Re: (TV) Finally

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

Well, one look can tell you (or me, a seasoned pro) that all those fellas
are high as kites, man.  They've been to Mr. Reefer man, big time!
That fella plunken' on the banjo - he's their connection. He imports large
bundles from Mexico. The Welk band, notorious dopers... really.

Re. The Cowsills: You haven't lived until you've seen this clip of them on
the Johnny Cash show. Susan Cowsill
http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2006/04/the_cowsills_fu.html

 she was a cutie then and she's still awesome now:

  http://www.myspace.com/susancowsill

 (recently she was in he totally cool Continental Drifters -they have since
broken up - her former husband is Peter Holsapple who keeps a pretty cool
blog: http://halfpearblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/music-in-air.html )

Phew!

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Micah <noahbrtn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUoFI
>
> OK, see, this is where it all turns sideways for me.  Have I got a stream
> of consciousness for you!  The original song they're doing seems to be
> "Indian Lake" by the Cowsills.  (We'll leave Sister Ray aside for now.)
>
> Now, the Cowsills are from Newport RI, which is currently a hop, skip and
> a couple of bridges from my home.  I am, as the crow flies, less than 1.5
> miles from Indian Lake.  I remember this song vividly, as it was a
> national
> top 10 hit by locals.  I thought it was cool as hell that I'd been to this
> lake that they kept singing about on the radio.
>
> Fast forward 30+ years (damn, I'm old), and I am playing at the open
> mike at Billy Goode's in Newport, and at one point it was decided that it
> was my turn to by Barry over at the bar a drink.  So I did, because I
> think
> it's good karma to buy a guy you don't know a drink, especially when it
> looks like it's the thing he wants most in the world.
>
> Turns out to be Barry Cowsill, and he wasn't in a good way.  He supposedly
> pulled it together a bit before he moved to New Orleans, but he did not
> survive hurricane Katrina.  We had a couple of good minutes when I was
> able to talk to him about records he'd made, and he knew I wasn't just
> blowing smoke about it.
>
> But that's not what I'm here to talk about.
>
> I'm here to talk about the draft.
>
> Well, no.  Not really.  I'm here to talk about a link over on the side
> that was an even bigger WTF than the VU overdubbed on top of Larry & his
> band.  I give you:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg
>
> Lawrence Welk's people doing "One Toke Over the Line" - with Larry's tag
> on the end proclaiming it "a modern spiritual".
>
> Amen and Hallelujah!
>
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