![]() Two currents keeping each other alive and the whole song flowing.Ĭold Pizza & Other Hot Stuff EP by Jonathan & Tommy His latest full-length collection, ‘Cold Pizza and Other Hot Stuff’ (Blue Arrow Records, 2022) featuring new Richman classics like the title track, a revisioning of the late 80s ‘New Kind of Neighborhood’ that’s at the same time slower and more celebratory about relocating to a new state, and the instrumental ‘Guitar in Orange Drums in Pale Purple’, an utter masterpiece of interplay with Jonathan and Tommy, melody maker and drummer playing rhythm different ways perfectly synchronized with one another in mutual sustenance. Richman‘s career is an unbroken history of disdain for convention, marked by anomalies like children’s songs and surf-rock and instrumental movie soundtracks, which never fails to impress the discerning, and shows no sign of stopping. Ok, now we’re getting, now you can get back to your song Jonathan.Jonathan Richman’s Inner House is full of Cold Pizza and other Hot Stuff by Zack Kopp The name of this article is a mash up of the titles of Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins’s two latest full-length releases. ![]() So that’s what I mean when I say how stiff I was Started buyin’ Calypso records and things Cause I started getting way into that kind of stuff you know. That was really the beginning of the end for us. Here’s what I’m thinking: ‘oh’Īfter that trip to Bermuda, you know, that band never got along as well after that. These guys really are looser than us’ I’m thinking to myself. You know he’s up thereĪnd I’m watchin’ this and goin’ ‘Oh, we really are stiff. ![]() He was like the Bill Wyman of the Caribbean. And he’s great and he’s just not movin’, he’s just kinda like chewin’ gum or somethin’, just kinda like you know Then you know and he was just there… and he was just goin’ you know like when the lead guitar guy – their only guitar guy – was goin’Īnd makin’ it sound way bad, it’s boomin’. ![]() He was this old guy – old guy? sure! he was almost forty years old! Hell! – and he was in a windbreaker and everthin’ like that. Kinda like this you know…Īnd it wasn’t just him. (See it still works! It was good then and it still works)Īnd the guitar had this great fat sound. All the college kids loved them, and they were goin’… And they were playin’ more stuff like this type of material you know. Bermuda Strollers had big guitars like this and everything like that. So, in other words there were people there as old as me! So, and they were the Bermuda Strollers and they all had sunglasses so you couldn’t tell when one guy was lazy and just wanted to lay off that day, would call up someone else, you know and they’d be the Bermuda Strollers that day so they all had sunglasses and you couldn’t tell who they wereīut anyway so we were doin’ like a some. Well, I’m gonna have to change it to ‘fifty’ year old. Back then that was older – ‘Hey, they’re forty year old guys!’. Back then I never knew that I would someday be forty. Well, the trouble was the people who were really knockin’ them dead were these forty year old guys. You know this is pretty important, that everyday we’re out there You know we had a fair amount of equipment for a group back then and everything and we’re just going. You know we were kinda serious and everything. And the audience was goin’ ‘Oh, that’s very nice’ and stuff. But, like, we had, you know, all kinds of fender stuff, and we were goin’ like, and we were like playin’ all kinda like all trip hammers and we were goin’ Nothing snotty about that song is there? No What it means back then I was in this band, we were playin’ this kind of stuff there back in about 1973, we were in Bermuda and we had this job at a hotel, called the hotel Inverurie. Jonathan, when you say how stiff you were what exactly are you talkin’ about? That kept soothin’ me and calming me downīermuda is about 600 miles east of South Carolina that’s why I say its so far
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