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FAMILY TALES
Lolita: Hey, Thanksgiving is coming up. Rita:
Yeah, I wonder if Dad will show up for dinner. Lolita: Well, my mother invited him. Rita:
Then you know my mom won’t show. Lolita: If you can figure out how Rita and I are
related, you can win a banner on thenoise-boston.com and thenoiseboard.com.
The first correct answer to reach T Max (
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
) wins the
banner for a week. Now, let’s find out something about other
people’s families. Rita: Hey Rick, tell me something about your family. RICK BERLIN
(himself): My sisters
fried up a can of Alpo and told Dad it was corned beef hash. Plopped
some over easy eggs on top—a morning hangover breakfast surprise.
Dad loved it. Ate the whole thing. Best he’d ever had. Never told
him. *** IAN ADAMS (solo): I am 13th generation American Adams.
My 11th great grandfather was the Patriot Samuel Adams. John Adams,
the second President, was 11th great grand uncle. My great great grandfather
Alvin B. Adams died at Andersonville Prison in the Civil War, at which
time his brother Franklyn married his Narragansett Indian wife Lydia,
who canoed up from Rhode Island through the Hockamok Swamp. My son is
named after his great great Grandfather Zepherin, who was one of Teddy
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. *** JOHN
POWHIDA (…International Airport/
the Rudds): Well, this year my brother is not speaking with my mother
or my grandfather so I’ll hang with all of them at different times
there in Albany, NY.
*** ANDERSON MAR (Dark Sky Productions/Paul Green School of
Rock): My biological family (staunch business people with no inclination
toward the arts whatsoever) is still waiting for me to give up playing
rock star and go to law school; hence I consider the Industry my true
family nowadays. *** ERIC
WELSH (ChillHouse Studios):
During Thanksgiving my family pulls out the shotguns, crossbows, and
rifles and we start shooting wildlife that is overpopulated—mostly
deer because it’s deer season. We eat what we kill, otherwise
I wouldn’t take part and I personally refuse to shoot anything that
I will not eat. *** JIM
GERDEMAN (Mercy James): I have
no relatives living within 800 miles of here. But Thanksgiving still
has a real family vibe to it thanks to my great wife and kids. Usually
bake a pie. Maybe even jam a little with the kids (debut album coming
2014). And then it’s all about not electrocuting myself on aged Christmas
lights. Definitely better than my first holidays in town eating Chinese
food alone and freezing my ass off. *** CRAZY
EDDIE NOWIK (Bentmen): When
I was at Revere High School my dad and I would wake up every Thanksgiving
morning, head down to the local bar, and get trashed before the high
school football game. We would lose big time! Then over to eat the Thanksgiving
Day meal! Then fall asleep during the Detroit Lions game! EVERY YEAR!
Ahh... the magic of triptafen. *** NICOLE
TAMMARO (Nicole Tammaro Photography): The Tammaro-DiPietro family
has been a fixture in the cities of Somerville and Cambridge for over
60 years. My father was an altar boy at St. Joe’s in Somerville doing
Masses back when they were in Latin. My mom grew up in East Cambridge,
attending Ringe & Latin back when the school was separated—boys
in one school, girls in the other. I grew up in Somerville with my two
brothers and one sister, when Somerville was a blue color town and when
you went over your friends houses after school, most of their parents
didn’t speak English, or had an Irish brogue—these are the early
years. I will wait for another Noise question for more Tammaro
stories. Lolita: I wonder if Nicole will release
a book of stories on her family. Rita: It would be a good companion
to her Abbey
Lounge 2006-2008 book
of photographs.
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Rita & Lolita 
