"Dear John" (the BBC tribute to John Peel)
"The Fall -- The Wonderful & Frightening World of Mark E. Smith"
"The Passing Show -- The Life & Music of Ronnie Lane"
"Dee Dee Ramone -- Hey, Is Dee Dee Home"
I contributed the first two because not everyone is so lucky to have a great pal in London who records one-of-a-kind music documentaries on your musical heroes that only show on the BBC (thanks Marybeth - I'm still showing these off!) PVC & Super Usher were very interested in seeing them, so I was happy to watch them again. John Peel is my DJ idol and Mark E. Smith was just as hysterical the second time.
Usher Grrrl brought the Ronnie Lane documentary, which was quite a touching look at a talented soul who had lots of bad luck throughout his life. There were loads of great live music clips of the Small Faces (huh, they certainly were small!) and Ronni Lane's solo projects.
PVC (the world's biggest Ramones' fan) contributed the Dee Dee Ramone interview, which we all agreed, basically just encapsulated the tiny sad world of a junkie. We did roar with laughter when Dee Dee told the twentieth story about "Chinese Rocks' and someone turning blue and being put into the bathtub and then he "kind of forgot about them." I guess it's not that funny, but that's how some rock stars live their lives and well, as they say, that's why they call it dope. This Dee Dee interview was filmed for a movie about Johnny Thunders, but of course, when Dee Dee died the filmmaker released it, ka-ching!
Along with this evening of entertainment, there was Flaming Whiskey! Usher Grrrl was just getting over a bad cold, so the Chef offered to make everyone cure-all hot whiskeys. Naturally, they weren't any old hot whiskeys, but a flaming whiskey drink called "the Blue Blazer" (recipe found in the Savoy Cocktail Book.)
In the process of this drink, there is flaming whiskey (ON FIRE) passed from one shaker to another (ON FIRE) -- this process (LIQUID ON FIRE) was so spectacular that I didn't even have an opportunity to worry about our house burning down. I tried to take pictures of the flaming liquid pouring but (naturally) it could not be captured on film, or digital image. Really, you had to be there and I'm very sorry that you missed it.
However, the flame sort of shows up on these pictures. Just imagine that the flame is much larger (viewed minus the bright flash.) Later, the Chef said we should have turned the lights out to get better pictures. ha!
Fire! Whiskey! Music Geeks! It was a fun night. And, the house didn't burn down!
Girl Geek Music Club #2 is next month at Usher Grrrl's house.
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