![]() ![]() We just make our best guesses at it, like how many marbles are in a jar. ![]() The truth is the sort of thing we don’t ever know. Like all good portraits, it is subjective, capturing a truth, but not necessarily the whole truth. My job: to write a portrait of this person. It’s a vegetarian burger place, and it’s the kind of place that the Archies would have hung out at in an alternate universe where Archie wore a $200 T-shirt and listened to Fleetwood Mac ironically. I recently arranged to meet up with Clifford - see there’s that last name thing again - at Francis Burger Joint in northeast Minneapolis. And, yeah, actually that last one does kinda make sense. As was the dude from A Flock of Seagulls. So were George Clinton and Mahalia Jackson. If you look at some of rock's foundations they were all hairdressers: Chuck Berry was one. They are both about style, detail, technique, a heaping helping of illusion, and ever so much swagger. Hairdressing and rock ‘n’ roll might seem an odd cocktail - ‘til you taste it. A left-of-the-dial, solid-state survivor that not only drank the Kool-Aid, but got all the collectable glassware and kept the boxes mint. He’s a hairdresser by trade, a record store owner by accident of fate, and a superfan and an archivist by nature. If you are an active showgoer in the Twin Cities alt-rock world, chances are pretty good you already know who he is. ![]() To be fair, it was the ‘80s and we also found Gallagher hilarious – don’t judge.)Īnyhow, Jon Clifford is a last-name person. (Not to be confused with my bestie “Chris the Girl,” or CTG for short. For a brief period after that, I got the rare perk of a nickname “Chris the Guy” - or CTG for short. I came on the scene at 17 and very quickly got my badge while working at a place that was cool among other 17-year-olds with very large hair and very pointy shoes. I like to think of it as being the “high school letter” stage. So, “your name here” of “where you work, the band you're in, etc.” It's like being Joan of Arc minus the sainthood and hearing voices, and, on the upside, it very rarely involves being burned at the stake. ![]()
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