HOW DID I FORGET THIS ONE?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedPerhaps I let it fester, but Deadheads, the cult made up of the most avid followers of the band The Grateful Dead, don’t forget anything associated with the band. (This was a strictly American phenomenon.) The few Deadheads I knew had walls of cassettes of homemade recordings of the band’s concerts, since no two shows […]
MY FIRST FORAY INTO SHOW BIZ
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt took all of two months after I picked up a guitar for the first time for me to form my first band. I was a sophomore at Palo Verde High School in Tucson, AZ, and struggling to get any recognition for being the cool person I believed myself to be. My biggest problem was […]
ONE OF MY MOST BIZARRE GIGS EVER, AND IT WAS A FREEBIE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was 49 years ago, which is close enough to 50, so let’s tell this anecdote. In 1973, we started working with backing musicians, as we agreed that the two of us with one guitar would have difficulty playing larger venues. Adding the musicians did work for us, in that we got to play a […]
LIKE LAZARUS, OR MICHAEL CORLEONE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI thought my standup career was pretty well done and dusted BEFORE the Pandemic, but surprise surprise, there are still people asking for me. Not a bevy of them, but just the fact that I have a decent-paying standup gig next Friday in front of a sold out house means, as Al Pacino said in […]
NO, YOU DON’T ENTER THE STAGE UNLESS YOU’RE INVITED
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAnd of all people, Will Smith should have at least remembered that. In his days as a rapper, he certainly couldn’t have liked it that much when people would get up onstage at his shows just to dance, let alone to interact any further. That he actually went up on one of the biggest global […]
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. After finishing my first year in UK and […]
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 something that elicited audience groans: “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 an hour, […]
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 Sydney’s posh Double Bay area. This would be my first time entertaining English speaking audiences who weren’t Americans, for even though […]
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 […]
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