BOC: "Dick" Meltzer

[Albert T Bouchard]

John wrote:

>(Allen in rehab, Buck about to be divorced).  Sure, maybe I just don't
>WANT to believe stuff like that -- but even if it is true (and no one I

R Meltzer has been know to bend the truth in the interest of interest.

>statement like "a dork in an $80 sweatsuit and doing the twist and
>holding a beer who looks like he lives with his mother (and maybe an
>aunt)".

He probably thinks most people are too.

>Meltzer's ear for music is obviously affected by his personal issues
>with the band.  While BOC fans all over acknowledge how much better of a
>guitar player Buck has become over the years, Meltzer writes "Buck's
>playing was identical to what it was in '76..."  Give me a break!

He was always a good picker. I can't hear much difference either.

>Finally, he seems to feel that his "uncouth behavior" at Buck's wedding
>was no big deal.  Yet he seems proud of the fact that he felt up Buck's

It basicly blew over and Meltzer was still pretty active with the band
personally and professionally for years after his unfortunate behavior at
Don & Sandy's wedding.

>"That's what we get for letting Rumplestiltskin come to our wedding.
>(BTW, he wasn't even invited, just like the above-mentioned troll, so he
>begged to come. We felt sorry for him and let him.

Sandy never liked Richard and he knew it. I think he was upset at Don for
gettin' hitched.

>he showed up drunk, exposed his pitiful genitals to some of our guests, then
>crawled into the darkness when told the police were on their way...never
>to be
>seen again.

This is the other side's turn to bend the truth.

>He never broke a window either.)

He did however throw his beer bottle at the plate glass window of the
reception hall as he was leaving (it bounced off the window). His
girlfriend, Ronnie, was totally humiliated, dragged him out and drove him
back to the city. ;-)


>As for tBS, I don't know when they last collaborated with him with
>recent lyrics - I believe most of the tBS tunes with Meltzer lyrics are
>older lyrics - stuff written in the 70s.

There's two on the new record, one old and one new. I still have a good
relationship with Richard but then I didn't stiff him for hundreds of
thousands of dollars either.