..wow....haven't thought about the Cellar Door for a long time.....i remember seeing Miles Davis there about 15 or more years before you came around, PS........1969 maybe......what a place...what a performer.....so intense...wandering in and out ... by whatever moved him ... with endless jazz from other players.....
...think i saw Dizzy Gillespie there, too.....more lighthearted, easy goin kinda guy....

Miles and Diz, that is seeing a coupla light weights! I never saw either of them. I spent an afternoon in a workshop with Max Roach once. (This drummer is no joke!) He was playing four different time signatures (one per limb) and explaining what he was doing in a lecture at the time (got to be a world record, maybe that Blakey guy, but I don’t know). I always loved those Parker Diz Roach recordings from the ‘40’s. I think the band Miles had in ’69 (or so) spawned the greatest number of successful solo jazz artist of any band in history. Actually jazz, per say, wasn’t a music I was that aware of then. My initial exposure to the Miles band was through, John Harford, the weird bluegrass guy on Glen Campbell. I wore out two copies of Morning Bugle with John, Norman Blake, and Dave Holland (Miles’ bass player). Then came that Norman, Dave, Jethro Burns, Vasser Clements, Sam Bush Tut Taylor thing in ’72 or so with Sauer Kraut and Solar Energy. Man that was cool. Amazingly Vasser, John H, and Dave H won a Grammy with Charlie McCoy (from Area Code 615) in like 1985 or so. Anyway, I was reading the liner notes to that ’72 thing and discovered that Dave Holland was a jazz guy and bought Conference for the Birds with Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul. Well, before you know it I was listenin’ to Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane and Art Ensemble of Chicago. Then I was on that slippery slope of music as an addiction. One vice that still lingers. But to throw out a couple of great recordings for thought and hopefully comment: Memphis Underground (ca1967)by Herbie Mann with Sonny Sharrock and Larry Coryell on Guitars (or Sonny and Larry on anything, Sonny is wild), Buddy Emmons and Lenny Breau on a Flying Fish Release called Minors Aloud (ca 1976, incredible version of Compared to What), a really hard one to find by Sam Butler called Rid Joint with Kenny Burrell, Mickey Baker and King Curtis (NYC late 50’s session players with free time in a studio, gotta love it). Of the newer generation John Zorn (first heard his horns of dilemma on a Violent Femmes recording in the ‘80s called I Dig Black Girls (Oh so much more than white girls) but his Ennio Moriconne Tribute is by far the best (sorry Yo Yo), Hank Roberts (Incredible, often plays with Bill Frisell (not bad himself) and Henry Kaiser (from the same family that brought you Liberty Ships and Aluminum Foil). Oh Well, spacin again. But I liked that Kaiser / David Lindley thing on Madagascar music (that was a gas). It is time to end, so, my favorite relatively unknown artist from the original jazz age was Frank Trumbauer and his C Melody Saxophone.

"Memphis Underground"! Wow! I remember that...sort of! I was in the work-study program, working in the Learning Resource Center (Audio/Visual Library, really). We made mono cassette copies of it and would put one each into the portable cassette decks, hold one to each side of the head and use the fast forward buttons to syncronize them to listen to it "flanged". Okay, so I'm weird! Blame it on my friend Herb!

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well the river runs wide
runs deep it runs muddy
river runs long after I am gone
with steem boat wheelin' on a big wide bend
just a long hair skippin in the mississipi dew

Only one thing I did wrong
Stayed in Mississippi a day too long !!

Darn river or State -WHATEVER - send DELAY back there!! D or A !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

da-da-da thats all folks,
Love & Peace,
Elmer Fudd

Here's a website of a fellow who lives in my neck of the woods (literally!).
http://www.disconecds.com

He used to have a CD store in Southwick, MA and had some of the most obscure CD's imaginable. He wound up closing it for some reason. Maybe the overhead? Well, he still sells on line. Mostly oldies. He DJ's an oldies show on WWUH, The University of Hartford's (CT) station, as well. Check it out. You might find something you never thought you would.

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Here's what I've been listening to this week while doing other stuff---

Pulled out Papa John Phillips' Pay Pack and Follow, the long-lost album produced by Mick & Keith, that was released in 2001. It's more like a mid-70's Stones album than one by the Mamas and the Papas. Papa John was quite a talented one. I reread the liner notes & credits & noted that both Mick Taylor & Ron Wood play on this one, making it kinda like stumbling upon the one 3 Stooges short that featured both Curly & Shemp.

Here's another wacky one from my collection that is an absolute treasure, but that few people own: Who left a 1960's rock group & recorded a solo album produced by the guy who replaced him in the group & which included a song in said group's first album without him?

The answers: The artist in question is Zal Yanovsky, the album is Alive and Well in Argentina, the group he left was the Lovin' Spoonful, the producer was Jerry Yester, & the song was "Priscilla Millionaira."

THe Grammy's were a week ago but a few thoughts

It was good to see Mavis Staples but the Gospel portion was, well OK. I think they could have used some of the Sacred Steel movement since Robert Randolph has made such a splash (I particularly liked the Dirty Dzen Brass band recordings with Dr John).

The southern rock sequence lacked a bit of luster as well. I felt sorry for Elvin Bishop and Dickey Betts more than anything.

But the high light of the night (and the reason I bring it up at all here) was Loretta Lynn. A true American Treasure and a damn fine recording that Van Lear Rose. It is a shame it doesn't get more airplay on the country stations (it is tough being an old woman singer I suppose, that Gaylord family don't like it). Luv ya Loretta!

Made me pull some old Levon Helm solo recordings for this weekend (he was great in coal miners daughter). That guy show knows how to boogie!

and as for Papa John

Early in the morning she hitched a ride down to Louisville
Holdin on to $100 dollar bill
Dressed herself like a cajun queen down New Orleans Baby
Ya she looked good like a lady

Do it to me James!

I was happy to see that Steve Earl won for best contemporary folk with his anti-Bush CD, "The Revolution Starts...Now". Every once in awhile there's a little flicker of light in the darkness (and I'm not just talkin' about the Grammy Awards, folks!).

I noticed that he won at the bottom of the screen in the scrolling words there, I guess that was enough prime time for such things. Wouldn't it have been lovely to have a live Steve Earle performance from the revolution.

Not gonna happen, wouldn't be prudent

I read through this and thought of two songs from an album from 71 to 72

The first rap song I ever heard which I believe was dedicated to Edwin Meese

Anyone recall

No knock on my brothers head
No Knock on my sisters head

and from the same album

The revolution will not be televised

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Sorry, it was John Mitchell who was the architect of the no knock law and it was to be slipped into his suggestion box.

Nobody remembers the great failed revoulton (in the air as Dylan said) of the late 60's early 70's. When midnight movies were political events, at least in my neighborhood (anyone remember Putney Swope, Harold and MAude, Joe, 200 Motels, Alices Restaraunt, Vanishing Point and the political rallies that went with them). Of course there was the rock and roll movies (Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Woodstock and that bizarre Psychedelic Western Zacahariah that the only thing I can recall now is Country Joe floating down a river singing "All it takes to have a good time is a reefer a woman and a bottle of wine." THen by summer of '73 all the activism was gone and I realized it was just a bunch of people hanging out and getting stoned and the whole revolution disintegrated into a truly unorganized stone fest which I didn't begin to crawl out of until around '76. Looking back I find it amazing how well organized the politically conservative elements in America were and how they took advantage of the situation following that so called "social revolution" that supposedly happened between '65 and '74. By '76 rock and roll was as much a conservative vehicle as anything (I remember a young preacher want to be who could do a strong conservative christian rap around the album Aqualung, bizarre). THe '76 election was just bizarre. Hell it was during that campaign that the Ronald began his campaign of '80 and he began appearing in venues nearby every year to packed houses (he had a record crowd in the Loyd Noble arena at OU in '77). I remember the migrant workers from the depression of '81 traveling into Oklahoma from Michigan and it didn't affect the Ronald at all. People cheering Ollie North. Again Bizarre. THe Clinton years were just a political waste that did nothing to affect the conservative strangle hold on America. And then Bush 2 makes a horrible mess in the Middle East and gets reelected because of his strong "leadership" skills. Then I see this Kennedy preacher this morning asking for funds to insure we get the right moral fiber on the Supreme Court to insure good christian values in government for the future!

Conservative America is too well organized, so again, The Revolution Will Not be Televised

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Yep! And so were the British. George, TJ, Ben, John Hancock and the boys must not have been watchin' CNN or Fox News and so missed that bit of info. And so was the KKK. Guess nobody told MLK Jr. & Company. And so were LBJ & Nixon. Guess Abbie and the rest of the Chicago kids and all of the other "revolutionaries" weren't payin' attention. Kids those days!

So whatchew gonna do? Take a stand or hide yer head in the sand? If just posting on this site gets us on "The List", we may as well do something so all of that government surveillance and data acquisition and processing don't go to waste!

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Just to revive a topic, I had my first succesful bid on Ebay last week. I won Running Down The Road, £3. The only Arlo album I hadn't got. All in all I really enjoyed it, but the thing that struck me was the Photo on the front of the sleeve, the fucia coloured shirt Arlo is wearing, I had one exactly the same! only I sent mine to the charity shop because it was a pain to Iron.

Does that make me old fashioned, retro, well dressed, overdressed, or just clothed?

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