AllenLowe

I apologize for apologizing - you guys had it coming -

I wonder if it's related to his memoirs, as I heard he was writing them -

I posted this a while back; it's my latter day Jewish minstrel song - from my last CD: In the Old Stetl (Where I was Born) Down where the Cossacks scream Shiksas bathing in the village stream oy, life is just a Jew-boy’s dream in the old stetl where I was born children playing in the Russian air the moil smiles because business is good everywhere trying to circumcise that old grey mare, in the old stetl where I was born Taxman comes, I smile and say “what do you have for me today?” He says, “Every Jew is gonna have to pay and pay” I just laugh and dance away… So I go home and count my money Cash is the Jew’s milk and honey Smiling gold teeth, for life is sunny In the old stetl where I was born Here some news, a Bolshevik war? Hey, that’s what the goyim are for. I’m stayin’ here to read my book in Bialystock, by the babbling brook - Shabbas dovening, the cantor sighs, Shiksa sweethearts with milky white thighs The czar decrees, another Jew dies In the old stelt where I was born Still, you won’t find a single complaint Is you is, or mamala, or is you ain’t? Nobody's perfect and no Jew’s a saint in the old stetl where I was born

a tribute to Phil Schaap?

"I'm playing the real shit and everybody else is jivin' " actually, when it comes to Maine, I pretty much feel this way about myself - (there's a few others, yes, like our own Tom Keith) - isolation is a problem - add age as an issue and you'll be ready to explode - that's why I feel musicians should organize, and I'm currently working on something with someone else on this board which addresses not only the need to take control but also the occasional power of the internet - hate the way everyone else is doing it? Than do it yourself - like a lot of other people I've been burned more than once (and currently am on an informal blacklist in Portland Maine due to public complaints about arts-group corruption) - I even decided to make a film about it - of course this is not the solution to everyone's problem, but self-empowerment makes a BIG difference (why do I suddenly feel like L. Ron Hubbard?).

they also, as I recall, funded a lot of socially "progressive" things in the African AMerican community; interesting relationship-

"I feel, that the singers/musicians/audiences really did take control of the message but they were soon stamped out by the industry and only those who accepted the lesser role got a look in." a lot of truth to this - sadly inevitable, but just part of the way the industry works - still, does not de-legitamize the original impulse behind the work -

next headline: ISRAELI LOBBY URGES RESTRICTIONS ON GEFILTE FISH

strangely enough, apparently there are demographics that tobacco companies use that indicate that African Americans prefer menthol cigarettes - and of course the tobacco companies target African American communities for financial support (Phillip Morris used to do a ton of cultural stuff) -

for example, though I've cut back here due to popular demand, I love Hitler jokes -

and by the way, the Producers is probably the funniest movie ever made - once again, it involves the oppressed group taking control of the message -

"Which is also true of prewar Germany and anti-semitic cabaret (etc.) material, but does that legitimize it?" you're completely missing the point - it's much different when the group itself is doing the performing - to use a tired cliche, there's the whole idea of signifying, but beyond that it involves taking control of the message - unless you are equating rappers with the Aryan nation -

you need to listen to it before you judge it - it's very interesting stuff, IMHO -

and true - though Danko told me he wasn't much of a student and that he had an inflated sense of his own musicianship -

hey, my new teeth last year cost $3000 and my insurance only covered half - to paraphrase Steve Allen: "Hey, are those your teeth?" "Just as soon as I make the final payment."

personally I love it - put my own minstrel tune on my recent CD as well - anybody who takes it seriously is going to believe that stuff regardless -

interesting relase, and I know Jody a little bit - only problem is over-use of noise reduction and a certain amount of the tell-tale "glub glub" underwater sound - otherwise recommended -

Sidney Bechet Plays the music of Kenny G

ummmm......smores....................

"John Tesh: A Salute to Lennie Tristano" ya never know - after all, Tesh studied with Harold Danko -

at least it wasn't office Joe Bolton - who used to host the Three Stooges in NYC - new label, Chuck? well I've got just the reissue if you're interested...

thanks for mentioning that, Adolf -

I was gonna go, but it was too much bread -

pre-ordered the Bolton from Worlds Records - it was Michael Bolton, right?

The Four Freshman meet The Magnificent 7