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AllenLowe

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  1. and in the next scene a group of women, in the Lebensborn program, put on white nighties and move across the lawn on a warm moon-lit night, as the German band plays Tea for Two to a meringue beat - and the women's hips glide sensually in unison, symbolizing fertility and the Nazi ideal of happy shining white children, as the women's clogs, in a lord-of-the-dance synchronization, spell out the first 8 paragraphs of Hitler's Reichstag fire speech, in morse code.
  2. "Any music that makes girls want to move their hips can't be too bad." well, there is that meringue version of Deutschland Uber Alles in that Leni Riefenstahl film, the one where Leni gives Hitler mambo lessons and he goes home to Eva at Berchtesgarden and says, "hey Eva, how about a mambo?" and Eva sees the lipstick on Adolf's cheek and slaps him with a rubber Swastika, so he calls Sonja Henie on the phone and they meet at midnight on the frozen Auschwitz pond and they pirouette across the ice while the Jewish prisoners peer over the fence at this unlikely scene, humming Kurt Weil melodies, making strobe patterns across the Auschwitz night with their Jahrzeit candles as Himmler, fresh from a late-night schwitz, sits at the commandent's window gazing yearningly at these wandering Jews and marvelling at the unlikelihood of it all -
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    Zoom H2

    perfect - send the recordings to me, we start pressing 'em and bootlegging them all over the internet - he wants us to stop, he's gonna have to sacrifice his first born -
  4. by the way, glad to hear Larry mention Hall Overton, an interesting guy - and by the way, the comedian Rick Overton is his son (not kidding) -
  5. Charlotte Moorman dead of breast cancer? well, as the old saying goes, she who lives by the... ahh, well, never mind -
  6. "how sad it must be to be a young female student in a jazz program and know that you even though you can play rings around one of these Anna Nicole Coltrane's, you're not pretty enough" well, I tried pretty, but I just couldn't get Blue Note to sign me - it seems that flashing a little thigh at Lundvall is NO LONGER the sure way to musical success - anybody got any OTHER ideas? Here's my publicity photo:
  7. "Results at 24 bit resolution have been very good ! " are you playing back at 24, or 16?
  8. as we used to say when I was a kid, she plays the skin flute -
  9. large cheeks - good pitcher -
  10. it's called The Vibrator -
  11. the downhome series is essential! love the sound of that stuff - as I play guitar, that's the sound I hear in my head - too many contemporary guitarists want to sound like the old school, but lack the nerve to really allow so little mediation between themselves, the guitar, and the amp -
  12. so Lenny said all that? Am I gonna have to start reading every post in every thread? maybe I'll start a new one with a quote from Mein Kampf, unattributed, of course - never liked Parks, fussy lyrics, an artsy poseur - Buckley tried to be a semi-jazzer, but fell on his face - as for new music, there's a local alternative station that is ALWAYS playing new and interesting music in the indie-rock vein - so I'm convinced there's tons of good new music out there but, the ironic thing about this world in the age of the internet is that the more access we have, the less access we have - there's just too much stuff to keep up with, especially if you work for a living or live on a budget -
  13. "Most of us have been raised in the tradition of tin pan alley, where the songs, beautiful or not, were meant to amuse or beguile, but that's all. They were embellishments on life. What these young people seem to say is that their music isn't just decorative. And that's the pop music scene today, serious and silly, sweet and grandiose, but all of it coming out of the kids themselves. They are trying hard, but whatever young people do, they tend to overdo. The jury is still out on their social ideas, but the verdict is in on their music. A great deal of it is good. " well, I was born in 1954, long after Tin Pan Alley had peaked - I learned early of another tradition of songs that were NOT meant simply to amuse or beguile - like that of woody guthrie - Frank Hutchison - pre-war hillbilly music - blues - folk- there was always lots out there that the jazz press missed - and I find the second graph a little condescending - if well meant -
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    Anthony Braxton

    there's a nice record of Ursula Oppens playing a Braxton piano piece -
  15. back a ways here someone (Bill Barton?) mentioned the Bill Barron Savoys - there's one in particular in which he goes head-to-head with Booker Ervin - wow! I knew Barron a little when he was at Wesleyan (middle 1980s?) and when I complimented him on this session he was very flattered - for all the braininess of his own writing, he was a helluva tenor in just a blowing situation -
  16. those girls look like they are from the Brazilian community of Queens -
  17. reminds me of the Love Boat theme -
  18. just to put in another plug, Stereo Jack's is one of the great record stores in the US of A - in the introdution to one of my books I remarked that it was probably better for research in American music than the nearbye Harvard U. - not only a great collection but knowledgeable employees who only sometimes act like Jack Black in High Fidelity ( )
  19. naked coed chess - my favorite sport -
  20. maybe it'll also turn a Republican into a Democrat - since the relative symptoms are the same -
  21. I've been in that back room - always have to go to the bathroom after driving the two hours down from Maine -
  22. anybody mention Booker Ervin?
  23. are there any interviews, anywhere?
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