Lunchtime for Old Bud and his daughter Ivy as they dig into some famous Chicago deep dish pizza from an excellent restaurant in Lombard, Illinois, back in 1977 called Sorrento’s. Their pizza hooked me on deep dish pizza for life and I sorely miss eating true Chicago pizza now that I live here in North Carolina. Unfortunately, Sorrento’s closed their doors back in the 1980’s, but there are plenty of other deep dish pizza places in Chicagoland.
A little nod to comic John Pinette’s routine about Chinese Buffets on the sign next to the recording studio. “You go now! You here four hour!” as John mimicked the buffet’s owner. Mr. Pinette was a rather large man and he made fun of that fact in many of his bits. Unfortunately John passed away a few years back, but we still have his recorded comedy bits to make us laugh.
Living in a New York flophouse for a week certainly brings to mind the Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues” as I’m sure Bud and the gang will wake up and get themselves a beer to ease the pain of living in such squalid facilities.
Here’s John Pinette’s bit on Chinese Buffets. It’s hilarious!
Just to pick a few nits: I f Sorrento’s went out of business in the 80’s then how can Bud and Ivy be eating their pizzas in what is supposed to be more or less the present? (but I agree on deeep pan pizzas being SO much better than the ordinary ones – may all Neapolitans forgive me)
Ah, someone caught that! Not to rely on a cliché, but the universe that Bud exists in is not the same as ours. So, in Bud’s world, Sorrento’s is still a thriving pizzeria.
Remember, Bud’s world is full of all types of strange things like:
1. A fire-breathing pet lizard,
2. A mystic frog able to cast transformation spells,
3. The Devil is a lady,
4. God drinks beer, and finally,
5. That Bud, as a 20 year old bass player living in Lombard, Illinois, has had sex with seven different women in the course of about six months in 1977.
Number 5 is the hardest one to believe for sure. 🙂
Wonder if they are call girls they had a hotel on top of a bus stop in Toronto where they and their customers congregate. I even saw them in leopard printed catsuits, leather jackets, hot pants, panty hose and heels. Meanwhile I had to walk over a hobo who probably got cheap thrills looking up my little black dress and heels just to see electric circus. Don’t blame Ivy I would not go to flop house unless destitute to avoid getting infested with invincible bedbugs and cockroaches rahahahaha. I cook my own bok choy, rice, mushrooms and vegetables. Make your own pizza it’s cheaper to get Italian flat bread, pour tomato sauce, olives, mushrooms, puffballs, anchovies and cheese oh yeah. Wonder if Plan 9 will see the Village People maybe dancing on a Kidd class destroyer to in the navy video. Jeff could be the ship’s b-t-h oh that’s mean. At least they are no sadomaohistic teddy bears wearing leather caps, harnesses, chaps, jock straps, gloves and boots dancing to Judas Priest midnight on love bites yet mohahahaha.
The call girls are right outside even the nicest of hotels in NYC. I was in town for an electronics convention in 2002 and had my 16 year old son with me. Late one evening, my son wanted a burger from McDonald’s right at the end of the block. As we left the hotel, two women approached us and asked if we were looking for dates. Scared the crap out of my son, but having visited Vegas many times, I knew to nicely say “no” and keep on moving.
The Outrigger hotel in Hawaii had a great view of the International Market across the street from my room, much more interesting goings on the corner than any old ocean view.
The flophouse is term widely used in depression for the way word seeking employment away from home or simply evicted. The place would make a handy place for a biker gang like the ratts and mice lead by Eric Von Zipper played by Harvey Lemback in movies like Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini and Muscle Beach with Luicianna Paluzzi playing Contessa Juliana Giatto- Beryini. The contessa try to buy off Annatte Funcicello’s boyfriend. Too bad the contessa isn’t trying to buy Jeff Monte Carlo or the Rivera looks pretty tempting after looking at that rat trap just add Eric Von Zipper. I read about the Food Machinery Corporation XR 311 HMCV intended to replace the m 151 jeep starting as a private venture in 1969. Prototypes tested in 1970 long before the HUMVEE all wheel, each having a disk break with tubeless tires. Lamborghini even based it’s cheetah four wheel drive on it. If a XR 311 could carry TOW missiles and Machine guns it could easily carry the band even a cool dash board with sexy steering wheel. Reminds me of joke what did the steer moo to the bull “Moo my balls my balls.” A cruel joke to tell near a pasture or cattle car.
Deep dish pizza…we call that lasagna up here 😉
I think the Airforce put me up in that Toronto hotel once…nice lobby but the halls had torn up stained carpets and the rooms were worse, pretty sure they charged by the hour…there’s nothing like laying garbage bags on the bed before lying down on it.
and of course this popped into my head
“sittin’ and starin’ out of the hotel window…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSur0mFviT0
The buffet on the other hand, conjured up this one…looks like it fits right in
A Canadian cuisine treat for y’all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydZhK-66Bw
“Truckin'” by the Grateful Dead is a fitting song for this story for sure. And the Arrogant Worms! What a group they are! I use their “Beer Song” on my podcasts all the time.
Having stayed in one, and only one, cheap hotel in my professional life, I NEVER let a client book a hotel for me. I get a nice, clean, sometimes expensive room, and then just accept whatever rate the client chooses to reimburse me. That way, I know I’m getting a good room. That is one area I never compromise as I want a good night’s sleep and not worry about bugs and the people in the room next to me doing all types of weird acts in the middle of the night. 🙂
and of course there’s this one you were just waiting for someone to add…
I’ve never seen the writer’s credit and it’s proving to be pretty difficult to find, most youtube clips credit it to Al Yankovic but it doesn’t sound anything like him, to me anyway. Bob Rivers is more plausible but his website seems to credit it to ‘Manic Larry Baker’ who apprantly wrote over 1000 parody songs and this might be one. It’s also alluded that Aaron Wilburn wrote it and he at least performed it.
Whoever did write it has my gratitude, I’ve written a few parodies but nothing of this calibre 🙂
I’ll just put up the one with the best production values but the voice sounds more like Aaron Wilburn than the others 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOy2QCssTaI
15ips, nice touch 😉 love the little digs and asides that get dropped in
I usually used 7 1/2 for production work unless I knew there was going to be a lot of splicing bits in, it uses more tape but it’s a heckuva lot easier to hit the mark with 15. Even with a multitrack Ampex I still ended up splicing a lot because it was easier to get the timing right.
Yeah, 15 I.P.S. eats up tape but fast. Most of my recordings were at 7 1/2 as well, even when I had a deck with 10″ reels, I still used mostly 7 1/2.
Ah, editing audio tape! The younger generation does not know what a tape splicing block is or the terrors of cutting off a fraction of a second too much of a clip and ruining a good recording. Nor do they know the danger of having a super-sharp razor blade sitting on the table, or getting the splicing tape on at a slight angle and getting sticky gunk on your deck’s recording and playback heads!
and dozens of strips of tape taped to the wall behind you that anyone walking in seems irresistably drawn to do they can brush against them, knock half of them down and then give you a reason to drink.
“Well why didn’t you label them ?”
“I knew where everything was, why didn’t you push the light ?”
“I knocked”
“The walls have six inches of padding on them”
and so on…we weren’t allowed to lock the door ‘in case something happened’…there would have been less of a chance of anything happening if the $%^& door was locked !!
I got in the habit of putting a mop handle between the door and the console 🙂
You could use 3 3/4 but I found the sound quailty was a little off for production and it was a bitch to splice a lot of parts in if you needed a bunch of sfx and stingers. Our logger tape at the last station I was on was something like 15/32 ips the engineer who set it up said “CRTC just says to keep a tape log, they don’t specify any speed and this gets a whole day on one tape” 🙂
Nice shout-out to the late, great John Pinette!!
He always made/makes me laugh! If I need to cheer myself up, I watch one of his routines.
My son’s favourite comedian, and one of mine.
he actually performed here once.
I found out less than an hour after it went up on the theatre’s website but the tickets had sold out in less than 30 minutes 🙁
So great to see the John Pinette tribute (RIP)! I bought that tape at a truck stop on I-80 in PA and played it in the car to stay awake! It was so funny I wore it out playing it over and over! “Eat brocurri!”, and, “You scare my wife! YOU GO NOW!” ?