ME AND JOHNNY CASH
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThe title may be a bit misleading, so for the record, no, I never met him. Saw him live in 1976, so the closest I ever got to him was about 30 feet away. What Johnny Cash and I have in common is we both played two of the most notorious federal prisons in the […]
MAYBE I’M NOT DONE AFTER ALL
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOn Friday, I had my fourth comedy gig of this entire year, and had no idea what to expect. It was a small upstairs room at a club called All About Eve, a 50’s-themed venue in Camden, North London. I agonised over it in the days before, not sure if my Rock n Roll Comedy […]
MY TWO FAVOURITE UK GIGS EVER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA lot of my blogs of the last year or so have talked about hell gigs in both US and UK, but it should be noted that there were plenty of wonderful gigs on this side of the pond, or else I might have headed back to US a good ten years ago. There were […]
A Little Side Project That Lasted 30 Years (with Another Celeb Encounter)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn 1980, slightly bored and in our first stages of preparing to leave San Francisco, our keyboard player Joshua (aka Raoul) came up with an idea of a one off gig saluting the worst (by our own reckoning) songs to make the top 10. In the process, he christened the Rick and Ruby offshoot The […]
AN ANNIE HALL MOMENT FROM MY FIRST SOLO ROAD TRIP
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI recently commented on a Facebook post by my podcast partner Steven Alan Green where he made mention of some great scenes in the 1977 classic Woody Allen film, “Annie Hall.” I noted an Annie Hall moment that happened on my first road trip as a solo act, where I found myself in Houston, Texas, […]
HOW DID I FORGET THIS ONE?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedPerhaps I let it fester, but Deadheads, the name for the cult of the most avid followers of the rock band The Grateful Dead, don’t forget anything associated with the band. (This was a strictly American phenomenon, as I found out when I first came to England.) The few Deadheads I knew had walls of […]
MY FIRST FORAY INTO SHOW BIZ
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt took all of two months after I picked up a guitar for the first time for me to form my first band. I was a sophomore at Palo Verde High School in Tucson, Arizona, and struggling to get any recognition for being the cool person I believed myself to be. My biggest problem there […]
ONE OF MY MOST BIZARRE GIGS EVER, AND IT WAS A FREEBIE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis story doesn’t mark a banner year of any specific kind, but it was 49 years ago, which is close enough to 50, so let’s tell it! In 1973, we started working with backing musicians for the first time, as we agreed that the two of us with one guitar would have difficulty playing larger […]
LIKE LAZARUS, OR MICHAEL CORLEONE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI thought my standup career was pretty well done and dusted BEFORE the Pandemic, but surprise surprise, there are still people asking for me. Not a bevy of them, but just the fact that I have a decent-paying standup gig next Friday in front of a sold out house means, as Al Pacino said in […]
NO, YOU DON’T ENTER THE STAGE UNLESS YOU’RE INVITED
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAnd of all people, Will Smith should have at least remembered that. In his days as a rapper, he certainly couldn’t have liked it that much when people would get up onstage at his shows just to dance, let alone to interact any further. That he actually went up on one of the biggest global […]
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