all that jazz and more

billy strayhorn

fisk jubilee singers

pilgrims way

scott joplin

stephen foster

w.c. handy's first band

Still getting over the doors show on teevee last night.

took me back to that time when everything was possible but it all fizzled out in a welter of war and heavy metal.

most of it was necessary which is hard to admit now after youthfull striving for peace and love.

nup. it just wasnt going to happen.

still we put some colour back in the world and the politicians and the generals had to listen instead of just creaming all the best and brightest off in a paltry display of brinkmanship.

and we made music that was never heard before and never will be again.

that is our legacy to the world.

still it is too much to expect that anything will be taken seriously. especially in NZ. you know I have never heard anyone tracking down the song "Maori Girl" mentioned in W.C. Handys biography.

I suppose there is no mileage for anyone to do anythng that is not about them!

And going  back to the Doors. There is no New Zealand Band from the era or forward whose best song was any better than the Doors worst!

stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

hehehehehehehehehe.

Pilgrims Way. google it you lazy f*ckers but RNZ concert had a lovely hour of a recent band of the same name playing quintessential english music last sunday. absolutely lovely to hear some contemporary handmade music coming out of the radio.

all the rest is made in some studio with pro-tools and vocoders removing any vestige f emotion r feeling.

They just cant seem to do it anymore.

Acorns.

its the acorn season. get your children out there picking them up and planting them.

you dont have to buy into  buying natives from the garden store and pretending you are on a spiritual journey.

just pick up the damm acorns and spread them around.

trees trees trees.

cut the crap.

The Woodpecker song.

I stuck my finger in a woodpeckers hole and the woodpecker said god bless my soul.

turn it round turn it round revolve it!

Eric used to sing it when he was drunk.

an antidote to the malice in blunderland.

p.s.

who was the american negro who was an ace in the french airforce in world war one and when the american army entered the war was put on latrine duty?

and.

still totally irritated by the people on Radio New Zealand who want to tell the interviewees waht they should think instead of having the skill to listen.

they are awful. AREN"T THEY?