I was feeling just short of melancholic a few minutes ago...Then I found out that the singer Joy Ryder my little friend when we were both street kids hanging out on Second Avenue and St Marks Place....has 3rd stage liver cancer... As 16 and 17 year olds standing on that corner Joy and I used to stand in front of Gems Spa every day and talk about doing a band together . I used to call her Sunshine The Shoe Shine Girl, just why I dont know but few are sunnier than Joy I used to end the band conversation every time with But neither of us knows how to plays drums! She was working with the Japanese painter Kusama then and she brought me to Kusamas studio on the second floor above where Papaya King was on 8th Street and 6th Ave, you could see her painting thru the big windows... i didnt get it..why should I get naked so the fully dressed Kusama could paint dots on me? and shortly after that I started working with The Playhouse of The Ridiculous and lost track of the funny little blonde girl who would grow up to be Joy Ryder. I didnt see Joy again till 1997..Chris Chris Rael and Marlon Cherry played our first gig ever at a gig Joy was hosting that she invited me to play at , me not knowing that the well known singer Joy Ryder was my little friend from St Marks Place ..I had always loved hearing her name...I thought it was the best name, way better than Penny Arcade..at the gig she said You dont remember me do you ? I didnt recognize her...I thought maybe I had met her in the 80s and said so..she replied No from the 60s..you used to call me Sunshine the shoeshine girl and suddenly like a shuffling deck of cards the 47 year old woman in front of me was the 16 year old girl I knew... She told me how she had chosen Joy Ryder after she heard I had become Penny Arcade..She had been in Berlin with Tony Ingrassia doing plays in the late 70s when I had ended up in Spain and Maine, after working with Tony on Jackie Curtiss plays that Berlin of the 70s with Jayne Rogers Jayne County and those wild ones.... Just before i got this heart stopping news I had been trolling around after reading a post by my pal Charlie Bock where he had posted Chris Raels Flower Pushing Up and one thing led to another and I stumbled on Chriss cover of Neil Youngs Helpless I started thinking about how in the 60s when we were feeling confused or spaced out Joy and I would say Oh, Im just going thru changes I always loved Neil Youngs Helpless because he sang: There is a town in North Ontario Dream comfort memory to spare And in my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there All that long time ago now...and me and Joy...were going just going thru some changes. bing/videos/search?q=chris+rael+helpless&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=8BEC72EDDFF3F42316358BEC72EDDFF3F4231635 Tony Zanetta Ruby Lynn ReynerTony MansfieldJackie RudinTammy FayeJames GavinEarl Dax
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:02:31 +0000
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