Saturday, August 23, 2008

ONE TWO SURFS UP! Chuckles is a party animal!

Back in 1987 a new lounge act took the world by storm, his soothing vocals, steel guitar and cheap Hawaiian shirts stunned the audiences of Maxies Tiki Bar of Fort Collins Colorado (Don't look for it, it's not there no more) every Tuesday night from 8pm to 10pm. His blazing covers of Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" and "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard" his powerful steel guitar six string fury would propel crowds into fits of passing interest.



"Hey all you classy ladies in the crowd tonight, this next one is where I want to take ya, it's an old Roky Erikson tune called Bermuda and it goes like a one-two-a-shinin'-my-shoe..."


Well accually it turned out Chuckles was an undercover CIA agent who was trying to infiltrate the dangerous underground of illegal lounge singing, it was his expert skills on this mission, and that he was responsible for the capture of up to forty Jimmy Buffet cover bands that got him a spot on the GI Joe team. His first mission was awkwardly bumping into Dial Tone at a buffet line at a party, wearing his signature Hawaiian shirt, he successfully made Dial Tone drop the tongs for the ribs onto the floor, exposing him as a real numbskull! In the after action report, squad leader Duke said: "Aahaha oh man dude you totally made fagstache over there drop that shit lets go play some fucking volleyball!". Duke then sent Chuckles on such dangerous operations like posing as a Hawaiian Traffic Cone and blocking that one spot so he could totally park near the door of the PIT so he can be "THE FUCK OUTTA DODGE RACECAR!" by 4:45 on a Friday afternoon. After a few years of inactivity, Chuckles left the Joe team after a dispute over whether or not Hawaiian shirts we're en-vogue or not. He then developed a nasty cocaine addiction and hit rock bottom when he crashed his I-ROC Z128 into a telephone pole in Tampa Florida in 1992.

He slowly worked his way back into the music scene playing slide guitar for a Lounge adaptation of Cheap Trick called "Surrender: The music of Cheap Trick played in a Lounge". After a few months bustin' out solos on the Party Deck of "Deitrichs On The Sands" he was asked to rejoin a new subteam of GI Joe called Tactical Weapons Aerial Training, otherwise known as "T.W.A.T". This team was started by Duke so he could go around GI Joe HQ using the word twat without worrying about suffering the same sensitivity training as Crankcase did for his racially charged comment. Chuckles and the other T.W.A.T's (Dialtone, Blowtorch, Tollbooth and ROBO-Joe) first mission was stealing the Jutebox from a Bar owned by The Headman so it could have a voice recording bug placed into it, the mission was successful, but the Jutebox was never returned because Duke kept putting quarters into it so he could play "Thunder Road" repeatably, around this time The GI. Joe team disbanded and Duke entered rehab and Chuckles went back to the Village Green and continues to wait for the day when Hawaiian shirts will one day be cool again.

Man, what the fuck.

4 comments:

less than zero said...

You left out the most important mission of Chuckles' career -- arsonning a Cobra-controlled night club in Rhode Island during a Great White concert.

dv said...

did you know that chuckles and crankcase both joined John Cougar Mellencamp's 'Pink House Band,' the house band at his 'Pink House Lounge' Tiki hut?

Crankcase cannot play an instrument, so he was assigned to play the steel guitar. Chuckles played The Coug's Rusty Trombone.

Barbecue, fronting a reunited version of the classic rock supergroup Boston (there were no original members, just Barbecue, Shipwreck's parrot, John Paul Jones and a karaoke machine with 'Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Superhits' in it) burned the tiki lounge to the ground.

Ain't that America somethin' to see?

Anonymous said...

I assumed that Chuckles was just Duke's gay resort alias.

Stuart said...

Duke ain't a beauty, but he's alright.