ONE OF THE GREAT MUSIC BIZ ECCENTRICS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhen we toured as Robin Williams’ opening act in 1979, he was also recording his first album, which would be compiled from shows in New York and LA. The album, entitled Reality-What a Concept, would be on the Casablanca Record Label, home at the time to such acts as KISS, Donna Summer, Parliament, Village People, […]
SEVEN GIGS IN ONE DAY — BUT I WAS MUCH YOUNGER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’m usually good at remembering days like this one more succinctly, but given it was at least 30 years ago, maybe I can cut me some slack. What I do remember is getting out of the house before 9:00 am to drive the 70+ miles from my place in Park La Brea, Hollywood, to the […]
FILE THIS UNDER “UNUSUAL GIGS”
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn May, 2021, when UK was still in lockdown, though things were loosening up a bit, I got a call from someone I’d never met who lived in Wales. He had the same name as a British celebrity, but assured me he was not that guy. He ran a pub in Newport, or Casnewydd (kas-NOY-with), […]
WORKING WITH A FAMOUS BIBLE THUMPER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis has no major relevance to anything going on now, nor is this a commemoration of some sort of anniversary. This celebrity encounter happened in the summer of 1981, still in my first year of the 21 that I would spend living in LA, but I thought of it because the other day I was […]
WHEN SPINAL TAP WAS MY OPENING ACT
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI might have forgotten a series of gigs I did from the late 1990s until the early 2010s had the Spinal Tap movie sequel not been released yesterday. I did several corporate events with my musical cohort Joshua Raoul Brody to lead “anything-goes” sorts of jam sessions. There were two in San Francisco, one in […]
LIFE CHANGE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was 25 years ago this month, that, by admitting to myself that my career was over in LA, and had been for a while, I made a gamble on a new location to find a different audience for what I believed was a unique act that still had some legs. My situation was not […]
A HOLIDAY THAT BECAME A TWO-YEAR GIG
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThings were not changing fast enough in Show Biz World. 50 years ago this month we were working a horrible underpaying gig that required us to drive from San Francisco to Cotati (about 70 miles each way) four nights a week, working from 9:00 to 1:30, so that when the time on the road was […]
MY LAST L.A. DAYS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt became pretty clear about 25 years ago today that things in LA weren’t going to get better, that I wasn’t going to be a comedy star, and on top of that I was being pressured by my dad to give it all up and go back to school to learn some other trade. He […]
ADDICTIONS AND ME
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI write this on the 15th anniversary of my quitting cigarettes after nearly 30 years of smoking between 15 and 20 a day. This doesn’t count the years of smoking from my first puff at age 12 with friends at the edge of the schoolyard, then in varying degrees until age 18. The schoolyard antics […]
ONE DREAM WAS OVER, TIME FOR ANOTHER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn April of 1985, 40 years ago, Ruby and I were still working quite a bit, but enjoying it less. She was living in Burlingame, near San Francisco Airport, but she would be on the verge of tears every time we left her house for some meaningless gig, as her children, then 4 and 2, […]
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- ONE OF THE GREAT MUSIC BIZ ECCENTRICS February 25, 2026
- SEVEN GIGS IN ONE DAY — BUT I WAS MUCH YOUNGER December 21, 2025
- FILE THIS UNDER “UNUSUAL GIGS” November 23, 2025
- WORKING WITH A FAMOUS BIBLE THUMPER October 26, 2025
- WHEN SPINAL TAP WAS MY OPENING ACT September 13, 2025
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