Slowmandown

miss the mississippi and you

'77/17...I was 17 in 1977.  The Pistols broke up the week before my 18th birthday, and my girlfriend broke up with me too.  Her name was Nancy.  Go figure.  An acoustic demo MP3 here, but it gets the idea across.  Kinda my verison of Amercian Pie, the idea of that song that is, that is, the notion the day the music died was at Winterland 1/14/78 ('member that date Steve?). but not a parody and a different melody.  But there is more sex in this song and much more Sex Pistols.  The dream...I re-record this with the the Pistol backing me up.  No harm in hoping I say.  Glen already said he'd consider it   PS I am also working on adapting all of the Sex Pistols' canon to clawhammer banjo.

77 /17 

"[You] creep me out...high school was thirty years ago ...get over it" – Nancy H.

’77 and 17
It was fucking easy being green
And there, proudly on the movie screen
The rock and roll transvestite queen
Midnight lips
My first kiss
Susan Saradon’s lovely tits
John and Paul, Glen, Sid and Steve*
Our brand new Elvis** stops the TV
Harry Reems gets out of jail
Willam Clinton still don’t inhale
But she let me put my fingers there
Then she slipped off her underwear
'77 /17
A couple hundred nights and
Christ, I really loved you Nancy

'77 
Was like a blur
The Pistols flipped off the whole fucking world
Steamed up car windows radio nights
Policemen and their long flash lights
Bee Gees under winter stars
Not all the way, but really far
I swore to her that my love was true
And God knows I longed to show her, too.
I walked hours to her house through streets of snow 
Still, Nancy'd never tell me though
But if she had I would have died
What a fucking perfect way to go
'77 /17
Many many many many many nights and
Christ,  I really loved you Nancy

'78
When eighteen hit
College-bound and dumb as shit
The music died at Winterland the fourteenth day
I prayed she wanted me to stay but she wouldn’t say
God she really made me sad
But it looked to her like I got mad
So one day I just wouldn’t talk to her
And to this day, she ain't never said a word
Sid and his Nancy were a year away
But me, I think I really died that day
I want to go back and learn
How not to love someone in turn
Who lets you kiss 'em at a show
Where every punk that you know knows
'77 /17
Jesus Fucking Christ, I really loved you Nancy
Mary Holy Mother of Christ, I really loved you Nancy

 -December 2008

*Rotten and Cook, Matlock, Vicious, and Jones, that is.
**Costello on SNL last show of 1977, the show the Pistols would have performed on if they could have gotten visas

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HOW'VE YOU BEEN 
by J. Risker

And if you think the skies are grey
Too restless for the night
Around the earth in forty days
Still spinning from the flight
How’ve you been my friend
It’s been so long
you ought to know
It’s how are you are I want to know

I wasn’t certain what to do
with you until I found
and picked a penny off the ground
and turned the clues around
How’ve you been my friend
I feel so far
you ought to know
It’s how are you are I want to know

How’ve you been ?

I can’t decide if it’s all a phase
I'm driving in formation all over the place

How’ve you been ?

I miss the way you used to smile
with eyes and called at night
and all the parks we used to ride
and hide and hide and hide
How’ve you been my friend
I feel so tired
you ought to know
It’s how are you are I want to know

How’ve you been ?

HOW'VE YOU BEEN

Just A Little Taste

Lost in the Stars (guitar)

I can be completely reconstructed out of debris found on most ordinary city streets. 

 Rich Krueger, a singer-songwriter based now in Chicago Il (formerly in Duke City, NM , before that LA, and before that Chicago, Illinois), was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC in 1960, during that difficult period of transition after the Spanish-American War. It was a Wednesday and rained the whole following week. He has been writing and performing, solo and with his band The Dysfunctionells, largely in Chicago, but also in NYC and Kerrville, since 1985. The Dysfunctionells have backed up the Holy Modal Rounders at their reunion at The Bottom Line in NYC, and The Dysfunctionells have recorded with Peter Stampfel of the HMR. Rich has a self-produced song demo on CD entitled "Personal Overachievement Rich Krueger" or PORK for short, and the next album tenatively entitiled TROTH, or maybe Pledged Fidelity, is half in the can. He does not bowl. There are literally tens of rabid Rich Krueger fans scattered all over the globe...poor sods all. .. He can be contacted by e-mail at richard.krueger@yahoo.com. 

 Here are what some critics, DJs, and other performers have to say about him... "Talented...highly distinctive songwriter...cerebral, ironic....Richard Thompsonesque" --Michael Parrish, Dirty Linen 

 "Krueger's melodies, phrasing, and carefully-crafted lyrics call to mind the very best singer-songwriters: Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen. But his vision is very much his own. " -- Jennifer Zogott, Folk Roots Magazine (Britain) 

 "As a lifelong fan of True Deep American Strangeness, I came to a realization after leaving Milwaukee for the last time in 1959: The Truest, Deepest American Strangeness is to be found in the Heartland,the Great Midwest. As a perfect example, take a song--any song--of Rich Krueger, and you will see exactly what I mean. Rich is an American Stranger, if I ever did see one." -- Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders 

 " The high point of my trip to Kerrville in 1996...Quirky, unique, original...A breath of fresh air amid the quagmire of mediocre self-produced CDs" -- Jack Hardy 

 "Rich Krueger's songs come from the less traveled roads of the heart. I look forward to going there with him." -- Ezra Idlet of Trout Fishing in America
 
links
I collated some links you all may be interested in:

 

The Dysfunctionells " Little Richard's World of Mirth" Vdeo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFI8SuktziU

 

‘Charlie Holley and The Cripples’ with some background on “Ain’t It So Nice Outside Today”

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122120090162

Story of visiting the Loaves and Fishes Shelter in Sacramento with some background on “In Betweeen Kingfishers”

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=195925070162

A complete list of my song and lyrics...a work in progress

http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html

 

Some of my songs on reverbnation

http://www.reverbnation.com/richkrueger

My YouTube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/rkruegervideo

My blog

http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/

Some of my songs on soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/richardkrueger


'77 / 17

richard.krueger@yahoo.com

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