I always knew that "God Must Be A Boogie Man" was based on the excerpt from Mingus' Biography 'Beneath The Underdog', but I'd never read either the book or the particular passage.
Well, lo & behold, I just got a Mingus tribute cd in the mail that I ordered for a cover, and the passage is quoted in the liner notes of the booklet. Here's what it says: "In other words, I am three. One man stands forever in the middle, unconcerned, unmoved, watching, waiting to be allowed to express what he sees to the other two. The second man is like a frightened animal that attacks for fear of being attacked. Then there's an over-loving gentle person, who lets people into the uttermost sacred temple of his being and he'll take insults and be trusting and sign contracts without reading them and get talked down to working cheap or for nothing, and when he realises what's been done to him, he feels like killing and destroying everything around him, including himself for being so stupid. But he can't - he goes back inside himself. Which one is real? They're ALL real." Just thought that was worth a posting, for others like me who've not seen it. And, strangely enough, the cover on the CD isn't "Boogie Man" but "Sweet Sucker Dance", with vocal. Bob NP: Patrick Regan Band, "Fable of the Trees"
