I HAD “RESERVATIONS” ABOUT THIS GIG
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn trying to find stories about significant events in my career where I either met celebrities or had some other moment of glory, I always have to remember that the not so stellar experiences can be just as intriguing. This one definitely falls into the latter category, and while it didn’t happen exactly 20 years […]
MY JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn my standup act, I had a little rant which I kept handy if I ever said anything that elicited audience groans. To quote: “Oh I get it! I make some whimsical remark with a teeny bit of edge to it and I’m the bad guy, but some guy can talk about his dick for […]
ADVENTURES DOWN UNDER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was almost exactly 25 years ago today that I was on a flight from LA to Sydney, Australia, where I would be spending the next six weeks entertaining five nights a week in the city’s posh Double Bay area. This would be my first time entertaining English speaking audiences who weren’t Americans, for even […]
HANGIN’ WITH ANDY
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedBBC2 has been running a 3-part documentary series entitled “Andy Warhol’s America,” with the final episode airing this Thursday. Episode 2 ended with him getting shot by Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist and clearly not a fan. It was eleven years after that shooting, when Rick and Ruby were in New York for two weeks […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR FLASHBACK
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI was planning on telling this story on New Year’s Eve, but things get in the way. Anyway, I’ve discussed in recent years some of the best and worst NYE gigs I’ve been involved in, but somehow I neglected to talk about NYE 1979, which was one of my biggest money gigs ever, but the […]
MY LONELIEST CHRISTMAS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI wasn’t totally alone on Christmas Day 48 years ago, but the fact that I was about 4000 miles from home and had never spent Christmas away from my family before made me feel extremely lonely. The next year I would miss a Christmas with my family would be 1999. This was the only White […]
REMEMBERING MICHAEL NESMITH
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedActually most of the encounter I had with the late Mike Nesmith was told in my February 2019 blog on noting the passing of Mike’s Monkee bandmate Peter Tork. So what I will do today is elaborate where I can on the already told story. Rick and Ruby and our keyboardist Raoul were hired in […]
THE REAL PROVING GROUND
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was 20 years ago this week that I was introduced to the living hell that was the Christmas comedy season with the late, lamented Jongleurs comedy club chain. This wasn’t anything that new for me, as I always remember the holiday season as a time for many office parties that paid very well and […]
21 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK – WHO KNEW?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAt this time in the year 2000, I was about to turn 50 in, of all places, Cork, Ireland, which I’d never heard of until I was booked there. Cork would be the final stop on my first of many journeys from California to mostly England over the next three years until I would decide […]
PUNK COMEDY?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was maybe not that far-fetched. For the bulk of 1977, people kept predicting Punk Rock to be the Wave of the Future, but settled for evolving into New Wave, and lots of people made money instead of just a few lucky souls. But what the heck were WE doing playing in that scene? Don’t […]
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