This was also the first and only time I went to Gino's nightclub; I don't even remember where it was! And I never saw that Glenn again! Wonder if Helen still has his number...
20 February 1976
Today Trudie started at our school. She couldn’t get in any of my classes! I stayed in Modern Dance 3rd and 4th to hear Tandy and Co. talk. That Dancy Dance phrase was fun and a lot easier than the stuff we learn in class!
I went to the eye doctor and got my contact lenses. It’s so weird being able to see without glasses! We went over to Mary’s and we didn’t leave for the Palladium for so long! Oh well, I didn’t want to see Flash Cadillac anyway. I didn’t see Eddie [Driscoll; he was everywhere!] there! Hardly saw anyone I knew. That guy with the super freaky hair from Alex Harvey was there and his jacket said MARS on the back. Then there was that guy who looked like Peter Frampton- what a FOX! I tried to take his pic. Saw Brent and Laura inside – Brent looked so neat – like Russell Mael sort of.
Trudie was wearing that shirt as a dress – I wish I could wear stuff like that. [Well, I later did!] Saw Kari, Hernando and Rodney too and took their pictures. That was sure nice how Mary, Trudie and Helen left us. Susan went to the back. I got pretty close to where Eddie [Jobson, on stage] was. Hope my pictures come out decently – I wonder which one broke. [???]
That was so dumb – afterward that guy showed me how I should have taken pictures! (Takes kidneys!) [I’m not sure what I’m on about here, I mean about how I should have taken pictures – pushing the film is my best guess.] I thought that one guy was really nice letting me go in front of him… but… well, he left me alone after I hit him once. [METOO alert!] Near the end I got really close. They started with Sentimental Fool, and of what I know the titles of that they did included: Love is the Drug, Whirlwind, She Sells, Both Ends Burning, Virginia Plain, For Your Pleasure… I forgot what the encore was. Eddie (sigh…) had a violin solo. He kept looking in the audience and smiling – people passed him up notes! He was dressed so neat in white tails. Bryan Ferry looked scuzzy. Clark Gable?!
Afterward, Rich [Susan Richards] and I went looking for people we knew. That Todd guy was soooo skinny! [I think that must have been Stewart who used to hang out at the Rainbow.] And we saw a Steve Tyler lookalike.
[I then waffle on for far too long about a brief encounter with my ex who had dumped me the month before. He was as full of charm as ever, which is to say utterly without the same, but I do come over all sentimental and wonder what it would have been like to have attended this concert with him, which, until last month, I had thought would happen. (He had managed to wrangle his way in free, as he often did.)]
I wanted to go to the Rainbow so bad but I’m glad I didn’t go with Robert [the ex mentioned above] cause it was $5 for one thing (which he wouldn’t pay) and I wouldn’t have met Glenn!!!! Glenn was so neat! He looked a lot like Eddie Jobson, was a little bit short, dressed neat and was so funny!!
He had to be introduced all around. I told him I was Mar Tian and he goes, “All right, Marsha…” “No! Mar TIAN – like with the antennas?” “Oh…” “I’m also known at times as Chandrika Zolar or Desdemona Luna, but most people call me Karen.” “Sounds like Carrot – so you’re Karen the Carrot.” (Later he introduced us to his friend as Karen the Carrot, Susan the Rich etc… Oh and he couldn’t remember Mary’s name – I go, “She has a little lamb.” “Does it lie down on Broadway?” “No, but its fleece is white as snow.” “It wouldn’t by any chance follow her to school?” “Also, she is quite contrary.”
At first he was talking mostly to Helen and Trudie but they were talking to the surfer geeks so then I was talking to him – he’s sooo neat! He had a candy apple [They used to always sell candy apples after gigs!] he didn’t want to finish so he goes, “Where should I throw it?” “In the street.” So he tosses it there… “Do you think anyone saw me?” “Yeah.” “Who?” “Me.” “But you wouldn’t tell on me, would you?” “Hmmm… No, I won’t…”
We started talking about Genesis a little. He told Helen to call him. Well, she can’t have him – he’s mine! I’m inviting him to my party, both Roberts, Ben, Bill Harris, Patrick, Chris… EVERYONE I like (so I’ll be sure not to lose!!!)
Anyway we went to Gino’s – bleccch. They played the crappiest music in the world! I didn’t want to go in. I waited outside with Rich then Trudie came out and we went to Bob’s Big Boy and Mary came too. We were acting so weird, throwing pancakes and stuff. When we came back out it was freezing!!
At Mary’s house in the driveway Helen ran over Mary’s shoe that she had dropped on the ground!!! We couldn’t stop laughing! We stayed up for this dumb movie at 4:00 am then fell asleep during it.
