Supermoon Seared Spencer Steaks (SSSS) !

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I brewed a batch of Saisson (beer) that night. Outside in the moonlight. Its delicious!

 

[Camadile]

Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation story time...


Right out of high school I had a graveyard shift night job at Sherman Oaks News, a newsstand on the corner of Ventura and Van Nuys boulevards. Frank lived up the hill off of Mulholland.

Once a week or so in the wee hours, some musician or other, most often the drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, but once or twice Frank himself, would come down to the news stand and buy cigarettes. They would buy a couple dozen packs of smokes, all different brands. Like, "Ah, gimme one of those and one of that and a couple of the blue ones". No plan or list, just a bagful of whatever.

One night I asked Vinnie ******? He told me Frank and most of the other guys smoke a lot and so Frank likes to have an assortment laying around to choose from.

(Of course that was decades before Frank got cancer and said his favorite vegetable was tobacco.)


I could tell a hundred stories from that job.

Paul Stanley, without makeup, but before Kiss publically took off the makeup, who pulled up and got out of a limo with a matched set of blonde bimbos...right as I was straightening the music mags and actually holding one in my hand with Kiss on the cover. We made eye contact and I looked at the mag, looked at him, looked back at the mag, back at him. He knew I'd made him. There was a moment of uneasy tension, then we both just cracked up laughing, because it was pretty comical.

Pat Benatar and Neil Gerardo. Tom Petty. A dozen others, and a whole bunch of jazz and blues guys who played in the clubs nearby.

And don't even get me started on the film and TV stars. James Coburn was one of the coolest guys I ever met. Unpretentious. Drove a Ferrari that had never been washed and had rubbish all over the floor.


(Or the CHP officer who stopped by regularly and one night sold me a Raven .25 auto and told me exactly what to say in the police report if I ever had to actually use it.)

You really should write a book about those experiences or start a thread or something! Frank Zappa's favorite vegetable was tobacco!!! I would surely read it!

Hey, forgive me, I don't know your name - have we met?

Cam

 

[Camadile]

I brewed a batch of Saisson (beer) that night. Outside in the moonlight. Its delicious!

I tell you what - We had what we call here in these parts, a Santa Ana Condition going on that day which means crystal clear air and warm temperatures. After the killer dinner, We just sat there in the moon's bright glow looking out over the lights of the entire LA basin and solved all the world's problems!

It is good to know that others were out in the moonlight that night doing what they love to do!

Cam

 

[dwh]

You really should write a book about those experiences or start a thread or something! Frank Zappa's favorite vegetable was tobacco!!! I would surely read it!

Nah. I could tell campfire stories all night, but half would probably get me in trouble, and half would probably get someone else in trouble. So I'll refrain from writing most of it down, and surely won't be posting any of the good stuff on the net.

Hey, forgive me, I don't know your name - have we met?

Cam

Possible. I've been kicking around Los Angeles off and on since the late '60s. Spent 5 years in Palm Springs if you know anyone out there.

I don't post much in the way of personal info on the net. Just an old habit from having spent a significant amount of time wrenching on the net in a previous life and knowing how data gets gathered and used.