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The Count's Love and Flame at the C Note  PHOTO Blowfish

The Main Event
at the legendary
Sixth Annual
RAT REUNION in Hull
September 2018!
Saturday Night on Nantasket Beach

VIDEO
Sister Ray/Jumpin' Jack Flash
https://youtu.be/YB-CbktVo2I
 "Now who is that knocking?  Who's knocking at my stupid door...
it must be Chief Sacco...he wants to take me for a ride ride..
Oh man I haven't got the time time...he's busty sxxxxxng on my ding dong..."  Lou Reed lyric  2:26 in on video

photos and story by Blowfish

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It’s the end of the summer and that also means the Rat Beach Party down at the C Note. We went on Saturday to catch the Count do his thing with Love and Flame.

This iteration had Robin Baltimore on drums. He was the drummer 40 years ago when the group played the Paradise and Rat. Robin defies Mother Nature herself by having more energy now then back in the day. Also in the band is John Keegan on two different saxes. That thick sax sound gives everything in the Count’s repertoire a new twist.

The Count has always taken his inspiration from the NY Dolls and Velvet Underground. The group did a fast “Pills” from Bo Diddly via the NY Dolls. Hey then did an expanded Sister Ray by the Velvets that morphed into Jumping Jack Flash. We figure that came from a jam idea by guitarist Kenne Highland who can end up on any other song in rock history if given the solo space. Sometime in the night the “Third Rock From the Sun” riff by Hendrix ended up in another song jam, soon followed by “Cat Scratch Fever”. What’s going on in that head?

Lady Caroline had her moment with “Summertime” which actually became a dialog between her and Kenne who tapped into the James Gurly/Cheap Thrills intro riff and used it as a motif to do some uncharacteristically restrained playing. It was a nice moment!

The Count is never too restrained. He was running around stage a lot and told one story about recording with Jimmy Miller (producer: Exile on Main Street) that gave an insight into how that producer might have worked with the Stones. It was all typical Count; loose and a little crazy with some real rock history in the mix.


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