OUR FIRST PSEUDO-CELEBRITY FANS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI talked recently about working fifty years ago with backing musicians, but we were still working as a duo at the same time. We had a manager who liked us and booked us where he could, but he was limited mostly by being based in Concord, about 30 miles east of San Francisco and about […]
WHAT I WAS DOING 50 YEARS AGO
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn early 1973, 50 years ago, Ruby and I hired our first manager, who was good for us at that time, mostly because he seemed to believe in us. However, he mostly booked bands, so we agreed to get some backing musicians to augment our single guitar sound. We believed we could play bigger venues […]
Remembering Someone Special
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFor a change, this is not a celebrity remembrance. 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 friend when I was in my last […]
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 for our Comedy Dish podcast tonight. Why I’m reminded of boats is how many comics we’re having on the show that we knew back in the day and are now working regularly on cruise ships. I used to look […]
ME AND JOHNNY CASH
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThe title may be misleading, so for the record, no, I never met Johnny Cash. I saw him live in 1976, so the closest I ever got to him was maybe 30 feet. What Cash and I have in common is we both played two of the most notorious federal prisons in the US, Folsom […]
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
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, […]
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