1 Minute of Musical Masturbation

The JB Scott's Reunion Shameless Plug

F. Lee Harvey Blotto of https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blotto/161167380595875 never fails to delight ... I  truly appreciate both the JB Scott's Reunion plug for the Penny Knight Band appearance and, being a Lathams native myself (via Cohoes), for the plug for our fair town. Little known fact ... the town name "Lathams" is derived from the longer Mohawk Indian term "Lathams Ircle".

The Penny Knight Band was once but a cog in the wheel of the mighty multi-national conglomerate, known as Blotto Records, wherein he served, and continues to serve, as El Presidente for life. Please "friend him" on Facebook.

JB Scott's and Demi Moore

It's the afternoon of May 5, 2012 ... the PKB BUS is honking the horn at your curb/driveway: This is a unique opportunity to do something OUTSIDE of your house and/or your property lines ... ya know, besides your normal social activity of a couple of DMDW* followed by a confusing round of frisbee golf.


DMDW* = Demi Moore Designer Whippets

Come see the opening "attempt at stardom" of the Penny Knight Band 2012 semi-annual "Holy Gig Week" ... BE THERE WHEN THE DOORS OPEN at 6:00pm because we have requested to go on early so we can be home by 9:00, in order to watch COUGARTOWN. Also, we have not seen each other/played/stayed up past the 7pm Seinfeld reruns since the Blotto Records Reunion so we need to pace ourselves for the following week (May 6-12) of gigs in the Cap District.

Get Your tickets here ... STAY UP LATE then continue to BORE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOUR KIDS WITH MORE "When I Was Your Age" STORIES!

Tickets! Tickets! ...We Have A Ticket Here!

GOOD NEWS ... Tix are still available!

We Have JUST UNO Ticket (That's ONE, for those of you living in English speaking countries, you know, like the US used to be) LEFT Available For The May 5 Show ...

MANY THANKS to those who have purchased them here

PKB Semi-Annual "Holy Gig Week" Announced

It's Official!  J.B. Scott's Reunion Kicks off our next 

Semi-Annual "Holy Gig Week" May 5 - May 12, 2012 

A couple of fun facts come with our next announcement that The Penny Knight Band will be performing at The J.B. Scott's Reunion on May 5, 2012 @ Michael's Banquet House, Latham NY (6pm-Midnight)

Fact #1:
We played JB Scott's and JB's Theatre throughout our entire Capital District history:

• as "Kashmir" w/Tony and Richard
• as "EQ" w/Tony, Richard, Penny and Tony "The Wease" Genevive
• as "Penny Knight Band" w/Bob, Tony, Richard and Penny

Fact #2:
Penny beat the hell out of a JBS bouncer, doused his hair with lighter fluid then used him to set fire to his own car after one of their shows. (nah, not really true, but fact #1 seemed so lame that we felt an urgent need to come up with something that sounded cool).

See you there !

ROAD Stories: "The Moustache" in Montreal

In a rare moment of clarity, I remembered this story ...

Most of our "intro tapes" were a foray into our own special brand of insanity (ie left channel: Johnny Mann Singers doing "Baubles, Bangles and Beads, right channel: Napoleon XIV - "They're Coming To Take Me Away").


But in a rare occurrence, we played a Jeff Beck tune where we "intro taped" the 1st 15 secs of "El Becko", then came in live with the rest of the song at about 16 secs (...most nights), while our soundman faded the tape.

One time ... at band camp ...we were playing at "The Moustache" Club, across from the Forum, in Montreal and the place was packed with hundreds of rabid Canadians. This intro tape started the first set and Richard, our guitarist, normally came "shweeing" in at the 16 second mark. Picture lights, fog, big sound system, very exciting, impressive, "big rock show" stuff ...

Well ...at that time, he was playing his Vantage guitar w/active electronics and the band came crashing in only to find Richard playing a guitar that sounded like a freaking banjo! The battery in his guitar had died ... and we had to finish the song posing as the Mahavishnu Return to Oak Ridge Boys Orchestra. Guess what else? No spare 9V batteries on our truck, in an "english-speaking, non-english-speaking country"!

Our main man, Rikk Feulner, spent the next 30 minutes running up and down St. Catherine Street in -20 degree weather, trying to find a store open at 11pm that sold batteries, while the rest of us tested our reflexes participating, as targets, in the annual Canadian "Hurling of the Holy Brador Bottle" festival. Imagine all the guitar lines in this tune proudly presented on banjo ... classic!

Years later, Rikk would go on to emit this pearl of wisdom, "Canadians ... they look like us, they sound like us ... they're not us".

Currently, we all have day jobs ...

Building A New Generation of PKB Fans ... One Zygote At A Time

Justin Schwartz, a fan from Keene NH, says "These kids are 767x better at dancing than the average kids of their age!". Thanks for the cool vid and ongoing support, Mr. Mayer...er, Justin!

Former Bandmates Check In ... Rikk Feulner (2nd in a Series)

Rikk Feulner (born Rikk 'n Roll) worked with us as stage/tour manager (and is one of the co-writers of "Blue Angel") and voice of reason for the entire lifespan of the bands "Kashmir" and "EQ", which both pre-dated PKB.

Currently living in Nashville TN, for the 11.75 days a year he's not on the road, Rikk is still in the music biz, both full time and big time. He's just finished his 2nd go-round as tour manager for Robert Plant (formerly of a somewhat famous band) and has been the tour manager for Dream Theater for their last 1,382 tours.

It has restored our faith in humanity that such a hard working, principled, good guy has been so successful in such a cutthroat business without being changed by the whole experience. 30+ years later, he's still the same cool kid from Corinth NY that answered our help wanted ad in the Times Union in 1978, showing up at our door with Twizzlers and Diet Pepsi in hand, ready to rock.

(Photo at left innocently posted by Rikk's son, Glen Feulner, and then mericlessly photo-enhanced cape-ified by Mark Fitzgerald and captionized by Tony Jones).

Yeah, PKB Has Fans in Kansas ...

Former Bandmates Check In ... Carol Pasco (1st in a Series)

This comes to us from Carol Pasco, a former band-mate of ours (Bob "Buck The Kid" Boyer and TJ) in the 1976 band "Hot Fun", the unofficial house band at Salty's Pub in Halfmoon NY ...
"Tony was my BFF but Bob was my guardian angel. He quite possibly saved my life one night when we had a gig and I got what was my first (unfortunately not my last) migraine. Being young and stupid, I took approximately 15 or more aspirin and then drank about three mixed drinks trying to kill the blinding pain. I blacked out and Bob took me to his home and held my head while I wretched in the toilet (I remember nothing of this he told me later) and cleaned up after me no less. I could have landed in the hospital or worse. I will never forget what he did for me that night. He's my angel alright!"

TJ's REPLY:  "Carol, since you have no recollection of what transpired that evening, let me fill in the missing pieces for you ... here's how it really played out ...


That night, after the gig, Bob actually took you to Denny's on Wolf Road where, coincidentally, he was living and plotting the overthrow of the Amsterdam town council by utilizing some undercover Perthian AND Hagamanian operatives as pawns in his play for power. So, he didn't technically lie about taking you to his home ... but that's the only thing he didn't lie about.


Once there, he centered you in the large floor to ceiling front window and stuck straws in your nose, mouth, hair and ears while you were unconscious. I think that was the same night the Honorable Mayor Erastus Corning was spotted having breakfast there with Doug Williams (principal of Lafollette Hall, Shaker High School), but I digress.


You also may not be clear on the wretching into the toilet part because I seem to remember Denny's coming out with the new "Grand Slam Breakfast" menu item, shortly thereafter. Denny's management apparently adheres to the "power of suggestion" philosophy and may actually owe you some money as a "marketing consultant". Please follow up on that and keep me posted ...


If memory serves, there was also black magic marker involved so no, that was not your mascara running. The head holding story that Bob told you was an idea forged at an emergency band meeting that was called shortly after you blacked out.


But, I haven't scanned my Hot Fun photos yet ... so my memory may be inaccurate ... or I may have just misplaced the last piece of sanity I have been clinging to for the last 10 years.  Thanks for posting the memories!