AllenLowe

check out the Lenny Bruce routine about the junkie who gets interviewed for a job with the Welk band: "Mr. Welk, I have a monkee on my back." "Vee like animals!"

oboe was my first instrument - I HATED IT!

I'll give you $900 for it -

"A very good movie came out recently, giving a completely unusual angle of view of the personage...." actually my model is the Producers -

I was only making the point that we can't necessarily separate the public and private life - and, bad as he was, at least Hitler never slapped Eva Braun in public -

Bud Johnson, yes - he was in one of the earliest groups with Dizzy/George Wallington, actually a very early recording exists on bootleg -

my favorite Welk moment - I was watching years ago and he used to have a black tap dancer. After one of the tap dancer's routines Welk came on and said: "That boy sure can dance."

wait - there was also Claude Kirschner - no, he was a circus mc for Barnum and Bailey -

some of us may remember when public broadcasting was frought with possibilities, before it turned into reruns of Masterpiece Theater and Lawrence Welk - it's now up to stations like WKCR to serve the function of offering some change from the usual profit-driven diet (and please spare me the posts about honest profit, et al; because what we're talking about is not honest profit but greed, media conglomeration and a national administration that prefers social uniformity and cultural castration) -

here's a recount - I am sitting with Hank in a restaraunt in NYC, ca. 1977, interviewing him. This is from memory, and I honestly do not remember how it came up, but here it is (and Jones confirmed this story on a later occassion): "Athur Miller was not nice to Marilyn Monroe. I played the piano when she sang happy birthday to President Kennedy in Madison Square Garden. Afterwards the three of us were in an elevator, myself, Monroe and Arthur Miller. She was very drunk and he slapped her. Hard." Hank is in his 50's, far from senile or delusional. As an added detail Al Haig was sitting with us when he made the comment, and Haig and I talked about it a few times afterwards. I really see no way that Jones can be mistaken about this. And it's not really all that shocking or surprising that Miller might continue to have contact with Monroe after the divorce or feel proprietary. That's show biz, as they say, and that's a not untypical male attitude - what likely triggered it was, married or not, her flirting witht he president - and their were real rumors about Monroes's affair with JFK -

it seems musicians love having their lives focused on when it looks good for 'em - and it's true that nobody's perfect, but it always seems easier for groups of males to ignore domestic abuse - just label it as PC and irrelevant to the art. Well, in many ways it IS irrelevant to the art - but if we talk about the lives, and what great people the artists are, it than becomes relevant. It's not trendy, it's honesty -and if Arthur Miller hit Marilyn Monroe (as he did), as Roach beat Abby Lincoln, and as Miles beat Betty Davis (all of which is absolutley true) - than what do we do? Pretend it's just a small part of their day? After all, we sure enjoy listening to the CDs -in that case, let's not forget to mention that Hitler was nice to Eva Braun and I have a very nice painting of his that I can sell you -

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well, there's no nice way of saying this - screw the kids, they've got plenty of outlets and they're kids, after all, and don't know as much as we grownups - let's not forget what they did on their own in Lord of the Flies, when they had the chance -

Isn't he also on one of the Max Roach/Candids?

that's nice - but I prefer to accept my tribute in cash -

there's also one up in Montana - but he's a Baptist -

he figures quick prominently in David Amram's autobiography -

actually, I wasn't really acting the troll - apparently, the troll wants to evoke an angry, scattershot response. I want everyone to say: Allen, we see the light and do humbly agree with you.

the bell trolls for me...

no, I think it's a different Larry Kart - the one from St. Louis -

I'm sorry I missed the idiott festivall. When shall next year's festival commmmence?

well, as Tom Waits once said, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy - of course, with OP I'm uncertain -

youy know it's weird - but I hate that damned instrument - I love the older players, and Lacy, Bechet, etc - but I cannot listen to the instrument post-1970 no matter who's playing it or how well it's played. I'm not defending myself, as a matter of fact I throw myself on the mercy of the organissimo body, but it's come to be like the jazz flute for me - I hear it and go on to the next cut - anybody else like me here?

well, I only drink when I'm alone or with someone else -

just to let everyone know - I believe I have shipped all orders, as of yesterday - I did get a little confused as some orders I shipped out in advance and some I did not - my apologies in advance; if you do not get your Percy Franc CD by, say, next Monday (and it should be sooner as everything went out first class) - shoot me an email at alowe@maine.rr.com - thanks!