MY 1943 FORD-CHEVROLET (Loose Bruce Kerr with SPUD CITY, U of Lowell, 1978)
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
Release Date: 09/24/2024
"LIKE A POLLING STONE" Loose Bruce Kerr parody of Bob Dylan's tune re Trump's continued drop in polls
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
with Bob Dylan’s current resurgence of popularity, and Trump’s NOT! ... this 2016 parody re today’s new continuing-slide poll numbers may be worth a spin (audio w/ today’s CNN poll still shot). Enjoy!
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"THE BALD TRUTH" (AUDIO/Song only, NO intro), by Spud City w/ Loose Bruce Kerr 1978
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's. In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set. It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get...
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"THE BALD TRUTH" (AUDIO w/ still shot), full intro, by Spud City w/ Loose Bruce Kerr 1978
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's. In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set. It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get...
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Loose Bruce Kerr LIVE @Sun Legal All-Hands 1998
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
This 11-minute LIVE 4-song performance at a Sun Microsystems Legal All-Hands conference in Silicon Valley in 1998 is by Sun contracts manager, Bruce Kerr, under the moniker he used in his preceding career as a songwriter-performer, Loose Bruce Kerr. Bruce had interrupted his earlier legal career as a legal services lawyer in Milwaukee in 1973 to go on the road and write and perform as a solo, in a duo, or in a band from California to New England to the Caribbean for 20 years. After he resumed his legal career, Sun's General Counsel, John Croll hired Bruce in 1997. After that, John tapped Bruce...
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"DO LET'S DO" live in 1978 by Spud City, music & lyrics by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"DO LET'S DO" (live in 1978) features the band, SPUD CITY led by Bruce Kerr (later: songwriter-parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr) and his boyhood friend from hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft. On drums: Tyke Ten Eyck from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, bass: Mickey Marien from New York. This rather rough, live, recording captured at the University of Lowell is a rare one from back in the day. Spud City played gigs in the late 1970's from the top of Vermont ski lodges down to Greenwich, Connecticut and east to Cape Cod. The main stage at the University of Lowell in Massachusetts had the band...
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"EVERYTHING'S GOING TO SHIT" parody by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
Congress is vetting Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees this week against a backdrop of Greenland, Canada, Panama and (pick your fear). I woke up with an earworm of a Rodgers & Hammerstein song and, well, this is what happens when things mix up. Enjoy this parody video. You may or may not agree, freedom! cheers, Bruce Loose Bruce Kerr Loose Bruce Kerr wrote, recorded & performed his original show (solo/duo/New England band in the 1970’s) for 20 years before returning to law and ending up Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and then...
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"IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY" Loose Bruce Kerr in band: SPUD CITY
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
“IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY,” (AUDIO) Spud City LIVE at the University of Lowell auditorium main stage, 3000 packed seats. Spud City played across New England in 1977-79, formed by hometown friends of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft & Bruce Kerr. Other members were drummer, Tyke Ten Eyck, Dave Giordino (later replaced on bass by Mickey Marien, Mickey plays on this song). This is one of Bruce’s songs performed by the band live here and influenced by the folk group, the Limeliters and their satirical, topical folk songs performed in the early 1960’s by Steve’s and...
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"TIME TO START NEXT CHRISTMAS" by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
“TIME TO START NEXT CHRISTMAS” is a satirical song by songwriter-recordist, Loose Bruce Kerr. Tongue-firmly-in-cheek, Bruce suggests we all redecorate in January while all placements are still fresh in mind. The song’s style reflects the Christmas songs of Bruce’s youth in the 1950’s & 60’s in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Loose Bruce Kerr wrote, recorded & performed his original show (solo/duo/New England band in the 1970’s) for 20 years before returning to law and ending up Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and then as a Deal Manager at Oracle...
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"THE LEADER OF IRAQ," ver 3 (US invades Iraq 2003, Sadaam falls)
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
3 versions of the Loose Bruce Kerr parody, "THE LEADER OF IRAQ" exist: 1) 1988 audio with 1989 video taped at Sparky's Waterfront Saloon on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; Sadaam v. Iran's Ayatolah; 2) 1990 audio version, lyrics document Sadaam's invasion of Kuwait & US response; and 3) 2003 audio, lyrics document the US invasion of Iraq & toppling of Sadaam. The first 2 versions, '88 & '90 were played by Doctor Demento on his show a few times. This is the 3rd version. The first in video is on youtube and downloadable here, as well. The 2nd version, audio, is...
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"THE LEADER OF IRAQ," ver 2 (1990 Iraq invades Kuwait)
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
3 versions of the Loose Bruce Kerr parody, "THE LEADER OF IRAQ" exist: 1) 1988 audio with 1989 video taped at Sparky's Waterfront Saloon on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; Sadaam v. Iran's Ayatolah; 2) 1990 audio version, lyrics document Sadaam's invasion of Kuwait & US response; and 3) 2003 audio, lyrics document the US invasion of Iraq & toppling of Sadaam. The first 2 versions, '88 & '90 were played by Doctor Demento on his show a few times. This is the 2nd version. The first in video is on youtube and downloadable here, as well. The 3rd version, audio, is...
info_outlineIn the late 1970's in New England, from the north of Vermont down to Westport, Connecticut, throughout Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts one found, if one was fortunate, the hardest working regional band in rock history, "SPUD CITY - Music with A Peel."
A creation of 2 guys from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft ("Superstar Steve") and Loose Bruce Kerr, this band did Bruce's originals and just enough cover songs in wild ways to get booked into every bar, club, ski lodge and wherever anyone wanted a night of fun entertainment, flaming electric guitars, drums, bass, banjo & mandolin, comedy and satire.
"MY 1943 FORD-CHEVROLET," a car song Bruce had written back in the early 70's pointed out that, during WWII, Detroit switched from doing the latest cool cars to tanks, half-tracks, etc. The very latest models were tricked-out (cannons, machine guns), sold by the 100's of thousands (the Allies couldn't get enough) and actually conquered not just the military market, but the whole world. Certainly beat the Japanese and German models. (However, they did make a reputable comeback years later, what with their BMW's and Toyotas).
Steve on slide electric guitar and background vocals (& effects), Bruce on lead vocal and acoustic guitar, Tyke Ten Eyke on drums and background vocals, Mickey Marien on bass and background vocals.
"My 1943 Ford-Chevrolet," live, University of Lowell, 3500 college kids in a packed auditorium, 1978.