The personage Hank C. Porche was born most probably 1889 in Bordelon, Louisiana or Pointe Kroupee Parish or Cazayoux, LA near Migrot, LA on the Eastwestly Nothern Bank of the Mississippi. Controversy, however, encircling Porche’s date of birth ensued in the years proceeding his Sesquicentennial Diminution Golden celebration in 1989 when a minority of Volk scholars claimed Porche’s true birthdate April 34th, 1893 on the evidence of one Harry A. Fict, a supposed childhood companion of Porche who reputedly stated “In the final analysis, however, the fact that he was only ninety-six and three-quarters years of age and not one hundred upon his celebrational Sesquicentennial Diminution Golden Honorary Concert Gala Extravaganza in no way detracts from his extraordinary achievements. Hank will always remain among the finest death rag and harmonotimbrarhythmatic constrictors of his era.” Scion of multigenerational plantation holders and indentured servants of French Belgium, Porche’s Great Great Great Grandmother most positively was perhaps of partial African, Haitian, Martian, Caribbean, Latin or Natoamerican extraction.
There are many legends, most no doubt apocryphal, of Porche’s contact with sundry figures of Acradian, Krayol, Krel, Jas, Burgundy, and 13-toned musics. Of these, Porche’s meeting with Blind Joe Death proved most decisive. Death had asked Porche if he listened to much acoustimatical music, upon which Hank replied “No, Mr. Death, mainly you. I generally prefer early-late 19th century electronical sounds such as the Phonautograph, Triode Audion, Vacuum Congestatron and Telharmonium.” This answer proved most highly skeptical to Death, who replied “Mmmmmmm.” Porche’s later conversion to the descendants of the Arpicimbalo came slowly, and whether these nonquasiepiphanal changes emerged as a result of Porche’s experiments with any Counterrural Intra-Electrafication Programs of the 30s and 00s remains a matter of scholarly debate.
What is known is that Porche spent his final years in the far Eastsouthernly wing of the State Hospital For The Mentally Detained at Chemekawa, Oregon and can be spotted with great difficulty as an extra in the film One Raised Under The Cawcaw’s Nest filmed in the 1970s, a most antiauspicious decade for Porche in which (under the otherwise unimpreachable guidance of Tressa Starn of the Nonsuch label) Bill Borkam and Jaundice Rifkin perpetrated a most hideous revival of museum-glass rag music focused solely on the most stately-boring consolidator of the genre, Scott Floplin, reinforcing an entirely absurdical/tragical/hero-complexity ala Blach or Blaathoven, two other musical vamprics whose creations, on closer study, reveal rather more debt to predecessors and subzero, sub-arctic freezer burn than genrallly (sic) acknowledged. Porche and others of course were entirely passed over, a situation compounded by the fact that Porche recorded only one highly sought after Blue Pattie in the 30s (notwithstanding an amateur re-recording of said sides from 1954 and a couple of compilation tracks of questionable authenticity for the ZzzCountry label.) Porche was merely one hundred-twelve (or one hundred-eight and two-thirds if the alaclarity of Mr. Fict can be trusted!) years of age when his emergent rediscovery was cut short by a botched octuple bypass surgery at Chemekewa Hospital.
thanks for listening i really appreciate all your support its the bomb. its halloween and im stuffed with ramen and sushi hard to move hard to put on costume can i do it? lifes rough sometimes.
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hey gents, we all had a blast tonight. wish we could have more shows together but just do everyone a favor and have at least one more show. one of the best mill race shows paper boats has ever seen.
hey julian! just got back from Montana and I am very excited for this saturday. Thanks again for setting up everything. Me first sounds great, and 7 is good as well. when do you think I should show up? I will probably need two mics and will most likely have one acoustic guitar with a pickup. recommendations? Thanks again for everything!
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