Recipe:
• 1 cups Beatles
• 2 cups Rolling Stones
• 2 cups Bob Dylan, sifted with Grateful Dead
• 1 cup Neil Young, diluted in a solution of Phish
• 1/2 cup finely chopped Meat Puppets
• Pinch of John Haitt flavored Bonnie Raitt
• Hint of Billy Bragg, the Gourds, and the Replacements
• Dusting of Pearl Jam
• Talking Heads to taste
Preheat amps to 350 degrees. Grease instruments with hippie jam love, then wipe clean with REM. With drums at high speed, mix in Billy Bragg, the Gourds, and the Replacements. Slowly beat in classic rock ingredients. Fold in Pearl Jam and Talking Heads. Top with Meat Puppets. Bake until ½ done. Serve hot.
Cursing the curse of the Bambino, Mister Fisk was the lucky rabbit’s foot that won the Red Sox the 2004 pennant. Yes, a rock band from Portland, Oregon did it. Mister Fisk is four friends that got together in October 2004 to rock the basement and run upstairs to catch the Red Sox just at the right time, to bless, not to jinx. Any wrong song played and a ball might roll through the first baseman’s legs, the series lost. But we played Phish, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and worked up an original with the lyrics “ride on my weathered dream.” Any Red Sox fan knows just how weathered dreams can get. So our chords were heard across the world or at least over Fenway Park’s green monster. That’s how curses are broken and World Series won.
