#Tracy Wormworth

[undergroundrockpress]

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Joseph Saddler aka Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981.

Photo by Janette Beckman.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981. Photo by Charlie Ahearn.

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Charlie Ahearn

American, b. 1951

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth and Chris Stein, 1981

Manhattan, New York 🗽

[aiiaiiiyo]

[longliverockback]

Waitresses Bruiseology 1983 Polydor ————————————————— Tracks: 01. A Girl’s Gotta Do 02. Make the Weather 03. Everything’s Wrong If My Hair Is Wrong 04. Luxury 05. Open City 06. Thinking about Sex Again 07. Bruiseology 08. Pleasure 09. Spin 10. They’re All out of Liquor, Let’s Find Another Party —————————————————

Chris Butler

Patty Donahue

Billy Ficca

Dan Klayman

Mars Williams

Tracy Wormworth

* Long Live Rock Archive

[spilladabalia]

The Waitresses - Hangover 1/1/83

[julio-viernes]

Pero en esa cinta creo que no estaba la canción de The Waitresses más famosa, "I Know What Boys Like", funky- pop festivo que no me resisto a subir. Waitresses fue un buen grupo de la new wave USA, bastante más interesante que otros que apenas decían nada. En sus dos LPs les funcionó muy bien la combinación de dos chicas (Patty Donahue cantante, Tracy Wormworth bajo, y que bien tocaba la tía...) y cuatro chicos. Chris Butler escribía las canciones desde la perspectiva de una chica, tal vez por eso se llamaban Las Camareras, tal vez eso les hizo únicas-os en los primeros ochenta. Abajo "Make The Weather", uno de los mejores cortes (con tirita) de su segundo y último LP "Bruiseology" (1983).

[klapollo]

november is early enough for us to talk once again about how tracy wormworth beat the bassline on this to bits

[vmonteiro23a]

Charlie Ahearn, Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981. Photo by Janette Beckman.

Charlie Ahearn, Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981. Photo by Janette Beckman.

[twixnmix]

Debbie Harry, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, Chris Stein, Tracy Wormworth and Nile Rodgers in New York City, 1981.

Photos by Charlie Ahearn

[thebowerypresents]

The B-52s – SummerStage – September 24, 2019

It was a beautiful Tuesday night to get outside and enjoy the B-52s’ perfectly crafted pop tunes (and opener Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s winning synth-pop music) at SummerStage.

Photos courtesy of Joe Papeo | www.irocktheshot.com

@irocktheshot

[takealittlepieceoftheirhearts]

c. 1983: The Waitresses performing live in Los Angeles, CA; photos credited to Michael Ochs Archives

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[Verse 1]

"Bah, humbug" no, that's too strong

'Cause it is my favorite holiday

But all this year's been a busy blur

Don't think I have the energy

To add to my already mad rush

Just cause it's 'tis the season

The perfect gift for me would be

Completions and connections left from

Last year, ski shop

Encounter, most interesting

Had his number but never the time

Most of '81 passed along those lines

So deck those halls, trim those trees

Raise up cups of Christmas cheer

I just need to catch my breath

Christmas by myself this year

[Verse 2]

Calendar picture, frozen landscape

Chilled this room for twenty-four days

Evergreens, sparkling snow

Get this winter over with

Flashback to springtime, saw him again

Would've been good to go for lunch

Couldn't agree when we were both free

We tried, we said we'd keep in touch

Didn't, of course, 'til summertime

Out to the beach to his boat, could I join him?

No, this time it was me

Sunburn in the third degree

Now the calendar's just one page

And, of course, I am excited

Tonight's the night, but I've set my mind

Not to do too much about it

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Chorus]

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

But I think, I'll miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

But I think, I'll miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

But I think, I'll miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

But I think, I'll miss this one this year

[Verse 3]

Hardly dashing through the snow

'Cause I bundled up too tight

Last minute have to do

A few cards a few calls

'Cause it's "RSVP"

No thanks, no party lights

It's Christmas eve, gonna relax

Turned down all of my invites

Last fall I had a night to myself

Same guy called, Halloween party

Waited all night for him to show

This time his car wouldn't go

Forget it, it's cold, it's getting late

Trudge on home to celebrate

In a quiet way, unwind

Doing Christmas right this time

[Verse 4]

A&P has provided me

With the world's smallest turkey

Already in the oven, nice and hot

Oh damn! Guess what I forgot?

So on, with the boots, back out in the snow

To the only all-night grocery

When what to my wondering eyes should appear

In the line is that guy I've been chasing all year

"I'm spending this one alone," he said

"Need a break, this year's been crazy"

I said, "Me too, but why are you?

You mean you forgot cranberries too?"

Then suddenly we laughed and laughed

Caught on to what was happening

That Christmas magic's brought this tale

To a very happy ending

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Outro]

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Couldn't miss this one this year

[theunderestimator-2]

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein in 1981, photographed by Charlie Ahearn (from the book “Wild Style: The Sampler”).

“...By 1980, Harry and Stein were jet-setting superstars. But the irrepressible eclecticism that drove their search for new musical avenues had been piqued by a very homegrown, New York phenomenon: hip-hop...

...Fab 5” Freddy Brathwaite was a Brooklyn-bred New Yorker who was instrumental in bridging the uptown (read Black and Latino) and downtown (mostly White) art and music environs. He met Stein and Harry in the late ’70s at that nexus of the downtown scene, CBGB, and soon was in regular contact with Stein on the set of the ultra-low-budget cable show TV Party, where Brathwaite was a cameraman and Chris often hosted.

As disco and R&B enthusiasts, it was only a matter of time before Chris and Debbie caught the emerging sound of rap music. Brathwaite offered to escort the duo to witness the action firsthand. “So we went uptown to this party; it was in a Police Athletic League facility in the Bronx,” Stein remembers. “It was kind of a big event, three or four hundred people there, maybe even more. It was exciting. There were a lot of different DJs and acts: Funky Four, maybe Cold Crush, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore. A lot of the guys who were later involved with Wild Style.” Harry enthusiastically concurs: “Yeah, it was great. A lot of it was freestyle, people who were just getting up and doing it.”,,,

...Stein also attempted to interest record labels in the new music. “In the early days, I talked to a lot of guys in the record industry about rap, and pretty much one hundred percent of them told me that rap was a fad that was going to go away.” A predictably retrograde attitude that sounds suspiciously like what was trotted out when punk started. “It was, you’re absolutely right,” Harry agrees. “That was one of the major statements from different A&R people in the industry—that if punk became successful, they were going to quit.”...

,..Debbie Harry traces the origins of their concept. “I distinctly remember sitting and watching wrestling on TV one day and Chris saying, ‘I think I’m going to do a rap song, called “Rapture.”...

...“We were into writing pop songs,” she explains, “and the idea of incorporating a rap inside of a song was a new concept at the time. It was just usually rapping to a DJ scratching. This was a little break from that strictness of that way of doing it, but it also made it so [rap] was available on radio and put it into a genre that made it more understandable to a general public.”

The video for “Rapture” featured Harry bopping through a stylized downtown street populated by a fabulous assortment of real-life characters: Brathwaite, graffiti legend Lee Quinones, and Jean-Michel Basquiat among them, all who helped paint the backdrop. A downtown fantasy come to life, it was both an homage to the place that birthed them and a master class in the blending of style and sound that Harry and Stein had been working on for years....”

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[longliverockback]

David Lee Roth Diamond Dave 2003 Magna Carta ————————————————— Tracks: 01. You Got the Blues, Not Me… 02. Made up My Mind 03. Stay While the Night Is Still Young 04. Shoo Bop 05. She’s Looking Good 06. Soul Kitchen 07. If 6 Was 9 08. That Beatles Tune (Tomorrow Never Knows) 09. Medicine Man 10. Let It All Hang Out 11. Thug Pop 12. Act One 13. Ice Cream Man 14. Bad Habits —————————————————

Gregg Bissonette

Omar Hakim

James Lomenzo

Ray Luzier

Nile Rodgers

David Lee Roth

Tracy Wormworth

Jeremy Zuckerman 

* Long Live Rock Archive

[whatevergreen]

Charlie Ahearn, Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981. Janette Beckman