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Son of Sam

Dreamers and Rockers

Down In Malibu

Sunshine USA

Living In the Streets

Lost

What I'm Doing Now

Fowl Play

Horror Stories

The way OUT is the way IN

songs of kim fowley and tommy rockĀ®

Moribund the Burgemeister:  "The music keeps them quiet...there is no other way"  Peter Gabriel
Submissions
 

Kim ceaselessly reviewed every submission tape (reel to reels/cassettes/and vinyl-then)  stock piled in his dirty closet. THE INFAMOUS RUBBER ROOM.  (oh, the bizarre stuff hidden in there!)  In fact, he made sure to listen to the entire other un-recorded side of all demos as well for possible hidden "genius stink" !  (more Kim lingo)  Randy Winburn sang all his own eleven part multi-layered vocal harmonies and Kim was impressed.


"Randy recalls the Golden Age of harmony classics when tenors won radio ears and romance was the bottom line."  
Ten years earlier.  Randy proved himself in the fabulous Nova Local.  Decca Records. 1967.  He'd listened to a number of Tommy Rock (solo) compositions and justly chose "Somebody Else's Girl" lending the power and authority of his voice to my concept. ( Still one of my fave recordings-too bad we did'nt ..doo..oh.. a whole album's worth)... and...  "If I only had the time..." to try and dig- out my original demo  (...it's got to be here somewhere...)
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"Somebody Else's Girl" (T.Rock)
Click the pic above to order " Yellow Pills:  Prefill " ( now for only $15.99 if in stock-2 CD set)  own your own "Dream Rocker" by Tommy Rock / "Somebody Else's Girl" and "Sunshine USA" by Randy Windburn/ and more LOST 70's Power Pop .


Global Warnings and Fear Factor 1979
Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran. 
Accident at 3 Mile Island Pa., nuclear plant threatens area
Opec announces 50% Oil Price Increase
Voyager sends photos of Jupiter
Calif. is the first state to initiate gas rationing...

  
 Hard bleeding  on- call work was the word.  I had no bed.  I slept on cushions in the closet, if at all.  Couldn't eat.  (Street Legal/ No Time to Think)  A holed-up working ghost. The TV stayed un-plugged.  I never saw Kim watch his-Push Man!/ Living this Boy in a Bubble (about to burst) World...I MISSED...(the accident...) at 3 Mile Island-it didn't happen...the only news was Kim Fowley news...


Among Kim's latest pile of lyrical scraps was a stand-out title: 
"Sunshine USA"   Bright and All American. But weird and darkly prophetic.  Snowed- in in Sunny Cal.  That's Kim for ya.  Funny weather and all...  Talk about Future Smog. 

Still.  Hope for love at the end of the nuclear world.  Let's try it.

 I stretched out at the piano. ( I play a little.)  -earning my $150.00 each month!  And the simple two chord change I came up with sounded just right.  Feeling good.  I called Kim from Seal Beach (home of Leisure World and The Naval Weapons Station).   

 Over-exuberant Kim made you think it a done deal.  He called Randy Windburn.   Now Randy expected a new and brilliant  Kim Fowley song for his already booked -up and coming - studio session. 

"Don't stall... Tommy Rock!"  Now the pressure was on.  There'd be hell to pay.

In a mad hurry, with extra batteries and tape machine in hand, and Gary P. (the piano pro) at the wheel of a cracked-white, 64 Rambler, I began to hum the words into the box as we drove up the 405. 

"Snowed in again...when's it gonna end"   My voice unusually weak.  Time running out...

Randy opened the door to his Hollywood hill house on stilts.

"What's the roar fella's?"  He pointed to his ear.  Manic Kim still had him trapped on the phone.  (I timed him once. at.. 3 1/4 hours..!)

Gary set up his portable piano and plugged it in.  I tried to fake a tune.  Randy looked on in dismay.  He could feel our pain.   

 With Randy joining in the battle. The song was completed in 45 minutes. 

 It's been said that some songs pre- exist in Time and Space.
 
Listen to the "break-through moment" as we chased "Sunshine USA" all the way down to salvation.

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"Sunshine USA" 1979/released version
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The Moment
 
 
Outrageous World
 

1973.  Eighteen years of.  Seeking desperate advice.  Just havin busted up with my girl.  And still looking for that impossible record deal.  (A brave boy from Long Island.)  I went to a seedy Fortune Teller Lady,  on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.   

Madam X  threw down her cards.  I felt uneasy.  She told me not to worry.  (She told me I was handsome boy...)  In three sentences she told me Everything I wanted to hear...  


She shuffled again, and for only 5 dollars more...those cards would ...Reveal...SO MUCH MORE ....SO MUCH MORE..


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"The Good Ship" First "try" demo. 723 Seventh Ave.
I woke up yesterday and I cried my tears away
I spoke yesterday and I scared the air away
I got up in the morning and washed this face alone...
I ran into the kitchen and I sang this song...

Get along sorrow.  
The wise men will come tomorrow... 
All the lollipop kids...
Will help you to follow...
On the Good Ship.

I walked along the Yellow Brick Road
I was broken
I smiled at the cloud in the sky
But the rain had me soak in it
I ran to a house it was the Greatest House I'd come along...
I opened up the door and they sang my song...

Get along sorrow...
the Wise Men will come tomorrow...

I prayed again in hopes of what I was looking for... 
God said alot.  By saying nothing.  So I said nothing more...
Now I walk along.  The same old thoughts.  The same old fears...
But I sing the song.  That helped me through.  All these years..

Get along sorrow.  
The Wise Men will come tomorrow... 


copyright 1973 . Midsong International Music.   1650 Broadway  NYC.

so much more...
  3/04/2007:  Fleeting thoughts (mellow gold) as told to me by Madam X and the Masters of the Universe : 

 By 1981 the complete turning away from the Godhead of peace, love and old rock and roll habits had.. begun.. The  stigmatic X that Charles Manson has carved into this generations head, was sneek-illy making it's first symbolic move...  

 " I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."    He preached his Blasphemy.   Far out , Man!

"We all know the Devil.  Hides behind our eyes.  Looking out upon us.  Here he comes again... "  Wake Up the Devil.  (He may be right this time)  A song I wrote and presented to the label industry.  1971.  
 
Who understood?   Motley Crue and whole Tribe XXX of other bands sure did.   And so began the Slogan worship of -- the  realpolitic  EVIL in the collective memory.  666 .  (Generation X:  the flipside)  or Helter Skelter. 

The Kids loved it!

{so did Richard Ramirez:  I got an eerie glimpse of the Night Stalker/ two steps from the Hightower Elevator/ LA COUNTY Jail.  4400 Denver Row. 1986.}

The capitalist pigs, especially, Saw a Good Thing...in the mis-en-scene of the marketplace.  Mechanical animals made a lot of money.  The moral screws came loose.  And, eventually, the model American Family took the fall.  

 I followed the Crue to a very early concert at the Starwood...  Met a girl.  Had a kid. 1980. 

In a few days, on March 11,  I'll be 53.   (Osama Bin Laden will be 50 on the 10th)

The Ozzie showbiz Satan of the the 80's in now the "Satan is for Real" standard...

Satan's just a bud.

Oh,  the Boy Howdy mess we're in today.   

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 How can The Forsaken Generation reclaim their wits? 

 Ruled by an invisable and untouchable anti-Christ.  A Manson-like media "Garbage Dump":   With it's in- your -face Threat- tricks.  DaVinci Code dog meat?  And old School worship of BAAL.   

 Turn on your  FLAT SCREEN TV today and see the world...   Dark, insane vibrations.  The sad poetry of End Times.   But it aint over...

 [ A few of us in the late seventies were the first to pay for the coming sea change... and some of us Good Kids got real hurt in that causational blender.  I for one, landed in Olive View the week John Lennon died.]    

 ...sparetime victims of the ( end of the)  Beatle Dream.

I Cringed at the Crossroad, signing with Kim, his Curious George outfit on... with those lovely, sowed- on patches-:  " His Majesty the Devil!"   How in the Pink!    (see pic: Son of Sam)

 "I'll trick you again..."  Manson made sure we heard him.  But have we?   

My father always said,  when I got too sour,  he'd  laughingly remind me: 
 
"Life is fun and games.  That' s all kid.  Fun and games."  (WW2 Vet with a big ole Indian tattoo-)  

 Times of spiritual crisis, lots of folks look To God.   ( For many of my friends now, Jesus is still the ticket)
 
"Christ died for the ungodly."   Romans 5:6

The Rapture?    (What more?  ...Evils lurk for the left behinds?)
 
( I resented my Dad for expressing it that way, but, I suppose, my Pop was too cool.)        

"I am a reflection of you..."  perhaps the Higher Power might say to an entire society now in need of a Recovery Program.   Got nuff rope?

Politics and religion aside.  We co-exist as, human beings, in a existential playground.  A socio-archeological dig , if you will.  

 {Sacrificial rites...   Rollin wit dem (Jon Benet) Bones and all.}   
 
It... IS... an Outrageous World...    A Biblical job.

Groove (if you choose) right along with the vast boogie of nature's absurdity.   

Suppose it's all a Marketing Hustle anyway,  Right???



"And if the sun don't shine it will always be...if the sun don't shine it will always be...winter time...WINTER TIME!"
"Always live as nothing, and your mission is fulfilled immediately."   Lord Umaganesh

Dr. Filth he keeps his world...inside of a leather cup...   Desolation Row




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