Never a Dull Moment With Syd and the Girls From 'SKINZ' In Attendance and Of Course Our Resident, Heckle and Jeckle
The girls uninhibited, sexual psychosis, created the perfect segue for ‘Crack’ to come scorching onto the scene with our first set, plowing through the originals of Dilby and Acer’s ‘Crack’ crew, and we added some new covers to the mix, such as GBH’s, ‘Sick Boy’, and Social Distortion’s, ‘1945’.
Of course, Gem heightened the unrestrained lunacy by having us do the Limelight and Dobbs version of ‘I Wanna’ Be Your Dog’ which had me losing my shirt (again) and Gem riding around on my back, with me on all fours singing (again) and a shitload of girls getting onto the stage, with Sammi and Lena doing the honors of kissing me all over this time until Syd, who I guess didn’t have enough fun at my expense by just about stripping me naked in their store the other evening, decided to French my tonsils out tonight.
My Gem was no help here either, laughing and howling demonically while Syd shimmied her way under me, running her tongue across my chest until slipping even further down to the netherworld before I sat on top of her, delaying her progress towards leaving me in a ….gulp…over-stimulated situation, and in the process, sent a hysterical Gem toppling from my back. Ever the trooper, my girl continued playing through a tangled mess of amp and mic cords, drawing some well-deserved applause when we finished.
During the break of our first set, after I unloaded nearly a full bucket of ice water on me to quell the um….heat produced by a certain Sydney, Gem and I jumped up on stage, with her deciding to wow the audience with some old time rock by running her ‘Robin’s Egg’ Gretsch ferociously through Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Voodoo Child’; leaving the crowd jaw dropped at her guitar mastery and Acer and Dil beaming at their rising star’s proficiency.
And if that weren’t enough to make the evening an interesting one, we seemed to have lost Tim and Skate somewhere. Dust, Oren and Steph decided to put together a search party but never got their chance to mount their rescue, when out of the night appeared two guys in ball caps, Schmidt’s coverall’s and close to seven or eight cases of bottled beer.
“Compliments of the Schmidt’s Brewery!” one of the employees exclaimed laughingly before the cap was snatched from his head by Dusty, who could only throw up his hands in utter disbelief when he realized the caper that had just been pulled. “Jesus Bleedin’ Christ….you two cat burglars just pulled off a beer heist!” he exploded in laughter as Tim and Skate beamed from ear to ear when the jig was up.
“Hell, there are so many people working in there, we just walked in like new hires, went to the locker room, grabbed these get up’s, headed straight to the loading dock and tossed all of it onto this hand dolly. Then it was off into the dark streets of the Libs for us!” Skate beamed with pride. All in all it was just another day in the life for our human versions of Heckle and Jeckle.
An excerpt from Richard Cucarese’s upcoming fictional novel, ‘PUNKS’...Chapter 34, ‘The Message’....
Social Distortion interview and ‘1945′ live from CBGB’s!! It was a great concert!!
Schmidt’s Brewery in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia!!!! R.I.P.....
Heckle and Jeckle show opener.... Tim and Skate’s alter ego’s....