to share the stage with my long time friend and producer Paul Branin who produced and played on Heart of the City album, Paul Quattrone whom I had admired and respected, Brace with your youthful energy and exciteable self, Garret, you were supurb, Geremiah, you were the essence of Shithouse Shootout and each one of you were humble and polite. Vinnie, you were more than I had imagined and all of you had one thing no one can question" YOU HAD THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE TRUE CITY ROCKER...each and everyone of you....Carolyn, I am most grateful to you because this video caught the essence and spirit of not only the gig but the energy and excitement of every single Rocker in the joint that night....Only freaks video their sexual trysts....this gig was more intimate than any sexual tryst I've ever encountered and trust me....I've did it all....This was more intimate and more energetic and more personal than anything. I am deeply grateful to all of you and i look forward to my next album and my next gathering with you all...somewhere, some place..but it will happen...Best regards to City Rock and all my fellow Rockers...Best regards Conan

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