At the site is a list of the 100 selections and realaudio features on a
bunch of them.
The item that comes closest to exotica is
SING, SING, SING, words/music LOUIS PRIMA (1936), as arranged by JIMMY MUNDY and performed by BENNY GOODMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA at Carnegie Hall (1938)
- -Lou
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:00:40 -0800
From: "paul thomas" <hepcatpaul@mailcity.com>
Subject: (exotica) Drugs and Music
....It brings me to
the only good argument against LSD I ever heard, by Anais Nin, who said,
that the problem with drugs, especially when you are an artist, is, that
you get what you want without a personal effort, you don't create
anymore, you only consume.
Has anyone read Thomas De Quincey's 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'? He says exactly the same thing! De Quincey planned numerous novels but never got down to writing them because he was dosing up on laudanum all the time. I think it was Charlie Parker, an addict himself, who said something to the effect of 'you really can't play anything when you're high.' Something like that.
Don't you think a lot of this is cultural? I mean, we know smoking, drinking and doing drugs is injurious to our health now but that wasn't as well known in, say, the mid 50s. If you look at films like 'All About Eve' or 'The Maltese Falcon' or 'The Thin Man' just about everyone is smoking cigartte after cigarette and downing martini after martini (of course Bogart, William Powell and Bette Davis were cancer victims). Magazines of the 50s and 60s were loaded with page after page of cigarette and alcohol ads. Now you'll see one or two alcohol ads and virtually no cigarette ads. Same goes for films today...even 'period' films like LA Confidential have hardly any smokers or drinkers.
~~Paul
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:09:14 -0600
From: "Mark D. Head" <mdhbene@airmail.net>
Subject: (exotica) Drugs, Alcohol & Music (long)
I just got the latest "Digest," heavy with this
topic, so I read through most of the posts, and
now I'm chiming in with my two cents worth:
Alcohol & drugs have been intertwined with humanity
going *way* back - e.g. Noah (as in Noah's Ark) made
it one of his first actions after the flood to plant
a vineyard and, guess what, when the harvest came,
the first thing he did was get drunk. And Noah was
generally considered in those days (at least, by God,
so the story goes) to be about the only "good" person
on the earth. But the story doesn't indicate he made
a habit out of getting drunk, nor does it claim he
only used alcohol occasionally. So, perhaps we can
conclude he used alcohol in moderation. Proverbs warns
against drunkeness, but also says "Wine makes the heart
of man glad." Jesus' first miracle was to turn water
into wine, and according to the account, it was good
stuff. The Apostle Paul recommended wine to his protege
Timothy for his "frequent stomach ailments," but stated
that drunkards would not "enter the kingdom of heaven."
So it seems to me that even a large religious tradition
has cautioned about excessive alcohol consumption, but
recognized it as a common fact of human existence and
did not seek to ban its use. I personally would
extrapolate from that position the same views on other
drugs, irrespective of governments' duplicity viz a viz
alcohol being legal but marijuana, etc. illegal.
I suppose that leaves it up to everyone's individual
choice. It's "sad" to me that Jimi Hendrix died at
28 and that his fans didn't get a chance to hear him
continue to evolve (I listened again to a couple of
CD's over the weekend and I care not what anyone else
may say, the man remains untouched by anyone then or
since). It's also "sad" to me that Stevie Ray Vaughn
had gotten himself clean (and I think also sober, i.e.
no alcohol) only to die a year or so later in a
helicopter crash. If Hendrix's drug use was a
causative agent in his musical creativity, my selfish
enjoyment of his guitar playing and songwriting say
"go on Jimi, pop another tab." I don't know whether
he was happy or not, or if drugs and alcohol were an
escape from pain or a common peer thing. As a fellow
human, supposed to care more about the person than
what they create, I'd say, "Jimi, that stuff is
killing you; please stop."
Which brings me to my next point: I seem to notice
a strong correlation between "professional creative
types", e.g. those who spend the majority of their
time working on their muse, as contrasted to "hobby
creatives" who have other ongoing work/jobs. Look
at the high level of drug abuse in the acting community,
the painter/sculptor community, and the music community.
I also remember reading somewhere where there is a
