Riffs 2002
| January 15, 2002 |
| Zam Zam, Jake ! |
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Nobles All, dig the stage action going down in ol' London Town. Jake Broder, a young, London based, American actor with a jumpin' pedicured resume (he played Amadeus on Broadway in 2001, and sweetened the audience's wig as a member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company) has dialed up His Lordship's number in a new play set to open in London on Jan 29th, 2002. The acting company Les Gendarmes Des Fleures, composed of Broder, Adam Long (founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company) and performer David Tughan present "Zam Zam Room" a tale of Lord Buckley's free spirited bar room brilliance set against the grinding, grey repression of 1950s America. This swingin' theatrical stomp is supported by the gorgeous riffs of the Sleepytime Jazz Quintet. The show runs three nights Jan 29-31. Baby, be there or be a double Octagonhead!!! Zam Zam Room January 29-31 - 8:30pm LINKS | |
| January 19, 2002 |
| Zam Zam, Jake ! |
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Nobles All, dig the stage action going down in ol' London Town. Jake Broder, a young, London based, American actor with a jumpin' pedicured resume (he played Amadeus on Broadway in 2001, and sweetened the audience's wig as a member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company) has dialed up His Lordship's number in a new play set to open in London on Jan 29th, 2002. The acting company Les Gendarmes Des Fleures, composed of Broder, Adam Long (founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company) and performer David Tughan present "Zam Zam Room" a tale of Lord Buckley's free spirited bar room brilliance set against the grinding, grey repression of 1950s America. This swingin' theatrical stomp is supported by the gorgeous riffs of the Sleepytime Jazz Quintet. The show runs three nights Jan 29-31. Baby, be there or be a double Octagonhead!!! Zam Zam Room January 29-31 - 8:30pm LINKS | |
| January 19, 2002 |
| God's Own Drunksi |
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A December 28th article in London's Daily Mail might be of some interest to Your Grace:
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| April 3, 2002 |
| The Lee Does The Big Pond Jump |
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Most Gracious Beloveds, Regal Hipsters, and Swingin’ Crossover Cats and Kitties!! A treat is jumpin’ eminent for Thee. Manchester England’s finest, CP Lee, El Doctori de Rock ‘n’ Rolli, Dylan scholar and master voodoo channeller of His Lordship’s throaty dream beams is Gotham bound. All of you in the New York area will be on the right edge of the downbeat if you can make the scene on April 12th at the SUN Music Company. Jumpin’ to a wild, happy tempo The Lee is the special guest star of performer Peter Stone Brown. If you dig Dylan and you dig The Lord, make the scene!!! Friday, April 12th, 8:00 pm LINKS | |
| April 21, 2002 |
| Make it, Jude ! |
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Noble cats and kitties, the celebration is on!! Phantom Gallery in Portland, Oregon is inviting all the hipnoscenti to make the scene on Saturday, April 27th to knock up a mad, belated birthday beat for HRH Richard Lord Buckley. By most accounts His Lordship lived at least two lifetimes in his fifty fours years on this sweet swingin’ sphere, so, it ain’t much of a wig stretch to lay out the candles for his 96th. Performances, rare recordings and a video presentation of the trailer for Michael Monteleone’s Buckley documentary “Too Hip For the Room” will highlight this gathering of those that dig the Lord. Make it, Jude!!! Lord Buckley’s 96th Belated Birthday Scene
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| May 3, 2002 |
| THE LORD IS COME ! Dig Infinity ! |
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That swingin' scribe Prince Oliver Trager has hip dipped his quill in the jet black ink of jumpin', stompin' history and the results are DIG INFINITY! the Life and Art of Lord Buckley published by Welcome Rain Publishers. This tome, four hundred and leapin' five pages of oral history and not so straight biographical narrative jumps with the sweet light of love. The vast cast of witnesses including Robin Williams, Jerry Garcia, Ed Sullivan, Joan Baez, Ken Kesey, Henry Millier, even Lord Buckley His Royal Self! To celebrate this long awaited event LordBuckley.com will be opening the doors of the the Supermarket section at LBC to offer up the first edition and first printing of DIG INFINITY! This book is sure to be a collector’s item. So, take your browser deep into the heart of hip by stomping by and taking the pick of the litter. All proceeds from sales will go to support LordBuckley.com. Also, dig this: Oliver Trager will be LordBuckley.com's guest for the hippest online chat room event that ever swung through the gates. Look for the announcement of time and place in the New Riffs section at LBC. If you are on the mailing list you will receive an email for this event. Swingin' Princes and Noble Ladies, it bears repeating: THE LORD IS COME!!!!!Keep the melody close to Thy ticker and the beauty of this sweet, swingin’ sphere will always do right by Thee. LINKS | |
| May 18, 2002 |
| Chats and Kitties |
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The online chat with Dig Infinity! author Oliver Trager has been postponed a week or two due to the technical ineptitude of the current LBC curator (it was so simple it evaded me!). If you dig the Lord and could be off any assistance please contact Michael Monteleone at this email address: msquared@lordbuckley.com DATE, LOCATION AND TIME: TBA | |
| May 29, 2002 |
| Dig Them Double Bright Moments |
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The regal Lords and Ladies of Gotham City are in for double bright moments when Dig Infinity! author Oliver Trager and veteran Buckley interpreter Tom Calagna hit the boards at 55 Bar in Greenwich Village at the end of June 2002. If you are in the audience for this show you will be digging the hippest tag team on the sphere. HRH Trager will read selections from his recently published biography of Lord Buckley, Dig Infinity! and Tom Calagna, the Count of Lunicia Extremetis, will channel some of His Lordship's gonest gospels. Even if you can't make it there,Your Grace, make it there!!! Oliver Trager and Tom Calagna 55 Bar
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| June 10, 2002 |
| David Amram: Offbeat? |
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Those of you tuned to the high inner circle of the inner circle at the very heart of acoustics will dig the latest efforts of composer and world music crusader, the Blessed St. David Amram. He has written a grand tome in the key of hip titled "Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac". The book, filled with wonderful stories of Amram's adventures with Jack Kerouac also includes a number of references to Lord Buckley. Offbeat, Collaborating with Kerouac by David Amram copyright 2002 | |
| 6/25/2002 |
| Lord Buckley Rides Again |
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For two weeks (that's a fortnight, Jack!), starting Friday, July 12th, Dig Infinity! author Oliver Trager is the guest of writer Michael Simmons at The Inkwell, a beautifully paced online literary salon. HRH Trager will be answering questions posed by Michael Simmons and anyone who wishes to write in. This in not a live chat type event. According to The Inkwell’s Linda Castellani, “Unlike chat, which takes place at a particular time and is ephemeral, the topics in inkwell.vue remain online just about forever, so they can be read and responded to long after the interview is done.” This discussion will be active for two weeks. All you kats and kitties that want to lay your peepers on the considerable semantic units already gone down can tune your browser to this url: And if any of you royal hipsters are just dying to have HRH Trager straighten you on a point or two then send an email to this address: So, polish Thy peepers, sharpen Thy wig riffs, and tap them keys, beloveds, because Oliver Trager is at the Poe-Dee-Um! | |
| June 26, 2002 |
| Lord Buckley Bumped To Monday!!! |
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The Friday, June 28th installment of the Morning Edition show on National Public Radio had been scheduled to swing with the beautiful garlanded beat of The Lord, but the untimely death of Who bassist John Entwistle the day before has bumped producer Jon Kalish's article about Lord Buckley tto Monday, July 1, 2002. Featuring Dig Infinity! author Oliver Trager, Kalish has put together a very hip, and with it tribute to His Lordship. You can get with it if you want to. There's only one way straight to the road of love!!! RESCHEDULED Monday, July 1 - NPR Morning Edition - the article should appear in the last 10 minutes of the hour. Which hour is very much in question. (please check your local listings or NPR.org for exact times of Morning Edition in your area) LINKS | |
| June 26, 2002 |
| Early Bird land, Daddy-o! |
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Now all you cats and kitties that burn the midnight oil in Gotham City can treat yourself to a bit of The Lord via Bob Fass's WBAI Pacifica Radio show "Radio Unnameable". Thursday/Friday June 27/28th will find the finely honed madness of Buckley interpreter Tom Calagna in a pas de deux with the seven-ply wigster semantic riffs of Dig Infinity! author Oliver Trager. You can swing with these taffy pull madmen from midnight to 3:30AM. WBAI Pacifica Radio in NYC Thursday/Friday Midnight to 3:30AM It may be possible to listen to a webcast at: www.wbai.org LINKS | |
| June 29, 2002 |
| New Gallery Riffs |
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Gentle Swingers, a couple new riffs for your peepers. Computer artist Robert O. Smith (Prince Robo) has graced us with a tasty sampling of his very hip ZBrush work. Please dig the scene at the Royal Gallery. LBC welcomes Prince Robo to the scene! LINKS LINKS COMING SOON | |
| July 1, 2002 |
| Lord Buckley On NPR ! ! ! |
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M'Lords and M'Ladies, could it ever get any sweeter? The Monday, July 1st installment of the Morning Edition show on National Public Radio swung with the beautiful garlanded beat of The Lord. Featuring author Oliver Trager, NPR producer Jon Kalish put together a very hip, and with it tribute to His Lordship. You can get with it if you want to. There's only one way straight to the road of love!!! LINKS | |
| July 4, 2002 |
| That's Some Kind Of Euphoria, Jack! |
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From the ever watchful peepers of actor, graphic artist and record collector, Richard Corey comes the news of a high flyin' financial flip. Ebay auctions recently hosted a little virtual hassle site over one of the greatest pieces of wax in the entire issue: Euphoria II. This fine emerald jacketed 1956 recording went for a stunning 230 dollars and leapin' 27 cents. Euphoria II is the second Vaya issue of His Lordship's workand features Jonah, The Gasser, The Hip Gahn and four way out tales that Aesop might very have dug had he tuned his lobes to the riff. LINKS LINK COMING SOON | |
| July 9, 2002 |
| Wild Man Blues |
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Ah, the spirits are with us tonight, M'Lords and Ladies!! Turk Murphy, a stalward and very hip San Francisco musician lead a great traditonal Bay Area jazz band in the way back when. He interesected with His Lordship around 1957 and they hit the studio together. The results were a very swingin' combination of New Orleans beat and the Hipsemantic. Two sides appear on the latest CD offering from the San Francisco Traditonal Jazz Foundation. The CD titled "Wild Man Blues includes "The Hip Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Hip Mahatma". LINKS | |
| July 12, 2002 |
| A Fortnight Of Inkwells |
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For two weeks (that's a fortnight, Jack!), starting Friday, July 12th, Dig Infinity! author Oliver Trager is the guest of writer Michael Simmons at The Inkwell, a beautifully paced online literary salon. HRH Trager will be answering questions posed by Michael Simmons and anyone who wishes to write in. This in not a live chat type event. According to The Inkwell’s Linda Castellani, “Unlike chat, which takes place at a particular time and is ephemeral, the topics in inkwell.vue remain online just about forever, so they can be read and responded to long after the interview is done.” This discussion will be active for two weeks. All you kats and kitties that want to lay your peepers on the considerable semantic units already gone down can tune your browser to this url: And if any of you royal hipsters are just dying to have HRH Trager straighten you on a point or two then send an email to this address: So, polish Thy peepers, sharpen Thy wig riffs, and tap them keys, beloveds, because Oliver Trager is at the Poe-Dee-Um! LINKS Oliver Trager/Dig Infinity! discuss at The Inkwell [not an active link] | |
| July 14, 2002 |
| A Rooftop Riff - Introducing Peter Stetler |
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Peter Stetler, a very swinging artist with a wide and wild wig range, has gifted The Royal Gallery at LBC with a new portrait of the Great Master that will put your peepers directly into the high circle of the inner circle at the very heart of hip mythology. Along with this jumpin' image comes a narrative that hips you to the source of the source. Get with it all the way! LINKS LINKS COMING SOON | |
| July 16, 2002 |
| Hipster Bob? |
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Those of you cats and kitties that tuned into the article about Lord Buckley on NPR on July 1st already dig that the voice introducing THE VOICE was veteran newscaster and Morning Edition Host Bob Edwards. This last Monday, July 15th, on Morning Edition, Bob read some letters to NPR about various news stories. One such letter was from a New York cat that laid down his Lord Buckley scene in a very hip patois. At first, Prince Bob read it straight, but soon he was caught up in the rhythms and poetry and by the end he was swingin' it up real cool hipsemantic style. There's just something jumpin' about that prose! If you have REAL AUDIO you can listen to Bob reading the Buckley letter by going to the Morning Edition audio area at NPR.org. | |
| October 3, 2002 |
| The Baron Of Biography Hits The Waves |
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DEAD TO THE WORLD
GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME
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| November 5, 2002 |
| Classical Whack |
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Buckley's creative use of language will be explored as "Lord Buckley Takes A Whack at The Classics," Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Tuolumne County Library on Greenley Rd. in Sonora. Beginning at 7 pm, the program recreates a Buckley performance during the height of his career in the 1950's. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. Local performance artist David Allen Simerley, who will portray Buckley at the library, studied storytelling at the Prometheus Psychodrama Theater in Palo Alto under Gurney Norman, one of the original Merry Pranksters. A copy of "Dig Infinity - the Life and Art of Lord Buckley" by Oliver Trager is available for loan at the library. | |
| November 25, 2002 |
| The Green Mill Jumps |
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The Swingin' Cats and Kitties of Chi Town can get a glimpse of the Lord on Sundays at Chicago's famed Green Mill bar. Buckley interpretor Richard Henzel will be making a brief guest appearance as "The Hip Messiah" on sundays during late November and into December. If you didn't catch the Hip Henzel's great channeling during Prop Theatre's presentation of Charles Pike's "The Return of the Hip Messiah" then, brothers and sisters, jump this time!!! The Green Mill LINKS Hear Richard Henzel doing "The Raven" (streaming audio) [not an active link] | |
| November 26, 2002 |
| Avery Snaps His Last Ray Avery 1920 - 2002 |
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You've seen his masterful eye on many of Lord Buckley recordings. And you've seen his handywork on countless other jazz albums and in even more publications. Ray Avery, jazz photographer and avid jazz record collector died, suddenly, of a heart attack on Nov. 17, 2002 in Los Angeles. One night in 1956, Avery took his 35mm camera to a small club in Hollywood called The Music Box and witnessed the improbable scene of a Lord Buckley performance. The evening was resplendent with the Royal Family (Lady Elizabeth, Princess Laurie and Prince Richard) in attendance, Milt Hinton's lively jump band, various and sundry members of the Royal Court and an abstract painter working wildly on scenery even as His Lordship held forth.Avery found his way to the foot of the stage and snapped away like a mad dig daddy. The result was three rolls of the most swingin' and jumpin' silver halide the sphere has ever laid it's peepers on. We can thank Ray for the incomparable profile of Lord Buckley on "His Royal Hipness" and for the elegant cover of "The Bad Rapping of the Marquis De Sade" and even for his kind permission to use some of his images at LBC. Ray Avery was a kind, generous and enthusiastic human being. He will be missed in many a quarter. LINKS | |
| December 3, 2002 |
| Lord Buckley Resurfaces |
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Buckley channeler, Jason Eisenberg and the LORD BUCKLEY REINCARNATION ENSEMBLE resurface on Saturday, Jan.18,2003 at 8 PM. All Lord Buckley fans are encouraged to bring their hip selves their equally hip buddy cats, Romans and countrymen, and all card carryin' swingin' cats and kitties to a performance at New York City's outrageous word crib of the literati, The Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery @ Bleecker. this is a crazy duet style gig with The DAVID AMRAM Trio. Amram the ultimate Beforedaddy of cultural reconnaissance swings on piano, flutes and horns with John Dewitt-bass, Kevin Twigg-drums & FRIENDS TBA. For more information point your magic twanger to: The Bowery Poetry Club LINKS | |
| December 16, 2002 |
| Mighty Nice, Daddy-o |
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Legendary surrealist/political satirist/puppeteer and Buckley affectionado, Paul Zaloom unleashes his latest solo extravaganza, MIGHTY NICE, a work in three parts: "THE PUNCH AND JIMMY SHOW", a gay update of the classic "Punch and Judy"; "DON'T", a mock D.A.R.E anti-drug presentation hosted by an intense state cop and his drug addled, life-sized dummy, Billy; and "2222", a frenetic, apocalyptic, and hysterical sci-fi vision of what the world will be like in the year 2222.Zaloom uses his weapon of choice, humor, to disarm and encourage, to melt the pessimism away, and to hurt the face from way too much laughter. Zaloom recently spoke to LBC at his shows.
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| December 23, 2002 |
| Say, Fred . . . Yes, Charlie? |
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His Lordship's most loyal buddy cats, Fred and Charlie make their initial celebrated solo run at LBC with Bonnie Prince Charles' Pike's sweet scribing in the Faux For All section. It's not amorous lions this time nor a slippery firepole, au contraire! As His Lordship is want to say, "A stiffer riff must be blown." LINKS LINKS COMING SOON | |
| December 23, 2002 |
| The Night Before Yulescene |
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Fine art painter Pam Ingalls and LBC curator Michael Monteleone have twisted the key a little bit on an old standard Xmas chart. They have fashioned Clement Clarke Moore's original riff "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" into something slightly more Buckleylesque. Have a read in the Faux For All section here at LordBuckley.com. LINKS LINKS COMING SOON | |