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Yesterday we had a Circle Game in honour of the Eve of Visitor Blims birth.  That being today.

A theme developed: The Eve of Visitor Blim: The Story of Mikroglycerin

Here is the playlist:

Song 20 is when we had the Lamb feast.  Songs 25-35 were without Visitor Blim.

Here is a commemorative short from a few years ago:

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If up for more “madness”, here is a rare work done in the early days of the iMac desktop, the Circle Game resurrection, and restored “good times”:

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Birthday Blessings to Visitor Blim!

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This one is from May 1985.  Pictured with Janice is Rich Brown.  In the backdrop one can admire the “David Gilmour” shrine, commemorating the 1 year anniversary of the concert we witnessed at the Orpheum:

One often asks: “How did the Host come to be such an elegant and capable drinker of spirits?” Here we see an early lesson with Pop:

Here we see a smaller version of The Host with Grandma on the morning of his favourite childhood Christmas:

Here we see The Host with The Cats of his childhood, Freddie and Effie:

Here we see The King pictured with “Bill”.  “Bill” was someone befriended by The Host in his young quest for bootleg recordings of rock music.  “Bill” had a flyer up at Mystery Train records in Harvard Square.  He and the Host met in the early spring of 1985 and would have some extreme good times trolling record stores together, drinking headwrecker brand beer and smoking grass.  “Bill” had this studio apartment on Gloucester Street.  Herr O had the pleasure of visiting this strange moment in time.  In the picture is sometime in the Summer of 1985 where we had “Bill” over for a Flat-party.

I lost touch with “Bill” by the Autumn.  I do remember getting a call from him at The Donut Store sometime in the late WInter of 1990.  He said something about “getting it together” and reconnecting with “good people’.

I never heard from him again

(ironically, “If you leave” by OMD is on the Pandora …)

God Bless Them All, and May All Attain!

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In the spirit of Then Yesterday, here are three tracks from The Groove Factor:

“Everybody’s Dancing” live December 12 1986 at North Weymouth High

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“Piece # 5” at the same venue.

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“Cactus Boy” December 29 1986 at The Ranch House (featuring Chris Chrobak)

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G – Guitar
Herr O – Guitar
jules – drums
DJM – bass
Niles – keyboard
jeff – vocals

what a band …

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Until BSMXIV

Here are 2 more from that lost disc roll I mentioned.  A remember these two as being particularly poignant at the time:

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As part of the overhaul going on in The Dining Room here at The New Great Hall by the Sea, many photographs have come to light.  What’s interesting to note, is this photograph came from a disc-roll from either 1986 or 1987.  It remained in the file cabinet until Fall 1996.  The pictures are astonishing.  Some saw the “reveal” back then, but that, too, is now Then Yesterday.  Here is one of the gems:

The Host and Christopher W. Chrobak.  I remember we were very “into” this style of intentional portraiture.

Enthusiast’s of the now defunct “Team Tohosky” may marvel at the wall hanging situated ‘tween our heads.

More to come in weeks ahead …

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This just in from Tech Support,

A pencil sketch of The Host, circa 1994:

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