Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:48:10 EST
From:         WK7@CORNELLC.BITNET
Subject:      Who Dat Say Who Dat?

Russ vs. Len: About wanting music to grab you - I don't think Lenny is being
closed-minded here. I started with Beatles/pop, went to hard rock, heavy
guitar (Cream, Jimi, Beck, Page, A. Lee), and at the same time came across
such things as King Crimson, Moodies, Tom Rush, Pentangle...then onto the
jazz enlightenment (you know 'trumpet playin bands' -:), and forever
onward toward celtic, and on beyond zebra. BUT the point here is (oh yes
I really dug and do dig Ravi Shankar and Indian music as well), that all
these forms of music Grabbed me, at least by the artists that I was exposed
to. I guess I had some good teachers, but I knew I could get into this stuff,
also include Genesis, Floyd, and psychedelia, then most blues, and you get
my musical picture (yeah I dug Mile's Bitches Brew in '70, when I was 18).
But I can't get myself to even consider buying a rap or house or whatever
tape, and alot of atonal/12 tone stuff (which I was exposed to in music
class) still leaves me cold. I'm always willing to listen to something new, and
 often my friends and their environments leave me little choice but to listen,
 but heh -I think I'm with Lenny here, unless he reverses himself in
a new post - after a short time I Know If I Can Handle the style or not.
If not, so be it - leave it on the burner for another day.

Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women: I like these women and I'm not offended
by them. Has everyone on this list lost their senses of humor ??!! Give me a
break! Listen to Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, et al and you'll hear all the same
kinds of sexual references made toward men that male bluesmen say about
women. I'm not offended by either - I like sex, and the eternal games/
struggles that are part of it. I really think people are being thin-skinned
here. Heh - I have 2 tapes of Katie Webster and when she talks about a
"little meat on the side", we know what she means. Similarly this doesn't
offend me either. Que es? Political Correctness Day around here ?

K. Crimson - I bought this in '69 or '70 and was similarly blown away by it -
I mean the Moodies were just starting to use mellotrons too, but there were
no precedents. I also have Poseidon, Lizard, and Larks Tongue - I'll have to
back and listen to these and try to relate to the ongoing discussion in a
more informed manner, but just to say 'Court" was awesome when it arrived
on the scene !

Dave Hall - lookin for black music of the 20's - I'd go for early Louie
Armstrong (you know he used to blow the hell out of that horn!), Lightnin
Hopkins, Brownie Magee/Sonny Terry, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey,
in fact pick up a book on John Hammond and all the Black artists that he
'discovered' and recorded.

Old Thread - The Allman Bros & their Roadies: Remeniscence #4,685 :
I went to the see the Allmans, sans Duane and Berry, in Albany, N.Y. in
the middle of winter (and I mean cold and snowy folks), and we tried to get a
good parking spot close to the Palace Theater. Well we pulled up behind a
yellow Ryder truck, right on the side of the building - amazing !  Well,
back in '73 or '74 Albany was known to have alot of bomb threats called in by
either townies, narcs, or space cadets - anyway it happened and we all had to
vacate our seats. I was in an extremely altered state of mind, and didn't dig
the imposition. Well, when our party of 4 or 5 got back to my old Citroen,
we found we had parked behind a roadie truck, and we were entertained by the
drummer Butch Trucks and the roadies who cracked us up as we/they looked
through the cold windshield of their spacy fans. I thought it was great !!
Then when we got back in Dickie Betts assured us they'd play all night if need
be to make up for the inconvenience. Quite a bunch of on the money folk !!!

Roy Buchanon: I saw him once and he Was great. Eric Clapton used to originally
rave about Freddie King (who toured with him for awhile), and then he really
dug Roy. Shame he didn't last longer. Strange, but 5 mins ago the Wed night
blues show just played a couple of Roy's tunes - thank you Rod Serling.

I am honored to be nominated twice in the funky category. When I read Sonia's
I got up and did a limbo strut to Little Feat's "Spanish Moon". Now my back-
bone is coiled like a slinky and I need a net-chiropractor.

Peace, Love, Woodstock, and crunchy granola between your sheets everyone !!!!!


      ...The Late Baron Von Firstandsecondandnobodyoutenburg ....walt...
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