I was just listening to a little snip from Anthony Bourdain and it was talking about how people in Europe enjoy their food and he was telling Americal to take time off and enjoy a ham sandwich and I mean REALLY ENJOY A HAM SANDWICH
and it brought me back to a good old memory of sometime around the summer/autumn of 1975 ???
Bobby Fischer World Champion 1972–1975
Café En Passant
Incorporation Date 1973-09-07
Dissolution Date 1984-08-10
Address 3619 St. Denis St
Montreal
QC
I was spending a lot of time back then at a little café called appropriately En Passant
I was 17 years old, 6 months after my Dec 27th. 1973 show at the Montreal Forum: the Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Baby Tour with ZZ Top as an opening act with their brand new La Grange.
They had a very bohemian atmosphere at the café (it became a place called La Bohème later) and the oddest Jukebox ever with Mozart's 40th Symphonie and a lot of quiet French folksingers. I remember once playing Serge Lama's Je Suis Malada once too many and one of the customers spat the dummy and had a screaming fit basically screaming I am sick of a song that is called I am sick, I can't take it anymore lol Also when I could afford it I would order one of their famous Paté de Campagne which came in a huge basket loaded with scrumptious things. I was never a good enough chess player to match that crowd of ruffians but I really enjoyed the place and especially the HAVEN it provided me away from rain or harsh weather and from the hellish constant atmosphere of fear I had at home.
Anyway those were the good days kind of prolly just before my drug years. I do remember being off drugs temporarily at the Alice Cooper concert: the only straight and sober in a 20,000 crowd.
But dem sandwiches were MEMORABLE.
From time immemorial, mind you these days time immemorial could have been 10 minutes ago :P
VOILA FOR NOW
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