{"id":1706,"date":"2008-11-20T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2024-02-01T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:15:56","slug":"long-live-the-memory-of-zenon-pavlovych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Long live the memory of Zenon Pavlovych"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Zenon<\/a>

Zenon Pavlovych aka "King Farouk"<\/p><\/div>\n

Long overdue! I asked Victor Tabinski who should write about Zenon, he referred me to Andy Tratch of the Urban Squirrels. Thanks, Victor! <\/em><\/h6>\n

Don’t know what to say about Zenon – how can one describe the man…<\/p>\n

I knew him as a kid [we met being in Ukrainian Boy Scouts together back in ’68] but had drifted apart by high school until I ran into him –\u00a0 waiting in line to get into the Devo show [1st tour] at the Triangle Theater.<\/p>\n

We caught upon things, compared musical tastes & next thing ya know we got our first apartment together on Wisconsin & Main St in the City…<\/p>\n

The rest is history: we spent many years together rockin’ & rollin’, abusing ourselves, listening to great music, going to great shows, hanging out at great bars [Scorgie’s included] with great friends, working with the Chesterfield Kings all over the country, being ski bums in Vermont, and just enjoying life at it’s best…<\/p>\n

Zenon was my brother that I never had, could be the biggest asshole in the world, was always was willing to let you buy him a drink, would steal your drugs when you weren’t looking, and could be hell to live with\/be around…but would give you the shirt off his back & loved you to death…<\/p>\n

I can [barely] remember helping each other many a time up\/down the spiral staircase by the bathrooms at Scorgie’s…We used to ride to all the bars to catch shows on my Kawasaki KZ400 [with Zenon wearing his brain-bucket helmet & clutching his beer]…I can even remember when Zenon had a stint DJing on Monday nights at the Penny Arcade [go figure]…<\/p>\n

But most of all I remember Zenon’s “Lust for Life” [yes, just like the Iggy song]\u00a0 and the fact that music was such a huge part of his life: I still have his albums & listen to them [even though they’re way scratched because we were always out of sorts when we played them back then]…<\/p>\n

We lost Zenon on the 4th of July weekend over 20 years ago –\u00a0 fittingly he had gone down to NYC to visit friends & to see The Butthole Surfers: he never came back…<\/p>\n

What a waste…what an asshole..what a Zenon move…<\/p>\n

Long live the memory of Zenon Pavlovych: The Great High and Mighty Most Exalted Grand Mystical King Farouk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long overdue! I asked Victor Tabinski who should write about Zenon, he referred me to Andy Tratch of the Urban Squirrels. Thanks, Victor! Don’t know what to say about Zenon – how can one describe the man… I knew him as a kid [we met being in Ukrainian Boy Scouts together back in ’68] but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[40,112,225,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}