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| Introduction by Mick Farren |
| More than a few times, the Deviants/Pink Fairies crew would liken themselves to The Wild Bunch, and, more than a few times, who could blame us? Life just seemed to have a habit of turning Sam Peckinpah. And who was the Ernest Borgnine character? Why, my friends, who else but David "The Boss" Goodman. Always the Englishman and maybe more Kipling than cowboy, he was the one who grinned insanely but knowingly, and then grabbed the Maxim gun and slaughtered a couple of hundred Mexicans. Boss was the foundation, the method in the collective madness, the one who kept his head when all about him were losing theirs. The Sergeant Major who knew so much more than the bloody silly officers. The one on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, in the midst of the teargas, having been drafted by the Who's roadies to beat off the waves of marauding teds. The one who could cook dinner for twenty people having first hijacked the food. The one, when manager of Dingwalls, who made sure everything went according to plan, and then lectured Bo Diddley on his Southern Comfort drinking problem. (Switch to vodka, man. It's less strain on the liver.) The Big Man who moved the stage at Phun City. The Superhippie who made sure we took our acid. Sure the Big Man has his demons, but he never made such a habit of parading them in public as the rest of us ballerinas. |
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| In The Boss Goodman Pages |
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| Dave "The Boss" Goodman bulletin board and photo gallery | Boss suffered a severe left-brain stroke on March 31 2006. He is currently recovering in hospital, but it is likely to be a long process. Steve Mann has set up a Boss Goodman bulletin board to follow Boss's recovery progress. He has also posted a Boss photo gallery. In addition to the website, Richard Adams and Steve Mann have also established a Boss Benefit Fund to help make his recovery a bit more comfortable, in the way of creature comforts and so on. Details of the fund can be found at "Quids In For Boss". |
| Harrowing Tales From The Hot And Happening NME September 13 1975, pp.44-45 |
At the time of this article Boss was DJ at Dingwalls in Camden, London, and relates some of the trials and tribulations of being a DJ. |
| The David Goodman Story IT 86, August 27-September 10, 1970 pp.7 & 10 |
Boss is given free reign to spill the beans on food, drugs, supermarket scams,The Deviants ill-fated US tour, more food and drugs, and the Altamont Festival. Sounds suspiciously like this narration was aided with the help of Messrs Smith, Kline and French, or maybe it was just a case of good ol' hashish induced munchies waffle! (Mick has indeed confirmed that Boss had to be plied with drugs to get the piece finished!) |
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The For Real Trentishoe Fayre IT, 159, 27 July-10 August 1973, p.19 |
Pink microdots by the handful, dope by the ton-ful, a 2 hour Pinkwind jam, Mick Farren and the Fairies open a pub and sell beer, and drink a lot too! It's all here in Boss Goodman's account of the Trentishoe Fayre from IT, 159, 1973. |
| The Frost Freakout | These pages chronicle the disruption of the David Frost show by US yippy Jerry Rubin, Mick Farren, Boss Goodman and other luminaries from the British underground. Includes an unpublished chapter called Frost and Benn, the Flowerpot Men from Give the Anarchist a Cigarette IT, 159, 1973. |
| Boss Tails | Read more tails from the Boss Fairy in excerpts from Boss's column originally printed in UHCK Deviants/Pink Fairies Fanzine. Now online |
Boss Goodman, Portobello Road, February 2002.