January 8
Police meet at BREED HALL!
David Bowie Birthday
Elvis Presley Birthday
Aerosmith Groupie Birthday Party
Come celebrate with (outgoing?) Chief Buckley
______________________So one night I was up at the Four Seasons Hotel and some dude, David Jones...you might know him better as David Bowie, gave me a beer and was playing his new Tin Machine recording.
This was like 1995 or something.
By the way, today is the birthday of David Bowie, Elvis Presley AND an Aerosmith stalker!
In 1976 David and Iggy Pop had drinks with us at the Springfield Marriot Hotel, us being myself and three chicks (say it...the fxx hags...) Iggy spending a couple of days with us bouncing around the hotel before Bowie's concert
David first waved to me from his limo in 1973, I was one of about 200 people who showed up at his Music Hall concert...there were drag queens and me and not many others for only $3.50 a ticket!
Fast forward back to 1995 after a Foxboro concert at Gillette or whatever it was called at the time.
The Aerosmith groupie was crawling all over David on the couch so I said to him "Thanks for the beer. I was one of your original fans back in the early 70s when no one knew who you were! You could at least talk music with me." Bowie just laughed with the Aerosmith groupie prowling all over her prey like a dog in heat, the groupie whose birthday is also today, as stated...and at 62 one wouldn't expect her to be crawling all over third-generation Steppenwolf guitarists anymore (NOT kidding you...that's a story for another time...and the dude was married...12th Generation Steppenwolf...Pamela Des Barres she's not...)
Back to Bowie: He was such a gentleman in Springfield. What happened?
So I had a final sip of beer, Brian Burke, and exited the hotel room.
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I get some phone call ...the groupie phones me and says "David is hoping that you didn't go to the Globe or Herald with the story" ...I'm thinking...what a delightful idea!
Ring...the late Norma Nathan at the Herald gets a call - a message "Norma, I'm right pissed...Aerosmith groupie you-know-who is sleeping with David Bowie right now..." Norma called me the "babbling boyfriend," in the story which - of course, I wasn't.
Well, Norma was as "right quick" as I was - with a British slang - "right pissed" (well, I wasn't pissed, just having some fun) and the headline read:
BOWIE AND ARROW
Too funny...she called me the "boyfriend" but that wasn't accurate.
The father of her child picks her up and asks "Where were you last night" and she said "Fucking Bowie, what's it to you?"
The father of her kid was a nice guy! Rest in Peace. She, not so much.
Her grandmother phones her, not very happy, with four words:
"You're in the Herald" (phone slams on her!)
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"Joe, did you call that motor-mouth Norma Nathan when I specifically told you not to?"
"Why are you always blaming me? David the father of your kid (as opposed to David Bowie) has more invested here than me! Ask him."
"OK, you're right."
She told me years later she knew it was me.
OF COURSE IT WAS ME
You can celebrate the old days on David Bowie, Elvis Presley and the Aerosmith groupie's birthday tonight at Tufts University Breed Memorial Hall (Breed Hall? Don't get me started!) with Chief Jack Buckley licking his wounds for being such a jerk on October 1, 2019! ...face a police chief who covered for a quarter of his staff now blacklisted by Marian Ryan, District Attorney.
Pass the Buck with Buckley TONIGHT at, of all places, the home of corruption in Medford now that McGlynn is gone, Tufts University!
Come one. Come All.
Give Chief Buckley a piece of your mind.
If Breanna gives him the pink slip next week, you might not have as many opportunities at this.
Free admission
"They'll be lining up for this one!"
Joe Pantoliano as cop from The Fugitive
HA!
The next Police-Community Meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 8th at 6PM at Tuft University's Breed Memorial Hall located at 51 Winthrop Street. All are welcome to attend. Thank-you
