AllenLowe

nice amp, but play a real Tweed Bassman circuit and it will knock you over - all those older Fender higher powered tweed amps are similar - the Pro, Tweed Twin - and until I played a Victoria Bassman I had no idea what people like Buddy Guy were talking about - wow - perfect mids, enough head room, sweet sustain. Add a few RCA or GE 6L6s and you got heaven. I have a 5C3 which sounds similar with a high powered Weber - and the 5E3 can almost get you there if you reduce the bass on it and use a 5R4 in as the rectifier - Problems is that that those Tweed Bassman (even the replicas) are too damned expensive.

James Reese Europe. Zez Confrey. Kid Ory Sunshine recordings. A little Bert Williams. Cliff Edwards. The Astoria group. Jelly Roll's 1923 solo recording.

just to show what good taste I have, both Jeri Southern and Annie Ross are on my blues anthology - Ross singing Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' ('56) and Southern singing a terrible sexist blues that is nonetheless a blues. She still sings it great. (Didn't Miles D. have an affair with Southern?)

that's sad; nice guy.

I hated the Doors(most boring group I ever saw) but actually thought Morrison was a decent writer - as for singers, I'm sponsoring a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw scat -

I, too, hate singers, based on a little bit of personal experience. As Al Haig said, "they all want to be actresses" (though he always named Helen Merrill as an exception to this rule).

he actually was a decent clarinet player, a la Artie Shaw - heard him on a record once.

you think that's funny? Everybody knows Paps only has one leg and no arms - and hasn't left his house since the accident in '78.

Somewhere, overweight people, Just like me, Must have someplace where folks don't count every calorie. Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol. -Allan Sherman

"They need the music (which is how they were meant to be presented)" I didn't know that.....

Tom: actually, I think it's: "my heart's in a head-lock I'd even wear dreadlocks"

well, I think it depends whether you prefer the thin Yo Yo or the fat Yo Yo.

The Blind Girl From Ipanema "but each day when she walks to the sea... she smacks right into a tree....." The Loose Girl From Ipanema "tall and tan and 6 months pregnant..." (she must have run into Stan Getz)

"hello hello you got pretty hair wouldn't you like some of my tangerines? I know I'll never treat you mean." am I wrong, or is that not a Sopwith Camel song?

actually it was amended by Mrs. T. Woods to: "keep your metal golf clubs up high."

didn't he also write the lyric to Stardust? Stairway to the Stars? and maybe some things with Frank Signorelli.

some of the worst crap from Dylan: (Visions of Johanna): "Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind" an opposite loft? give me a break. Though that's the least of the problems here.

"Each day as she walks to the ocean She looks straight ahead, not at Allen. " or "each day as she walks to the ocean - she applies lots of sun tan lotion"

yes - Bobby Fuller. Important guy. Do you know John Hunter's work? (Black guitarist who made his living on the Tex-Mex border, early1960s-played very rock-oriented material. Another Norton reissue.)

I was wondering if the Riverside was yours, Chris. I used to have the LP but can't find it.

a little Lou Reed: Remember when, we were younger when You would wait for me at school Teacher's friends and brazen sins And I was often cruel But you always believed in me You thought I was the best And now that I got you alone Let me get this off my chest Pick a melody Then count from one to ten I make a rhyme up Then we will try again To laugh or cry or give a sigh To past that might have been And how much I really love my baby sister AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there are just some times (to answer Bruce) when a line is just so clunky and awkward that it screams "rhyme." That's why I particularly dislike "my heart beat like a hammer." Another that bothers me is "I'm like an oven crying for heat." I never heard an oven cry. of course, the most obnoxious purveyor of words that tear and strain to rhyme was Dylan, who wrote too fast, convinced as he was that, as a genius, no matter what he did was a work of genius. Same problem with Lou Reed (and he may be the most embarrassing example of a good artist gone bad).

I also think the early Big Brother and the Holding Company was, when not high, one of the greatest rock bands ever - harmonically, with guitar solos that Hendrix never matched -

rather than strictly San Francisco you should look at the entire West Coast scene - think Randy Holden; the Wailers and the Kingsmen (Pacific Northwest) and the early surf bands like PJ and theGalaxies (from South Beach). This is important because that era (1962-1964) is usually ignored - we hear, Brill Building Sound - and than the Beatles - but these groups (also, Thee Midnighters) are starting to re-work the whole combo idea into a white-soul sound (though Thee Midnighters were Latino) - also, Link Wray - Dick Dale - it's a much more interesting time than most rock histories indicate.

how about "she looks straight ahead at a tree." or "she looks straight ahead, there in Phill-y" (Gilberto currently lives in that city)