Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...