Fine work as usual - got the itch to start trawling for live Blondie bootlegs, which is always the mark of good music writing for me.
And hopefully that gives me leave to be insufferably pedantic, for the band that covered "Love TKO" on SNL in '81 was not, in fact, Blondie. I mean, it was Debbie and Chris, so they probably coulda gotten away with calling it "Blondie 2" or "Bottle Blondie" or "Gallagher II" if they chose to. But it was really Debbie solo (though with none of the personnel or the Chic'd up sonics she brought to her actual solo debut, KOOKOO, that summer).
Here's who played:
Chris Stein (guitar), Georg Wadenius (guitar), Lou Marini (sax), Leon Pendarvis (piano), Chris Palmaro (organ), Marcus Miller (bass), Buddy Williams (drums), Errol "Crusher' Bennett (percussion), Janice Pendarvis (backing vocals)
Granted, Clem Burke DID take the drum seat for their second performance that night, a cover of Devo's "Come Back Jonee," so...
As you may know, Debbie was also the host of that particular SNL, the antepenultimate episode of the notorious [but begging for re-evaluation] Jean Doumanian interregnum, which means, of course, you get to see her trying out her comedy chops a good seven years before John Waters gave her a chance to do so for real. She's no Gilda Radner, natch, but if you ever wanted to see her whipping up some giddy Jersey energy to portray the love interest of Joe Piscopo's most transcendently annoying recurring character, or see her in a 1984 parody trying to deal with Big Brother asking her on a date via telescreen, there's your opportunity.
(And if you weren't perversely intrigued enough by that, please note that in the latter sketch, Big Brother is portrayed by... Gilbert Gottfried. In his normal voice. And not even squinting.)
You got me spending twenty minutes reading about Blondie, something I hadn't expected I'd do. Thank you. I never knew 'Dreaming' wasn't a bigger hit in the US, I'd always considered it one of the more well known songs—and probably my favorite. I think I need a revisit for the deep cuts.
Fine work as usual - got the itch to start trawling for live Blondie bootlegs, which is always the mark of good music writing for me.
And hopefully that gives me leave to be insufferably pedantic, for the band that covered "Love TKO" on SNL in '81 was not, in fact, Blondie. I mean, it was Debbie and Chris, so they probably coulda gotten away with calling it "Blondie 2" or "Bottle Blondie" or "Gallagher II" if they chose to. But it was really Debbie solo (though with none of the personnel or the Chic'd up sonics she brought to her actual solo debut, KOOKOO, that summer).
Here's who played:
Chris Stein (guitar), Georg Wadenius (guitar), Lou Marini (sax), Leon Pendarvis (piano), Chris Palmaro (organ), Marcus Miller (bass), Buddy Williams (drums), Errol "Crusher' Bennett (percussion), Janice Pendarvis (backing vocals)
Granted, Clem Burke DID take the drum seat for their second performance that night, a cover of Devo's "Come Back Jonee," so...
As you may know, Debbie was also the host of that particular SNL, the antepenultimate episode of the notorious [but begging for re-evaluation] Jean Doumanian interregnum, which means, of course, you get to see her trying out her comedy chops a good seven years before John Waters gave her a chance to do so for real. She's no Gilda Radner, natch, but if you ever wanted to see her whipping up some giddy Jersey energy to portray the love interest of Joe Piscopo's most transcendently annoying recurring character, or see her in a 1984 parody trying to deal with Big Brother asking her on a date via telescreen, there's your opportunity.
(And if you weren't perversely intrigued enough by that, please note that in the latter sketch, Big Brother is portrayed by... Gilbert Gottfried. In his normal voice. And not even squinting.)
You got me spending twenty minutes reading about Blondie, something I hadn't expected I'd do. Thank you. I never knew 'Dreaming' wasn't a bigger hit in the US, I'd always considered it one of the more well known songs—and probably my favorite. I think I need a revisit for the deep cuts.