Riffs 2003
| June 10, 2003 |
| Reincarnation All Over Again |
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Esteemed aficionados, the riff is a cool, sweet downbeat that heralds the appearance of Jason Eisenberg's Lord Buckley Reincarnation Ensemble to a theater, nightclub, bar or sidewalk near you. Using a potent elixer made of one part Truth Serum, one part Jumpin' Love Nectar and one part Swingin' Wig Babble, Eisenberg and his Buddy Kats flip the mip and rip the zip. As the sweet princess Chris Radant is quoted as saying:"Veteran performance artist Eisenberg delivers the Whammy Of All Word Whammys with a cool, crazy sound". "Lord Buckley Reincarnation Ensemble
with The Jazz Orchestra of the Royal Court" ###Another Gig has been added ! ! !%%% | |
| June 11, 2003 |
| Zam Zam Sam ! |
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Cool and swingin' London UK cats and kitties MUST to put this on their date slate. Actor Jake Broder is laying the new and regrooved Zam Zam Room, his beautiful Lord Buckley evocation on the populance at two very cool Soho summer venues: the Pizza Express Jazz Club and the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Dig what the Printheads committed inkwise: "PICK OF THE WEEK" - THE GUARDIAN TIME OUT CRITICS' CHOICE "STUNNING... EXTRAORDINARY" - EVENING STANDARD In the tradition of Jon Hendricks mixed with Robin Williams by way of Mahatma Gandhi, Jake Broder brings back the rantings of Lord Buckley, the high Sahib of the beat generation. Accompanying Broder will be David Tughan in various guises and some very serious jazz cats. On the drums: Leo 'Two Sugs' Taylor. On the bass: 'The Boss' Tom Herbert. And the gate at the 88's is 'Professor' Alex K Hutton. Bear witness to Lord Buckley's legendary nightclub act, in town for a limited time only. To swing or not to swing? ...THAT is the hang up! 25-29 JUNE 7.45PM PIZZAEXPRESS JAZZ CLUB DEAN STREET, SOHO 020 7439 8722 13 JULY 7.30PM ONE NIGHT ONLY RONNIE SCOTT'S FRITH STREET, SOHO 020 7439 0747 | |
| June 18, 2003 |
| Little Gods And Goddesses |
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The Lord Is Come - To The World Of Roleplaying Games! Two comparatively recent releases of Role Play Game source material may be of interest to the Royal Court: one set in the far-flung future and the other just off to the side from here and now. "Spies And Revolutionaries - for the Fading Suns" game from Holistic Design. The year is Five-Thousand-and-change; humanity done went and took to the stars, stompin' on some whole new spheres, built us a sweet swingin' techno-utopia then blew the whole gig and spent the last millenium in a New Dark Age. For those who like their science fiction with a medieval flavor; noble houses, the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun and the merchant guilds, with lotsa aliens and bug-eyed monsters thrown in for good measure. Spies And Revolutionaries is a collection of dossiers covering the "intelligence community" (so-called), with a file on the "Mercurians," latter-day Discordian pranksters who go 'round knockin' the edges off the squares. One of 'em goes by the name of "Lord Buckley"... | |
| June 18, 2003 |
| Calling All Hipsemantic Heads |
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Master printhead Prince Douglas Cruickshank has concocted a very hip and jumpin' challenge for all cats and kitties with the Lord's spirit running through their wigs, veins, pipes and wing tips. The First Occasional Lord Buckley Invitational is a contest to see who can flip the greatest Buckleyesque story on the populance. Entries can be either written or recorded. And dig this, the looty in the booty in the form of First, Second and Third place prizes. The winners and honorable mentions will be available for reading and listening to in the Faux For All section at LBC.So, cats and kitties pull on your wigs like a madman at a taffy pull and lay a little Lord Buckley on us!!!!! LINKS LINK COMING SOON | |
| June 18, 2003 |
| Dig The Raven |
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You rhyming triplet cats and kitties want to tune your browser to a New Mexico radio station on Friday June 6th as madman saint poethead Gary Glazner flips a tribute on Swingin' Eddie Poe when he does The Raven on KUNM FM. It's part of Glazner's Word Art: Poetry Broadside Series. | |
| July 27, 2003 |
| Hostetter Blows An Ink Riff |
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John Hostetter, a true renaissance cat, with well developed chops for TV (Murphy Brown, Murder She Wrote), film (Star Trek Insurrection, Kermit: The Swamp Years) and the conjuring of His Lordship, has added another flip to his trick bag: computer artist. Swinging with Photoshop and an ink jet printer Prince John jumps, jives and brings the spirit of The Lord to the printed page. Dig it, daddy-o! LINKS LINK COMING SOON | |
| August 25, 2003 |
| The Crown Prince Mystery |
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You noir type cats and kitties that go flip for a little mystery now and then, and you studs and stallions that are looking for an easy way to rise through the ranks of the Royal Court may want to dig the slo-motion gavel scene at ebay. Someone (there is no positive ID) purporting to be “H.R.H. Crown Prince Richard Buckley (son of Lord Buckley)” is offering a possibly intriguing cache of Lord Buckley goods. Four CDs with over 50 Lord Buckley routines, a poster, a paperback book and a Certificate of Royalty. The 4 CD set is part of a limited series of 100. The playlist for the four CDs is varied but appears to be primarily previously issued material. Yet there are some items that LBC is not familiar with (view the playlist using the link below.) The poster is titled “Wild Truth” it is 17" X 18". The paperback book is a worthy tome of 20th century “solo performance text” called “Extreme Exposure”. The Certificate of Royalty is a curious notion. The official archivist at LBC has turned up nothing to indicate that His Lordship ever laid a title on anybody in exchange for the coin of the realm. But the current instance is very much in line with the enterprising practices of the medieval Roman Catholic Church that sold Indulgences to those needing to cover the action. Methinks His Lordship would have laid a little Latin on us as comment: “Res ipsa loquitur, Daddy-o!!” or possibly "Caveat emptor, Your Grace." LINKS LINKS COMING SOON | |
| October 3, 2003 |
| Catalog Of The Cool |
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ou cats and kitties that dig the literary scene will want to click your very swingin' selves over to a site that puts the DOUBLE 0 in Cool. Some of you may be familiar with Gene Scullati's fine article on Lord Buckley that is available at LBC. That article is from an equally jumpin' tome called "The Catalog of Cool". Now, you can dig the Cool at a new website "Catalog of Cool". Tune to the Large Charge, Regals!!!! LINKS LINK COMING SOON | |
| December 21, 2003 |
| The New Year Rings, Dings And Swings ! |
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The only thing possibly better than a little bubbly on the eve of the eve is a good, stout tumbler full of the spirit of The Lord courtesy of the BBC. On Dec. 30th at 11am (GMT) BBC Radio 4 will present a half hour program about Lord Buckely created by the intrepid C. P. Lee. Jake Broder, that thumpin', jumpin' and very hip thespian has laid the dial settings on us, just dig the link to the left. LINKS | |