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April 14 Monday
JAGGER
IN "PERFORMANCE" - PERKINS IN "THE TRIAL"
Borges - Kafka Festival. Monday 1pm Apr. 14th in C250. Drugs,
Sex, Violence, Law & little old you. FREE - BRING FOOD &
HELP FROM FRIENDS
-Notice in the JAC DailyInfo.
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| CHOM |
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| Rod
Smith in 1981 |
Andy,
Michelle Gay , myself and others went to see these two
films. They were put on by the English teacher Rod Smith,
a man who even then had quite a reputation. He was a hippie
and promoted drug use openly to his classes.
We
were oh so stoned. The opening nightmare in "The
Trial" was chilling. |
 April
25 Friday
Michelle Gay, Chuck and I went to the
Riverside [later the Pisse Dru, later
Annie's. You couldn't have designed a more cliched Canadian
bar than the Pisse Dru, complete with a mouse head on the
wall. It was a place to drink and smoke (hashish, even the
waiters sold it).] in Ste Anne's. [There
they talked to a guy at our table, Michelle said he was a
big dealer. He asked me to take drugs over the U.S. boarder
(no thanks, asshole)]. Then
went to the last beer bash at the collage
[the only one I ever went to. Saw a Rolls on the way]. Heather was there [I hadn't seen
her in awhile].
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| CHOM,
Mike and the Lincoln |
April 26 Saturday
Mike
[had phoned CHOM late one night and talked to the DJ Terry
Michels. She'd invited him down]. Ralph and
I went along to CHOM. [We sat in the
studio with her, and stayed real quiet between songs. Terry
was a beautiful girl, and looked like Foster's girlfriend. At
that time CHOM (127) was much more
open, as we were the only ones in the building (the old CHOM
on Greene ave in Westmount) and were allowed to wander around
unchecked (we behaved ourselves). Ralph took photos on one of
these trips but they are undated. On one of these trips I read
a philosophy book by Alan Watt].
127. CHOM. It provided the soundtrack of the age. Besides the
icons of music I have described (which of course are from my
point of view, the others no doubt have other music that for
them represents the times) CHOM is the source of the 'counterculture'
music (it was in this time that the station in fact went from
'progressive' to 'formula' rock. In 1972 'The Fourth Tower of
Inverness', a bizarre show, could be heard. By 1975 it was out
of the question to play anything but the hits (on one of our
visits we saw how the DJs at the station would decide the mix
of music: ). Seals and Croft, Jessie Winchester (an American
singer who called Montreal home), Shawn Phillips (another American,
from Texas, extremely popular in Quebec), Focus, Van Morrison
(a staple), Robin Trower, Lynard Skynyrd, Mott the Hoople, Aerosmith,
Supertramp, Loggins and Messina, Strawbs, The Band, Nazareth,
Santana, Lou Reed, Rory Gallagher, Babe Ruth, Steely Dan, Carly
Simon, Brian Eno, Sweet, Electric Light Orchestra, STYX, Jim
Capaldi, Dave Mason, the separate Beatles, The Eagles (whom
I disliked), Leon Russel, King Crimson, Queen, Golden Earring
(who's song 'Radar Love' is still(1990's) a standard on CHOM),
The Steve Miller Band, Traffic, The Doobie Brs., J. Geils Band,
etc, etc...these and others forgotten...
A longer history of CHOM at this period can be found here.
Ps-the song "White Bird" by It's a Beautiful Day was also
a CHOM standard.
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