May 9, 2020
"GORBY" (audio mp3) is Loose Bruce
Kerr's original satire/parody from 1990 on the occasion of the
about-to-disintegrate Soviet Union's premier's visit to Stanford U
in California's Bay Area.
Bruce lived 8 mins away so it was only logical he drove there with his guitar & portable tape deck around his neck playing his pre-recorded background tracks, mounted CNN's 2 story scaffold where they were beaming via huge satelite dish live to Atlanta, and sang this song about Gorby, which was then nationally broadcast it at the end of the 8pm segment that evening.
On the 30th anniversary of the then-thawing relationship between the US the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Bruce wrote and recorded this song on his 4-track TEAC cassette deck, then sang and played it live at his gigs with the background tracks added behind him.
Loose Bruce Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to multitrack & guitar inventor, Les Paul, and now lives in northern California. After a 20 year music and performing career, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and having his songs played over 150 times on the Dr. Demento Show, Bruce resumed his law career he had earlier dropped and eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems. He then became a lawyer and deal manager/negotiator working at Oracle which acquired Sun in 2010. He is now happily retired and continues to write & record his originals and parodies, often videoing them in his garage studio.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
visit: loosebrucekerr.com (free download of videos & audio mp3's)
songs and videos also on youtube.com