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The Mal Thursday Show #9: Sons of the Stage

Here's a self-referential variation on THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #4: Songs The Lyres Taught Us, featuring various songs covered by my old bands: The Malarians (1984-1990), The Cheetahs (1991-2001), and The Whores (2000). This episode is bittersweet, in that part of me wishes I was still up there on stage with a mic in my hand. These days, my voice has about three songs in it before I start sounding like Andy Devine. Most of all, I remember how much fun it was to play these songs for people.

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Mal Thursday and The Cheetahs:
THE CHEETAHS: That's Your Problem
THE OUTSIDERS: Filthy Rich
THE CREATION: Makin' Time
THE WARLOCKS: New Things Runnin' Around My Mind
THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Between the Lines
LONELY MOANS: Rotting
PETER ZAREMBA & THE LOVE DELEGATION: Some Velvet Morning

The Whores:
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
IGGY & THE STOOGES: Dirt (alt. take)/I Got a Right
DEREK & CLIVE: Sex Manual
MOTT THE HOOPLE: One of the Boys (demo)
THE DEAD BOYS: I Need Lunch (rough mix)

The Malarians:
THE TAMRONS: Wild Man
THE COLONY: All I Want
THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS: Never Let Go
TERRY REID: Superlungs My Supergirl
THE BAD ROADS: Blue Girl
THE CLUE: Bad Times
NOBODY'S CHILDREN: Good Times
THE TURTLES: A Walk in the Sun
THE PAINTED SHIP: Frustration
THE MALARIANS: What's New, Pussycat?

Pulp Fiction Redux

You may have noticed that there haven't been as many entries here at BLOG! in recent weeks. Part of that is due to a busy schedule, but it's also due to the fact that I've been doing a lot more reading than writing.

And the stuff I've been reading has been primarily pulp fiction. When I graduated from college back in '87, I took a break from "quality lit" to immerse myself in paperback crime novels of the '40s and '50s. I must have read several hundred over the next couple of years, and lately, I'm back on the same pace.

Here's a list of recent reads:

TEXAS BY THE TAIL
SOUTH OF HEAVEN
by Jim Thompson

THE SPIDERWEB
SHOOTING STAR
by Robert Bloch

OF TENDER SIN
THE WOUNDED AND THE SLAIN
by David Goodis

THE END OF A PRIMITITVE
YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY
by Chester Himes

A DIET OF TREACLE
GRIFTER’S GAME
LUCKY AT CARDS
by Lawrence Block

STRONGARM
THE VENGEANCE MAN
by Dan J. Marlowe

THE PRETTIEST GIRL I EVER KILLED by Charles Runyon

HOUSE OF FLESH by Bruno Fischer

MONGO'S BACK IN TOWN by Richard E. Johnson

BLACKMAILER by George Axelrod

THE PEDDLER by Richard S. Prather

BURY ME DEEP by Harold Q. Masur

TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyers

MAGIC CARPET RIDE by John Kay

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