AllenLowe

hey Lp - I think we met a few years ago - you were the guy in the wheel chair trying to prevent his arm from shooting up into that Nazi salute - damn, I knew you looked familiar -

I actually think it's very possible that the Beach Boys were looking somewhat to Zappa when they made those records - the ironic, distanced lyrics are related to the whole new abstract rock thing, and Zappa was certainly seen as one of the leading rock non-conformists -

well, as Lenny Bruce said, we all have to get get together - Jewis, gentiles, whites, blacks, Scandanavians, Italians, French, Germans - we all have to get together - and beat up the Greeks - or mayble, in this case, LP -

this whole thing of reviewers and technical knowledge could start a whole other thread - I've never believed reviewers HAVE to be especially technically knowledgeable to write well on music, as a matter of fact, most of the best ones I've read have little tech knowledge. But they get themselves in trouble sometimes trying to sound authoritative. This has happened to Giddins on several occasions, even Martin Williams. I have a fair amount of technical knlwledge but am entirely self taught, so I find myslef treading carefully, or calling a friend like Randy Sandke to make sure I'm on firm ground (Randy being one of the most technically knowledgeable musicians I know) -

hey, LP, here's Dizzy Gillespie on a white JEWISH saxohonist, Dave Schildkraut: "Dave was the only alto player to capture the rhythmic essence of Bird." Dizzy also mentioned that he called Dave on several occasions for recording sessions. no great Jewish players? (well, what did Dizzy know?)

because you're right on both -

Hey, l p - many African Americans ripped off people in the record business - VeeJay Records or Don Robey - does that indicate some kind of genetic condition? Don't forget the Irish, the Roman Catholics, the Poles, the Russians, the Latinos - there's been plenty of ripoff to go around, funny that you only notice the Jews - how many Jews are in the Bush adminstration, the biggest rippoff going now? What's your background? Racist, anti-semitic, genocidal, white, yelloe, brown? C'mon, give us the truth oh member of the Aryan nation and dedicated anti-communist -

I'll give you $900 today, $900 next week -

wait - are you referring to my post or the review?

well, if you are talking about chromaticism you are probably referring to the tonal ambiguity that can be created with chromatic playing - in other words there is no such thing as a wrong note, every note has some relationship to the key center. Jazz musicians have always used chromaticism to create a sense, really, of bi-tonality -

Herman Foster Helen Keller

or at least feeling it on the special internet braille version -

ARE YOU SURE IT ISN'T THE OPPOSITE?

that requires too much thought and reasoning - hey, this is an internet board -

I wonder if any of them are reading this...

"and he died in the hotel afterward." so it was murder -

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) -