From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #41 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Thursday, May 18 2000 Volume 03 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Video ordering info [Greg Steele ] Anyone going to the 5/19/200 show in Easton? [Chris Thorpe ] Re: Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band [Greg Steele ] Re: Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band [Mary Larson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 07:09:22 -0400 From: Greg Steele Subject: Re: Video ordering info Adam Bailey wrote: > > I first heard of this guy on the tribute album that I bought > strictly to hear the water is wide by JG. He did the a song called > the big muddy. Very cool rendition, liked it better than the original. > Man i have never listened to an album (somewhere near patterson) that > i didnt skip at least one song. it is FANTASTIC. I am in awe of > his talent the same way i am of Gorka, and that says a lot. This > was a great find. Now i gotta try wilcox and kaplansky like all > of you say to =) Gorka was my first folk discovery and now im finding > lost more. Have a good night. > I first heard Richard on the Cry Cry Cry cd (Richard, Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky). I heard about this cd from Cliff Eberhardt (whose song, Memphis, is covered by them). Having heard Lucy before when she opened for John, I was definitely NOT disappointed. I too am discovering a whole new musical landscape out there with these and other artists, leading from one to another. Greg go here for chord and lyric files for the above and other artists: http://www.gregorysteele.com/music/index.html (Richard's "Wysteria" is on the miscellaneous artists page) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:23:39 -0400 From: Chris Thorpe Subject: Anyone going to the 5/19/200 show in Easton? I was wondering if any listers are planning on attending the show in Easton, Maryland this Friday? I am thinking about it, but I don't have a ticket yet. Does anyone know the if the Avalon theatre has assigned seating? It looks like, from ticketmaster, that the theatre does not have assigned seating. Anyone every attended a show at the Avalon? - --Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Mary Larson Subject: Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band Hi folks! On the Gorka trivia front, I was watching a documentary the other night (may have been on Louis Prima, but it may have just been something I tripped across while flipping channels) and heard reference to a band from the 1930s called (believe it or not) the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band. That snapped my head around in a big hurry. Does anyone else know of this previous incarnation of an RDSB? I'm completely curious now, but I was busy at the time and couldn't pay much attention to the TV. (And no, I usually don't catch myself watching Louis Prima documentaries, but my mother was in town visiting, and she is a big fan.) Cheers - Mary in Reno ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:46:30 -0400 From: Greg Steele Subject: Re: Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band Mary Larson wrote: > > Hi folks! > On the Gorka trivia front, I was watching a documentary the other night > (may have been on Louis Prima, but it may have just been something I > tripped across while flipping channels) and heard reference to a band from > the 1930s called (believe it or not) the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band. That > snapped my head around in a big hurry. Does anyone else know of this > previous incarnation of an RDSB? Check out these links: http://nfo.net/.WWW/etymol.html or here's something from: http://mh005.infi.net/~jugband/back/old_news.htm "Al and Rebekah Trout in Lawrence, Kansas, sent an excerpt about a 1895 1900 group called The Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band. The article, by Herbert Asbury in his 1936 book, The French Quarter, labels them as "the real creators of jazz and,... and the original jazz band." The group played in New Orleans brothels, theaters and saloons, as wells as more legitimate outlets like the Grand Opera House. The ensemble was: -Harry Gregson, singer, manager and organizer, who sang through a piece of gas-pipe; -Emile Lacomb, aka Stalebread Charlie, who played a fiddle made out of a cigar box; -Willie Bussey, aka Cajun, on harmonica; -Charley Stein, playing an old kettle, a cow-bell, a gourd filled with pebbles, and other percussive instruments; -Chinee, who played a sort of washtub bass, using a half-barrel or a coffin-shaped box; -Warm Gravy, -Emile Benrod, aka Whisky [sic], and -Frank Bussey, aka Monk. (Hear that, Korn fans? - gls) These last three played whistles, horns and other home-made instruments. "They played with the horns in hats, standing upon their heads, and interrupting themselves occasionally with lugubrious howls. In short they apparently originated all of the antics with which the virtuosi of modern jazz provoke the hotcha spirit..." Greg "Nothin' new under the sun" - Solomon or someone like that ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:59:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mary Larson Subject: Re: Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band Greg - Thanks for the info! That was more than what appeared on the documentary. And such a quick reply, too. What a good group, eh? (On the archives list-serve you can wait for days for a decent reply!) Thanks again! Cheers - Mary in Reno ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #41 *******************************