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Saturday, January 28, 2006My buddy left his cell phone alarm on and it woke me up at 6:30am. Saturday fuckin' morning. Normally this would be a bloodshot hangover tragedy but seeing as how this is day 8 of a 10 day cleansing fast, it's no sweat. And for a plus, I turned on the tube and the movie Tommy is on. Ann Margret's warbling, Oliver Reed's hatchet face, Jack Nicholson's singing, sure... but The Who, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Arthur Brown, Elton John as well. It's really one of the cheesiest movies ever made but it has serious nostalgic value to me. My sister bought the album in 1969 when I was 7, so I grew up with it. I remember the first time we listened to it, I asked her what "rape" meant. There are worse ways to find out. Anyway, my kid brother, Tommy, has the same first and last name as the protagonist, so he really dug the record. He and I went to see the movie in 1975 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and there were two freaks smoking a joint in the aisle in front of us. An usher came down and confronted them. I thought they were gonna get busted for sure but the guy just told them, "Smoking is in the balcony only." They went upstairs and got stoned. It was a very different world back then.My friend Kent has some great stories about Oliver Reed and Keith Moon, one of my favorites goes a little something like this. While they were making Tommy, Moon and Reed threw a dinner party in an empty swimming pool. A huge wooden table almost the length of the pool was set up with the finest decorations, food and wine. A suit of armor was placed up on each end of the pool to loom over the guests while they dined below. All the guests were in place, ready to eat the banquet spread out before them but where were the hosts? Oliver and Keith were nowhere to be found. Suddenly each suit of armor dove into the pool and landed on the table, slid down its length and met in the middle. Everything was smashed, dinner was ruined and amidst the screams of the guests one could hear the howls coming from Reed and Moon, laughing inside their suits of armor. posted by Wammo at 10:50 AM
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