From airplane to starship...

[Robin Landseadel]

No offense meant pardner, and the extended Yosemite Sam
reference from AtD is most welcome. In my stultified state
I failed to note the family resemblance on my multiple passes
through Pynchon's grand doorstopper. Being as I was present
at the very non-concert* where that rootin', tootin' gunslingin'
cokehead failed to appear on account of that gun charge sorta
burned that musical footnote into my memory**. Guessed the opium
ran out too soon for that well-known singin' cowboy.

*the concert, an anti-nuclear fundraiser on some central California
beach, was supposed to be a CSN affair, canceled for the obvious.
Eventually caught the threesome at an earthquake [in the wake of
the SF event of 1989] benefit at the Cow Palace and was blown
away by the extraordinary tightness of their vocal ensemble. The
records simply don't do them justice.

**not to mention an ongoing obsession with the Byrds---I'd swear
they're the model for "The Paranoids."

On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:27 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> Robin:
>
> "That would be David Crosby---the first version of "Triad" was a
> demo with the Byrds that was the tipping for Roger McGuinn, resulting
> in that gun-totin' hippie's ejection from the band."
>
>
> Now I ain't claimin' no priority here, pardna' That 'ol rootin
> tootin, rip snortin' gun totin' hippie-boy: David "Yosemite Sam"
> Crosby might'n well have penned the jig first,... I jes'
> was sayin' that Gracie's version reminded me of Yash, is all.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby
>
> Speakin' o' which:
>
>  "You gonna get your wife-grabbin, piss-yellow, slant-eyed
>  ass out here, or am I gonna have to come in there?"
>  Inquired an unhappy voice... There a diminutive figure in
>  a black hat , shirt and guantlets, Bob Meldrum unmistakenly,
>  with a mustache so wide Frank could swear its owner had to
>  turn sideways to get through the doorway...p. 290
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam
>
>
> Like Stray sez: "Fine idea while the opium supply lasts, but sooner or
> later plain old personal meanness gets in the way. Somebody runs the
> well dry, somebody rolls her eyes at the wrong husband—"
>
>
>

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