Pete C

To try to second guess the feelings of an abused person is rather presumptuous.

I'm a big Kinks fan. I think Davies' Working Man's Cafe is right up there with the best of the Kinks. The predecessor, Other People's Lives is very good, but not as good.

My point was that given the realities of the marketplace and the constant triumph of mediocrity it's rather pointless to get depressed (Allen's word) over those successes, especially when they're in a realm in which one doesn't have a stake. I think Allen is being oversensitive here about the responses. If these are "personal attacks" they're about as benign as they can get on a public bulletin board.

Could be a job for Andrew Vachss.

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Normally you'd embed a youtube video by just posting the url, rather than embed code. However, your link had an extension after the video number that the board didn't seem to take, so I truncated the URL to get the original video URL only.

Ah, OK. To tell the truth, if I weren't looking for it I might not have caught "each morning I wake up..."

To my ears, when Freddie starts talking about the club the interviewer chimes in and says "all stars"--but hard to tell if he was naming the club or commenting on the musicians.

This is an amazing coincidence. I was one of the publishers of Zonepress and Zone Magazine. Which piece is it? Ultimately, it would be the writer, not the press you'd need permission from, as we would have only had first serial rights. If you can let me know which writer I can see if I have any info that can help you track him/her down. I do believe that you are correct in your last assumption--no permission, no go, failure to find copyright holder wouldn't protect you from future action. I wrote the first piece in that anthology, by the way. You may be right about 1979ish being the end of the small press side of Zone. Zone Magazine went a few more years, albeit irregularly. The journal moved from Brooklyn to the East Village with me in 1979.

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He acquits himself well on Machito's Kenya.

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About 12 years ago I went to San Antonio and went to the final day of the rodeo, where Loretta Lynn was the featured performer. It was just after Bush II was sworn in, and Loretta made some comment about how it was great that a real Christian conservative was in the White House and that other crook (or something to that effect) was gone. The entire audience went into wild applause. All the men except me were wearing cowboy hats and boots. I felt like standing up and saying, "Just one cotton pickin' minute, I'm a New York Jew leftist atheist and I take exception to that comment," but, alas, I kept my mouth shut and my body intact.

Two of my favorite live Billy Hart performances were with Joanne Brackeen's trio with Cecil McBee, and Quest.

True, and no surprise, but I'm not hooked into the C&W fan world.

You're right.

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Oh, I can't get YouTube at work, so I listened to the Prestige recording, not realizing he may have performed it live. Ignore my comment above if this is a different performance.

Do you mean first improvised chorus after the melody (Orinithology quote) or tail end of first solo chorus into second solo chorus (What Am I Here For?)? Then, later on he quotes some circus ditty, then Rain Check. Dexter quoted up the wazoo, too much for my taste. I don't get what's incredible in this case. He seemed to like to interpolate Here Comes the Bride indescriminately. Edit: this refers to the Prestige recording. I now realize that the performance in question is probably different.