"There had been abuse in my family, but it was
mostly musical in nature."
Terry Bohner (John Michael Higgins)
MARK: "I came to
a realization that I was, and am a blonde, female folk singer trapped in
the body of a bald , male folk singer, and I had to let me out or I would
die."
JERRY: "When you
put it that way, it's almost poetry."
ALAN: "Almost."
The Folksmen
"This flame, like all flames, represents the light
and the darkness. It also represents the uncertainty of life and it's delicacy.
It also represents a penis."
Terry Bohner (John Michael Higgins)
"In 1971, after the breakup of The Main Street
Singers, Chuck Wiseman moved up to San Francisco where he started a retail
business with his brothers Howard and Dell. The Three Wiseman's Sex Emporium.
It was very successful for a year until they were sued over something having
to do with a box of benwa balls."
David Kantor (Jim Ortlieb)
Mike LaFontaine: I worked some bills with a few Folkies, you know - "Put 'em in a cell with a long hose on him, put 'em in a cell with a long hose on him!" I used to say "If he's got a long enough hose, he's gonna have a lot of friends in the shower room." Folk audiences hated that joke.
Mitch Cohen: [while
eating dinner] What is it you do, Leonard? For work?
Leonard Crabbe: Oh,
for work. I'm in the bladder management industry. I sell catheters. I have
my own distribution company, Sure Flo Medical Appliances. You may have
heard of it. It's actually named in tribute after my mother, her name was
Florence. It's a growth industry, really, because one in three people over
60 either have a flaccid or a spastic bladder, so in a sense, every 13.5
seconds a new incontinent is born, as it were. People like you and I have
what they call "leakage problems." They can be running, playing tennis,
laughing, sneezing, anything. I mean, the good old constipation, you know.
You have impacted fecal mass in your rectum, you find that pushing on your
bladder...
Mickey Crabbe: You
know, this might make good dessert talk.
Amber Cole: Thank God for the model trains, you know? If they didn't have the model trains they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big trains.
Jonathan Steinbloom: [referring to his mother] You could say she was overly protective - I just like to think she cared about me, which she did, a lot. And I was a member of the chess team and whenever we would have chess tournaments I had to wear a protective helmet, I had to wear a football helmet. Now who knows what she was thinking? Maybe she thought that we might have fallen maybe and impaled our heads on a pointy bishop or something, I don't know.
Mark Shubb: To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
Mitch Cohen: You know, 35 years ago, preparing for a concert meant playing "find the cobra" with the hotel chambermaid.
Laurie Bohner: I learned to play the ukulele in one of my last films, "Not-So-Tiny Tim".
Terry Bohner: This
is not an occult science. This is not one of those crazy systems of divination
and astrology. That stuff's hooey, and you've got to have a screw loose
to go in for that sort of thing. Our beliefs are fairly commonplace and
simple to understand. Humankind is simply materialized color operating
on the 49th vibration. You would make that conclusion walking down the
street or going to the store.