{"id":4507,"date":"2021-02-23T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:10:12","slug":"miriam-linna-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4507","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Linna… Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of issue #113’s 20 Questions with the rock \u2019n’ roll obsessed MIRIAM LINNA, Shindig!<\/i> hears yet more memories, anecdotes and news. Pre-order the issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miriam in CBGBs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Official Kinkdom Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

The childhood British Invasion indoctrination is now evident in\u00a0Waterloo Underground, the worlds first and only all-Kinks weekly radio show, which began its \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Kinks Reunion\u201d chant\u00a0 in 2018. Marc Miller and I started the show with our brilliant engineer (and ultra-Kinkster) Matt Clarke, blasting the greatness of The Kinks (and nothing but The Kinks) and counting on a reunion. Last year we brought in Johnny Aquino, a major league Kinks collector and fan, who was eager to bring podcast-style interviews to the blast, so we now do two hours made up of a one hour interview show and\u00a0 one hour of Kinksongs and commentary (live ev-er-y Friday night at luxuriamusic.com<\/a>).\u00a0We chat with serious Kinks fans, writers, collectors, and musicians – all of whom are a total gas to gab with.<\/p>\n

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Marc Miller (who I first met for a moment in Boston in 1978) and I created two internet radio shows. Marc spent time in real radio, as program director at WBCN, and has an instinct for radio and love of the music. I only possess the last part of that sentence. Crashing The Party was our first baby, with the goal being to hornswaggle everyone into digging original\u00a0 <\/span>vocal group recordings. We\u2019re working on a best of collection of rarities and favorites from CTP and are focused on irregular interviews with the lost heroes of rock \u2019n roll\u2014 the collectors-turned-labelmeisters. All of our shows are on our website, crashingtheparty.co<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>– each is two solid hours\u00a0 of gabs and spins, without a notion of purveying to any particular crowd. In fact, it\u2019s always great to hear some punk-rock lunatic going ape over the Equallos or to have a vocal group diehard hear something they\u2019d never heard before. It\u2019s music to make your mind go wild. Hard core candy store! Waterloo Underground is the world\u2019s first and only two-hour radio show focused on the Kinks. Marc and I started the show with our brilliant engineer (and Kinkster) Matt Clarke, blasting the greatness of the Kinks (and nothing but the Kinks) and counting on a reunion. Last year we brought in Johnny Aquino, a major league Kinks collector and fan, who was eager to bring podcast-style interviews to the blast, so we now do two hours made up of a one hour interview show co-hosted with Johnny (available at our website) and a two-hour show that combines one hour of interview and one hour of Kinksongs and commentary (live ev-er-y Friday night at luxuriamusic.com<\/a>).\u00a0 \u00a0We chat with serious Kinks fans, writers, collectors, and musicians – all of whom are a total gas to gab with.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland Scene<\/strong><\/p>\n

My family moved from Canada to the States in January 1967, when I was in the middle of seventh grade. What an astonishing difference in everything! Our new American small town was 50 miles from Cleveland.\u00a0 AM\u00a0 radio at the time was CKLW out of Detroit and WIXY from Cleveland. I discovered the FM dial in high school with WNCR and then WMMS\u2014 \u00a0 we were all exposed to incredible music with both of them. I won the Pink Floyd Dream Contest at WNCR in \u201972, the dream I had sent in\u00a0 was read on the air (to the tune of a Van der Graf Generator instrumental!) and I won all seven PF albums from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn<\/em> to\u00a0 the just-released Obscured By Clouds<\/em>. Yes, I have a tape of that zany dream reading. Don\u2019t hold it against me. I was instantly 16-year old a Pink Floyd LP completist\u00a0 and remain a fan to this day. Everybody played in Cleveland because of the great radio promotion and the large all ages\u00a0 venues were always packed to the eye teeth.<\/p>\n

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Britain 1973<\/strong><\/p>\n

My sister Helen and I spent several months in Britain in 1973. I was 17, she was 22. We had been working at a fiberglass factory in Ohio\u00a0 that had produced the original Corvette sportscar bodies (and molded\u00a0 Eames chairs) – believe me, the work was nowhere near as glamorous as the iconic items they were known for. With money earned, we bought one way tickets to across the pond\u00a0 for a non-stop escapade that took us through England, and into Ireland and Scotland,\u00a0 catching every rockin’ show – especially and specifically\u00a0 the Spiders From Mars. We\u2019d befriended kids in London and we\u2019d all hitch up north, east and west, meeting at venues and having a blast. It was quite a time. Helen and I were the first American fans to hear Pin Ups \u2013<\/em>\u00a0we were huge Bowie fans (I would last thru Young Americans<\/em>, at which point I tore the posters off my bedroom walls and \u201cwent punk-rock\u201d . One day we were walking past Trident Studios and were clowning around under the sign, when Bowie\u2019s bodyguard Stuart George came by, asking \u201cWhat are you girls doing here?\u201d We were shocked. Look, we were Bowie fans from his first shows in Cleveland, and knew Stuart and Bowie – both were incredibly great with all the fans, personable, ultra cool. Once Helen and I lead the band through the side streets into the back of Public Auditorium, as they wanted to avoid traffic and were running late. We got a bit lost and ended up driving. (with the Spiders trying to keep up with Helen\u2019s frenetic driving,\u00a0 into and across the field of the baseball stadium!\u00a0 It was a very lively scene with fans and bands in Cleveland, absolutely a total blast. But I digress. Back to Trident Studios. Stuart told us that Bowie was in the studio and to come back later. We figured we\u2019d get an autograph then, and were not prepared to be invited up into the studio to preview the new album. We were on cloud nine, being served tea and biscuits and sitting across from DB, just Helen, me, and he. Big stuff for a couple of girls from the boondocks!<\/p>\n