JohnnieMidnite

Total Points:: 63,305
February Points:: 677
Last Activity:: Feb 4, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Member Since:: Apr 13, 2010
Websites:: www.myspace.com/johnnie_midnite

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Interests:

Always looking for cool new music.. rare these days. Extreme sports fan.Travis Pastrana rules. Meeting musicians to jam with. Pawn shopping! Psychedelic one hit wonders of the 60s. Grand kids

Hobbies:

Collecting dvds, cds, blu-ray, r&r stuff, glow-in-the-dark-toys, autographs, Photographing bands in concert... but after 3 back surgeries and getting knocked down & out at a punk concert, I'm done unless I have an assigned seat.

Television:

SCTV, The Walking Dead, The Ben Stiller Show, Jackass, Pee Wee's Playhouse, The Munsters, Adams Family, In Living Color, Fraiser, Seinfeld are the series I picked up on disk.... TV pretty much sucks. I don't bother with it. Rather watch a dvd.

Movies:

Concerts, Documentaries, Mockumentaries, Bonnie & Clyde, James Bond flicks, George A. Romero, zombies, splatter horror. #1.Time Bandits, Any Terry Gilliam, Film Noir of the 40s & 50s, foreign, Travis Pastrana anything, clockwork orange, pre-1960 Disney animation, Freaks ... Picking up films I never heard of looking for gems.

Music:

To date: We're Only In It For The Money is my all time favorite album. Frank & Dweezil, Plasmatics, Social Distortion, MISFITS, Horror Pops, Nekromantix, MXPX, Hendrix, The Rutles, The Dickies, The Ramones, X, Rev Horton Heat, Surf Punks, The Turtles, Lost Dogs, Agent Orange, Altar Boys, The 77s, Mike Roe, Acid rock, stuff that's fun and humorous.

Books:

I have lots of books. I don't read them. I just have them. Any book worth its salt will eventually be made into a movie... and a darn good one. Last books read: Frank Zappa's autobio, Keith Moon bio 'Dear Boy', and On The Road With The Ramones. Last books purchased... Bio on Roxy Music, Baron Munchhausen movie book, Hugh Cornwell's 'A Multitude of Sins.

About me:

I was a Frank Zappa fan before I ever heard of Frank Zappa. I used to get yelled at constantly for playing records on the wrong speeds, backwards and neutral so I could command the speed. I loved the music that played on merry-Go-Rounds as well. To this day I love listening to music backwards... but that's my problem. Prior to seeing the Beatles on Sullivan I was interested in wanting to play guitar after seeing Roy Clark playing slide guitar with a drinking glass. I was officially introduced to Frank Zappa & The Alice Cooper Group when I sent my dollar bill in for a copy of 'ZAPPED!' in 1970. Got hooked on both bands. I got to see Frank's first Halloween show in NYC and 7 days later at the Allentown Agricultural Hall. Got to see Zappa Plays Zappa twice at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, 1st & 2nd year tours. Look for me on the dvd, row 15, seat 1 on the left center isle...or not. LOL. Missed 2009. 2010 ZPZ at the Moore Theater.

Musician of sorts: Influenced by Hendrix, Zappa, Hackett, Fripp. Guitars of choice: STRAT, SG.
Collector of memerobilia...

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Vile and Pernicious wrote on Jan 4, 2012 at 10:19 AM

I just saw your post...What a great story! Now that's some beautiful audience interaction! No, it wasn't Stan Lee, it was Dave Teague. I think he has a different stage name though.

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JohnnieMidnite wrote on Dec 27, 2011 at 01:14 AM

Do ypu recall if the huitarist was Stan Lee? The last time the Dickies played in Seattle they played at EXP, the Experience Music Project aka the Jimi Hendrix Museum. That weekend there was also a 'FREE TIBET" exibiyion going on in the Seattle Center across from EXP. I wnet in and bought a post card of the Dali Lama as The Dickies current album had a song on it, WHACK THE DALI LAMA'. My uncle and I went into their sound check and I yelled to Stan and he wave me up to the stage. As I was crawling over barricades to get to the stage, 4 security guards came running towards me. I handed Stan my post card and he signed it, "Whack him! Stan Lee" Asked if they were doing JIM BOWIE that evening and he said no, but played it for me as the security guards were escorting me out and locking the door behind me. My uncle thought the whole scenrio was hilarious and wished he would have gotten pictures. The next morning, US BOMBS was playing outside and I looked to my right and Stan and Leonard were standing next to me. Was a great weekend.

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Vile and Pernicious wrote on Dec 21, 2011 at 08:32 AM

Hi there, I just had to share this little bit of trivia with you. I entered "The Dickies" in the search box and your post came up about how they replaced Frank in your concert going. Last month I got into a conversation with a fellow who wound up being the guitarist for the dickies. He was a genuinely likeable guy who also happens to be a ZPZ fan. He's been to 3 shows and as I told Squid Decor (another Dickies fan) he delivered pizza to the Zappas for many years. He is quite knowlegable about the whole Laurel Canyon scene. I told him about this site but I'm not sure if he is here. Just thought I'd share that with you.

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David S. wrote on Aug 4, 2011 at 06:04 AM

Good question, I've got a bunch of points and have never seen anything yet on what we can get for them, but hey I'm having a blast here so I guess I really don't mind. I'm just glad Dweezil set this up so fans could do this-our own Zappa cyberspace!

On Brett's guitars, there so many, you should check out the web site. I think his collection should eventually be in a museum. www.BrettAllenStudioRental.com

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Michael R. wrote on May 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM

Keith Moon. My son, a young drummer, thinks Moonie is nuts for the drumming not the stunts lol. It is a shame so many bright lights burnt out like he did.

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