AllenLowe

well, she claims it was an accident -

sorry, left something out: 5) Rachel murdered Steve Allen

"Along Comes Mary" ?

"Hey Joe(seph)"

"Like a Virgin" ?

thanks for the reminder - will watch tonight - I love Foyle's War -

also, the A&P Gypsies -

ah, Pink Anderson was a sellout -

it's yours -

been away, eh? well, to save you time, I'll sum things up: 1) Benson sold out 2) Benson made a lot of money 3) Steven Allen didn't like George Benson 4) Benson and Leni Riefenstahl once went on a date, but things didn't work out, as she thought he was Jewish -

Motorola -

too much Republican gear - everybody knows that Hollywood movies are all made by liberals - gotta plug that little doo-hickey into something more moderate, increase the sound levels liberally, and put all the screens and speakers to your left - and everything will be just fine -

by the way, Al Gaffa worked a lot with Al Haig in the 1970s - great player, and ALWAYS used to complain about Ray Brown, interestingly enough - said he hogged the harmony and the rhythm, drove the rest of the rhythm section crazy because didn't leave any space -

don't know if anybody mentioned the Duke Ellington small group session (can't remember the title) - best thing is a Duke blues in which the melody starts on a major 7th -

hope it's not one of those joints that Slappy White used to talk about - where every hour or so "they took an intermission to pull out the dead and wounded."

I don't know - the shiksas will love it -

hey, Steverino was kosher, to paraphrase Lenny Bruce - as for that blues gig, Texas-style - first, make sure they bill me as: "Blue Boy Jew Boy: the New Boy ain't No Goy" I'll take Saturday, but maybe, just to be safe, we'll just do a sound check and then go home -

now that's blues: http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapb..._your_Uncle.mp3

allright, rising to the challenge - go here for some blues of mine - http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapb..._your_Uncle.mp3

though I was never sure if he meant James Brown the singer, or Jimmy Brown the football player -

and don't forget the famous Downbeat Blindfold Test, in which Mingus thought I was James Brown -

because I'm so funked up -

1) Pacific Ocean Blue -Dennis Wilson yes, the reissue of the Dennis Wilson LP, and yes, I know, I should have listened to wiser heads here who warned it wasn't very good - ok in spots, but not worth the $23 I paid for it - HOWEVER, it is 2 cds, and you don't know any better, so I'll sell it to you, in MINT shape, for $16 shipped media 2) Ornette Coleman: Town Hall 1962: ESP: STILL SEALED one of the new ESP reissues with great sound - somehow I ended up with 2 copies of this; it is still sealed so what a deal - $11 shipped media prefer paypal - my paypal address is alowe5@maine.rr.com (email me at same)

well, I find Benson as funky as a girl scout troop in Greenwhich, Connecticut - problem is, I'm a more funky guitarist than he is, so if I wanna hear it second hand, I just put on my own CD -

well, maybe I overstated my point; in that case, apologies to Leni Riefenstahl - all seriousness aside (as Steve Allen ALSO used to say) I was just responding to the insertion of Triumph of the Will into the argument (actually over-rated, I've always thought, though it uses some fascinating cinematic techniques); truth is, I just get tired of the Benson rationale, sounds too much like Kenny G; as Mad Magazine might have said in its Truth in Advertising feature (wherein people actually told the complete truth), why doesn't he just get up and say: "Look, motherfuckers, I was tired of starving my ass off, and you morons don't come to clubs or buy enough records to buy me a piece of used dog shit; so leave me the fuck alone if I choose to make a living playing crap, it's my crap and if I wanna play crap than I'm gonna play crap, if you don't like it kiss my solid-state rectum."