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THEHERALDWine8dayOctober4 1B89Page25 Kinky Friedman wnt on the offensive at the Horseshoe Tavern last week Photo by David Meyler Horseshoe goes Kinky By DI AH ANN NADEAU Herald Special After a few years away from music Kinky Friedman ex Texas Jewboy now a successful mystery author played at the Horseshoe Tavern in downtown Toronto last week In two solo acoustic sets Friedman presented one of the weirdest concerts this reviewer has ever attended Mixing with business Friedman managed to sell a hundred books between sets a record for the tour at that point while his bizarre humor and satirical songs kept the au dience laughing for two hours Friedman and his Texas came out with their first record in 1973 Sold American which Kinky tells us is being re issued His albums have offered a blend of country and western tunes and wicked humor often tasteless always funny Kinky is Jewish and he is from Texas This is an ethnic aberrance he endlessly It gives him scope to do Jewish jokes redneck jokes and all the per mutations in between He opened with the marvelously tasteless The Ballad of Charles Whitman a song about a person who goes mad and shoots a bunch of people from town There was a rumor bout a tumor at the bot torn of his brain goes the choms This pretty well set the tone for the night Other songs included We Reserve the Right to Refuse Serv cie to You Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns into Bed its not going to make the feminist songbook and Mens Room A a brilliant ditty about finding a picture of Jesus in a mens room You can Imagine where that song Friedman and manager Cleve Hattersley are touring North America in a Cadillac the Ktppur Clipper it stops on a dime and picks it up Poor Cleve found himself the butt of numerous homosexual jokes couldnt resist that pun sorry until he finally re introduced Kinky for the second set as that noted heterosexual There isnt any group Kinky isn t willing to offend Friedman has been busy in years away from music he has four novels the latest be ing Frequent Flyer which just came out in hard cover His first book Greenwich Killing Time has been picked up by Ron Howard for a movie The would like to play himself but he has to test for it Friedman also ran for Justice of the Peace in his hometown of Kerr ville Texas where his family has a ranch He lost one reason being the fact he hid Hoffmann from the FBI for six months Not a good move for a potential justice The man who came third had cut up the family CoUie a few months before and everyone knew about it He still got votes But Im not bitter If Friedman had won would he be now Probably not So some things do turn out for the best Kinky And yall come back now effects Framing Centre- Limited Edition Prints 348 Guelph Street NEXT TO BELL IN THE CENTRE Georgetown THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO lit FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST S 8773388 VIDEO PLUS West of Georgetown Market BRING HOME A STAR CRIMINAL ACT BYE FRIGHT MIDNIGHT 10 COPIES OF THE DREAM TEAM STAR SI Unit Georgetown Ontario When swinging was king Bob Spence Entertainment When North America was caught the grinding teeth of the Great Depression some people still went dancing Others listened to music on the radio What most people were dancing and listening to was jazz Swing jazz which emerged out of the growth of jazz the 1920s rose to national prominence Band leader Benny Goodman who helped push his brand of music to new heights was annomted the King of Swing James Lincoln Collier recalls that period in a biography of s King Collier delves into an era when the music industry was expanding and radio wAs the prime source of musical entertainment Collier chronicles the rise of Goodman and his band in Benny Goodman and the Swing Era Ox ford University Press which ar rives on bookshelves in earh tober Goodman was the first promi band leader to hire black musicians Terry Wilson and Lionel Hampton for a white band times while nine Montreal Cana diens games will be shown The Stanley Cup champion Calgary Flames have eight matches on the TSN schedule and the Quebec Nor four Either a key programmer is a closet Leaf fan or someone ob viously has been studying time zones picking games that can be telecast in prime time in the populous heart of Canada Thirty of the 40 games including all but three of the Leaf games start at 30 or 30 Ontario time On ly four start as late for those in central Canada as 30 m All four are Vancouver home games and the visiting team each case is another Canadian team Does someone at The Sports Net work believe the Toronto Maple Leafs are finally going to start playing hockey TSN will televise regular season National Hockey League games this season all but one featuring at least one Canadian based team And cameramen will be spending more time follow ing the Leafs than any other team While 12 Leaf games will be televised the Edmonton Oilers and Winnipeg Jets each show up on on ly three telecasts The Van couver Canucks will be featured 10 UNDER 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