[Tradjazz] NOSTALGIA DECONSTRUCTED

Fri Feb 16 10:16:24 EST 2007

Now, the Indians had the right idea,
A system without any flaws.
No income tax, no bills to pay,
And the work was done by the squaws.
Never a thing to worry about,
Just eat and sleep and get fat,
And the poor damned white man thought that he
Could improve on a system like that.

Bud Black 

-------Original Message-------

From: Tom Greening
Date: 02/16/07 08:53:10
To: tradjazz at list.okom.com
Subject: [Tradjazz] NOSTALGIA DECONSTRUCTED

NOSTALGIA DECONSTRUCTED

Would some kind soul explain to me,
would someone tell me why
we think that life was better in
those blurry days gone by.

>From lots of sad experience
I really must aver,
things are not what they used to be,
and never really were.

I grant you that it's hard enough
to live in these tough times
and that is what keeps driving me
to write these silly rhymes.

But please don't ask me to exalt
the greatness of the past,
'cause most of human history
just leaves me quite aghast.

    Tom Greening
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> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:47:45 -0500
> From: "Bruce McNichols" <muskrat at bestweb.net>
> Subject: [Tradjazz] Some random thoughts
> To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
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> In the 1960's, my band worked many nights a week, at various joints in
> Manhattan.
>
> Thanks to drummer Chuck Slate, I was introduced to the Gaslight Club.  It
was
> supposedly a key club, accessible only to members.  The club was located
on
> various floors of a Town House.  To get in, you had to knock on the door.
> Then, a burly doorman would open a little door, in the door (Speakeasy
style)
> and you'd say "Joe sent me."  It took me many months to realize that we
> could've said "Sam sent me" or said nothing at all, and still gotten in.
>
> We'd head up to the top floor where one had to pick up an old time wall
phone,
> crank the handle and ask for admittance.  Once inside you'd be faced with
a
> speakeasy-type scene.  Drinks were served in coffee cups (clever, eh?).
>
> They had a wonderful trio:  George Wettling on drums, Charlie Queener,
fine
> piano-man, and Clarence Hutchenrider (clarinet star of Glen Gray's Casa
Loma
> Orchestra).  Those guys made more music than most 6 piece bands I've ever
> seen.
> At a later time, clarinetist Sol Yaged had a group there.
> I loved their scheme to promote tips.  The bandstand was behind the
horse-shoe
> shaped bar.  They strung a clothes-line, pulley-type thing and folks would
> clip bills to the line and the band would reel it in.
> Years later, I worked with the Gaslight Club Road Show which played
private
> parties around the North-East.  That act consisted of 5 musicians and 5
> Gaslight Girls (as they were known) who would sing and dance.  They were
made
> up of waitresses from the club.
> Ah, the Good Old Days, or as Dick Rath (late great trombone man) used to
say:
> "Things ain't what they used to be . . . and they never were!"
>
> McN
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:28:23 -0800
> From: "Bill Barnes" <cleanhead77 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] Some random thoughts
> To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
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> Gee, Bruce, I didn't know Dick Rath had passed away. A very interesting
> character and a FINE player.                                     Bill
Barnes
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce McNichols" <muskrat at bestweb.net>
> To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:47 PM
> Subject: [Tradjazz] Some random thoughts
>
>
>> In the 1960's, my band worked many nights a week, at various joints in
>> Manhattan.
>>
>>
>> Thanks to drummer Chuck Slate, I was introduced to the Gaslight Club.  It
>> was supposedly a key club, accessible only to members.  The club was
>> located on various floors of a Town House.  To get in, you had to knock
on
>> the door.  Then, a burly doorman would open a little door, in the door
>> (Speakeasy style) and you'd say "Joe sent me."  It took me many months to
>> realize that we could've said "Sam sent me" or said nothing at all, and
>> still gotten in.
>>
>> We'd head up to the top floor where one had to pick up an old time wall
>> phone, crank the handle and ask for admittance.  Once inside you'd be
>> faced with a speakeasy-type scene.  Drinks were served in coffee cups
>> (clever, eh?).
>>
>> They had a wonderful trio:  George Wettling on drums, Charlie Queener,
>> fine piano-man, and Clarence Hutchenrider (clarinet star of Glen Gray's
>> Casa Loma Orchestra).  Those guys made more music than most 6 piece bands
>> I've ever seen.
>>  At a later time, clarinetist Sol Yaged had a group there.
>> I loved their scheme to promote tips.  The bandstand was behind the
>> horse-shoe shaped bar.  They strung a clothes-line, pulley-type thing and
>> folks would clip bills to the line and the band would reel it in.
>>  Years later, I worked with the Gaslight Club Road Show which played
>> private parties around the North-East.  That act consisted of 5 musicians
>> and 5 Gaslight Girls (as they were known) who would sing and dance.  They
>> were made up of waitresses from the club.
>> Ah, the Good Old Days, or as Dick Rath (late great trombone man) used to
>> say:  "Things ain't what they used to be . . . and they never were!"
>>
>> McN
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> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:32:26 EST
> From: DRobert769 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] Some random thoughts
> To: tradjazz at list.okom.com
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> Last line reminds me of the story Chuck Slate told about Wettling. Chuck
said
> he said to George, "I wish I had been around in the days when jazz was
really
> popular" and Wettling replied, "It never was."
> Don R.
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