Not a lot of hidden meaning to this song. I first heard in the late 1980s on the, probably on Boston's WFNX (that's FM radio for the young folks out there) and I recall it being referred to as a true story. As the story goes, Ron Klaus was the bass player for The Embarrassment, a Wichita, Kansas band formed in 1979, which also featured Bill Goffrier, who later co-founded Big Dipper in Boston after moving there in the early 1980s. As the legends goes, Ron's landlord in Lawrence, Kansas, gave him a month to get out because the building was going to be demolished. So he did what many of us only dream of - he had a party with a 1,000 lucky friends and wrecked the place. Some Googling gets you that story. What I have never seen is the other half, whether in fact the landlord lied (as the song says) just to get Ron out of the place. Ooops.
Not a lot of hidden meaning to this song. I first heard in the late 1980s on the, probably on Boston's WFNX (that's FM radio for the young folks out there) and I recall it being referred to as a true story. As the story goes, Ron Klaus was the bass player for The Embarrassment, a Wichita, Kansas band formed in 1979, which also featured Bill Goffrier, who later co-founded Big Dipper in Boston after moving there in the early 1980s. As the legends goes, Ron's landlord in Lawrence, Kansas, gave him a month to get out because the building was going to be demolished. So he did what many of us only dream of - he had a party with a 1,000 lucky friends and wrecked the place. Some Googling gets you that story. What I have never seen is the other half, whether in fact the landlord lied (as the song says) just to get Ron out of the place. Ooops.