Blondie: Chris Stein
News about Chris Stein, guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Blondie, from the Official Blondie Web Site ().
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autographs (again)
Posted by Chris Stein at 4/02/2006 01:10:00 AM
i have to straighten one thing out... about the meet and greets, we just thought it felt sort of exploitative and thats why we are not doing them... now together with some of my comments about sometimes not being able to sign autographs people are coming to some mistaken conclusions... we will of course try and sign autographs, we always do... we dont like to sign guitar pick guards, drumheads and other obvious e-bay items... but beyond that i have signed every fucking thing from clothing to cigarette packs
AGAIN! THE BEST WAY TO GET AN AUTOGRAPH IS TO SEND A SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE WITH WHAT YOU WANT SIGNED TO ONE OF THE VENUES BEFORE WE GET THERE!!!
i think this is the fifth time i've written this here
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some of you are getting the picture
Posted by Chris Stein at 4/02/2006 01:09:00 AM
ok various, despite my previous vow to avoid HOF topics i must devote some more space:
Amy reminds me that "there were many fans who wrote letters to the R and R HOF in support of Blondie; I know I did..." so thnx much to her and to all of you who did that...
then Ric writes "At the end of the day, having seen you live in England, Blondie play many of the old songs with different arrangements or extended versions... How would the Nigel etc expect to play these versions having never performed them in this way?" (i love "the nigel"...)
bravo! some of you are getting the picture, those guys didnt want to play at fucking all, (again, the first step to them actually playing would have been to call one of us which they didnt do) they just wanted to bitch...
finally i forgot to mention... i dont know if many of you caught it but i REALLY loved frank saying something about how great it was to be "injected" into the hall of fame... where i come from we call that a "freudian slip"... i guess he was thinking of something else
i have had some extra time to write lately even with the babies crawling all over me...
i just got a new mac, one of the pentium ones and am going a bit crazy getting used to the transition...
as usual thank you all for the comments...
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the jfk and rfk assassinations have always bothered me
Posted by Chris Stein at 4/02/2006 01:07:00 AM
the jfk and rfk assassinations have always bothered me, this isnt much of a statement in the light of world events...
i was thirteen when john kennedy was killed... i was in the lunchroom in jr. high school, in brooklyn... i cant put into words how much i hated jr. high school... we started hearing reports about the president being shot from kids coming in from outside... abruptly we were all told by the intercom to go back to our homerooms... in the school (Andres Huddie jr. high, named after some respected old dutch statesman who rumor had it had been hung as a horsethief and was much less than respectable) there were a couple of young very gung ho male teachers who i later realized styled themselves in the kennedy mold... one of these guys, Mr. Prenner, was in charge of our homeroom... it couldnt have been more dramatic; after we were all seated he sat on the edge of his desk and very seriously said "The presidents been shot, he's dead." i dont remember him telling us to go home, but that was all he said about the assassination... outside the school i saw him and the other young male teacher whose name escapes me in heated arm waving discussion, i caught a fragment of a line about "the world we live in today..."
on the way home people were crying on the streets, i bought a paper with "JFK SHOT" on the headline...when i got home my old man was stalking back and forth in front of our house cursing about "those bastards"... two years later he died and i never talked to him about who he thought the bastards were...
so i was deeply affected by it all, maybe an association of father figures even, but this was a heavy transitional period and soon i was paying more attention to the beatles and stones than to current events...
maybe five years ago when the band was in Dallas i walked by myself over to Dealey Plaza and suddenly the absurdity of the whole event struck me...
this place has a really grim and haunted feeling to it, but most of all it's so small, the image that i'd gotten from seeing all those images over the years was of a much more expansive place... the plaza was swarming with theorists and for five bucks i took a short tour with an old guy who indicated the points of interest; the grassy knoll, the picket fence with the storm drain behind it, the x painted on the ground where JFK was hit...
i think it was after that that while on a flight from europe i saw the most amazing bit of weird propaganda in the form of a half hour 'documentary' about Kennedy... i think i may have even mentioned it on these posts someplace; it was on like the discovery channel and reported basically that John Kennedy was so screwed up on steroids and pain killers that he was almost totally non functional, that Khruschev had saved the world from the brink of destruction that Kennedy had led it to... it just about said that he, Kennedy was better off dead... i wish i could find a link to this thing, it was such an obvious bit of disinformation, i wondered who had gotten what on who to have something like this shoved out into the mainstream...
just before i was watching the Zapruder film and it creeps me out more than the worst horror film...
so without arguing any points i would direct interested parties to this Alex Jones film:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8646306163762195517&q=alex+jones&pl=true&auto=true
it too is creepy...
i dont think that there is anyone in the whole country no matter what they think who believes all of the stuff that they are supposed to but some of the things i've been seeing about some of the obvious lies are just too mind boggling... in a way some of this stuff no matter how radical it might seem makes me hopeful that some change might actually happen if enough people ask for answers
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thank you all
Posted by Chris Stein at 4/02/2006 01:07:00 AM
i dont have much to say right now just thanks so much to all of you who have written in lately with so much support and good feelings... you guys dont know how much it means to me and to us... i just got a bunch of mail in today... and... just thank you all
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