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  • CHOKE YOUR CHICKEN, by Loose Bruce Kerr
    2025/07/02

    "Choke Your Chicken, from 1979, my first contact with Dr. Demento, won an Honorary Mention in his song contest that fall. Elsewhere on this podcast is a live version from the early 1980's. But this was the Teac 4-track cassette overdubbed version I did on a friend's recorder. Couldn't afford my own till later. Cost $1K. My 32-track digital Teac cost only $450 5 years ago. 32 tracks. (thanks again, Les Paul).

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    2 分
  • "LIKE A POLLING STONE" Loose Bruce Kerr parody of Bob Dylan's tune re Trump's continued drop in polls
    2025/03/12

    with Bob Dylan’s current resurgence of popularity, and Trump’s NOT! ... this 2016 parody re today’s new continuing-slide poll numbers may be worth a spin (audio w/ today’s CNN poll still shot). Enjoy!

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    3 分
  • "THE BALD TRUTH" (AUDIO/Song only, NO intro), by Spud City w/ Loose Bruce Kerr 1978
    2025/03/07

    "THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's.

    In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set.

    It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get by somehow. Also about Bruce's hair which was also starting to witness a shortage in his early 20's.

    The band features Bruce & Steve plus drummer Tyke Ten Eyke whom they met playing on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Mickey Marien on bass guitar. All 4 members sang vocals. Bruce sings lead on this one.

    Bruce went on to have a solo career as Loose Bruce Kerr, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and with over 160 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show. He is now retired and lives in northern California with his wife and expecting new cats. Steve is also retired and lives near Boise, Idaho.

    This track is without Steve's intro, just the song itself, for audio listening only, like with records in the old days. Enjoy!

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    5 分
  • "THE BALD TRUTH" (AUDIO w/ still shot), full intro, by Spud City w/ Loose Bruce Kerr 1978
    2025/03/07

    "THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's.

    In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set.

    It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get by somehow. Also about Bruce's hair which was also starting to witness a shortage in his early 20's.

    The band features Bruce & Steve plus drummer Tyke Ten Eyke whom they met playing on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Mickey Marien on bass guitar. All 4 members sang vocals. Bruce sings lead on this one.

    Bruce went on to have a solo career as Loose Bruce Kerr, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and with over 160 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show. He is now retired and lives in northern California with his wife and expecting new cats. Steve is also retired and lives near Boise, Idaho.

    This track has a band still shot from that concert to make this a video but it's really for audio listening only, just like with records in the old days. Enjoy!

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    7 分
  • Loose Bruce Kerr LIVE @Sun Legal All-Hands 1998
    2025/02/20

    This 11-minute LIVE 4-song performance at a Sun Microsystems Legal All-Hands conference in Silicon Valley in 1998 is by Sun contracts manager, Bruce Kerr, under the moniker he used in his preceding career as a songwriter-performer, Loose Bruce Kerr.

    Bruce had interrupted his earlier legal career as a legal services lawyer in Milwaukee in 1973 to go on the road and write and perform as a solo, in a duo, or in a band from California to New England to the Caribbean for 20 years.

    After he resumed his legal career, Sun's General Counsel, John Croll hired Bruce in 1997. After that, John tapped Bruce to perform a short segment of his songs and parodies as an entertainment break at the Sun legal All-Hands conferences in Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the country (including the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas).

    Bruce stayed with Sun Legal, becoming Assistant General Counsel in 2008 before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 where Bruce remained until retiring in 2020.

    These 4 songs consist of a barbershop song arrangement about nearby San Francisco, "Java," about Sun's trademark infringement case against Microsoft at the time, "That Lonesome Road" with Bruce digitally generating 3 harmony parts triggered by his lead vocal per pre-programmed chord changes. Closing the set is one of his parodies about office life, "Black Magic Marker."

    Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and had over 150 song plays on Dr. Demento. Though Bruce is retired, he continues to write, record, and upload his original songs, parodies and videos to his blog loosebrucekerr.com, YouTube, and other platforms.

    He lives with his wife, Linda, in northern California where they are expecting 2 new kittens.

    email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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    11 分
  • "DO LET'S DO" live in 1978 by Spud City, music & lyrics by Loose Bruce Kerr
    2025/02/03

    "DO LET'S DO" (live in 1978) features the band, SPUD CITY led by Bruce Kerr (later: songwriter-parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr) and his boyhood friend from hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft. On drums: Tyke Ten Eyck from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, bass: Mickey Marien from New York.

    This rather rough, live, recording captured at the University of Lowell is a rare one from back in the day. Spud City played gigs in the late 1970's from the top of Vermont ski lodges down to Greenwich, Connecticut and east to Cape Cod. The main stage at the University of Lowell in Massachusetts had the band doing an all-original show except for their opening number, a barbershop arrangement of "The Oscar Meyer Wiener Song." "Do Let's Do" followed that opening in front of about 3,000 college students in 1978.

    Steve & Bruce play electric guitars, Tyke on drums, Mickey on bass, and all 4 sing the vocals. Bruce sings lead and the last chorus features a combo of Steve on chorus against Bruce on verse simultaneously. It's swing time, baby! (l to r: Mickey Marien, Bruce Kerr, Steve Hoeft, Tyke Ten Eyck - turn your phone 90 degrees to see full photo)

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    3 分
  • "EVERYTHING'S GOING TO SHIT" parody by Loose Bruce Kerr
    2025/01/16

    https://youtu.be/xrdTWv-B6cs Congress is vetting Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees this week against a backdrop of Greenland, Canada, Panama and (pick your fear). I woke up with an earworm of a Rodgers & Hammerstein song and, well, this is what happens when things mix up.

    Enjoy this parody video. You may or may not agree, freedom!

    https://youtu.be/xrdTWv-B6cs

    cheers,

    Bruce

    Loose Bruce Kerr

    Loose Bruce Kerr wrote, recorded & performed his original show (solo/duo/New England band in the 1970’s) for 20 years before returning to law and ending up Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and then as a Deal Manager at Oracle after it acquired Sun. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day and has over 150 song plays on the Doctor Demento Show.

    In 2022, his romantic holiday original, “Christmas Is You” was published in 5-part jazz a cappella format by Fred Bock Music, distributed by Hal Leonard.

    Today, Bruce is a retired lawyer in northern California with his Waukesha, Wisconsin hometown wife, Linda, and cats but continues to write and record his originals and song parodies. His videos and some audios are on youtube and all his audios & videos are available for streaming and/or downloading for free on his podcast loosebrucekerr.com.

    Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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    4 分
  • "IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY" Loose Bruce Kerr in band: SPUD CITY
    2025/01/10

    “IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY,” (AUDIO) Spud City LIVE at the University of Lowell auditorium main stage, 3000 packed seats.

    Spud City played across New England in 1977-79, formed by hometown friends of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft & Bruce Kerr. Other members were drummer, Tyke Ten Eyck, Dave Giordino (later replaced on bass by Mickey Marien, Mickey plays on this song).

    This is one of Bruce’s songs performed by the band live here and influenced by the folk group, the Limeliters and their satirical, topical folk songs performed in the early 1960’s by Steve’s and Bruce’s old folk group, the Coachmen in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

    Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio in northern California. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.

    Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).

    His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. Also, his videos are available for streaming on youtube.

    email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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    4 分