WHAT I WAS DOING 50 YEARS AGO
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn the mid-90s, when I was working freelance as a stage manager for various plays and one-man shows, I got in a conversation with one of the plays’ directors. I jokingly said, “I’ve worked with musicians, comedians, and actors, and I’m not sure who’s the most neurotic to work with.” He replied, “Well obviously you […]
Remembering Someone Special
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFor a change, this is not a celebrity remembrance, because no, I never met Gina Lollobrigida. One of my lifelong friends passed away last Thursday at the age of 76, the first to go from a group of merry pranksters that I formed a bond, and soon after a band, with. Peter Nichols became my […]
AND A BRIEF RETURN TO THAT OTHER CAREER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedLast Saturday, Christmas Eve, I received a text message offering me a New Year’s Eve gig as a vinyl DJ at the King’s Head in Crouch End, the same gig I had every NYE from 2015 to 2019. My last gig there was aptly enough, Friday, March 13, 2020. A week later, we went into […]
“ROCK THE BOAT, DON’T ROCK THE BOAT BABY…”
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized1974, Hues Corporation, RCA Records. I’m reminded of boats as Steven Alan Green and I prepare to resume our Comedy Dish podcasts tonight on Facebook. Why I’m reminded of boats is how many comics we’re inviting onto the show that we knew back in the day that are now somewhat dependent on the work cruise […]
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 […]
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