is over. Time to focus on the important and newsworthy events of the the day. There aren’t any. Most everything you read or see in the media is bullshit, nonsense or both. The stories are all delivered by people with double barreled names who can’t form human words correctly. The powers of logic and reason are fast disappearing from the public discourse. This devolution has been going on since the beginning of time of course. It’s cyclical like everything else. It would be nice if the high points of civilization lasted more than one or two political cycles.
After the Armchairs came Go Wild in French
History is bunk and everything is punk, said somebody in a song once. On the weekend I was listening to an album I made with a band I had called the Armchairs. The Armchairs were a satirical band that Johnny Topper and I started in the late 1970’s We released an EP. (Ski Lo Lo) and an album called PartyTime!! A dude who goes by the name of Kimbo has written all about the group and many others on a site called https://historyofaussiemusic.blogspot.com/
Armchairs debut performance at the Crystal Ballroom
I was quite impressed because if you ask AI who the Armchairs Melbourne band were, it haughtily spits this out at you…”The Armchairs were an indie rock band, but they were based in Philadelphia, USA, not Melbourne. The group played their final show at Johnny Brenda’s on May 13, 2011. There is no record in the provided context* of a band named “The Armchairs” originating from or based in Melbourne, Australia.” No fucking record eh, well what the fuck it this then, you stupid AI cunt?
Armchairs second incarnation l-r Sue Parncutt, Andrew Snow, Ian Stephen, Rod Haywood
From historyofaussiemusic.blogspot – “Ian Stephen co-founded Armchairs, a satirical four-piece outfit with Johnny Topper (ex-Pelaco Bros) in the late 70s. The band had its debut in 1979 at the infamous Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda. Other members included guitarist Pierre Jaquinot, drummer Andrew Snow and bassist Fred Cass. Later incarnations featured Rod Haywood (guitar) and Sue Parncutt on (bass). Armchairs released an EP, ‘Ski Lo Lo’ in 1979 and an album ‘Party Time’ on Reverse Records in 1980.
WTF is this? Me being “creative”
The B side is taken up by a 20-minute version of “La Bamba”. The lineup for the album release was Ian Stephen, Gerry Joyce, Johnny Topper, Andrew Snow and Richard Rooch. Armchairs, later with the help of Stephen Cummings, who in the early 1980s with Ian Stephen had struck up a songwriting partnership with, morphed into the mildly successful, yet short lived 11-piece group, Go Wild in French, which featured songs of Elvis Presley, as well as original compositions. Ian Stephen and “Pierre Jaquinot would later turn up in the Slaughtermen.”
This is incorrect. Pierre did not play in the Slaughtermen for one second. The original guitarists were Andrew Pendlebury and Terry Doolan. Everything else is true, however.
Ian Stephen, Twiggy, Randy Bulpin, Graham Barker, TCS studios late 70’s recording my first solo EP Schizophrenia
So again today we have learned that you can’t trust Bolshevik AI any more than you trust what politicians say.
There’s more to talk about, but I’ll get to it during the week. I’m a bit exhausted coming back from up north this morning. We just have to wait for more fake and gay bullshit to come across the airwaves that is worth laughing at/commenting on.
Good Day
*provided fucking context? How much more clearer could “Armchairs band Melbourne”, be?
This is the original Armchairs, not some fakakta band from Philly in 2007