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<b>FAMOUS A**HOLES I HAVE KNOWN</b>...<font size=+0>Chapter One</font>
©1996-8 by Tommy Mandel</h3>
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<hr WIDTH="100%"><font size=+1>Women in Rock - Strange creatures that they
are these days, women have</font>
<br><font size=+1>played an important role in my career as a suck up and
let it loose</font>
<br><font size=+1>sideman. I was always playing in one kind of band or
another, starting in</font>
<br><font size=+1>7th grade with 7 guys that read Dixieland arrangements
out of these little</font>
<br><font size=+1>books, then "graduating" to a Beatles and James Brown
cover bandQuartet,</font>
<br><font size=+1>with this GREAT black singer, <b>Barlow Davis</b>, who
knew all the chords and</font>
<br><font size=+1>was the nicest guy who ever left town to join the army
and move to</font>
<br><font size=+1>Germany;. His "little" sister <b>Hilda</b> still inspires
moist dreams when I</font>
<br><font size=+1>contemplate the bucktoothed full bodied riot she caused
when she "<b><font color="#940B64">Walked</font></b></font>
<br><font size=+1><font color="#940B64"><b>the Dog</b>" </font>at the talent
show in 8th grade. Hands splayed on bent knees, butt</font>
<br><font size=+1>extended at an impossible angle, the sweetest look of
soul travel on her</font>
<br><font size=+1>face, giving new, divine meaning to the word "<b><font color="#C70909">twitch</font></b><font color="#000000">"</font>...Whew.
<b>Bobby
and</b></font>
<br><font size=+1><b>Tommy Hall</b>, brothers in every sense, were playing
bass and guitar, behind</font>
<br><font size=+1>their heads, pumpin like Baby Isley's to <u>Land of 1,000
Dances</u> and the</font>
<br><font size=+1>auditorium was goin up in flames. <b>Bobby</b> is no
longer with us sadly; he had</font>
<br><font size=+1>an accident on I-95 one night, but I'll always remember
his good nature</font>
<br><font size=+1>and whimsical "<i>Well, I'm black, cooler than you could
ever be, yet you</i></font>
<br><font size=+1><i>rule, but so what, can't change that"</i>cackle. <b>Tommy</b>
was another story.</font>
<br><font size=+1>Aries and angry, with a kid on the other side of town,
and he could give Jimi a run</font>
<br><font size=+1>for his money. Eeeeeee-Lectric!!! The Real Deal. He was
a year or two younger than</font>
<br><font size=+1>Bobby, and there were others....<b>Artie</b>...and <b>John</b>,
the oldest, worked as a prison guard</font>
<br><font size=+1>upstate</font> <font size=+1>and got us a gig there once.
By then,</font>
<br><font size=+1>it was an acid rock quartet, <font color="#E80417">Fluid</font>;
whose members now</font>
<br><font size=+1>*Run a Drum Store, *Create Jingles,*Apprehend Criminals,</font>
<br><font size=+1>*Program Computers, and *Write Memoirs, oops, that's
me! <b>Tommy</b></font>
<br><font size=+1><b>Mandel</b>, keyboard sideman to the greats: <b>M</b>ark
<b>K</b>nopfler,
(whom we diss at a</font>
<br><font size=+1>later date), <b>B</b>ryan <b>A</b>dams, (not bad for
a boss,) <b>P</b>ete <b>W</b>olf of J.Geils fame,</font>
<br><font size=+1><b>I</b>an <b>H</b>unter; and <b>M</b>ick <b>R</b>onson,(Gemini
brothers, and my link to the biz), <b>J</b>ohn</font>
<br><font size=+1><b>W</b>aite, <b>B</b>o <b>D</b>idley, <b>P</b>aul <b>B</b>utterfield,
<b>P</b>aul
<b>Y</b>oung,
<b>L</b>ittle <b>S</b>teven, <b>N</b>ils <b>L</b>ofgren,</font>
<br><font size=+1><b>D</b>avid <b>J</b>ohansen (a/k/a <b>B</b>uster <b>P</b>oindexter),
<b>R</b>ichie
<b>S</b>ambora,
<b>J</b>on <b>B</b>on<b>J</b>ovi,<b>T</b>ina</font>
<br><font size=+1><b>T</b>urner, <b>C</b>yndi <b>L</b>auper, <b>C</b>hrissie
<b>H</b>ynde,*</font>
<br><font size=+1> Interesting, how
the women have to have original-sounding names, not</font>
<br><font size=+1>like Bryan, Mick, Mark, etc. Tina...Cyndi....Chrissie....and...Sophie!
Sophie</font>
<br><font size=+1>B. Hawkins, Oh, let's start on her.</font></ul>
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* Only fair to note that some of these associations can be measured in
hours.</ul>
<blockquote>former working title: Famous A**holes I have Known.../or/ I'll
Never Work Again. New Title: Famous Faces / Secret Places or RockTails
for One</blockquote>
<center>©Tommy Mandel 1996-98.
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