AllenLowe

peter piper pulled his pickle purposely and profusely

yes, maybe, I think, I understand. Perhaps.

sugar sugar yummy yummy yummy I have love in my tummy born free kill for peace downtown (my favorite songs)

squeaky fromm eva braun ma barker Madam Curie (women I have loved)

world peace summer of LOVE Rod McKuen the Cowsills (though one of them was a drug addict)

long walks on the beach whiskers on kittens breezy fall days.....

thank you for that supportive - I think - comment. but from now on I've decided I'm going to stay out of trouble by avoiding controversial subjects. So for my first nice post: PUPPIES so soft and warm

well, since I'm on my own ignore list it probably doesn't matter -

well, for one thing, the whole way he describes the first trip West, to Billy Berg's, is completely fabricated. Audience reaction was not anything like described.

I'm not surprised - the one time I met Howard McGhee he nearly went into a rage over the Bird book - kept saying, "I was there when this happened and it didn't happen that way." Everybody I knew who was associated with Bird - Curley, Haig, even Tommy Potter, as I recall, remarked that they never talked to Russell and that they regarded the book as fiction. It's really shameful.

all this aside, Chris, since I've never read any of his stuff - how is Driggs' research and writing?

it's all pretty subjective, and you're right, I'm diagnosing from quite a distance. and I realize it's hard to relate my own experiences to the larger picture of Monk - it's just that, having spent a lot of time with people with this condition, it's just one of those things - I just look at him moving around (as in the film Straight No Chaser) and I remember seeing him close up (a weird evening at Bradleys about 35 years ago) and it's just uncannily in certain of its parameters like my son and some of his friends -

geez, that sounds like countering a nasty comment with a strong reponse - the term 'wow' was a reference to Steve's own pretty nasty little comments. (though, you're right - I probably should not have inquired about his reading ability) - but you know, Beardsley, you have been peppering me with nast belittlers about ego-centricism on this and other threads. This whole thing was started by your basically objecting, in a nasty and sarcastic way, to the fact that that I even ventured a counter opinion to the prevailing attitude about Parker. But yes, this may indeed be a glass house situation for us all. at any rate, I have gone back and deleted a bunch of my posts in the interests of re-directing this to its original topic. I invite the moderators, if there are any, to delete any other of my posts that bother them, and I suggest we all do same. this is unbecoming and silly.

allright, show me where I shouted someone down or belittled them. C'mon guys, Coreymwamba entered by attacking me initially. I had merely expressed my opinion of Parker. God this is stupid.

I don't, but it reminds me of a joke: "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed - wait - he does!"

all right, you can have the last word

actually the truth is somewhat less cosmic - I wanted to delete that other thread, but could not, so figured best to leave it blank. I like to discuss this stuff, but apparently my opinions annoy some people. Which I can understand, as this topic is frought with musical politics, and as soon as I express reservations it likely brings forth images of the "anti-jazz" arguments of the 1960s, not to mention the usual mainstream objections. But I like to think that my opinions are a little better formed than that and based on more complex criteria.

my god what have I done? Blank posts, references to venereal disease - what destruction hath I wrought with which GOD will smote Organissimo for my sin? ye bezelbub, Jehova, and the 4 wise men - buildeth me an ark!

well, since I have a knack for annoying people I thought better of it - however, for a reasonable fee I will sell my log in info, and anyone here can post under my name. kinda like wife-swapping, without the venereal disease -

...from Chris Albertson... and refused to give them back -

or Sounds of Silence. would say more, but I have a gag order.

there's also a more recent book by Frank Driggs - I haven't read it, though.

I haven't read Russell's KC book but, based on his Charlie Parker bio, which was largely made up (Howard McGhee:"none of that stuff happened;" Curley Russell: "he made it up. I was there") I would go with Pearson's book, which is well organized. He also interviewed the right musicians.

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