Jerry Lee “The Killer” Lewis was hired to play a 2 show set @ the newly remodeled Open Hearth. They booked him for the grand re opening of the place after they expanded the dance floor & stage. Jokes on “The Killer” the ceiling over the stage wasn’t more than 7 feet high. So his opening act was Mack Vickery (since deceased) I knew him mostly as a writer he wrote a great KILLER song called "Rockin' My Life Away" on JLL’s All Killer, No Filler: Anthology . So JLL appeared slightly out of it as the 1st show progressed. He would stick the mic down the front of his pants yell crazy stuff & act like you always heard he did. To me & my friends this was NOTHING like we’ve ever seen before & in a nutcase sense it was over the top we couldn’t have asked for more. So he decided to do a little piano top concerto & BOOM his head goes thru the brand new cheesy ceiling. He stayed on the piano pulling down pieces of the ceiling all the while singing things like “It looks like we got a leak here” all hell breaks loose & management stops the show. When the manager walked toward Lewis, obviously pissed at seeing his newly remodeled nightclub being torn apart Lewis points at him & says something like “We found the leak here comes the drip” and proceeds to blow his top & fires off obscenities at 100 miles a minute & storms out of the club’s door……
STAY TUNED to this blog for Part Two "We'll Let Them Think About It"!Highly recommended RAWKIN' listening from this era JLL The (Complete) London Sessions .
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