me, and the Poncherellos

The show is up on the talking head site, though I am not the top of the bill--sort of the concession for taking that date and accommodating a touring band. I have been loosely working on a few new songs out of my little basement “studio.” One is about the MTA, another called “Be My Friend,” “Come to my House”, and I did a version of “It’s So Easy.” I guess when I sit down and work at it a few songs come out sometimes but I really would love to push it and get more done, even get another keyboard. One day…

My friend Andre and his band the Poncherellos are playing a reunion show up in Massachusetts at Source of the Nile. They were a group that formed about the time I was in Lampstand, then broke up and went their separate ways, then had a reunion show (along with the Lampstand reunion show that was somewhat of a watershed event in the Davey G and the Keyboard forming) and now, after a long period of working in LA in the porn industry, Andre has decided to re-form the group. I am really curious about this--they were pretty much a straight-up goofball ‘70s style band, who took their name from the Erik Estrada character in CHIPs, yet somehow they achieved a great deal of underground success, mostly due to the dogged determination of Andre, the guy who wrote Rebel Sound Magazine (also somewhat of a seminal publication in the Western Mass. punk scene, whatever that was) and had the connections within the national scene. I think their 7-inch split with the Gloo Girls in 1993 was Maximum Rock’N Roll’s 7-inch of the year. Yeah. So anyway, this show is rumored to be on August 17 at 6 p.m. Apparently Andre is moving back to Massachusetts to start a business, something related to coffee and punk, a place to do shows. I hope it works out.