Tossin and Turnin

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>From: Ted Samsel        <tejas at infi.net>
>Subject: Re: Tossin and Turnin
>To: jp4321 at soho.ios.com (jporter)
>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 07:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
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>>
>> Well, if he does this rumored gig circa the antebellum era and beyond,
>> what's that about? Wasn't that century pretty well scoped out by Huck and
>> Tom on this side and Oliver, Pip and David over there? Pretty hard acts to
>> follow....Wait a minute....I wouldn't mind seeing those dudes on stage
>> together (has that been done already?). Kind of like the "Super Groups of
>> the the late 60's early  70's....Huck on mouth organ, Tom on rythm guitar,
>> David on keyboards, Oliver on lead guitar, Pip on lead vocals...bring in
>> Jim on bass, find themselves a drummer, I could dig it. Adolescent males to
>> the rescue. It might be fresh.
>
>All banjars and snappy patter, suh! We'll countenance no anachronicity here,
>by jingo!
>
>But I'd be hoping it could be about the formative years of such legend
>makers as Ned Buntline. Perhaps a medicine show selling laudanum-laced
>aperitifs to go with these massed banjars, bones, patting juba & snappy
>patter.
>
>Yeththireebob!
>
>And the food scenes should be jolly well cholesterol laden! (See the
>Travel Journals of Frederick Law Olmsted in Texas in the 1840s or 50s;
>truly bad scoff!)
>
>Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
>     "driving a Hudson Hornet on the disinformation triple bypass:
>      cruising for burgers & garage sales. Hooks baited, lines en-
>      tangled, roadkill cooked"
>