European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It kit in  3 a of strumming Dave Barry a Nice Springsteen played my guitar. I Ani not making this up. It was the High Point a  my musical life. It was even better than a the time when for a few minutes  in. A the same Airport As Ray Charles i am a never going to Wash my guitar again. Not that i Ever did before a. A i should explain that f belong to a band called the Rock Bottom remainders. It consists mostly of writ / ers the original concept was hat people who spend a All their time writing would enjoy a Chance to express their musical Talent. The flaw he re is that most of. Usa done to have any musical Talent. So we compensate by a. Playing amplified instruments loud enough to affect the weather. Also we stick to snug that arc so Well. Known that even when we play them people some times recognize them. Quot. A a a a a a fur example we play Louie Louie an extremely a Well known song. You know How scientists have a been trying fruitlessly for years to Contact alien he / Ings by broadcasting radio signals to outer space. Well i think they should broadcast Louie. Louie. I. Bet alien beings would immediately recognize this song and broadcast a response a play Rome thing else Quot. For a change of Pace the Rock Bottom remain j dvrs also play Wiki tiling a song performed in a style in Envoi. To. Classical musicians As Quot Molto accelerando con Carne a which Means a basically the same As Louie  a we employ two powerful  when we perform this song. One is Roy Blount jr., a great humor writer who has the raw natural musical Talent of a soldering Iron. We give  vocal solos in. W cd thing. At the end of the first verse die band pauses dramatic ally and Roy is supposed to say a i love you at the end of the second verse he so supposed to say a you move  these to. O lines arc Roy  musical responsibility for he ensure a. Night and he take sit seriously pacing around before the performance muttering his lines Over and Over. To himself. So when we get to. The end of the first verse we Stop a rid everybody turns expectantly to Roy waiting for him to say a i love you, Roy frowning with deep concentration inevitably says a you move  and then the rest of tis in. A a a smooth professional manner stagger around and try not to wet our pants. Our other big musical weapon on wild thing is a. Joel Selvin a writer and Rock critic for the san Francisco chronicle who play s a flute Solo using a plus tic flute that looks like the kind you get from gum Baj machines Only cheaper., Joel Ike most of your top International , Learned tin s Solo by a. Watching an instructional videotape at Home. The problem is a Dick he gets on stage with the band he tends to get nervous and blow really. Hard so. That instead of notes the flute emits a series of sex trendy High pitched squeaks like a Gerbil that Feu a into a fretted Fry machine a a a. Sometimes riels entire Solo is above the Range of a human hearing. Hell be wailing away his Fate Ted his fingers moving in the Maimer prescribed by the videotape Aud it looks really dramatic,1 but nobody can hear anything. Meanwhile for hundreds of Miles around dogs arc jerking their Heads up and thinking a they somebody a playing wild things Quot i play Lead guitar in this band. My sole musical a. Qualification is that i am slightly More experienced a than he Guy who plays rhythm guitar Stephen King Well known author of children a books the link a engine thai could sneak into y our roam at night and eat your eyes. Stephen Lias a custom made. Black guitar with Little White Mother of Pearl spiders crawling up the neck. One time 1 was showing him How to play a certain chord and i pointed at a spot. On the neck and said a put your Finger Here, he said a ooh on that spider.�?�. In May the Rock Bottom remainders performed at a party in los Angeles at the annual convention of. The american booksellers association. It went very Well. The audience members were receptive by which 1 mean they had been drinking. Some people a got so receptive that they demanded an encore so. We decided to play Gloria which we like because its even simpler to play than Louie Louie. You can a throw a guitar off a Cliff and As it bounces off rocks on the Way Down it will All , play Gloria. So we Echt Back on stage and i picked up one of the two guitars id been using and just us we were about to Start Stephen King tapped me on the. Shoulder and said a we have a special�?Tguest.�?�-1 a turned around and there was Bruce Springsteen. I still done to know How he came to be at  i done to believe lies a bookseller. All i know is. He was picking up the other guitar. My guitar. A a Bruce a i said to him a do you know the guitar a part to Gloria Quot a. A a this is like asking James Michener if he knows a How to write his name. A a a i think so a he said. I Quot. A a a.  played Gloria and i say in. All  it was the Best version of that song Ever played in the history of the world going Back thousands of years. I would shout �?o0l o. A i-h-1 i a and the band including Bruce Springsteen would respond a a Gloria a and the crowd would scream a As  receptive booksellers Tun scream. Could have died Happy right then anyway now in a Back in my office tapping at my. Computer being columnist again. But from time to a Lime my mind drifts Back to that night remembering How it sounded. 1 Haven to polled the other members of the remainders but i think we would definitely a let Bruce join the band if he wrote a Book 1 i would even let him play Lead guitar. A. Miami Herald  Page 23 sunday july 10, 1994