YEP, THEY GO IN THREE’S
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhen I first heard that adage about deaths of notable persons seeming to go in groups of three, it was in a particular week in 1988, when the three celebrities that died were pop star Andy Gibb (who had only five days earlier reached the age of 30), porn star John “The Wad” Holmes (43), […]
MET HIM FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA lot of tributes have come through in the 40 hours or so since San Francisco baseball legend Willie Mays passed away Tuesday at age 93. He was arguably the greatest player in the game for the second half of the 20th Century, and probably in the top five greatest of all time. And my […]
MY WORST UK GIG EVER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAs I’ve said numerous times in the past, the good gigs sort of fade into anonymity with a few of the excellent ones standing out, whereas that 1 or 2% of gigs that go terribly wrong are the ones that will remain forever. Why else would I commemorate a disastrous gig that happened exactly 20 […]
COAT TAILING
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFor most of the first half of 1979, the Rick & Ruby act was on its way to getting almost famous. It all came down to befriending someone who was on his way to becoming a megastar, and we had a clever manager who recognised it, who made sure we hung with him as much […]
DOING COMEDY WHEN LIFE ISN’T FUNNY
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI wrote earlier this year about working in South Africa and the nightmare of my return, how I was unceremoniously tossed out of my house by my wife, who declared she was in love with someone else. I had spent much of the previous year wondering how long this marriage was going to go on, […]
HOW DID I DO IT?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI have saved my diaries from 2004 to the present day, and I sort of wish I had been saving them from earlier. I would love to see how I notated a specific day in the 1990s where I did seven gigs in one day. It was 20 years ago this month, February 2004, that […]
15 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn what may have been my last venture into a truly foreign culture, I was booked for two weeks in January 2009, in Johannesburg, South Africa. This was an education for me since what had gone down there in the 70s wasn’t covered much by American news. This trip would turn out to be more […]
PARTYING LIKE IT WAS 1999, BECAUSE IT WAS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedTomorrow, to ring in the New Year, Maggie and I will be at home dog-sitting while her daughter is away, and for the most part I’m relieved to not be dealing with the rigamarole that New Year’s gigs can be. I’ve detailed my past history with those gigs, good and bad, and ultimately the only […]
SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LONELY CHRISTMAS, BUT WASN’T
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedLast Christmas, I pissed and moaned about the loneliest Christmas I’d ever spent, which is now exactly 50 years into my past, in Anchorage, Alaska. I talked about how it was the first time I had been away from family at Christmas, and there would not be another such Holiday season until 1999. So where […]
HOW TO GET TIRED OF YOUR ACT IN A SINGLE DAY
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedDoing the same 20 minutes eight times in one day is one way. It was around this day 30 years ago, I had to do just that. The gig was in downtown San Diego, and was a fairly large indoor venue overlooking a street fair. It was an annual event, pretty well attended, and during […]
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