On May 31, 2008, at 10:01 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 10:54 PM -0400 5/30/08, Christopher Smith wrote:
(Very old and archaic jazz joke: Jazz musician goes into a
restaurant and asks the waitress, "How's the pie, man?" She
replies, "The pie's gone." He says, "Crazy! I'll take two pieces,
man!")
I'm hip, man!
But this reminds me not of a joke but a true story.
We were in a very popular early music ensemble in a large music
school at a midwest university in the '70s. Our viola da gamba
player was very young and had spent her first year and a half in the
group more or less in a drug-induced haze, never EVER saying
anything spontaneously. The night that changed was memorable. We
were on the way back from an out of town gig and stopped at a donut
shop for some coffee. When we walked in the waitress asked, "Are
you together?" Alice spoke up and said, "I'm together. And they're
with me!"
(OK, no wiseass comments about Alice's Restaurant, please!)
No wiseass comments - but I spent many a summer in Stockbridge and
knew Alice. And all of the adventures and misadventures in Arlo's
story took place while he was at my parent's music camp and dumped
garbage on a neighbor's abandoned property. Long story - better told
by Arlo.
Chuck
John
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