Freeks - Henniker Kind Band

A now defunct band from Henniker, New Hampshire. Freeks dissappeared right before the internet took-off and the band has never had a web presense, yet everything exists for one. So now, in blog format, I'm creating an online archive of our music, stories and photos. No chronology.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Chicken Valve


Dann and I have been cleaning out the old band-room in Henniker @ FMI headquarters and coming across all kinds of old stuff. There, soaked and festering in black-mold, I found this old scrap of notebook and managed to salvage it pretty well.


I was sketching one day and wrote this limerick just for fun. I literally opened a book and took the first word I saw; grabbed another one, and a word....and so on. Eventually, once it had legs, I came up with this silly thing.

Well, as the story goes, that was it. For months or even a year, until one day when I was leaving the band-room, I left a note for whoever cared, that I'd be back shortly, or whatever-. I ended the note with another limerick about TWISTY GERBER. I honestly don't know where the Barbapoppa reference came from since I didn't know what it was at the time and since learning, am sure I've never watched it. I think I had heard the word. anyway, that verse was;

"combination barbapoppa, puddle snake-Sue, Twisty took out little FREEKS and Broke it for a loop. Terry broke it up with blinding winds and bended howls- Twisty dropped down to his knees and succumbed to Terry's scowl (was gone within the hour)."

FREEKS was a name Milan gave the gear-shifter in Danny's pick-up truck. He had a dream that Big-Z would go out late at night and have conversations with the shifter. "Oh FREEKS, I just don't know what to do about my boys!....They paah-ty all night long and ya' need a fa-kin' bull-do-zah' to wake 'em up in the mowan'in'!!!"

TERRY was the bands Mascot, who was androgenous, (hence TERRY) and was all powerfull through the forces of telepathy.

So that's the second verse.

3.

"Quick plum smidgen slid off safely to the side, and slipped a tiny microchip into the monkey's eye.
the tiny-chip bled hell-fire into the monkey's brain. The beast watched on in silence as the monkey went insane."

I'm not really sure where that one came from. I think we wrote that and the choruses on the spot. I believe Josh Kerin had come to rehearsal with that song as something he had written. We added my lyrics to it because I had just come with them as well.

(Help me guys if I'm forgetting something okay. I know you're out there.)

Mostly, I just wanted to post this picture. And I have a lot more where that came from.....

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