Couch Tour 2020

GK's Radical Radioactive Radio podcast reunited with Mick McClifford...Today we hear a live performance of Killing is wrong when mercy is gone-- Live from Kyle's Gramma's basement in 1981...

Mick and GK discuss a track called Locked Heart (Love is the key) off the Gloom Boulevard album... in podcast 688... Mick is still AWOL...

GK continues his interviews of Mick McClifford but the videos start to include flashbacks and flash forwards of their developing relationship. The personality conflicts and friendship.

The odd couple are getting on each other's last nerve...

Mick has gone awol and GK is worried...

Mick is satire of that type of icon that got away with hedonism, an anything goes, any outrageous statement dismissed as just a crazy rock star doing his thing... Today people... artists... are brow beaten by the politically correct social justice warriors aghast at anything seen as racist, sexist, gluttonous... and just as Archie Bunker used humor to look at the blue collar worker whose belief system was steeped in a loveable bigot... Mick wants to dare stick his head up where bullets are flying in all directions. People should be able to understand art or humor cannot be sanitized without losing its soul or reason for being... And true artists stick to their guns on offending anyone they Goddamn please in celebration of the 1st amendment...and those who are blacklisted and made poor... well... all the more reason to stay as Mick as possible...

This darkly humorous musical mockumentary works on many levels but you will have to give it a chance. The pacing is a slow build with some outrageous bits along the way.

Mick McClifford played such clubs as CBGB in New York in the 1970s. He is a barely living legend. The GK podcast began a series of interviews earlier this Autumn of 2020. Here is his story in his own words with select cuts of his music. GK who is suffering from early signs of dementia is himself struggling to finish his life's work before he can't remember anything. There are of course a few added oddities that makes this series a compelling watch. One should always keep in mind what is real. John Lennon says, nothing is.