We met these girls at the Electric Pussycat Swingers'
Club in Swinging London. No actually we met them at the now defunct Coney
Island High
in New York's East Village. They came all the way from Long Island to
see a show and there we were. With a show even. For some reason I'll
never
guess, they took a liking to us and by the time we were on stage an hour
later, they were handing flowers to us. They actually went out and bought
flowers while we were doing sound check. The dears. The weird part is
that they seemed intelligent.
It didn't end there. They went on to create a website for us. Our very
own fan club. It's a pretty funny feeling. The website's probably gone
but you can visit it's digital grave at Fanclub.
These pics are from that web page.
I think Jeffrey Wonderful is the one who first found
them. Their names are left to right: Rachel, Lisa, Elana and Jackie.
There's the flowers. Marty was a big favorite and they
got huge kicks out of poking his tummy.
Half of us at the Coney Island High show. That guitar
was 40 years old. The room was packed and the sound was pretty good.
Lots of people in a room sucks up the echo so you don't get feedback
in the
mikes. That allows the sound guy to turn up the stage level, and the
singer with the willowy voice can actually hear herself over the skinny
loud guitarist.
Jeffrey
Studebaker has been (in no particular order) a SE Asian correspondent
for a Singaporean travel magazine, a teacher, consultant and
translator in Japan, a guitarist with the band, Swoon
23 in
every city of the US of A, a coffee roaster in Seattle, a bike messenger
in Portland, a marine fire system repairman in Seattle, an osteoporosis
clinic researcher in Providence, a mental ward counsellor on the
night shift in Portland, a brief success in New York, and he has
now returned to the US after nearly a decade in Asia to pursue a
publishing career.
