Man Enough to Be a Woman by Jayne. County

Author:Jayne. County [County, Jayne.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788166539
Google: mGPFzQEACAAJ
Publisher: Serpent's Tail Limited
Published: 2021-05-20T23:28:24.238462+00:00

I was performing with my new band the Backstreet Boys about once or twice a fortnight. My tits were growing and I was getting more and more bizarre-looking, but we were getting really good reactions. I had a new song called ‘Toilet Love’ which I debuted at Max’s in 1976, which had lyrics like, ‘When I make it with you it gives me a rush/You stick your head down the toilet and I give it a flush’, just taking the piss out of what was going on in some of the heavier clubs in New York where people used to go to the bathroom on each other. For another song called ‘Flip Your Wig’, I came out dressed as one huge human wig. I’d got the frame from a big old lampshade, and sewn dozens of wigs all over it, like an igloo of wigs with a little opening for me to look out of. I looked like Cousin Itt from The Addams Family. I had another song which I’d written after seeing The Exorcist. That movie really upset me, and the night after I saw it I had a horrible dream that I was being raped by the devil. When I woke up in the morning I had scratch marks all over my back, and it really freaked me out; I was convinced I had been visited by an incubus. So I wrote a song called ‘I Got Fucked by the Devil Last Night (And He Sure Fucked the Hell Out of Me)’. When I performed that one I used to rip off my wig and fuck myself with a pitchfork. That always went down well.

In 1976, I recorded three tracks for a compilation album called Max’s Kansas City: New York New Wave. The Fast were on it, Suicide, Pere Ubu, Cherry Vanilla and a few other bands. I did ‘Cream in My Jeans’, ‘Flip Your Wig’ and ‘Max’s Kansas City’, which was released as a single. My first ever release! I played it every night at the club, and people loved it because they got a namecheck on it. Patti Smith was really thrilled; ‘Wow, that’s the first time I’ve been mentioned in a song!’ Lou Reed loved it too, which was nice, particularly as we’d nicked the riff from his song ‘Sweet Jane’. John Peel picked up on the single in England and played it on Radio 1, and a real buzz started to develop around Max’s and the whole idea of this new wave of bands in New York. There was a week or so of gigs billed as the Max’s Kansas City Rock & Roll Festival, which was a way of consolidating the scene, and it featured Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys, Blondie, Talking Heads, Mink DeVille, Tuff Darts, Suicide – all these incredible bands.

A short while after the single was released, I started doing a Patti Smith imitation in my show. The first night I did it, nobody could believe that Wayne County was going to take the piss out of Patti Smith.

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