No one caught that subtle Doors swagger in the subject huh?
I was going to use the future is uncertain and the end is always near,
but I am saving that for the the front of the fast lane.
Ya know, and I am sure that Tom is the main culprit, the yin yang thing
is just so obnoxious. There are many times where making
ones point, proving it, and hammering home the proof is justified. But,
big ole butt, every time someone, usually, and without trying, Mario,
disagrees, or counters what Tom has written, it then becomes a back and
forth reverberation that scrolling can't even avoid.
I mean, the latest x-change over whether or not you guys celebrate xmas,
hanukah, kwanza or blue bishop day is so utterly devoid of interest.
In fact, this whole stoopid to the max PC BS about what holiday some
celebrates is just a bad sign of the times we live in.
Not earth shattering bad, but bad nonetheless.
So Gary, Hinge, this soap thing, your into that sound huh? I dug the
soap sound much more when it was recorded at Stax in Memphis. SOAP
exists because Brice added horns, had nothing to do with Stormin' Norman
or Doc Holliday, who I don't recall from back in the day. The real music
to celebrate that Asbury Park helped foster goes back to Mr. Pryor and
the 260 dates a year he did on the beach without amplification. Remember
that, build a monument to that...whoops, AP did build a monument to Mr.
Pryor, while a bunch of kids were busy playing covers in a myriad of
clubs on the circuit in AP, the Pryor Pavilion was allowed to waste into
decaying concrete, empty seats in the outdoor theatre and no business
for poor George at his wonderful Howard Johnson's. Do I have a problem
with the SOAP show, of course not. I love that music and my favorite
Bass player since Jamerson played at it, but my attitude toward this
event in no way shape or form is a reflection on my feelings for music,
for live music, for The Stone Pony, or for Asbury somehow becoming a
mecca for musicians as it once was. In the shadow of the decayed and
stripped Howard Johnson is a plaque celebrating a bunch of guys who
played a cover circuit back in the day. Again, if not for Bruce and
his songs and his uncanny ability to captivate every pair of ears within
hearing distance of him and his guitar, those guys would be long ago
forgotten.
Now, what rankles my ire is the lost and forgotten golden history of
sports in Asbury Park. Hey Gary, do you have any idea about the athletic
accomplishments of Asbury Park High School? I am sure you don't. I would
much rather see a plaque and a day for those great athletes, many of
whom are reaching the end of their days. They deserve the applause and
the day in the sun just as much, if not more, than a bunch of kids
trying to make a buck and get laid playing rock and roll along the
jersey shore.
Hell, I wish we could somehow hold a circuit celebration day, far and
away the coolest thing about asbury was riding that circuit, drinkin'
beer, and just like those guys busy playing in bar bands, trying to pick
up girls on Kingsley.......Happy Holidays my arse:)
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