Last night I was the tambourine man, and I have the bruises to prove it. We got the beat! I have a serious tambourine injury today ...
Big blue spot on me leg where I done held the thing, thwapping numerous times in beat with my instrument of choice for the evening, the Tambourine. Bigg beat, clappety-clappety. It was a beautiful tambourine, a fascinating tambourine, a clean tambourine, a pristine tambourine. I was the spastic orgasmic tambourine man, with a passion that is only out-done by a COWBELL. But man, that tambourine hurt! (After hours of banging.)
I wanna thank everyone who participated in last night's spontaneous jam, the bookstore turned session studio, the cool lookers-on with wine in their hand, the afterparty bar who kept their doors open afterhours for us, the cops who came in and "shushed" us, reminding us that there are limits (I disagree), and man that ladycop was stiff as a board ("Do you put starch in that shirt, or what??") who I blew a kiss to on her way out, wanna thank the guy from Seattle who strummed the guitar wildly and made up verses to old classics like something about Sting having sex for hours on end just because he has 5 penises (!) and I wanna thank the guy with the Buddy Holly glasses who jumped in and played some wicked solos, and that was the STRANGEST version of Ruby Tuesday ever! as I scatted all over that motherfucker, yeah, and the man known as Bald Andy (pre-maturely) who petered out, fell asleep in the THIRD bar (ok, I guess the point is that it was after all the third bar, and it WAS 6 am) where we also played numerous numbers and songs in fact, man how I crooned, and also the gal from NYC who called me "handsome" and furthermore when I got home at exactly 6:38 AM I wanna thank my polite neighbours (who almost complained) as I was making jolly noise coming in and they were going to work ...
Hey - I'm just doin' my job, too.
Enjoyed singing with all you guys last night. Peace, -Todd
Posted by calico at October 27, 2006 10:34 AM