Memories of Panorama City 1982

.....I WAS A DISNEY BEAR.



The annual passes were so much nicer in 1996.

I think about him everyday.



Seeing this makes me miss him even more.

For the past three weeks these albums have been blowing up my iPod.



So when I'm not playing along with Purple or Tull I'm shaking my ass to the genius of Dezzy Child.

Danny: What the Hell? Is this the soundtrack to GREASE 3?
ME: Yes.



Desmond's a gay homosexual you know.

Erich sent me this and I replied:

From: Gutierrez, Carlos E [mailto:cegutierrez@XXXX.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:22 AM
To: Behnke, Erich (NBC Universal, KNBC NSO)
Subject: RE: Thursday

Is that your ex-nephew?


From: Behnke, Erich (NBC Universal, KNBC NSO) [mailto:erich.behnke@XXXX.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:24 AM
To: Gutierrez, Carlos E
Subject: RE: Thursday

dude...listen carefully to the birthday wish.


From: Gutierrez, Carlos E [mailto:cegutierrez@XXXX.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:25 AM
To: Behnke, Erich (NBC Universal, KNBC NSO)
Subject: RE: Thursday

HOLY SHITE!

I LOVE IT!!!

Fishing buddies!!!!

GENIUS!!!!!! SHEER GENIUS!!!!!

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL COMEDY!!!!

It's true. I was at a Fitz of Depression show at the Jabberjaw sometime around '95 when I crossed the street to get a 40 this chola girl got in my face and yelled, "FUCK HIPSTERS!".

So I'm a hipster. She said it, not me.

Here's my list of the most bitchin'est albums of the 2000's.

I thought this would be hard to write since the majority of the music I listen to was recorded prior to 1978 but there has been some pretty gnarly albums made in last 10 years.


Vintage Slideshow Collections from Seattle Vol.1 - The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Dawn Of Victory – Rhapsody
A Mighty Wind – Soundtrack (I have such an unhealthy love for this soundtrack)
Closing In – Early Man (Such an amazing album. Much better than the Sword)
Blackwater Park – Opeth
Watershed – Opeth
The Infinite Wonders of Creation – Luca Turilli
Kingdom of Rust – Doves
Blood and Vomit – Nattefrost
Van Lear Rose – Loretta Lynn
Chain Gang of Love – Raveonettes
Hidden World – Fucked Up
Now, Diabolical – Satyricon
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pagent - Soundtrack
Triumph or Agony – Rhapsody (of Fire)
Dark Thrones and Black Flags – Darkthrone
Permission to Land – The Darkness
The Beginning Stages of …. – The Polyphonic Spree
Brown Submarine – Boston Spaceships
The Triplets of Bellville - Soundtrack
A Bustle in You Hedgerow – Down
Over the Under – Down
Stankonia – Outkast
Hellfire - 1349
Lost Souls – Doves
A Matter of Life and Death – Iron Maiden
Orphans – Tom Waits
Real Gone – Tom Waits
Silent Noon – Bryn Terfel (only because I jerk off to that album)

An Overdose of Death – Toxic Holocaust
Pilgrimage – Om
Punctuated Equilibrium – Wino
Stadsvandringar – Dungen
Surrounded By Thieves – High on Fire
Blessed Black Wings – High on Fire
That Lucky Old Sun – Brian Wilson
Too Much Guitar – The Reigning Sound
Deliverance – Opeth
I Am A Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
You Are The Quarry - Morrissey (only because I love 'Let Me Kiss You' so much)
Valley of the Damned - Dragonforce
Sonic Firestorm - Dragonforce


WOW! It's mostly heavy shit.

Music is like money. OLD IS BETTER THAN NEW.

....was a dead beat dad.

Remember that.



Oh this makes my taint tingle!


"....girl you know the reason why!"


ALSO!
Before anyone gets all 'feelings' remember that I make fun of the ones I love.

AND!
I don't trust anyone doesn't like the Beatles.

...for this band to tour.



New album 'The Frozen Tears of Angels' out in March!



Shut up! I like this stuff! I like this stuff a lot. Like a lot lot!!!! I like this better than Blind Guardian and Fugazi and I love me some Blind Guardian and Fugazi.

FUCK!!!!
I can't see Todd Rundgren doing ALL of "A Wizard, A True Star" at the Orpheum tomorrow 12/4 because Danny and I have the nephews this weekend!

I'm all, "They're YOUR nephews!"

Oh yeah, we're like married n'shit.

SHIT AIN'T FAIR! That's one of the gnarliest albums EVER!


AND I won't be able to see Brian Wilson & Dave Alvin at the Disney Theater on Sunday 12/6 because I'm taking Danny to see "Da Baba Uh Da Bill" across the street at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion.

Why is my life a pile of shit?


UPDATE: Da Baba Uh Da Bill is a matinee! HMMMMMMMM!


utopia is where it's at.

Heaven only knows I need new music for work. I’m sick of listening to the same Desmond Child and Rouge album all day in my cube so I turned to the big ass CaseLogic CD notebook in hopes of finding some forgotten mix CD I made God knows how many years ago.

I picked out these scratched up, magic markered coasters. I probably made these cds for work when I was at TeleRep.

"12/03"
Darby Speak – Free Kitten
Love Song – The Damned
Cat People (Putting out the Fire) – David Bowie
Maddy Groves – Fairport Convention
Oh You Pretty Things – David Bowie
Mansized Rooster – Supergrass
Growing On Me – The Darkness
Mambo Sun – T-Rex
100 Years – The Byrds
The Six Teens – Sweet
Wig in A Box – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Out In The Streets – The Shangri Las
Gut Feeling – DEVO
Sorted for E’s & Wizz – Pulp
Skulls – The Misfits
Lightning’s Girl – Nancy Sinatra
The Best Part of Breaking Up – The Ronettes


"More Rock & Roll 11/02"
Jingle Jangle – The Archies
Devil Gate Drive – Suzi Quatro
What You’re Doing – Rush
Look Out! Here Comes Tomorrow – The Monkees
May This Be Love – Jimi Hendrix
Hello Hooray! – Alice Cooper
Sucker (live) – Mott the Hoople
All By Myself – Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Silver Threads and Golden Needles – Roy Clark
C’mon Everybody! – Eddie Cochran
Les Papillon Noir – Michele Arnaud & Serge Gainsbourg
Chewy Chewy – The Ohio Express
Sea Green Serenades – Silver Apples
Daddy’s Song – The Monkees
Porpoise Song – The Monkees
Don’t Be Shy – Cat Stevens
M.P. Skulkers – Cupid Car Club
Puffin Stars – Helium

"The Miracle of Rock and/or Roll 3/03"
Don’t Look Around – Mountain
Rock Bottom – KISS
Too Late To Turn Back Now – Cornelious Bros & Sister Rose
Border Radio – The Blasters
The 15th – Wire
Comin’ After Me – Flaming Groovies
Makin’ Believe – Social Distortion
905 – The Who
The Seeker – The Who
Johnny Glue – The Dwarves
Evil Prime Evil – The Dwarves
What A Cryin’ Shame – The Mavericks
For No One – The Beatles
Idol of the Band – Hoyt Axton
Kick Your Door Down – The Replacements
Teacher – Jethro Tull
Our Lips Are Sealed – Fun Boy Three
Hot Burrito #1 – Flying Burrito Brothers
Luxury Liner – International Submarine Band
Little Sister/Get Back – Elvis Presley

In addition to those CDs I found one simply titled “For DANIEL”. It was a cd I made for Danny before we started dating in the summer of 2001. Why Danny didn’t turn around and run is beyond me. There’s some serious stalker shit going on in this one.

Heaven Only Knows– The Shangri Las
To Know Him is to Love Him – The Teddy Bears
Now I Need You – Donna Summer
Dark End of the Street – Flying Burrito Brothers
If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman
Don’t Talk To Him – Cliff Richard
I Want To Be Your Boyfriend – The Ramones
I Want You Around – The Ramones
This Will Be Our Year – The Zombies
69 Annee Erotique – Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
Wave – Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
Let’s Fuck – The Dwarves
Jealous Man - Hoyt Axton
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music
Stand By Your Man – Motorhead w/Wendy O Williams


He’s gonna kill me for writing this but I remember making this cd for him. It was Memorial Day weekend 2001. I was furious (and I mean FUCKING FURIOUS!) with him because he went to a Bear Run in Palm Springs with his friends. I was furious for two reasons 1) I wasn’t invited and 2) HE WENT TO A BEAR RUN WITHOUT ME AND WITH PEOPLE I HATED!

I wasn't crazy about these friends before but after that weekend my dislike for those people turned to full on HATE!

I owned Danny from the minute he walked into that room a few months earlier. Well in my mind I owned him! The thought of him having all that fun in Palm Springs with all those guys killed me. I spent most of that Memorial Day pacing back and forth in my apartment. I screamed and I smashed things (a piggy bank and a glass Winnie the Pooh figurine). I thought some shop therapy might help so I bought a guitar. I bought the SG that I still play and cherish to this day. I was in all kinds of pain.

I never experienced feelings of such intense love, lust, anger and jealousy towards one person all at the same time. I felt like I couldn’t talk to anyone about these feelings. It is suggested that you do not enter a relationship in your first year of recovery. I was barely six months sober and I didn't have a sponsor yet. My only gay friends were (still) the big mouths in gay AA so I couldn’t tell any of them that I was madly in love with Danny. The only person I could talk to was crazy Greta.

Greta: What’s a bear run?
Greta: So you have to wait a year before you can start fucking people again?
Greta: Where is this so called bear run? Let’s crash it!
Greta: Just do what you do best. Make him a tape.

The following Monday at the meeting I handed Danny the cd.

ME: Here, I made you something.

Then I disappeared into the night.

The rest is KISStory.

True yesterday,true today,true tomorrow.


I'm way over the Bear Run BTW.

DESMOND CHILD'S GOTTA HOLD OF ME!
DESMOND CHILD - I GOTTA BREAK FREE
DESMOND CHILD'S GOTTA HOLD OF ME!
DESMOND CHILD'S GONNA KILL ME!



STOP ME BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP MYSELF!

I've been playing this non-stop since 9AM. No joke. As soon as "Goodbye Baby" is over I hit repeat! Going on 5 hours NON STOP!

DAMN YOU DESMOND CHILD AND YOUR CATCHY ASS SONGS! DAMN YOU!

FUR REALZ YO! I CAN'T STOP PLAYING THIS!!!

KISS @ The Staples Center 11/25/09

I'm still pretty thrashed from the past two days so forgive me if I have trouble with those word things.

Thank GOD CBS let us go home at 1pm. This gave me enough time to go home and change. I chose Peter Criss over David Bowie. I took a two hour nap, woke up and watched bits of KISSOLOGY Vol. 1 and 2. I watched parts of the Cobo Hall concert from the Alive tour 1975, the Houston Summit show from 1977 and Crazy Nights show from Detroit 1987.

Damn Metrostink was running 30 minutes behind schedule!


Got to the Staples Center around 7pm. Hung around and watched the families with their kids in KISS make up.

Made fun of the street preacher.


Met up with bobaloo , stuck our tongues out and talked KISS and Queen with a handicapped fellow while we waited for my friend Cort and his friend whose name escapes me now.


I really wanted to come in the KISS bus.


Met up with Cort and Co. in the ESPN Zone restroom. We somehow lost them. MEET MEET YOU IN THE LADIES ROOM! Found Cort and Co. after about 3 hours of searching the entire ESPN Zone.

Talked some more KISS at the Z bar. Who knew the ESPN Zone had more than one bar?

Made it to the KCBS 2/KCAL9 suite.

Hey, I don't fuck around! I like watching rock shows from a hotel room.

Met up with some co-workers, talked some more KISS.

The hottest band in the world KISS!


SET LIST:

Deuce
Strutter

Paul: We played Anaheim last night!
Audience: BOO! BOO!
Paul: Funny! They said the same thing about YOU!
Audience: BOO! BOO!
Paul: wait

Paul started to mime. He motioned to the left side to scream then the right side then the middle. He did more miming. He's starting to look like Marcel Marceau.

Let Me Go, Rock N Roll

Paul: We gonna get this place...
ME: HOTTER THAN HELL!

Hotter Than Hell
Shock Me

Very weird watching Tommy Thayer doing this song. He pulled it off I must say.

ME to Cort: Cort, I got rock n roll pneumonia. I need Dr. Love.

Calling Dr. Love
Modern Day Delilah

Available at WAL MART!

Gold Gin

Felt very strange singing Cold Gin on the eve of my sober birthday.

Parasite

ME, Cort, bobaloo : WOAH!!!!

Loved the microscopic parasites projected on the screens.

Say YEAH!

available at Wal Mart. OK I like this song. Someone download this for me. Gene's not getting anymore of my money.

100,000 Years

Paul: We got KLASSICS and then we got KLASSICS above the KLASSICS!

Gene's blood puking routine.

I Love It Loud

Gene did this song from the top lights. NICE!

Black Diamond

I like the way Eric sang this. My highlight.


Paul: WE AIN'T GONNA TELL YOU HOW TO END WORLD HUNGER! WE AIN'T GONNA TELL YOU ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING! TONIGHT WE GONNA FORGET ABOUT ALL THAT! WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU WHY DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT THOSE THINGS YOU TELL THEM, ' THAT'S CUZ I ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT AND PARTY EVERY DAY!!!


Rock & Roll All Night

encore:

Shout It Out Loud
Lick it Up!

Hell to the fuck yeah!! He's right. It ain't a crime to be good to yourself!

Love Gun

Audience:PAUL!!


Detroit Rock City


Favorite part of the show was when the four members of KISS stood there like statues for about 30 seconds.

No joke, they just stood there.

Lost interest in seeing KISS in concert years ago but when tickets come my way I don't say no.

KISS is in the business of putting on a ROCK SHOW and they did. It was great going to the show with my KISS Army bobaloo and Cort.


YEAH I KNOW! I broke the 'don't wear the t shirt of the band you're about to see' rule!




It took me forever to get home!

I'm all KISSed out! I've been listening to Joan Baez and Frank Sinatra since the show.

I'm going back to sleep.

OOOOOH OOOOOH! BLACK DIAMOND!

I am nine years old.

It's been nine years since I've had a hit, pill, fix or drink.





The above pamphlet say, "OK! SO YOU LIKE TO SUCK ON BOTTLES JUST AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE TO SUCK ON DICKS! BIG DEAL! YOU WANT TO RECOVER? THEN GO TO MEETINGS. FIND A SPONSOR. WORK THESE STEPS AND WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED, GIVE IT AWAY TO SOMEONE WHO IS NEW. LIVE LIFE ON LIFE'S TERMS AND REPEAT!

I wish I had more to say but I still have KISS and THANKSGIVING hangovers.

KISS!

Were out of control tonight!

I don't hate Tommy Thayer!



bobaloo does indeed ROCK!

Wicked Lester @ The Staples Center 11/25/09

I stepped into my manager’s office a few moments ago.

ME: Hey Lucy, has anyone requested KISS at Staples for tomorrow night?
Lucy: No. Here take ‘em.

Foist of all (yes I said FOIST) I would not pay one cent to see KISS nowadays. Gene pissed me off with the whole Adam Lambert thing and dressing up two other guys as Ace and Peter is some major bullshit. Don’t get me wrong I LIKE Eric Singer. I like him a lot. He played drums on an Avantasia album and I dug Revenge but putting him in Peter Criss drag isn’t fair to him or the fans. I really don’t have an opinion on Tommy (Gene’s personal assistant) Thayer as a guitar player but again its stupid dressing him up as Ace Frehley. Even though Ace is a washed up drunk he is still one of my heroes.

They should put Tommy Thayer in Vinnie Vincent make up.

Rumor has it that Vinnie's a chick now.

OR

Have Bruce Kulick perform as is without make up and put Dale Crover on drums.

OR

Hire Jack and Meg White on guitar and drums.

This will be my 4th time seeing KISS and I know it’s not going to be as exiting as the ’96 Alive Worldwide reunion tour (that shit was Biblical!) but I will be shanking my ass none the less.

I’m sure the set list will be filled with the predictable KISS anthems but I WILL GO BACK TO COLLEGE if they do any of the following!

She’s So European
Burn Bitch Burn
You Matter To Me

Just A Boy
I
Any song from The Elder (best KISS album EVER!)
Let’s Put the X in Sex
Charisma
Great Expectations
Is That You?
Torpedo Girl
I Still Love You
Shandi
Wouldn’t You Like To Know Me
Rip and Destroy (song that ‘fake’ KISS did in “Phantom of the Park”)
Uh! All Night
Who Wants to be Lonely?
Love Theme from KISS
Song from the KISS Dolls commercial (that song was bad ass!) by MEGO!

Paul Stanley’s Folgers commercial


Previous KISS gigs

8/96 @ the Forum
10/31/96 @ Irvine Meadows
4/00 @ Anaheim Pond (Farewell tour w/Ted Nugent and Skid Row!)

Other KISS encounters

Pissed next to Paul Stanely at an Arthur Lee and LOVE show at Royce Hall in UCLA. I fished Paul’s crumpled up paper towel from the trash and I still have it stuffed in my KISS box set.

Saw Paul Stanley pushing a stroller on Melrose back in 91 or 92. He was wearing stone washed overalls with no shirt underneath. I saw his rose tattoo in person. I smiled at him and he smiled back at me and Angel. We ran into Chris DeGarmo from Queensryche up the street a few minutes later.

A friend of mine used to work for Goldenvoice. I tagged along with her one night when she worked the box office at the Roxy for a Sugar Ray show. Gene Simmons walked up to the window and said in his Gene Simmons voice, “Gene Simmons plus one.” I was star struck. My friend said, “I need to see some I.D. please.” She knew full well that it was Gene Simmons but she just wanted to fuck with the God of Thunder and Rock and Roll. Gene gave her a wicked (lester) look and said, “I’m Gene Simmons!” The whole time I’m thinking OH MY GOD HE’S GONNA THROW A SHIT FIT AND GET US ALL IN TROUBLE! She said, “I still need to see I.D.”. Gene opened up his wallet and slammed down his American Express Black card on the counter. My friend picked up the card, read it and said, “Thank You Mr. Simmons, enjoy the show!”. Gene rolled his eyes and walked away.

Amanda: C’mon, let’s get go.
ME: NO! Gene Simmons in there!
Amanda: Who cares!

When you say GIA I think of this broad and not the dead junkie model.



I sat next to Gia at the Beastie Boys/Cypress Hill/Rollins Band show at the Universal Amphitheater sometime around late 92. It was day after Request Video ended. I said to Gia, "I miss you already!". She said, "Thank you! I'm really going to miss the show!". and I said, "Can you get us backstage?". She said, "I can't even get backstage!".

I also remember EVERYONE wearing flannel at that show!

My friend Erich sent me those videos with the caption 'MEMBER? 'MEMBER?

I'm muching away on my egg salad on a white bagel with capers at my desk saying outloud, "FUUCCCK! I REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE ON!" and "I 'MEMBER THAT!". Then calling ERICH with a mouth full of egg salad saying, "DUDE! Remember Birdland and remember when that chick from that group SOHO had a tantrum on Request Video? She said, 'I may be a bitch but the producer of this show is a BIGGER BITCH!' and then she stormed off!"


Enough nostalgia! Time to start looking forward!

Yeah! Cheesy I know but I still want them!

I have:
Slayer Vans
Germs Vans
Circle Jerks Vans
Iron Maiden Vans

I had:
Ace Frehley Vans

They should make:

Hoyt Axton VANS
Cannibal Corpse VANS
Dokken VANS
Iron Butterfly VANS
Stone Roses VANS
13th Floor Elevator VANS
Silver Apples VANS
Johnny Thunders VANS
MORRISSEY VANS (in leather)
Captain and Tennille VANS
Cher VANS
Sonny Bono VANS
Buck Owens VANS
Marty Robbins VANS
Karp VANS
Fitz Of Depression VANS
fluf VANS
Rush VANS
Blue Oyster Cult VANS
Barry Manilow VANS
Pete Seeger VANS
Lou Rawls VANS
Brian Wilson VANS
High on Fire VANS
Early Man Vans
OPETH VANS
Emerson Lake and Palmer VANS
Camel VANS
Gentle Giant VANS
Genesis VANS
King Crimson VANS
Burzum VANS
Emperor VANS
Carpenters VANS
Kraftwerk VANS

Got!

YES! The purple one! Disney Gallery had a few more purple ones! The tag is autographed by SHAG. Now I have an outfit for Comic-Cunt!

Got!
Slayer tickets.
1/22/10
FLOOR
FUCK, SHIT, UP!

This will be my 10th Slayer gig. I think.

5/91 Clash of the Titans tour @ Pacific Amphitheater
Got there early to see opening act Alice in Chains. I dug that "BOX" song that MTV started playing. Sound kept going in and out during Megadeth’s set. Dave Lombaro's drum riser must have been 20ft high. It didn't get any better than seeing Slayer at that time. I wore a skin tight Motorhead shirt with black skintight Levis and black suede Vans. Angel's dad took us to the show. I know it's not cool going to a show with your friend's dad but I didn't give a shit because I was seeing SLAYER. We met up with Cort but we later ditched him because he was wearing Zubaz . Cort was there with John Corona, he wore a Hypercolor t-shirt.

10/91 Decade of Aggression record signing @ Tower Records Sunset
I got my D.O.A. and Reign in Blood cds signed, Tom and Dave were very nice and chatted up my brother and I. “How you kids doin’?” My brother said to Tom, “You’re a visionary!” Tom said, “That’s deep man!” Jeff and Kerry didn’t say a word or even look at anyone. I KNOW! NOT REALLY A GIG BUT HEY!

1/95 @ The Shrine
Got scalper tickets. I had to pee for most of the show d/t the O.E.'s I pounded in the parking lot. I remember screaming FUCK METALLICA after this show and people screaming WOOOOOOOOO!!! back to me. Some other dude yelled "WHO?"

5/98 @ The Palace
Machine Head and System of a Down (blech then, blech now) opened up. It was a good show even though Diablos En Musica was a crappy album.

4/99 @ Orange Pavillion, San Bernardio
We left early to go to Club Make Up at the El Rey.

8/02 @ Universal Amphitheater
Instead of the usual SLAYER! SLAYER! The crowd (myself included) yelled U.S.A! U.S.A! Soulfly were awesome. They did Dead Embryonic Cells and Arise.

12/04 @ Universal Amphitheater
Still Reigning tour, Dimebag Darrel died earlier that week. People were bummed. Instead of the usual SLAYER! SLAYER! people were chanting DIMEBAG! DIMEBAG! Slayer was showered in blood after they finished Reign in Blood.

7/06 @ Long Beach Arena
My favorite Slayer gig so far. On the open floor with the most unruly Slayer fans. When Slayer went on kids were jumping from the upper levels of the arena onto the floor. It was raining hoodlums. Many kids were limping because of the 10ft+ drop to the floor. The Marshalls stacked in the form of upside down crosses made my decade. Kids fighting, kids smoking, Mitch from Hate Mail passed out drunk on the floor with his pants down made me say out loud, “OH THIS IS JUST GREAT! OH THIS IS WONDERFUL!” and "I've always loved Mitch's hairy ass."

1/07 @ The Jimmy Kimmel Show
Mini concert in the parking lot. They did Skeleton Christ, Eyes of the Insane along with Mandatory Suicide, Seasons in the Abyss and Dead Skin Mask. I was in the front screaming my head off. Sarah Silverman was the guest that night. Her and Brian Posehn watched the show on a couch on the side of the stage. Instead of SLAYER! SLAYER! I was screaming SARAH! SARAH! and "SARAH! HEY SARAH! I LOVE YOUR NEW SHOW! HEY SARAH! LOOK AT ME SARAH! LOOK AT ME!!!!!!"


Yeah I know I'm getting too old for this shit!