Steve Wacksman August 9, 2006

The COACHMEN!! Please tell me JD's reformed the COACHMEN!! I remember JD saying ( and I quote) "Fuck You" when I asked him in the mid nineties if there was a chance of any more Coachmen recordings surfacing. At least he was smiling when he said it. At least that's how I remember it. It is probably notable (although prolly LESS so to this illo-centric crowd than to an average rawk n roll enthusiast) that the oft-celebrated Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore was (is?) a contributing member of the Coachmen. I have a reuissue of the original Coachmen demo recordings with liner notes by the erstwhile rocker Mr JD King himself. If proof of JD's cool is in any way needed ( and FYI it isn't ) , dig this line: "In December of '77 Randy and I went to see Patti Smith at the CBGB theatre. She was terrible. so we left early." Really! It just doesn't get cooler than THAT! JD- if'n you're reading this: You're a "Household Word" around THIS house! Hello to ya! Thanks for posting this, Zimm. And Kudos to Greenberger, a swell fella in his own right and author of the seminal 'zine "Duplex Planet". I have the good fortune of crossing paths with him via an eBay auction and found him to be a mensch extraodinaire!