DNL & Jay Klaperman, Director of Photography

LAST DAYS OF BLaM

John Bugbee after the last rehearsal

"backstage"

In January 1981 Bill Ohanesian shot a documentary film about BLaM, focusing it on what was to be our last performance. We played two sets (unusual back then) with the plan of performing every song in our repertoire. Pat threw his back out on the penultimate song. So Dan Wilson's song "I Win (Presley's Dead)," our intended finale was never performed.

He carefully stored the footage awaiting the day when technology would make the film's completion affordable. FIRE IN THE ZOO was a working title. LAST DAYS OF BLaM is what it will probably be called. Bill is nearly finished.

"You and me are free./We do as we please./From morning till the end of the day" -Ray Davies

Pat Meehan, drums

"When I was young it was More important/Pain more painful/Laughter so much louder. Yeah"-Eric Burdon

I still got my guitar.
I studied the blues.
I'm watchin' my baby.
I'm payin' my dues.

Life was so groovy.
I was lost in her movie.
It was pretty good
at first.
So many frames of her love.
Oh, boy.
Call it lust, fear, or wonder,
but I made a blunder
and I want out.

— "Blues for a Blue Movie" © 1981 by DNL

Photographs by David Persoff

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