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The Jack and Jim Show at the Deej

Tonight, Saturday September 8, I'm going to see a very interesting show at the Deej, a house concert venue that exists in my former house, where I lived at the creation. Tonight, as part of Karl Straub's Cronyism Touresidency at the Deej, Karl welcomes good friends Eugene Chadbourne (Shockabilly) and Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention), AKA the Jack and Jim Show.

This reprises a show that happened on Super Bowl Sunday four years ago, when Karl and Eugene performed only the second Deej in the afternoon before the game. The amount of sound/music/noise that emanated from these two musicians that afternoon was awe-inspiring, so much that I felt compelled to buy a few Eugene Chadbourne CDs encased in baggies, tube socks, and other such inspired/haphazard packaging concepts.

Eugene Chadbourne describes the show and tour:

The Jack and Jim Show:  Think 69

In 2007, Jimmy Carl Black will have his
69th birthday. Dr. Eugene Chadbourne is happy to
present his best friend and musical associate in a
series of performances featuring Black's favorite
musical combination, The Jack and Jim Show.

Chadbourne's knowledge of Black began the
first time he saw the cover of Freak Out! by the
Mothers of Invention, circa the second half of the
'60s. Staring at the picture of Black and bandmates in
a record store, the youthful Doc Chad was approached
by an old woman who ran the music store. "Don't look
at that record!" she warned him. "You're a nice boy."

....

Read more. (Entire quote from the Eugune Chadbourne web site, via the Deej mailing list archives, which are easier to link to.    Link: http://www.thedeej.org/

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