Thirty years ago today
On Saturday evening I went to Club Saturnalia at 183 Bathurst to perform in the Partying Into the 21st Century event. Nancy brought our daughter down to see my show but regretted it because she thought my performance was inappropriate for her to see.
I did three songs. The organizer who’d invited me to perform asked me to make a political statement and so I took his request to heart. After some thought I concluded that the most political statement one can make is to be oneself. I began by saying I wanted to express myself by being natural like the way Anne Murray used to perform in concert and so I took my shoes off and sang my song “The Next State of Grace”. Then I said it would be closer to me if I was savagely free like Iggy Pop and so I took my shirt off and sang my song “Megaphor”. Finally I concluded that I should be entirely myself and stripped fully naked to perform my song “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy”. A big guy in a black suit with a white tie who looked like a Mafia hitman was security for the event. Why would they hire that kind of person for an event full of positive artists? He tried to get up onstage to grab me but I pushed him off. The organizers were also trying to shut me down but the audience protested and demanded that they let me finish. So I finished my song naked. Later I was chatting with Tricia Postle and she said I had a nice body.
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