This is exactly what he did. I remember him being very upset at a stage crew for moving his drums between sound check and showtime. He had to feel the floor.
One needs to remember the "marketplace/workplace" was the nightclub in 1963. Without the draw of a Miles or Coltrane, they clung to the earlier groups.
Where the music was moving was a very different place from where the money was.
why didn't you just beat her up while she was alive?! what hautiness! and this on the day this troubled woman has been put in the ground. and you're the one who's cold, Chuck!
Please tell me what post makes me "cold". What did I say? "Hautiness!"? get real.
This woman lived her life, made her choices. This was done in public with rewards from the public. She received a bunch of rewards. The public has a right to react.