Flip of the Pencil Holders has discovered a lost chord. It takes four fingers from two different hands to play. He has to strum it with his nose. It’s one of just three chords in his new song “Perambulator,” and it’s by far the best.
“They stole my song,” Flip says of, well, everybody. He claims that just about everybody with a guitar or keyboard has purloined one of his original tunes somehow. The counterargument usually goes like this: “They’re not that original.” So Flip set out to create a number that was all his, contorting his hands into knots as only he could. (He’s double-jointed.)
When Flip debuted “Perambulator” at the Bullfinch on Thursday, someone near the stage had the temerity to mutter “I wish I could do that.”
“Well, you CAN’T!,” Flip flipped out.

Tonight: Beulah & Buford at the Bullfinch. No, guess who really… Fastedge at Hamilton’s; cars & girls, cars & girls… Seven a cappella vocal groups at D’ollaires, some sort of college competition to be filmed for television…