THE SQUID JIGGER'S HOOTENANY REVIVAL and BBQ

THE BITTER and BROKEN MEN'S CHORUS has been together for 10 years, they are Tom Fettig (of Fettig Tile fame, a family business for over 50 years) on vocals and Chris Vetromile on guitar. They have been friends since High School. Both are aging punk rockers who have been in several loud and naughty bands over the years, like PHILTH SHACK, STUDLORDS, SPEEDBUGGY and OVERNITE SENSATION, but have now gone the way of aging punkers, acoustic. However, age and lack of amplification has not lessened their punk rock sensibilities. They are from Orleans.

HOBO VILLAGE are some Wellfleet local color consisting of Grateful Ted Lucas on mandolin, vocals and indoor plumbing, Chris Manulla, guitars, vocals and bivalves (deputy Shellfish Constable of Wellfleet) and Jack Ravenshield on guitar, bass and vocals and are a transcendental proto punk psychedelic folk rock trio. They have been picking and strumming across clam flats, dunes and bars in various incarnations and groups through out the outer Cape, including DIRTY PEARL, SUPERSOUL, ATOM OF LOVE and TERRADACTLE.

Mary J Martin is of course the Outer Cape's high priestess of Uke, a known piker (who owes me $20) and all around bon vivant. MJM started playing Ukulele in Nova Scotia, were she was part of J. CHALMERS DOANE'S group of young Uke players who toured eastern and central Canada eh, and Vermont, made albums and appeared on national radio and television. Sasha Von BonBon, founder and leader of the Toronto burlesque group, SCANDELLES says MJM is their "Uke Diva at large, notorious for blistering LED ZEP solos. She frequently jams with New York's UKULELE-CABARET and Boston's UKULELE NOIR. She is a STRONG believer in the ukulele's versatility in relation to karmic re-alignment. She lives in Provincetown.


Also, it's $10 dollars at the door ($8 with your WOMR member card). 3 bands, and FREE BBQ while supplies last, provided by RUSS and MARIE'S MARCONI BEACH RESTAURANT in beautiful South Wellfleet. Libations are also served, provided by Kevin and all the kind simpatico souls at THE WELLFLEET SPIRIT SHOPPE.

THE SQUID JIGGER'S HOOTENANY REVIVAL and BBQ is the 8th installment of WOMR's HELLTOWN CITY LIMITS series, produced and created by Tony Scungilli, host of WOMR's savagely popular, SQUID JIGGER'S BALL heard the whole world wide (very BIG in Korea) on Outermost Community Radio, 92.1 FM or streaming on womr.org.

Tune in to THE SQUID JIGGER'S BALL on streaming WOMR or 92.1 FM on April 19th, THIS SUNDAY from 9 to Midnight for preview of coming attractions of Salvation, true and fine. And for those of you who missed it, the set list is all here, THE SQUID JIGGER'S HOOTENANY REVIVAL 19 April 2009 Also, features a few cuts by Peter Stampfel, solo and with THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS, here is a clip from a concert for the release of the documentary on THE HMR, called BOUND TO LOSE:

Also found some video footage of MJM performing at the WOMR Studio from April of 2008, during the final stop of THE UKULELE CARAVAN for a night called UKULELE LEFTOVERS:

Be just and fear not, fellow Squid Jiggers.

ALL HAIL THE KING'S BIRTHDAY

On January 8th all the karmic realignment is complete. Follow the guiding star and praise the Heavens, for it is the day of his birth, the King of Kings, ELVIS AARON PRESLEY.

ELVIS was the first rock symbol of teenage rebellion, baby the Hunka Hunka visual and aural embodiment of sex. Although he was beset on all sides by the squares who now believed that popular music "has reached its lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. His actions and motions were called "a strip-tease with clothes on" or "sexual self-gratification on stage." They were compared with "masturbation or riding a microphone." Some saw the singer as a sexual pervert, and psychologists feared that teenaged girls and boys could easily be "aroused to sexual indulgence and perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria—the type that was exhibited at the Presley show.ELVIS maintained in a pure true fine homily that there was nothing vulgar about his stage act, saying: "Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess." Amen, Brother, Amen.
Even big squares like Frank Sinatra did some dumping: "His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac. It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people."
But of course, only sour grapes, The Chairman of The Board would soon be crying in his Pasta Fazul as he was out charted by The King. Cuckoo- catchoo, baby, send in the clowns.

So, take a moment in your busy lives to pay tribute, eat a corndog, some deep fried Twinkie and valium, whatever it takes, but c'mon everybody, at least get loose and shake some action. Need some help, just follow the bouncing Ann Margaret, Amen to that brothers and sisters, Amen to that.

KEITH RICHARDS TURNS 65

from out there in the ether, by Alice Ritchie:

Rolling Stone Keith Richards turned 65 on December 18th, but he's tight-lipped about any wild party plans he might have to celebrate becoming a pensioner. The legendary guitarist, songwriter and wild rocker will reach the landmark age - more usually associated with gardening and cardigans - just a few months after Stones front man Mick Jagger, who turned 65 in July. "He wants to keep it very private," Richards' spokesman said of his birthday.
Named by ROLLING STONE magazine as the 10th best guitarist in the world, the shaggy-haired star has proved remarkably resilient to a lifetime of drugs, explained by his view that his body was a "laboratory".
Richards toured the world with the Stones last year, and continues to release music, although his image as a hell-raiser was nuanced by his recent appearance in an advertisement for upmarket luggage maker Louis Vuitton.

But the myth surrounding him remains strong, reinforced by tales of him falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji in 2006, reports that he snorted his father's ashes with cocaine and, for younger fans, his reincarnation as Johnny Depp's character Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.


Born on December 18, 1943 in Dartford, east of London, the young Richards was initiated into the world of the blues by his mother.
In 1960 he caught up with Jagger, an old primary school classmate, and with Brian Jones they formed Rolling Stones, named after the Muddy Waters song. Having built up a dedicated following, the band swept to international prominence with the release of (I can't get no) Satisfaction. Richards, who wrote the track, said the song's signature guitar riff came to him in the middle of the night. With the talent came turmoil.

As the Stones' success grew, so did their reputation as hell-raisers, with riots breaking out at many gigs as well as numerous drugs episodes involving Richards and Jones, who drowned in his swimming pool in 1969.
Speaking to Esquire magazine this year, Richards was asked about his intake of cocaine, to which he replied: "After the first maniac year of taking it, my intake of cocaine was, yeah, once after a meal."
In 1967, a now legendary drugs bust at Richards' London home saw both him and Jagger given jail terms, although the guitarist's sentence was quashed on appeal and Jagger's was reduced to a conditional discharge. For Richards, this marked only the beginning of his close relationship with drugs, epitomized by his remark:
"My body was sort of a laboratory. I wanted to see what I could do with it." His partner in much of this was Anita Pallenberg, the ex-girlfriend of Brian Jones with whom he had three children, although one died as an infant. He had two others with Patti Hansen, whom he married on his 40th birthday in 1983.

In 1977, Richards was arrested for possession of heroin in Canada and in return for clemency, he and Pallenberg entered rehabilitation. Part of the deal was a free Stones concert. But the respite from drugs was brief, with Richards later remarking: "I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police." After the Canadian episode, the Stones returned to prominence in 1978 with what many considered their best album so far, SOME GIRLS.

But in the early 1980s, Jagger moved the group towards a more modern pop sound, which Richards opposed. The future of the Stones seemed rocky when, in 1985, Jagger launched a solo career. Three years later Richards released his own solo album, the well-received TALK IS CHEAP, although this was not his first venture on his own - he had released a version of Chuck Berry's Run Rudolph Run in 1978. But talk of a break-up proved premature, and the Stones returned with a new album, Steel Wheels, in 1989, which kicked off a massive world tour. Through to the mid-2000s they have continued to produce new music and kept playing live. Richards has since released several songs from his back catalogue and it has even been suggested, perhaps mischievously, that he is planning an easy listening album. Asked in an interview with GQ magazine this year about his dances with death, Richards noted: "There were plenty of times I could've given up the ghost. But it just seemed like such a cheap way out."


Happy Happy Birfday, Keef

RIP Queen of the Pin-ups

Bettie Page, the Queen of Pin-ups, passed away on 11 December 2008. Naughty and nice, pin-up extraordinaire Bettie Page was hot, is hot, and likely will remain so in perpetuity. She is considered the model of the century. And seriously folks, after watching this video you just can't help but agree:

the official FRANK ZAPPA memorial squid jig

Hey There Squiddies, well now it's been 15 years since Frank Zappa went on off into the great beyond, and all of us at the THE SQUID JIGGERS BALL/BLOG still miss him. So, here is some footage for your mirth and merriment



And for all you Hungry Freaks, here are a few more bits of unmitigated audacity for your dining and dancing pleasure.

The SJB 11.23.08 Playlist

Well now then there Squid Jigger's, the playlist for The SJB from Sunday November 23, 2008 is now available for your dining and dancing pleasure. Save room for dessert,
THE SQUID JIGGER'S BALL 11.23.08

On November 12, 2008 the mighty Mitch Mitchell passed on to a better place (hopefully).His drumming with The Jimi Hendrix Experience was legendary.


And oh my my oh hell yes, since last we hung, had the pleasure of seeing THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL in Boston at THE PARADISE on November 15th (thanks Kate), a rock 'em sock 'em good time. Catch them when you can, until then here is a naughty bit: