From mblaxill at yahoo.com  Sat Apr  1 08:01:53 2006
From: mblaxill at yahoo.com (Mike Blaxill)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:01:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Mb-hair] F--k What You Heard About Black Males from the NYTimes
Message-ID: <20060401160153.27468.qmail@web53007.mail.yahoo.com>

Found this in my Inbox...wanted to share
PEACE
-m

F--k What You Heard About Black Males from the
NYTimes             
By Omowale Adewale (formerly L. James)
 

I heard yall bombarding my email with the New
York Times's article on the plight of
the black male and your own analysis and your
friend's analysis, and frankly, it
bothered me. I'm good though. I'm straight. I
just wanted to enter into the
discussion. 

They said "he was a case history, as well as an
extraordinary and twisted man,
turning many true gifts to evil purpose
his
ruthless and fanatical belief in
violence
marked him for fame, and for a violent
end
he did not seek to fit into
society or into the life of his own people
The
world he saw through those
horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and
dark. But he made it darker still with
his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone
came out of that darkness that he
spawned and killed him." 
 
The New York Times, "the best daily paper in the
country, in the world
urbane,
sophisticated, liberal on certain civil liberties
and civil rights questions," their
mask slipped on February 22, 1964. This is how
they described our Honorable Brother
Malcolm X, our beloved Black Prince on day after
he was shot. The leader of black
males, the very working class and poor black
males described by the Times on March
20, 2006. The leader in which SNCC (Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and
the Black Panther Party both revere for providing
them with their initial political
science and courage to organize black people to
defend against white American
lynchings, fire hoses, dogs, discrimination, and
America's systemic attacks. The
Times pumped more lead in El Hajj Malik El
Shabazz through each line they wrote the
very next day after his first assassination. And,
I am supposed to take their
information packaged and sold to us under the
guise of scholarly studies from
Columbia,!
 Princeton and Harvard for gold? 

Already, some black intellectual is doing white
power's work and dissecting my words
and concluding, "Their information is still
true." Nah, homey. It's not. Statistics
might be, though. Author of "the Debt" Randall
Robsinson explained so eloquently
that "a little learning is, as they say, a
dangerous thing, and particularly when it
is presented, like a severely cropped photograph,
as an independent truth. And I do
not believe as a general matter, such truncated
analyses are innocently delivered by
white establishment academics." Interestingly
enough, but hardly coincidental he his
commenting on another New York Times article
about blacks falling behind in 1998. I
believe we see a pattern here, John! 

The best tactic the government and media ever
used (and I mean they did spend
billions of dollars on hundreds of agencies and
organizations to complete its
strategy) is the strategy of making young
brothers feel like they are responsible
for their current conditions. 50CENT hasn't been
out more than five years in the
media and we think he created the black villain
in New York. We fault 50CENT more
than we turn our waving fingers at the music
groups that own the labels that own
him. Meanwhile, folks are convinced that a
nation, which stole land and murdered
millions and enslaved millions for 300 years
can't possibly be this diabolical. 

Yes, black males are heading to prisons at
astronomical rates and unemployment among
black men is above the roof. However, I don't buy
the ivy-league's solutions or
conclusions or the New York Times story because
they inexplicably and cautiously
relate the reason for black male's crisis to the
fault of black men themselves. "In
response to the worsening situation for young
black men, a growing number of
programs are placing as much importance on
teaching life skills ? like parenting,
conflict resolution and character building ? as
they are on teaching job skills."
This quote in the Times article clearly suggests
Blacks are messed up because we are
bad parents, are irrational people, can't get
jobs because we don't know anything,
and we are just plainly bad people. 

The poor statistics of black men in the US has
always been a picture worth strong
solutions. The difference was that Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King, Jr., and even Huey
P. Newton, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. never summed
up black male oppression as
something that we spawned. Not even remotely!
Whether they preached non-violence or
the right to defend yourself they always gave you
clarity on the black current
situation in America. They never blamed us for
being apart of the poorest and most
discombobulated communities. Harriet Tubman saw
probably the most backwards of black
men in their desire to stay enslaved instead of
risking being free. She understood
that that backwardness was always connected to
white power's attempt to justify
black slave's position in society and if it
failed, white power frightened you
beyond belief. The problem was always summed up
as white power is the enemy and that
it maintains power at the expense of the African.
Whether it's wrestling Hip-Hop
away a!
nd using it's human and financial resources
against us and for themselves, taking
advantage of slavery and prison labor, or
crushing the urge and the ability for
uprising, black people have been the pedestal. 

Am I supposed to believe after 300 years of
slavery and 46 years of Jim Crow that
now I am responsible for black males being 1
million locked up? Am I supposed to
think that the reason young black males are mad
ass hell and selling drugs because
we don't mentor enough black children? Am I
supposed to believe that the CRIPS
(Community Revolutionary Interdisciplinary
Program Service) and the Bloods created
the conditions that force me to live from check
to check? The fact is that black
people were awarded Civil Rights 42 years ago by
the same government that launched a
war on us. 

In the 1920's, remnants of COINTELPRO began
forming from the young J. Edgar Hoover.
His first task was to crush the Black Star Line
and send one of the most powerful
black men in America and his African
internationalist ideas back to which they came.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, leader of millions in the
UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement
Association) was deported to Jamaica under a form
of counterinsurgency used by the
United States government. The UNIA had 700
branches in 38 branches. 

That same counterinsurgency finally took on the
name called COINTELPRO in 1956 and
was responsible for the deaths of 27 known Black
Panther Party members and several
others are still locked up as political
prisoners, which are mostly men. The Black
Panther Party had taken self-determination into
their own hands and into black
communities. Lead by mostly black males, but
transcribed to me by my mother Cleo
Shivers a teenage Black Panther organizer from
1969-1971. She explained to me the
daily food being given out to the black community
at the Sutter office in Brooklyn
and the free clinic that treated the black
community. The songs and poems she
recited and the rallies described so detailed and
vividly made me imagine the
greatest zeal and love black people ever had for
us in this nation. We were proud,
although we were going to jail for our
rebelliousness. The difference is we were
politically clear on why and how we got there! 

The conditions are still the same but black
people's political clarity changed with
COINTELPRO's successful execution, a US
counterinsurgency program that murdered,
imprisoned, misdirected, discredited, and
disrupted the revolutionary, its spirit
and potential revolutionaries to come. In 1969
the FBI special agent in San
Francisco wrote Hoover that his investigation of
the Black Panther Party revealed
that in his city, at least, the Black
nationalists were primarily feeding breakfast
to children. Hoover fired back a memo implying
the career ambitions of the agent
were directly related to his supplying evidence
to support Hoover's view that the
BPP was "a violence prone organization seeking to
overthrow the Government by
revolutionary means". J. Edgar Hoover said if you
are going to be a revolutionary,
you are going to be a dead revolutionary. The
very people who admitted to killing
our leaders and brandishing them as violent and
hateful in our mourn for them now
find themsel!
ves articulating the depths of our despondency.
Find their half attest to these
claims in the Freedom of Information Act. 

Black men are not in the poor conditions in
America because of natural conditions,
bad habits, because of fatherlessness, because
some are stuck on a sixth grade
reading level, or because they are helpless
recidivists or even because the US
government doesn't intervene effectively. We are
facing these very issues because
America's imperialism requires young black male's
incarceration; it requires the
petty bourgeoisie black males to offer up
solutions that point to the government as
the problem-solvers and the black working class
and poor peasantry as the
problem-makers. There is a very real and material
obstacle preventing black men from
becoming Marcus Garvey's, Malcolm's, and Huey's.
The reason why black men suffer is
because the US government DOES intervene in our
community. Everyday, the police
squad car patrols the black community waiting for
the slightest reason to throw us
in jail and extract labor and inject despair.
Elected officials in our community get
their posi!
tions at our expense because they are complicit. 

At the juncture in which the black working class
and poor begin to show insurgency
due to their conditions such as the 1992
rebellion in Los Angeles, CA after the
LAPD's beating of Rodney King, the 1996 rebellion
in St. Petersburg, FL after the
police shooting death of Tyrone Lewis, the 2003
rebellion in Cincinnati, OH for the
deaths of five unarmed black men by police in a
five month period, and the Benton
Harbor, MI rebellion in 2003 after a black
motorist was killed when a police car
pursued him the government increases
counterinsurgency methods. Although, these are
sporadic uprisings, it is a strong cause for
concern for the government. It is also
an explanation for counterinsurgency's
maintenance. Yet, they flood our neighborhood
because of possible rebellions, they say it's
because they're fighting gangs, drugs,
or poverty for our own good or for our quality of
life. Counterinsurgency carries
out in the form of eliminating black youth from
the streets at disastrous lev!
els. Right now in the South Bronx you have the
poorest congressional district in the
nation, in addition to it being one of the
neighborhoods in the country with the
highest levels of youth incarceration. There is
no coincidence between incarcerated
youth and its connection to poverty no more than
there is a coincidence for
rebelliousness found in black youth that live
under the harshest conditions in the
US. In reality, we've been living under the same
climate for 400 years, non-stop. 

The New York Times article was an attack. It was
a rap sheet on the black male in
America executed in public cold-blooded fashion.
It spoke nothing of the
arrest-quota-driven police targeting black
neighborhoods, which has been
corroborated by PBA President Pat Lynch. The
article spoke nothing of Bill Clinton's
dismantling of welfare (less than 2% of the
government budget), which systematically
separates the black male their families. Not to
mention Clinton's heinous
sponsorship of the most punitive crime bill in
history, support for more
paramilitary police, and his administration's
investment in prisons that reported an
economic boom for whites and a decline for blacks
in 2001. Countless black and
Latino women have visited my office confiding
that their social worker suggested
they'd get public assistance if they managed to
divorce their husband. 

Last year, I went to the Old Navy in Harlem to
handle an issue and witnessed almost
20 young black men within an hour, most likely
unfamiliar to each other's pursuit,
walk in and out looking for employment positions.
What they didn't know that some
employees are clear on is that you better act
white and change your tone when you
speak. Have you ever observed black men in Old
Navy or other big department stores?
It's like seeing the results of American black
male emasculation. Either that or
find yourself being discriminated against, but
given some bulls_it reason on why
you're not qualified to sell clothing. Those with
criminal records rarely bother in
that sector. 

As a person who has been to family court
countless times for my daughter I witnessed
what many will never believe because they
continue to retrieve all their information
from a racist media. I personally had to fight
three years for the system to
recognize a costly glitch in the system while
hearing other men suffer worse
accounts. There are honest brothers overpaying
child support by the thousands, as
there are definitely some brothers under paying
by gross amounts. I was shocked and
embarrassed by my own shock that several black
men were OVER paying child support
that sometimes never reached the mother. In most
cases like mine, the Child Support
Enforcement agency are never on the same page as
Family Court so you are regarded as
a deadbeat and end up further in arrears. Luckily
for me I had the flexibility and
the resources of a government entity to go to
court three years to put them on the
same page. One non-custodial brother was fired
because of this mishap, threatened !
with jail time with only weeks away from
homelessness and forced to pay a
five-figure amount to Child Support Enforcement.
I can't tell you how many times I
was hung up on seconds into discussion because I
was labeled as a deadbeat. I am
reminded of a lawyer that explained that the
reason courts started using metal
detectors wasn't because of serial killers,
gangsters, rapists, but because some
fathers who had no visitation rights had a
earnest and most brazen-red desire to see
their children. 

Luckily, for me there is no problem in seeing my
child. But, I'll make sure to
inform her that you cannot leave it to this
current media to explain your husband,
father, uncles or brothers. Otherwise, you'll get
the most diabolically concocted
analysis and racist psychological babble that
leaves the black petty bourgeoisie
stuck vilifying themselves and other Africans.
The problem is not black youth's
rebelliousness; the problem I see is that
Africans own less than 1% of the entire
media and no percentage in the US government,
only the appearance. We must learn
even as we are under attack daily to stop
continuing to sum up our conditions, as
not only our own fault but also something new and
fresh. Everything, black people
and all others peoples are tied to a dialectical
and historical process in which
eras and events are interconnected even as things
die and come anew. Hopefully. A
revolution. 


Omowale Adewale (27) is the co-founder and
executive director of G.A.ME. He is a
senior staff member for an elected official in
the Bronx, member of the Uhuru
Movement and FAR Fund Fellow. He drew national
acclaim in his first visit to Nigeria
in 2005 speaking on issues ranging from Hip-Hop
to healthcare to self-determination
for all Africans. 

-- 
Freedom/Uhuru/Ominira
Omowale Adewale
Executive Director
G.A.ME, Inc.
www.Kickgame.com 
718-991-0671
917-239-8992 

From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  1 08:10:29 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 1 Apr 2006 16:10:29 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power
Message-ID: <20060401161029.8670.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com>

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Ok, I've always been a bit confused by this. Is this song in the official script? If so, why is it never recorded. The only album I've heard it on is DisinHAiRited. I know there is also another CD by the Broadway Musical Company which has it [I've been looking for this CD forever! It NEVER comes up on Ebay!]. Do any of you guys have a copy of the Broadway Musical Company CD? I could use information on where to get it. Well, anyways, why is it almost never included on albums?

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Apr  1 08:22:11 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 11:22:11 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power
References: <20060401161029.8670.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <002301c655a8$6e3dfa20$f1476c42@hotprojects>

there are many little regular preambles and structurally recitative passages in all musicals that werent arent regularly recorded

however it is on the french version of version original french company
?
also like the law which is a combination of whats on the books and how the laws enforced
there are a whole bunch of hair traditions passed down that occur in and around passages in the script etc
so theres that too structurally anthropologically in addition to the script
there are also different standard editions ( im not talking 90s and post 90s rewrites )
eg the tams witmark version is not the paperback version which is not the version you will get when you apply for first class rights
i brought in jerry and jimmy and galt immediately and worked with them throughout the duration of the production
thats what i did
to gibson
you have to cull for yourself
although much of what they say is brilliant not all of it as with any of us , is
?
but thats what i did
brought in the authors immediately and also have very good memory of the original production
which i actively sought to emulate
?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:10 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power


   
  Ok, I've always been a bit confused by this. Is this song in the official script? If so, why is it never recorded. The only album I've heard it on is DisinHAiRited. I know there is also another CD by the Broadway Musical Company which has it [I've been looking for this CD forever! It NEVER comes up on Ebay!]. Do any of you guys have a copy of the Broadway Musical Company CD? I could use information on where to get it. Well, anyways, why is it almost never included on albums?





   


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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sat Apr  1 09:01:04 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:01:04 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power
In-Reply-To: <20060401161029.8670.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F39A1AE342B43DAEC48C7BBB2D70@phx.gbl>

Yes, the song Oh Great God of Power is in the official script, and always 
has been. Hair has more songs than the average musical of its day did, and 
so a number of songs were not included on the original cast album, in order 
to allow it to conform to what a standard album length was in those days. 
Some of the songs not included were recorded and then cut, reappearing on 
the reissue of the OBC than came out - when? Dauber? Was it 88? Anyway, 
other songs, like Oh Great God of Power, were never recorded originally, so 
weren't on the reissue. It was only finally officially recorded for 
DisinHAIRited.

It was included in some foreign recordings, and we have it on the recordings 
of the live recordings that we have in the archives. It is such an unknown 
song that it winds up being cut in many current productions, which is a 
shame as it's a great song. In the recent Bridgeport production they opened 
the second act with it, having cut Electric Blues, which was an odd way to 
start Act II - with a slow, intense song. It is written in the script as 
being a reaction to the blowing out of the electricity at the end of 
Electric Blues (which ends with an explosion). It is done in the dark, with 
the cast entering from all over the house, making their way to the stage 
with flashlight, as the Aquarian ritual, recently discussed in the thread 
started by John Z, took place on stage. Claude entered mid song from the 
rear of the house in a gorilla suit, coming down the center aisle, and 
reached the stage at the end of the song "He is Aquarius...Appear! Appear!" 
in time for the reprise of Manchester.

Nina
The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html



From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  1 10:25:49 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 1 Apr 2006 18:25:49 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] March
Message-ID: <20060401182549.28923.qmail@webmail57.rediffmail.com>

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I guess I never told you guys about the march...


We had a march against the war in downtown Fayetteville on March 11th. 
It was from the Theatre Parking lot to the Downtown Square. It was great over 500 attended. 
I went the whole time. At the parking lot, someone had the London Version of "3-5-0-0" blaring really loud from their car. You could hear it play over and over all through out downtown. You can see photos at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/omniprotest/tags/m11/

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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  1 10:31:04 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 1 Apr 2006 18:31:04 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] March Article
Message-ID: <20060401183104.3377.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com>

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From the Arkansas Indymedia Newspaper:
The past two weekends in Fayetteville have seen residents of Northwest Arkansas in the street expressing dissent against the continued U.S. occupation of Iraq. 

On Saturday, March 4th, 20 bicyclists took part in the "Bikes Not Bombs" protest against the war. They started their ride on the Fayetteville square and proceeded from there to ride all over the downtown and Dickson St. areas and also along College Avenue and 6th St, chanting, "Bikes not bombs!" and, "No more oil war!". Not only was this a protest against the war but also against the car culture, which is fueling our dependence on the oil economy responsible for the war and environmental destruction. 

Then, this past Saturday, March 11th, the "M11: Bring The Troops Home" protest turned out one of (if not the) biggest anti-war protests in Fayetteville since the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. Approximately 500 people from Northwest Arkansas crowded into the Walton Arts Center parking lot, and at 2:00 PM, the diverse group, took Dickson Street. Carrying signs, beating out rhythms on their drums and chanting, they made their way to the Fayetteville Square. 

Along the way, a small group of bicyclists broke away from the main demonstration as it turned down Block St. They decided to take College Ave., blocking southbound traffic during busy Saturday afternoon traffic as they slowly pedaled to the square to rejoin the march. The original route of the M11 march had been to march to the square via College Ave., since it is a major street and would increase visibility. But, since a permit couldn?t be obtained for that route, marching to the square via Block Street was settled on for the official march. 

As usual the Fayetteville Police Department was filming the people in attendance. 

Upon arriving at the square, the Adult Choir of St. John's Episcopal Church sang songs of peace to kick off the rally, followed by Miller Williams reading his poem, "Of History and Hope", which he composed and read for Bill Clinton's second presidential inauguration. Next came Dr. Charles F. Robinson II, University of Arkansas Associate Professor and Director of African-American Studies, giving a powerful speech about resisting the war. Following him was slam poet Russ Ritter who gave us a great poem representing more radical views. Bill Williams took the mike next and stirred up the crowd with his speech, ending by everyone chanting. The last speaker was Barbara Porchia of Camden, Arkansas, whose son, Pfc. Jonathan Cheatham, was killed in Iraq in July 16, 2003 at age 19. Folk singer Nick Masullo ended the rally with his song, "Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home". 

The M11 event was sponsored by the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology and supported by Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, NWA Veterans for Peace, National Organization of Women (NWA Chapter), Green Party, Quakers, Social Justice Committee of UUFF, Buddhist Society of NW Arkansas, Family of Faith Christian Fellowship, Mennonites/Brethren of Rogers-Garfield, Members of St. James Methodist Church, United Campus Ministry & Unity Church. 

There were also a few groups present with information tables including the Livable Futures Sustainability group, the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology, the Green Party, and the All Peoples Unite Infoshop. 


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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  1 10:39:02 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 1 Apr 2006 18:39:02 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March
Message-ID: <20060401183902.26441.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com>

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I am happy to say that yesterday my three cousins 
at Springdale High School participated 
in a massive walkout, 
concerning the Illegal Immigrants, 
and later we went to a march in Fort Smith 

Hair

sorry for being off topic
Mike

The marches we have been having here are great. 
The M-11 March had " 3500" playing, and I joined a  group 
afterwards singing "The Flesh Failures"
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr  1 10:45:18 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:45:18 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] F--k What You Heard About Black Males from the	NYTimes
In-Reply-To: <20060401160153.27468.qmail@web53007.mail.yahoo.com>
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Mike,
Good posting
Thanks
M

> Found this in my Inbox...wanted to share
> PEACE
> -m
> 
> F--k What You Heard About Black Males from the
> NYTimes          
> By Omowale Adewale (formerly L. James)
> 
> 
> I heard yall bombarding my email with the New
> York Times's article on the plight of
> the black male and your own analysis and your
> friend's analysis, and frankly, it
> bothered me. I'm good though. I'm straight. I
> just wanted to enter into the
> discussion. 
> 
> They said "he was a case history, as well as an
> extraordinary and twisted man,
> turning many true gifts to evil purpose
his
> ruthless and fanatical belief in
> violence
marked him for fame, and for a violent
> end
he did not seek to fit into
> society or into the life of his own people
The
> world he saw through those
> horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and
> dark. But he made it darker still with
> his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone
> came out of that darkness that he
> spawned and killed him."
> 
> The New York Times, "the best daily paper in the
> country, in the world
urbane,
> sophisticated, liberal on certain civil liberties
> and civil rights questions," their
> mask slipped on February 22, 1964. This is how
> they described our Honorable Brother
> Malcolm X, our beloved Black Prince on day after
> he was shot. The leader of black
> males, the very working class and poor black
> males described by the Times on March
> 20, 2006. The leader in which SNCC (Student
> Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and
> the Black Panther Party both revere for providing
> them with their initial political
> science and courage to organize black people to
> defend against white American
> lynchings, fire hoses, dogs, discrimination, and
> America's systemic attacks. The
> Times pumped more lead in El Hajj Malik El
> Shabazz through each line they wrote the
> very next day after his first assassination. And,
> I am supposed to take their
> information packaged and sold to us under the
> guise of scholarly studies from
> Columbia,!
> Princeton and Harvard for gold?
> 
> Already, some black intellectual is doing white
> power's work and dissecting my words
> and concluding, "Their information is still
> true." Nah, homey. It's not. Statistics
> might be, though. Author of "the Debt" Randall
> Robsinson explained so eloquently
> that "a little learning is, as they say, a
> dangerous thing, and particularly when it
> is presented, like a severely cropped photograph,
> as an independent truth. And I do
> not believe as a general matter, such truncated
> analyses are innocently delivered by
> white establishment academics." Interestingly
> enough, but hardly coincidental he his
> commenting on another New York Times article
> about blacks falling behind in 1998. I
> believe we see a pattern here, John!
> 
> The best tactic the government and media ever
> used (and I mean they did spend
> billions of dollars on hundreds of agencies and
> organizations to complete its
> strategy) is the strategy of making young
> brothers feel like they are responsible
> for their current conditions. 50CENT hasn't been
> out more than five years in the
> media and we think he created the black villain
> in New York. We fault 50CENT more
> than we turn our waving fingers at the music
> groups that own the labels that own
> him. Meanwhile, folks are convinced that a
> nation, which stole land and murdered
> millions and enslaved millions for 300 years
> can't possibly be this diabolical.
> 
> Yes, black males are heading to prisons at
> astronomical rates and unemployment among
> black men is above the roof. However, I don't buy
> the ivy-league's solutions or
> conclusions or the New York Times story because
> they inexplicably and cautiously
> relate the reason for black male's crisis to the
> fault of black men themselves. "In
> response to the worsening situation for young
> black men, a growing number of
> programs are placing as much importance on
> teaching life skills ? like parenting,
> conflict resolution and character building ? as
> they are on teaching job skills."
> This quote in the Times article clearly suggests
> Blacks are messed up because we are
> bad parents, are irrational people, can't get
> jobs because we don't know anything,
> and we are just plainly bad people.
> 
> The poor statistics of black men in the US has
> always been a picture worth strong
> solutions. The difference was that Malcolm X,
> Martin Luther King, Jr., and even Huey
> P. Newton, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. never summed
> up black male oppression as
> something that we spawned. Not even remotely!
> Whether they preached non-violence or
> the right to defend yourself they always gave you
> clarity on the black current
> situation in America. They never blamed us for
> being apart of the poorest and most
> discombobulated communities. Harriet Tubman saw
> probably the most backwards of black
> men in their desire to stay enslaved instead of
> risking being free. She understood
> that that backwardness was always connected to
> white power's attempt to justify
> black slave's position in society and if it
> failed, white power frightened you
> beyond belief. The problem was always summed up
> as white power is the enemy and that
> it maintains power at the expense of the African.
> Whether it's wrestling Hip-Hop
> away a!
> nd using it's human and financial resources
> against us and for themselves, taking
> advantage of slavery and prison labor, or
> crushing the urge and the ability for
> uprising, black people have been the pedestal.
> 
> Am I supposed to believe after 300 years of
> slavery and 46 years of Jim Crow that
> now I am responsible for black males being 1
> million locked up? Am I supposed to
> think that the reason young black males are mad
> ass hell and selling drugs because
> we don't mentor enough black children? Am I
> supposed to believe that the CRIPS
> (Community Revolutionary Interdisciplinary
> Program Service) and the Bloods created
> the conditions that force me to live from check
> to check? The fact is that black
> people were awarded Civil Rights 42 years ago by
> the same government that launched a
> war on us. 
> 
> In the 1920's, remnants of COINTELPRO began
> forming from the young J. Edgar Hoover.
> His first task was to crush the Black Star Line
> and send one of the most powerful
> black men in America and his African
> internationalist ideas back to which they came.
> Marcus Mosiah Garvey, leader of millions in the
> UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement
> Association) was deported to Jamaica under a form
> of counterinsurgency used by the
> United States government. The UNIA had 700
> branches in 38 branches.
> 
> That same counterinsurgency finally took on the
> name called COINTELPRO in 1956 and
> was responsible for the deaths of 27 known Black
> Panther Party members and several
> others are still locked up as political
> prisoners, which are mostly men. The Black
> Panther Party had taken self-determination into
> their own hands and into black
> communities. Lead by mostly black males, but
> transcribed to me by my mother Cleo
> Shivers a teenage Black Panther organizer from
> 1969-1971. She explained to me the
> daily food being given out to the black community
> at the Sutter office in Brooklyn
> and the free clinic that treated the black
> community. The songs and poems she
> recited and the rallies described so detailed and
> vividly made me imagine the
> greatest zeal and love black people ever had for
> us in this nation. We were proud,
> although we were going to jail for our
> rebelliousness. The difference is we were
> politically clear on why and how we got there!
> 
> The conditions are still the same but black
> people's political clarity changed with
> COINTELPRO's successful execution, a US
> counterinsurgency program that murdered,
> imprisoned, misdirected, discredited, and
> disrupted the revolutionary, its spirit
> and potential revolutionaries to come. In 1969
> the FBI special agent in San
> Francisco wrote Hoover that his investigation of
> the Black Panther Party revealed
> that in his city, at least, the Black
> nationalists were primarily feeding breakfast
> to children. Hoover fired back a memo implying
> the career ambitions of the agent
> were directly related to his supplying evidence
> to support Hoover's view that the
> BPP was "a violence prone organization seeking to
> overthrow the Government by
> revolutionary means". J. Edgar Hoover said if you
> are going to be a revolutionary,
> you are going to be a dead revolutionary. The
> very people who admitted to killing
> our leaders and brandishing them as violent and
> hateful in our mourn for them now
> find themsel!
> ves articulating the depths of our despondency.
> Find their half attest to these
> claims in the Freedom of Information Act.
> 
> Black men are not in the poor conditions in
> America because of natural conditions,
> bad habits, because of fatherlessness, because
> some are stuck on a sixth grade
> reading level, or because they are helpless
> recidivists or even because the US
> government doesn't intervene effectively. We are
> facing these very issues because
> America's imperialism requires young black male's
> incarceration; it requires the
> petty bourgeoisie black males to offer up
> solutions that point to the government as
> the problem-solvers and the black working class
> and poor peasantry as the
> problem-makers. There is a very real and material
> obstacle preventing black men from
> becoming Marcus Garvey's, Malcolm's, and Huey's.
> The reason why black men suffer is
> because the US government DOES intervene in our
> community. Everyday, the police
> squad car patrols the black community waiting for
> the slightest reason to throw us
> in jail and extract labor and inject despair.
> Elected officials in our community get
> their posi!
> tions at our expense because they are complicit.
> 
> At the juncture in which the black working class
> and poor begin to show insurgency
> due to their conditions such as the 1992
> rebellion in Los Angeles, CA after the
> LAPD's beating of Rodney King, the 1996 rebellion
> in St. Petersburg, FL after the
> police shooting death of Tyrone Lewis, the 2003
> rebellion in Cincinnati, OH for the
> deaths of five unarmed black men by police in a
> five month period, and the Benton
> Harbor, MI rebellion in 2003 after a black
> motorist was killed when a police car
> pursued him the government increases
> counterinsurgency methods. Although, these are
> sporadic uprisings, it is a strong cause for
> concern for the government. It is also
> an explanation for counterinsurgency's
> maintenance. Yet, they flood our neighborhood
> because of possible rebellions, they say it's
> because they're fighting gangs, drugs,
> or poverty for our own good or for our quality of
> life. Counterinsurgency carries
> out in the form of eliminating black youth from
> the streets at disastrous lev!
> els. Right now in the South Bronx you have the
> poorest congressional district in the
> nation, in addition to it being one of the
> neighborhoods in the country with the
> highest levels of youth incarceration. There is
> no coincidence between incarcerated
> youth and its connection to poverty no more than
> there is a coincidence for
> rebelliousness found in black youth that live
> under the harshest conditions in the
> US. In reality, we've been living under the same
> climate for 400 years, non-stop.
> 
> The New York Times article was an attack. It was
> a rap sheet on the black male in
> America executed in public cold-blooded fashion.
> It spoke nothing of the
> arrest-quota-driven police targeting black
> neighborhoods, which has been
> corroborated by PBA President Pat Lynch. The
> article spoke nothing of Bill Clinton's
> dismantling of welfare (less than 2% of the
> government budget), which systematically
> separates the black male their families. Not to
> mention Clinton's heinous
> sponsorship of the most punitive crime bill in
> history, support for more
> paramilitary police, and his administration's
> investment in prisons that reported an
> economic boom for whites and a decline for blacks
> in 2001. Countless black and
> Latino women have visited my office confiding
> that their social worker suggested
> they'd get public assistance if they managed to
> divorce their husband.
> 
> Last year, I went to the Old Navy in Harlem to
> handle an issue and witnessed almost
> 20 young black men within an hour, most likely
> unfamiliar to each other's pursuit,
> walk in and out looking for employment positions.
> What they didn't know that some
> employees are clear on is that you better act
> white and change your tone when you
> speak. Have you ever observed black men in Old
> Navy or other big department stores?
> It's like seeing the results of American black
> male emasculation. Either that or
> find yourself being discriminated against, but
> given some bulls_it reason on why
> you're not qualified to sell clothing. Those with
> criminal records rarely bother in
> that sector. 
> 
> As a person who has been to family court
> countless times for my daughter I witnessed
> what many will never believe because they
> continue to retrieve all their information
> from a racist media. I personally had to fight
> three years for the system to
> recognize a costly glitch in the system while
> hearing other men suffer worse
> accounts. There are honest brothers overpaying
> child support by the thousands, as
> there are definitely some brothers under paying
> by gross amounts. I was shocked and
> embarrassed by my own shock that several black
> men were OVER paying child support
> that sometimes never reached the mother. In most
> cases like mine, the Child Support
> Enforcement agency are never on the same page as
> Family Court so you are regarded as
> a deadbeat and end up further in arrears. Luckily
> for me I had the flexibility and
> the resources of a government entity to go to
> court three years to put them on the
> same page. One non-custodial brother was fired
> because of this mishap, threatened !
> with jail time with only weeks away from
> homelessness and forced to pay a
> five-figure amount to Child Support Enforcement.
> I can't tell you how many times I
> was hung up on seconds into discussion because I
> was labeled as a deadbeat. I am
> reminded of a lawyer that explained that the
> reason courts started using metal
> detectors wasn't because of serial killers,
> gangsters, rapists, but because some
> fathers who had no visitation rights had a
> earnest and most brazen-red desire to see
> their children. 
> 
> Luckily, for me there is no problem in seeing my
> child. But, I'll make sure to
> inform her that you cannot leave it to this
> current media to explain your husband,
> father, uncles or brothers. Otherwise, you'll get
> the most diabolically concocted
> analysis and racist psychological babble that
> leaves the black petty bourgeoisie
> stuck vilifying themselves and other Africans.
> The problem is not black youth's
> rebelliousness; the problem I see is that
> Africans own less than 1% of the entire
> media and no percentage in the US government,
> only the appearance. We must learn
> even as we are under attack daily to stop
> continuing to sum up our conditions, as
> not only our own fault but also something new and
> fresh. Everything, black people
> and all others peoples are tied to a dialectical
> and historical process in which
> eras and events are interconnected even as things
> die and come anew. Hopefully. A
> revolution. 
> 
> 
> Omowale Adewale (27) is the co-founder and
> executive director of G.A.ME. He is a
> senior staff member for an elected official in
> the Bronx, member of the Uhuru
> Movement and FAR Fund Fellow. He drew national
> acclaim in his first visit to Nigeria
> in 2005 speaking on issues ranging from Hip-Hop
> to healthcare to self-determination
> for all Africans. 



From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  1 11:48:22 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 1 Apr 2006 19:48:22 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Article
Message-ID: <20060401194822.24723.qmail@webmail30.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Enjoy

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1562210,00.html#article_continue


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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Sat Apr  1 18:19:54 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:19:54 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F39A1AE342B43DAEC48C7BBB2D70@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <3522af44aa8.3505ddca@outgoing.verizon.net>

On 04/01/2006, Little Birdie wrote:

> Yes, the song Oh Great God of Power is in the official script, and
> always  has been. Hair has more songs than the average musical of its
> day did, and  so a number of songs were not included on the original
> cast album, in order  to allow it to conform to what a standard album
> length was in those days.  Some of the songs not included were recorded
> and then cut, reappearing on  the reissue of the OBC than came out -
> when? Dauber? Was it 88?

Yup -- 1988 indeed!

> Anyway,  other songs, like Oh Great God of
> Power, were never recorded originally, so  weren't on the reissue. It
> was only finally officially recorded for  DisinHAIRited.
> It was included in some foreign recordings, and we have it on the
> recordings  of the live recordings that we have in the archives.

It's on the Fresh Hair album. Of course, it's not on the CD that combines
the 1968 London album and Fresh Hair.

What's interesting is that it seems to me that most productions do "Oh Great
God Of Power" in 2/4 time. The Fresh Hair version is stretched into common
time; I think it works much better that way. Very powerful.

Glad to see I'm not the only one lamenting the overlooking of OGGOP. :)
--
dauber at banana-and-louie.org
 * ICQ: 28677921 * YIM: dau_ber * AIM: ddaauubbeerr
blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com

From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Apr  1 18:50:28 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 21:50:28 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power
References: <3522af44aa8.3505ddca@outgoing.verizon.net>
Message-ID: <000701c65600$33a0e910$f1476c42@hotprojects>

we also incorporated in 1980 some of the numbers that were ommitted for bdwy
like women of the world unite
how i love my hippy life
etc
all really good songs
i havent found a lame one

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Courtney" <dauber at banana-and-louie.org>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power


> On 04/01/2006, Little Birdie wrote:
>
> > Yes, the song Oh Great God of Power is in the official script, and
> > always  has been. Hair has more songs than the average musical of its
> > day did, and  so a number of songs were not included on the original
> > cast album, in order  to allow it to conform to what a standard album
> > length was in those days.  Some of the songs not included were recorded
> > and then cut, reappearing on  the reissue of the OBC than came out -
> > when? Dauber? Was it 88?
>
> Yup -- 1988 indeed!
>
> > Anyway,  other songs, like Oh Great God of
> > Power, were never recorded originally, so  weren't on the reissue. It
> > was only finally officially recorded for  DisinHAIRited.
> > It was included in some foreign recordings, and we have it on the
> > recordings  of the live recordings that we have in the archives.
>
> It's on the Fresh Hair album. Of course, it's not on the CD that combines
> the 1968 London album and Fresh Hair.
>
> What's interesting is that it seems to me that most productions do "Oh
Great
> God Of Power" in 2/4 time. The Fresh Hair version is stretched into common
> time; I think it works much better that way. Very powerful.
>
> Glad to see I'm not the only one lamenting the overlooking of OGGOP. :)
> --
> dauber at banana-and-louie.org
>  * ICQ: 28677921 * YIM: dau_ber * AIM: ddaauubbeerr
> blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Apr  1 18:51:22 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 21:51:22 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] i am so sorry it looks like its not working out for them
Message-ID: <002e01c65600$5394fea0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

in toronto
?
wanted it to work for them badly
>?
and for the play
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Apr  1 20:53:37 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 23:53:37 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] has anyone in the group seen the toronto production?
Message-ID: <000801c65611$67a83ef0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

id love to hear some first hand feedback
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr  2 09:07:38 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 2 Apr 2006 16:07:38 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Toronto Hair
Message-ID: <20060402160738.8090.qmail@webmail53.rediffmail.com>

 ?
I don't undertstand why it hasn't worked
Is the production just bad?
Is it overproduced/glossy?
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr  2 09:21:47 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:21:47 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Toronto Hair
References: <20060402160738.8090.qmail@webmail53.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <017401c65671$8a631400$f1476c42@hotprojects>

being empirical being scientific
we dont know that it hasnt worked
we know that one of the major critics in the city and one of the upi releases bombed it
and that there is some negative buzz on the street
this may or may not have to do with socio political factors substantively
eg the 77 revival in nyc was a brilliant production in every aspect i thought 
( although given not the original which was utterly unique and powerful etc )
and got excourgiated for some reason i have never been able to discern
as the production was so good and so enjoyable and the audience was screaming and on their feet
and singing along and cheering 5 minutes into the production
and didnt stop until the show ended
it was an absolutely brilliant production in my estimation
and the audience loved it
and the critics devoured it in a bad way
and it died
and went down pretty much as a flop
and was a brilliant sublime production i thought
so the reality may or may not be that the play is bad

?
there is a certain buzz to that effect now, but it may not be veridical en vivo in fact

and the production may still be selling we dont know
the audience sales is a key judge
and perhaps much more important
the audience could be both loving it and buying tickets

or it could be a dog
?
we simply dont know

we know there have been some negative reviews and some negative buzz

but thats all
anything more is speculation
but im dieing to know
and to know why
the analysis i think is very important
just my opinion

R
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 12:07 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Toronto Hair


   
  I don't undertstand why it hasn't worked
  Is the production just bad?
  Is it overproduced/glossy? 



   


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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Sun Apr  2 14:32:35 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:32:35 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Repatriate Aiden Hulme Now Petition
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV13CB676BF598437388D1CDABD40@phx.gbl>

Here is one for a fellow Irishmen Robin.... This poor guy is suffering with improper medical care...

peace,
barbara
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
Barbara Siomos <barbarasiomos38 at msn.com> has sent you the following web link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/87bb92a/petition.html

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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr  2 14:31:55 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 2 Apr 2006 21:31:55 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] broadway musical company live
Message-ID: <20060402213155.19854.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>

 ?
does anyone know where I can get the 1995 broadway musical company version of Hair?
I could  trade copies of something for a copy of this CD
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr  2 14:44:52 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 2 Apr 2006 21:44:52 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
Message-ID: <20060402214452.6109.qmail@webmail6.rediffmail.com>

 ?
does anyone have a copy of the script to dude? I think I heard that all scripts are lost...... just curious
i have a mint condition playbill of it. 
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Sun Apr  2 15:09:01 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:09:01 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - Hair
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV12165547C318DC6741EE5DABD40@phx.gbl>

Amen..... and I agree Jonathon.   :-)

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathon Johnson
Sent: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:15:09 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - Hair

"If it ain't broken - don't fix it." 
   
  Sorry folks, but no one can convince me that "Hair" needs to be rewritten or updated.
  Not even Jim Rado who I love and admire deeply. Just go back to the Tom O'Horgan
  Broadway version (which WAS the HIT), and the people will get it. Do not stray too far 
  from the playing field or you'll get lost in the tall grass.
   
  Just an opinion of an old tribe member who is set in his ways ;)
   
  Peace, Love and Blessings ~ Jonathon

Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com> wrote:
  

Posted: Thurs., Mar. 30, 2006, 8:00pm PT

Hair

(Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto; 876 Seats; C$89 $77 top)

A CanStage and Dancap Private Equity presentation of a musical in two
acts with music by Galt MacDermot, book by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
Directed by Robert A. Prior. Musical director, Steve Hunter.
Choreographer, Stephen Hues.

Grasshopper, Margaret Mead, Scarlett O'Hara - Matthew Boden
Hud, Sergeant - Matthew Brown
Berger, General Grant - Craig Burnatowski
Sheila - Karen Burthwright
Crissy, Monk - Kimmy Choi
Stroodel, Dad, Hubert Mead - Kevin Dennis
Brain, Rock Band Soloist - Gerrard Everard
Justice - Ryan Field
Dionne, Lincoln - Alana Hibbert
Apache - Bryan Hindle
Woof - Andrew Kushnir
Claude - Jamie McKnight
Pumpkin, Mom - Adrienne Merrell
Thistle - David Mongar
Karisma - Katrina Reynolds
Karma, The God Aquarius, Monk - Julius Sermonia
Lala - Valerie Stanois
Hotdog, Principal, Clark Gable,
Uncle Sam - Zachary Stevenson
Moonchild, Aquarius Soloist - Sheena Turcotte
Jeanie - Cleopatra Williams
Angela - Naomi Zara


_____ 

By RICHARD OUZOUNIAN

_____ 

Quick, get the Rogaine. The new production of "Hair" now on view in
Toronto supposedly boasts a series of enriching rewrites by author James
Rado. But rather than help the material, they make the iconic
flower-power, antiwar musical seem thinner than ever. A lot of the
blame, however, must be laid at the feet of director Robert A. Prior,
choreographer Stephen Hues and a decidedly inferior cast.

Prior is the founder of L.A.'s Fabulous Monsters Performance Group, and
Hues has collaborated with him on numerous occasions. They have a
reputation for doing edgy, innovative productions, which is probably why
Rado demanded that CanStage import the American duo for this production.

But something has gone horribly wrong along the way: The brightly
colored, insipidly staged mess being performed at the Bluma Appel
Theater would be more at home in a theme park than at Canada's largest
regional theater.

It was their rough-hewn charm and political intensity that made the
original productions of "Hair" work. The people who created, produced
and performed the early versions of the show were united in their anger
over the war in Vietnam. And so, despite an initially breezy air, some
fetching tunes from Galt MacDermot and the inventive staging of Tom
O'Horgan, the musical showed its rage in act two, which is largely a
drug-fueled fantasy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

This is territory artists can still revisit with sincerity and passion,
as Twyla Tharp proved in "Movin' Out."

But Prior and company have opted instead for Peter Max-colored designs
and costumes that look like they stepped out of an episode of
"Laugh-In." No one actually comes out and says, "Sock it to me!," but
you wouldn't be surprised if they did.

Yes, there's a nude scene at the end of act one, but where it used to be
a personal statement for the cast, tied into their reaction to Claude's
moving "Where Do I Go?," it now features the whole cast in what looks
like a merely egregious way to bring down the curtain.

When it was announced that Rado was working on rewrites of the script,
some people assumed he might be honing the political message to make it
more relevant to today. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Instead, he has expanded the book scenes in which Claude, Berger and
Sheila work out the details of their not-quite-menage a trois. Maybe the
material has personal resonance for Rado (the show supposedly mirrors
his offstage relationship with co-author and co-star Ragni), but the
cliched dialogue further drains the show's political intensity.

In a city known for a deep talent pool of young musical theater
performers, Prior and Hues have largely contented themselves with
fishing in the shallow end. Most of the company doesn't sing well, take
the stage with confidence or seem to have any idea what they're doing.

From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Sun Apr  2 15:23:21 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:23:21 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Well, you can't say I didn't try
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV9DD84CC27DF967625591FABD40@phx.gbl>

This all is a matter of opinion just like any decision Gibby....

I think HAiR should be done in its original version as most people here.... but too each its own.

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Gibson Vendettuoli
Sent: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:18:55 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Well, you can't say I didn't try

I've tried very much to support Jim when he decided that the work needed changes. If that was what
he felt was necessary, then I would be glad to see it through and tell him whether it was the
right or wrong thing. I was the one who told him that the Gate Theatre modernization in London was
a serious mistake rather than a step in the right direction, based on what I saw, and he told me
it only confirmed his suspicions. Well, he can't say he has suspicions now, the way he's changed
the work.

I don't understand how this could happen. The only way would be for someone to lay all the cards
on the table here. I'm a growing director; I've staged several productions in the Southern New
England area since you all last heard from me, and the next production I want to do is HAIR.

The company I work with is very willing to do it, and they've already begun sending feelers to
Tams-Witmark. But I can't do it without help, and I can't do it without knowing that it's done
right. I know for certain that the 1995 script can't be right, because I've heard complaints of
how vague the script is.

I need your help. And I need a knowledge of the background of the scripts, and what the version is
that everyone considers definitive. And to do that, I need to see some material. I am quite
willing to work on everyone's terms if I want to do HAIR right, but I have to see the material to
do it.

So I'm going to ask, like I've asked many times before, but this time more maturely, and with a
clear head, and no nefarious intentions that I know of: Nina, I'd like to make an appointment with
you to view the script material you have in the Archives. I love HAIR, and I would not do any
wrong to it if I knew in my heart that a certain version is the right direction.

Please help me, someone, anyone.

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr  2 15:23:29 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:23:29 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - Hair
References: <BAY114-DAV12165547C318DC6741EE5DABD40@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <001a01c656a4$11dc8dd0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

you may be right
on the other hand
i could contend
that tom would be the first one to tell you to continue to experiment
?
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  From: Barbara Siomos 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 6:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - Hair


  Amen..... and I agree Jonathon.   :-)

  peace,
  barbara

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  Sent: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:15:09 -0700
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - Hair


  "If it ain't broken - don't fix it." 

  Sorry folks, but no one can convince me that "Hair" needs to be rewritten or updated.
  Not even Jim Rado who I love and admire deeply. Just go back to the Tom O'Horgan
  Broadway version (which WAS the HIT), and the people will get it. Do not stray too far 
  from the playing field or you'll get lost in the tall grass.

  Just an opinion of an old tribe member who is set in his ways ;)

  Peace, Love and Blessings ~ Jonathon

  Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com> wrote:


    Posted: Thurs., Mar. 30, 2006, 8:00pm PT

    Hair

    (Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto; 876 Seats; C$89 $77 top)

    A CanStage and Dancap Private Equity presentation of a musical in two
    acts with music by Galt MacDermot, book by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
    Directed by Robert A. Prior. Musical director, Steve Hunter.
    Choreographer, Stephen Hues.

    Grasshopper, Margaret Mead, Scarlett O'Hara - Matthew Boden
    Hud, Sergeant - Matthew Brown
    Berger, General Grant - Craig Burnatowski
    Sheila - Karen Burthwright
    Crissy, Monk - Kimmy Choi
    Stroodel, Dad, Hubert Mead - Kevin Dennis
    Brain, Rock Band Soloist - Gerrard Everard
    Justice - Ryan Field
    Dionne, Lincoln - Alana Hibbert
    Apache - Bryan Hindle
    Woof - Andrew Kushnir
    Claude - Jamie McKnight
    Pumpkin, Mom - Adrienne Merrell
    Thistle - David Mongar
    Karisma - Katrina Reynolds
    Karma, The God Aquarius, Monk - Julius Sermonia
    Lala - Valerie Stanois
    Hotdog, Principal, Clark Gable,
    Uncle Sam - Zachary Stevenson
    Moonchild, Aquarius Soloist - Sheena Turcotte
    Jeanie - Cleopatra Williams
    Angela - Naomi Zara


    _____ 

    By RICHARD OUZOUNIAN

    _____ 

    Quick, get the Rogaine. The new production of "Hair" now on view in
    Toronto supposedly boasts a series of enriching rewrites by author James
    Rado. But rather than help the material, they make the iconic
    flower-power, antiwar musical seem thinner than ever. A lot of the
    blame, however, must be laid at the feet of director Robert A. Prior,
    choreographer Stephen Hues and a decidedly inferior cast.

    Prior is the founder of L.A.'s Fabulous Monsters Performance Group, and
    Hues has collaborated with him on numerous occasions. They have a
    reputation for doing edgy, innovative productions, which is probably why
    Rado demanded that CanStage import the American duo for this production.

    But something has gone horribly wrong along the way: The brightly
    colored, insipidly staged mess being performed at the Bluma Appel
    Theater would be more at home in a theme park than at Canada's largest
    regional theater.

    It was their rough-hewn charm and political intensity that made the
    original productions of "Hair" work. The people who created, produced
    and performed the early versions of the show were united in their anger
    over the war in Vietnam. And so, despite an initially breezy air, some
    fetching tunes from Galt MacDermot and the inventive staging of Tom
    O'Horgan, the musical showed its rage in act two, which is largely a
    drug-fueled fantasy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

    This is territory artists can still revisit with sincerity and passion,
    as Twyla Tharp proved in "Movin' Out."

    But Prior and company have opted instead for Peter Max-colored designs
    and costumes that look like they stepped out of an episode of
    "Laugh-In." No one actually comes out and says, "Sock it to me!," but
    you wouldn't be surprised if they did.

    Yes, there's a nude scene at the end of act one, but where it used to be
    a personal statement for the cast, tied into their reaction to Claude's
    moving "Where Do I Go?," it now features the whole cast in what looks
    like a merely egregious way to bring down the curtain.

    When it was announced that Rado was working on rewrites of the script,
    some people assumed he might be honing the political message to make it
    more relevant to today. Nothing could be further from the truth.

    Instead, he has expanded the book scenes in which Claude, Berger and
    Sheila work out the details of their not-quite-menage a trois. Maybe the
    material has personal resonance for Rado (the show supposedly mirrors
    his offstage relationship with co-author and co-star Ragni), but the
    cliched dialogue further drains the show's political intensity.

    In a city known for a deep talent pool of young musical theater
    performers, Prior and Hues have largely contented themselves with
    fishing in the shallow end. Most of the company doesn't sing well, take
    the stage with confidence or seem to have any idea what they're doing.
    From the moment Sheena Turcotte feebly warbles opening song "Aquarius,"
    you know you're in trouble.

    There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie
    McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in
    Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew
    Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what
    they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.

    Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen
    Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors
    are inept or forgettable.

    This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of
    theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this
    piece holds in musical theater history.



    Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne; lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;
    projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.
    Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.



    Read the full article at:
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr  2 15:24:43 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:24:43 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
References: <20060402214452.6109.qmail@webmail6.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <004b01c656a4$3e231670$f1476c42@hotprojects>

i saw dude
galt would have it
dude had the finest opening number i thought ever
and ralph carters greatest child star performance i ever seen
aside from that it was in my subjective opinion
a fragment of a show that didnt work on any level
galt would have it
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:44 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] dude


   
  does anyone have a copy of the script to dude? I think I heard that all scripts are lost...... just curious
  i have a mint condition playbill of it. 



   


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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Sun Apr  2 15:32:17 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:32:17 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV1337AE0421F5627E57A808ABD40@phx.gbl>

Keep on keeping on with your posting... :-))

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ramirez
Sent: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 11:39:02 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March

 
I am happy to say that yesterday my three cousins 
at Springdale High School participated 
in a massive walkout, 
concerning the Illegal Immigrants, 
and later we went to a march in Fort Smith 

Hair

sorry for being off topic
Mike

The marches we have been having here are great. 
The M-11 March had " 3500" playing, and I joined a  group 
afterwards singing "The Flesh Failures"
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr  2 16:27:42 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 2 Apr 2006 23:27:42 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Australia 1992
Message-ID: <20060402232742.28885.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com>

 ?Who else really dislikes this album? 

i think it sounds way too 1980's with the annoying synthesizers and all.
The brass band gets so annoying sometimes like in colored spade
berger sounds like a phony modern broadway actor
the 1980's synthesizer BUGS THE CRAP OUT OF ME! Frank Mills is so annoying so is Easy to Be Hard and Hare Krishna
am I hearing synthesizer bagpipes in "War"?
The only good thing about this album is the Sheila and the dialogue before Flesh Failures 
even then some of the dialogue sounds really fake like the rally

well this was rather abrupt and random  

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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sun Apr  2 16:36:56 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:36:56 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
References: <20060402214452.6109.qmail@webmail6.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <001501c656ae$54e17dc0$1f1c7c46@CowBox>

I am quite sure I have a copy in the archives.

Love forever
Robin 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:44 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] dude


   
  does anyone have a copy of the script to dude? I think I heard that all scripts are lost...... just curious
  i have a mint condition playbill of it. 



   


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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sun Apr  2 16:45:41 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:45:41 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
References: <20060402214452.6109.qmail@webmail6.rediffmail.com>
	<004b01c656a4$3e231670$f1476c42@hotprojects>
Message-ID: <003401c656af$8da31aa0$1f1c7c46@CowBox>

There certainly was some good music in Dude, but that's about it, the whole thing was a strange trip. 

Love forever
Robin 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: richard haase 
  To: Michael Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 6:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] dude


  i saw dude
  galt would have it
  dude had the finest opening number i thought ever
  and ralph carters greatest child star performance i ever seen
  aside from that it was in my subjective opinion
  a fragment of a show that didnt work on any level
  galt would have it
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Michael Ramirez 
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
    Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:44 PM
    Subject: [Mb-hair] dude



    does anyone have a copy of the script to dude? I think I heard that all scripts are lost...... just curious
    i have a mint condition playbill of it. 



     


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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:19:20 EDT
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Apr  2 14:40:51 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:40:51 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] How the GOP Became God's Own Party
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Michael Butler's Blog

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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sun Apr  2 16:53:44 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:53:44 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March
References: <BAY114-DAV1337AE0421F5627E57A808ABD40@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <008301c656b0$ad5046b0$1f1c7c46@CowBox>

Very Cool Michael 

Love forever
Robin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Siomos 
  To: Michael Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 6:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March


  Keep on keeping on with your posting... :-))

  peace,
  barbara

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  From: Michael Ramirez
  Sent: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 11:39:02 -0700
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March


   
  I am happy to say that yesterday my three cousins 
  at Springdale High School participated 
  in a massive walkout, 
  concerning the Illegal Immigrants, 
  and later we went to a march in Fort Smith 

  Hair

  sorry for being off topic
  Mike

  The marches we have been having here are great. 
  The M-11 March had " 3500" playing, and I joined a  group 
  afterwards singing "The Flesh Failures" 



   


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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Apr  2 16:58:33 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:58:33 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March
In-Reply-To: <20060401183902.26441.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F4882E615B836557CAEB4CB2D40@phx.gbl>

Mike R wrote:

>sorry for being off topic

You aren't off topic, Mike. The list FAQ states:

"The Mb-Hair list is an email mailing list for the purpose of discussing 
Hair, it?s politics, messages, and other related subjects."


In addition we took a poll a while back about whether the list should be 
strictly on topic, or if people wanted it to be more like someone's living 
room, where we could talk, within reason, about things that were going on 
for us. The vast majority of votes fell towards the living room version of 
the list. If an off topic thread goes on too long, or is between two people 
only for more than a few posts, then it could move to private email, but 
other than that feel free to post whatever is on your mind.

Nina
The Hair Archives
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>From: "Michael Ramirez" <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>
>Reply-To: Michael Ramirez <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,        
>mb-hair at islandlists.com
>To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Walk out & March
>Date: 1 Apr 2006 18:39:02 -0000
>
>   I am happy to say that yesterday my three cousins
>at Springdale High School participated
>in a massive walkout,
>concerning the Illegal Immigrants,
>and later we went to a march in Fort Smith
>
>Hair
>
>sorry for being off topic
>Mike
>
>The marches we have been having here are great.
>The M-11 March had " 3500" playing, and I joined a  group
>afterwards singing "The Flesh Failures"


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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Apr  2 17:15:23 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:15:23 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
In-Reply-To: <001501c656ae$54e17dc0$1f1c7c46@CowBox>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F241B1464634EEB8EADD68AB2D50@phx.gbl>

Yes, we have a copy of the Dude script that Robin donated in the Archives, 
but the thing about Dude was that it went through so many changes in it's 
brief life that reading the script doesn't convey what eventually was 
performed, although it gives some of it.

Yes, Robin, the music was great, as were many of the performances (including 
some of our dear friends!). There is a CD of some of it available at Amazon, 
or at least it was still available last time I checked.

Rainbow is also well worth hearing - some fantastic music there too. 
Unfortunately no cast album was made.

There are some photos and reviews, etc. on the web site about both these 
shows:

Dude Photos:
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/photographs/dude/DudePhotoIndex.html

Dude articles:
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/articles/DudeArticles/DudeArticlesIndex.html

Rainbow photos:
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/photographs/rainbow/RainbowPhotoIndex.html

Rainbow articles:
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/articles/RainbowArticles/RainbowArticlesIndex.html

Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html


>From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>To: "Michael Ramirez" <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,        
><mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] dude
>Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:36:56 -0400
>
>I am quite sure I have a copy in the archives.
>
>Love forever
>Robin
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Michael Ramirez
>   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>   Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:44 PM
>   Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
>
>
>
>   does anyone have a copy of the script to dude? I think I heard that all 
>scripts are lost...... just curious
>   i have a mint condition playbill of it.



From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr  2 18:34:55 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
Message-ID: <20060403013455.31886.qmail@webmail53.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Who here likes Rocky Horror?

I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr  2 18:44:56 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:44:56 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Randy Bowser
Message-ID: <20060403014456.6165.qmail@webmail8.rediffmail.com>

 ?
does anyone know how to contact him? We used to reguarly converse via-email, I tried emailing  him recently  and got no reply. I could use some help. He produced a brilliant version of Hair, I think his website is availible on the links and resources page of the archives. 
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Sun Apr  2 23:02:44 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:02:44 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
Message-ID: <20060403060244.4DA8EDA59B@ws6-6.us4.outblaze.com>

Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?

Beverly



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  From: "Michael Ramirez"
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
  Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000


  Who here likes Rocky Horror?

  I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...



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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr  3 03:14:14 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:14:14 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
References: <20060403060244.4DA8EDA59B@ws6-6.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <004201c65707$5c5b1b20$f1476c42@hotprojects>

I love rocky horror
frank is one of the few parts in my range
eg frankenfurter ; the lead in south pacific; and joe from show boat
and who wants to watch a little jewish guy sing old man river
?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Beverly Bremers 
  To: Michael Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


  Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?

  Beverly





   

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    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
    Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
    Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000



    Who here likes Rocky Horror?

    I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it... 



     
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr  3 03:50:02 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
References: <20060403060244.4DA8EDA59B@ws6-6.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <003101c6570c$5c291c60$f1476c42@hotprojects>

beverly that was the best recording of the show
ever
the roxy cast
who did you play in it?
i had just ordered it from amazon
but they sent me the karoake version instead
?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Beverly Bremers 
  To: Michael Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


  Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?

  Beverly





   

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    From: "Michael Ramirez" 
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
    Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
    Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000



    Who here likes Rocky Horror?

    I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it... 



     
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From Ocsomtan at aol.com  Mon Apr  3 04:58:03 2006
From: Ocsomtan at aol.com (Ocsomtan at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:58:03 EDT
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
Message-ID: <228.93c7070.316267cb@aol.com>

Nina, Jim Rado gave me a  c.d. of RAINBOW.  I'll ask him for another for the 
archives.

XX,
Nat

> Rainbow is also well worth hearing - some fantastic music there too. 
> Unfortunately no cast album was made

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From BUMBLEROY at aol.com  Mon Apr  3 04:55:24 2006
From: BUMBLEROY at aol.com (BUMBLEROY at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:55:24 EDT
Subject: [Mb-hair] cool
Message-ID: <E1FQT2U-0006lW-4P@elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

     
Just a little bit of  TRIVIA............ 

On Wednesday, April 5, 2006  
at 2 minutes & 3  seconds after 1:00,   

the time & date will be   
01:02:03 04/05/06.  

That won't ever happen again in our lifetimes!  




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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Apr  3 11:02:19 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:02:19 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
In-Reply-To: <228.93c7070.316267cb@aol.com>
Message-ID: <C056B13B.2AE04%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Agreed, some terrific music and lyrics.
Michael

> Nina, Jim Rado gave me a  c.d. of RAINBOW.  I'll ask him for another for the
> archives.
> 
> XX,
> Nat
> 
>> Rainbow is also well worth hearing - some fantastic music there too.
>> Unfortunately no cast album was made
> 
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Mon Apr  3 11:56:01 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:56:01 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
Message-ID: <20060403185602.888254F504@ws6-5.us4.outblaze.com>

I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made, replacing
Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at that time, so I had
the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from "Hair" in the role of
Franknfurter!

Beverly


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "richard haase"
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
  Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400

beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe roxy castwho did
you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut they sent me the
karoake version instead?

  ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
  ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
  Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror

  Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?

  Beverly



    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Ramirez"
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
    Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
    Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000


    Who here likes Rocky Horror?

    I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...



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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr  3 11:56:24 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:56:24 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
References: <20060403185602.888254F504@ws6-5.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <019701c65750$4e08d640$f1476c42@hotprojects>

wow
that sounded like the best production ever bev
are you still performing?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Beverly Bremers 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:56 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


  I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made, replacing Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at that time, so I had the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from "Hair" in the role of Franknfurter!

  Beverly


   

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "richard haase" 
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
    Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
    Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400


    beverly that was the best recording of the show
    ever
    the roxy cast
    who did you play in it?
    i had just ordered it from amazon
    but they sent me the karoake version instead
    ?
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Beverly Bremers 
      To: Michael Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.com 
      Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AM
      Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


      Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?

      Beverly





       

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: "Michael Ramirez" 
        To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
        Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
        Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000



        Who here likes Rocky Horror?

        I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it... 



         
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Apr  3 12:21:21 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:21:21 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
In-Reply-To: <20060403185602.888254F504@ws6-5.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <C056C3C1.2AE20%michael@michaelbutler.com>

WOW! I wish I had seen that show!
XO M

> I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made, replacing
> Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at that time, so I had
> the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from "Hair" in the role of
> Franknfurter!
> 
> Beverly
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "richard haase"
> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> 
> beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe roxy castwho did
> you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut they sent me the
> karoake version instead?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
> ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> 
> Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?
> 
> Beverly
> 
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Michael Ramirez"
>   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>   Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>   Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> 
> 
>   Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> 
>   I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
> 
> 
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From nycrjmac at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  3 13:01:39 2006
From: nycrjmac at yahoo.com (RJ Mac)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] broadway musical company live
In-Reply-To: <20060402213155.19854.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <20060403200139.76112.qmail@web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

best resource for musical theater: footlight records
on 13th St. in NYC.

They have things in their shop that may not be on
their website, so you can call if you don't see it
listed online.

Still haven't looked for that tape: will get back to
you on that.

rj

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>   
> does anyone know where I can get the 1995 broadway
> musical company version of Hair?
> I could  trade copies of something for a copy of
> this CD>
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From nycrjmac at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  3 13:11:29 2006
From: nycrjmac at yahoo.com (RJ Mac)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
In-Reply-To: <20060403185602.888254F504@ws6-5.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <20060403201130.74956.qmail@web31613.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Old fan mail:

I saw the Rocky Roxy twice while you played Janet:
always thrilled with your "toucha-toucha touch me" vs.
how it was done on the London album.

Saw Paul Jabara once, Bruce Scott I think, did Frank
the second time I went...

Honestly a fun show at the Roxy, always puzzled
though, how it became such a phenomenon-- as well as,
how so many people have no idea it was a live show
Before it was a movie.

rj

--- Beverly Bremers <bev at beverlybremers.com> wrote:

> I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album
> was made, replacing
> Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at
> that time, so I had
> the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
> "Hair" in the role of
> Franknfurter!
> 
> Beverly
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "richard haase"
>   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>   Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>   Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> 
> beverly that was the best recording of the
> showeverthe roxy castwho did
> you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut
> they sent me the
> karoake version instead?
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly
> BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
>   ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03,
> 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
>   Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> 
>   Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do
> you want to know?
> 
>   Beverly
> 
> 
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "Michael Ramirez"
>     To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>     Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>     Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> 
> 
>     Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> 
>     I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast
> album of it...
> 
> 
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Mon Apr  3 13:11:55 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:11:55 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] dude
In-Reply-To: <228.93c7070.316267cb@aol.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F14A5C246FFEE3735B44D47B2D50@phx.gbl>

Thanks Nat. We have a live recording of the '73 production in the Archives, 
but some time ago Jim told me he was working on it, revamping it some. I 
very much look forward to hearing the CD. Didn't he retitle it - Billy 
Earth, I think?.
XOXO,
Nina

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>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] dude
>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:58:03 EDT
>
>Nina, Jim Rado gave me a  c.d. of RAINBOW.  I'll ask him for another for 
>the
>archives.
>
>XX,
>Nat
>
> > Rainbow is also well worth hearing - some fantastic music there too.
> > Unfortunately no cast album was made
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From dayton3 at rcn.com  Mon Apr  3 13:00:23 2006
From: dayton3 at rcn.com (Nina Dayton)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:00:23 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Two More Toronto Hair Reviews
Message-ID: <44317ED7.2030301@rcn.com>

The Toronto Globe and Mail 
 
What a bummer. It's far off, not far out

KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE 
Hair
Book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Robert A. Prior
Starring Craig Burnatowski, Karen Burthwright, Jamie McKnight

At Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto

When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars . . .perhaps it will be time for Hair to shine onstage again. Until such a celestial meeting of peace-digging planets takes place, we're stuck with CanStage's wretched revival of the 1967 hippie musical. It opened Thursday at the Bluma Appel Theatre under the direction of Robert A. Prior -- and has a whole lot of nothing to say about the sixties or the present time.

A relentless collage of unsubtle video projection, vintage fashion show and karaoke-grade singing, this production only succeeds in pulling the dubious double feat of undermining the old musical and exposing the vacuity of its new 
interpreters. James Rado, co-writer (with the late Gerome Ragni) of Hair's book and lyrics, straddles both camps: For the last few weeks, he's been in Toronto, frantically rewriting the book for this revival.

I'm not sure what exactly he's been busy doing, since nothing here has a whiff of freshness about it. The basic plot, at any rate, remains unchanged. Hair is the story of Claude (Jamie McKnight), the long-haired rebel who has to leave the tribe of East Village hippies to fight for his country in Vietnam. His friendship with "democracy's daughter," the activist Sheila (Karen Burthwright), and with Berger (Craig Burnatowski), the de facto tribe leader, forms a secondary emotional through line in Hair. There's not much of a story, but the musical has always been more about capturing (some would say capitalizing
on) the period's vibe than telling its definitive history.

That's where this production strikes out. Prior's vision, if that's the right word, of the 1960s counterculture scene is superficial in the extreme. All that talk about parallels between Vietnam and the war in Iraq that was supposed to prove the relevance of this period piece was just that: talk.

The only evidence of a 21st-century aesthetic or thinking is the constant streaming of video-game-like imagery that only enhances the high-school feel of the night -- a night hijacked by the audio-visual club at that. From newsreel footage to psychedelic colour explosions, practically every moment in Hair is accompanied by this barrage.

Such visual vocabulary would have worked much more successfully if the rest of this over-amplified, over-designed production didn't clash horribly with it. Dany Lyne's sets and costumes recycle the sixties as an existential theme park from which there's no physical or emotional exit. I suspect Prior was aiming for a sense of visual and sensual bombardment, but his strategy loses its impact and wears out its welcome early on in Act I.

Normally critics are on autopilot in complaining when the visual overload of a show upstages the cast or unfairly competes with it. (See The Lord of the Rings for the ultimate illustration of this critical mantra.) This time, however, I'd like to part company with my own tribe to note there is a silver lining to the cloud of sensory overload: It offers a distraction from the thoroughly dull cast of largely unknown and untried musical-theatre performers. The thinking behind such risky casting in a high-profile production is admirable; the execution significantly less so.

Collectively, there's a wholesomeness -- which is not to be confused with innocence, lost or otherwise -- to the cast that denies the material its social undertones and its rebellious spirit. Everybody seems to function emotionally at the level of a cruise-ship production of Annie.

There are two exceptions: Burnatowski as Berger and Jamie McKnight as Claude. The former at least offers a magnetic stage presence; the latter gives an emotionally straightforward performance unencumbered by the sound-and-light show that surrounds him.

There's no good news to report when it comes to the singing. The real tragedy in this Hair is not Vietnam but the vocal massacre of one great song after another. From the opening chords of Aquarius to the closing anthem Let the Sunshine In, from the comic Frank Mills to the thunderous Ain't Got In, the singing lacks feeling, character and, well, singing ability.

It all rather forces one to re-think the place of Hair within American musical-theatre history, at the very least as a "now more than ever" work. Time has left this show behind.

For most of the cast in this spectacularly awful revival, the cruise ship awaits. 

Hair continues at the Bluma Appel in Toronto until June 17 (416-368-3110).

************************************
TORONTO STAR

Theatre Review: Hair needs a comb
Mar. 31, 2006. 06:50 AM
RICHARD OUZOUNIAN - THEATRE CRITIC

Hair
By Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Music by Galt MacDermot. 
Directed by Robert A. Prior. 
Until June 17 at Bluma Appel
Theatre, 27 Front St. E. 416-368-3110 

The cast all proudly display their naked bodies, but they keep their souls well-concealed. 

And that problem is symbolic of what's wrong with the monumentally unimpressive CanStage/Dancap
Private Equity production of Hair, which opened last night at the Bluma Appel Theatre. 

When this "tribal love rock musical" first opened on Broadway in 1968, it won friends (and enemies)
for its in-your-face, unapologetic portrayal of America's disaffected youth. 

It throbbed with righteous indignation and crackled with irreverent wit. The songs were tuneful, 
the lyrics irreverent and the original staging brilliant. But take away the passion that drove it 
and you really don't have much left. The book was always feeble and James Rado's soap-opera-ish 
rewrites here only drive home that fact. 

Director Robert A. Prior has removed any trace of genuine emotion in his version and replaced 
it with a world of empty posturing, campy comedy and gratuitously pretty pictures. 

This production could move intact to a cruise ship -- although they'd probably ask for better 
performers in most roles. 

Dany Lyne's costumes and scenery have gone to Peter Max for inspiration, with overly bright 
day-glo colours, cutesy set pieces and costumes that no one in the '60s would have been caught 
dead in. 

There's also a series of projections by Yo Suzuki that range from the banal (anybody got a 
lava lamp?) to the inappropriate (why do we see newsreel footage of the Dionne Quints?) 
while John Munro's lighting seems to consist of one monochromatic wash after another. 

It all starts to look like an episode of Laugh-In that happens to have a couple of Vietnam 
jokes thrown in. 

Vietnam. There's the rub. The whole show is about Claude, who's just gotten his draft notice 
from the U.S. army, and how he deals with the pressure of deciding whether to be swept into the
carnage taking place in Southeast Asia. 

Most of the second act is a drug-fuelled hallucination invoking America's history of racial 
oppression and imperialism. The original production by Tom O'Horgan staged it superbly,
culminating in a strobe-lit phantasm where rebellious black slaves morph into the North Vietnamese 
army. 

All that Prior can offer us here are a series of lightweight comedy tableaux. If you think of 
what Twyla Tharp did with similar thematic material in Movin' Out, this production ought to hang 
its head in shame. 

Stephen Hues has provided choreography of the sort that empowers the audience: the steps are so 
simple anyone could do them, and so predictable they can probably guess what's coming next. 

What always made past productions of Hair fly was the talent of the cast, but even that is 
lacking this time around. Let's be honest, most of the young actors on stage are not on the A or 
even B list of local talent available. 

The voices are largely weak, the dancing rudimentary and the acting skills non-existent. 

There are a few exceptions. Jamie McKnight makes a strong impression in the leading role of Claude, radiating
charisma and fear at the same time, while singing with full-throated commitment. 

Andrew Kushnir is very amusing as the fey jester, Woof, while Matthew Boden turns his brief cameo as Margaret Mead
into the most securely acted and sung moment of the night. 

But the rest! Karen Burthwright shrieks her way through Sheila, Craig Burnatowski is a non-stop 
smirk as Berger and Kimmy Choi was unable to earn a single laugh (at the preview I saw) with
the sure-fire comedy song "Frank Mills."




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From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe at juno.com)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:25:00 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Well, you can't say I didn't try
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From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:24:57 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Two More Toronto Hair Reviews
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Now if Michael produces HAiR and I play Berger the reviews will be off the
wall.

I want to play Berger!

 

 

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From: mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Nina Dayton
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:00 PM
To: Hair list
Subject: [Mb-hair] Two More Toronto Hair Reviews

 

The Toronto Globe and Mail 
 
What a bummer. It's far off, not far out
 
KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE 
Hair
Book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Robert A. Prior
Starring Craig Burnatowski, Karen Burthwright, Jamie McKnight
 
At Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto
 
When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars . .
.perhaps it will be time for Hair to shine onstage again. Until such a
celestial meeting of peace-digging planets takes place, we're stuck with
CanStage's wretched revival of the 1967 hippie musical. It opened Thursday
at the Bluma Appel Theatre under the direction of Robert A. Prior -- and has
a whole lot of nothing to say about the sixties or the present time.
 
A relentless collage of unsubtle video projection, vintage fashion show and
karaoke-grade singing, this production only succeeds in pulling the dubious
double feat of undermining the old musical and exposing the vacuity of its
new 
interpreters. James Rado, co-writer (with the late Gerome Ragni) of Hair's
book and lyrics, straddles both camps: For the last few weeks, he's been in
Toronto, frantically rewriting the book for this revival.
 
I'm not sure what exactly he's been busy doing, since nothing here has a
whiff of freshness about it. The basic plot, at any rate, remains unchanged.
Hair is the story of Claude (Jamie McKnight), the long-haired rebel who has
to leave the tribe of East Village hippies to fight for his country in
Vietnam. His friendship with "democracy's daughter," the activist Sheila
(Karen Burthwright), and with Berger (Craig Burnatowski), the de facto tribe
leader, forms a secondary emotional through line in Hair. There's not much
of a story, but the musical has always been more about capturing (some would
say capitalizing
on) the period's vibe than telling its definitive history.
 
That's where this production strikes out. Prior's vision, if that's the
right word, of the 1960s counterculture scene is superficial in the extreme.
All that talk about parallels between Vietnam and the war in Iraq that was
supposed to prove the relevance of this period piece was just that: talk.
 
The only evidence of a 21st-century aesthetic or thinking is the constant
streaming of video-game-like imagery that only enhances the high-school feel
of the night -- a night hijacked by the audio-visual club at that. From
newsreel footage to psychedelic colour explosions, practically every moment
in Hair is accompanied by this barrage.
 
Such visual vocabulary would have worked much more successfully if the rest
of this over-amplified, over-designed production didn't clash horribly with
it. Dany Lyne's sets and costumes recycle the sixties as an existential
theme park from which there's no physical or emotional exit. I suspect Prior
was aiming for a sense of visual and sensual bombardment, but his strategy
loses its impact and wears out its welcome early on in Act I.
 
Normally critics are on autopilot in complaining when the visual overload of
a show upstages the cast or unfairly competes with it. (See The Lord of the
Rings for the ultimate illustration of this critical mantra.) This time,
however, I'd like to part company with my own tribe to note there is a
silver lining to the cloud of sensory overload: It offers a distraction from
the thoroughly dull cast of largely unknown and untried musical-theatre
performers. The thinking behind such risky casting in a high-profile
production is admirable; the execution significantly less so.
 
Collectively, there's a wholesomeness -- which is not to be confused with
innocence, lost or otherwise -- to the cast that denies the material its
social undertones and its rebellious spirit. Everybody seems to function
emotionally at the level of a cruise-ship production of Annie.
 
There are two exceptions: Burnatowski as Berger and Jamie McKnight as
Claude. The former at least offers a magnetic stage presence; the latter
gives an emotionally straightforward performance unencumbered by the
sound-and-light show that surrounds him.
 
There's no good news to report when it comes to the singing. The real
tragedy in this Hair is not Vietnam but the vocal massacre of one great song
after another. From the opening chords of Aquarius to the closing anthem Let
the Sunshine In, from the comic Frank Mills to the thunderous Ain't Got In,
the singing lacks feeling, character and, well, singing ability.
 
It all rather forces one to re-think the place of Hair within American
musical-theatre history, at the very least as a "now more than ever" work.
Time has left this show behind.
 
For most of the cast in this spectacularly awful revival, the cruise ship
awaits. 
 
Hair continues at the Bluma Appel in Toronto until June 17 (416-368-3110).
 
************************************
TORONTO STAR
Theatre Review: Hair needs a comb
Mar. 31, 2006. 06:50 AM
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr  3 14:04:20 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:04:20 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] people put so much work into a show
Message-ID: <000801c65762$2d8c2a90$f1476c42@hotprojects>

its always sad when it doesnt pan out for them
one always wants it to
particularly in an instance like this
eg hair - toronto; hair-london
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr  3 13:46:32 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:46:32 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
References: <20060403201130.74956.qmail@web31613.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <003701c6575f$b1318500$f1476c42@hotprojects>

the mis en scene on the live shows the dramatic action etc
was first worked best ultimately in the film
same phenomena occurred i believe with the narrative of the film script
cabaret
as opposed to book of stage musical
i dont think the vehicle was as cogent or good onstage
as it was as movie
although now with movie elements available for incorporation etc
a stage version ( the last bdwy revival didnt look like much ) could hold
all kinds of interesting possibilites
but i think you are right rj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ Mac" <nycrjmac at yahoo.com>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


> Old fan mail:
>
> I saw the Rocky Roxy twice while you played Janet:
> always thrilled with your "toucha-toucha touch me" vs.
> how it was done on the London album.
>
> Saw Paul Jabara once, Bruce Scott I think, did Frank
> the second time I went...
>
> Honestly a fun show at the Roxy, always puzzled
> though, how it became such a phenomenon-- as well as,
> how so many people have no idea it was a live show
> Before it was a movie.
>
> rj
>
> --- Beverly Bremers <bev at beverlybremers.com> wrote:
>
> > I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album
> > was made, replacing
> > Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at
> > that time, so I had
> > the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
> > "Hair" in the role of
> > Franknfurter!
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: "richard haase"
> >   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >   Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >   Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> >
> > beverly that was the best recording of the
> > showeverthe roxy castwho did
> > you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut
> > they sent me the
> > karoake version instead?
> >
> >   ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly
> > BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
> >   ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03,
> > 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> >   Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >
> >   Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do
> > you want to know?
> >
> >   Beverly
> >
> >
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     From: "Michael Ramirez"
> >     To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >     Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >     Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> >
> >
> >     Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> >
> >     I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast
> > album of it...
> >
> >
> >
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Mon Apr  3 16:45:45 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 3 Apr 2006 23:45:45 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Don't Call Me Black [!]
Message-ID: <20060403234545.5946.qmail@webmail30.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Has anyone else heard of this? Its really just a very umm... odd  spin-off of Hair made in Israel in 1970 I beleive. I don't know much about it, you can by the cast album at www.israel-music.com, where you can also buy the Israel cast CD of Hair.
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Mon Apr  3 17:19:46 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:19:46 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Well, you can't say I didn't try
Message-ID: <20060404001946.36F62EE368@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>

Absolutely!


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tiogajoe at juno.com" <tiogajoe at juno.com>
> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Well, you can't say I didn't try
> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:25:00 GMT
> 
> 
> I'll cast a vote for Ace to play Berger.  I've seen him to be a natural Berger.
> 
> Claudishishly yours,
> 
> Tioga Joe
> 
> ==============================================
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:44:27 -0800
> From: "Sherwin Ross" <sherwin at aceross.com>
> 
> I'll play Berger....!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Sherwin "Ace" Ross
> 
> 
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Mon Apr  3 17:34:24 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:34:24 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
Message-ID: <20060404003424.2CE7DEE3CA@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>

RJ - Cool! I'm glad you liked my more soulful rendition! I had a great time doing it. The audience was 10 times weirder than the show! I think most people are unaware that it was a stage show first because it didn't play in very many places, unlike "Hair", which was everywhere (thanks to a brilliant producer!).

Actually, Bruce Scott played Riff-Raff in the original production and then replaced by Bart Braverman, who later was a regular on the tube in "Vegas". You might have seen Alan Martin do Frank, too. Kim Milford, who also did "Hair", played Rocky.

I saw the show before I was in it and was knocked out by it, especially Frankenfurter's entrance from the back of the house. And the cast was great - Bonnie Enton, Jaime Donnelly & my bud from "Hair", Susan Morse! 

Personally, I found the movie inferior. It just seemed like they video-taped the stage show with no changes to compensate for the medium. (At least they tried in the "Hair" movie). Loved the author, though, Richard O'Brien, as Riff-Raff, as well as Barry Boswick and the one and only, Meatloaf. On the plus side - the audience participation is what made it an exciting event. Would have been hell live that way, though.

Beverly



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RJ Mac" <nycrjmac at yahoo.com>
> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 
> Old fan mail:
> 
> I saw the Rocky Roxy twice while you played Janet:
> always thrilled with your "toucha-toucha touch me" vs.
> how it was done on the London album.
> 
> Saw Paul Jabara once, Bruce Scott I think, did Frank
> the second time I went...
> 
> Honestly a fun show at the Roxy, always puzzled
> though, how it became such a phenomenon-- as well as,
> how so many people have no idea it was a live show
> Before it was a movie.
> 
> rj
> 
> --- Beverly Bremers <bev at beverlybremers.com> wrote:
> 
> > I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album
> > was made, replacing
> > Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at
> > that time, so I had
> > the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
> > "Hair" in the role of
> > Franknfurter!
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: "richard haase"
> >   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >   Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >   Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> >
> > beverly that was the best recording of the
> > showeverthe roxy castwho did
> > you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut
> > they sent me the
> > karoake version instead?
> >
> >   ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly
> > BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
> >   ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03,
> > 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> >   Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >
> >   Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do
> > you want to know?
> >
> >   Beverly
> >
> >
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     From: "Michael Ramirez"
> >     To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >     Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >     Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> >
> >
> >     Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> >
> >     I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast
> > album of it...
> >
> >
> >
> >     [IMAGE]
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Mon Apr  3 17:35:53 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:35:53 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
Message-ID: <20060404003553.EE270EE368@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>

Thanks, Michael!

Beverly


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
> To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:21:21 -0700
> 
> 
> WOW! I wish I had seen that show!
> XO M
> 
> > I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made, replacing
> > Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at that time, so I had
> > the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from "Hair" in the role of
> > Franknfurter!
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "richard haase"
> > To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> >
> > beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe roxy castwho did
> > you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut they sent me the
> > karoake version instead?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
> > ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> > Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >
> > Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: "Michael Ramirez"
> >   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >   Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >   Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> >
> >
> >   Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> >
> >   I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
> >
> >
> >
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Mon Apr  3 17:41:32 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:41:32 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
Message-ID: <20060404004132.26327EE3F1@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>

Thanks, Richard, Just finished up a year in "Menopause The Musical" in LA
and released a new CD. Thanks for asking!

Beverly



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "richard haase"
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
  Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:56:24 -0400

wowthat sounded like the best production ever bevare you still
performing?

  ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo:
  mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:56 PMSubject:
  Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror

  I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made,
  replacing Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the movie at that
  time, so I had the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
  "Hair" in the role of Franknfurter!

  Beverly


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "richard haase"
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
    Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
    Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400

beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe roxy castwho did
you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut they sent me the
karoake version instead?

  ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael Ramirez
  ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
  Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror

  Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?

  Beverly



    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Ramirez"
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
    Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
    Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000


    Who here likes Rocky Horror?

    I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...



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From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Mon Apr  3 23:23:58 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:23:58 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR]  "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
Message-ID: <001701c657b0$5e29dbe0$8e48e804@0019448444>

On 3 April, 2006 "Michael Ramirez" <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,
wrote:
     "Who here likes Rocky Horror?"

Hebe and I have loved the show since first viewing.  I first saw it in a
live production at the Roxy in Los Angeles, and I think I am still trying to
get the crick out of my neck! Seating was sideways and so cramped that I had
to watch the whole show (what little was visible) by looking over my right
shoulder!  Needless to say, I found the filmed version much more enjoyable!
We look forward to seeing a live production with better seating and viewing.

By the way, I understand that Susan Sarrandon says playing Janet was the
most enjoyable role of her most enjoyable of her long career.

Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!

John



From hunter at sopris.net  Mon Apr  3 16:22:19 2006
From: hunter at sopris.net (Patrick Hunter)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:22:19 -0600
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: ordering pizza in 2010
Message-ID: <E1FQZlz-000833-RC@elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Linda R.Cantrell 
To: Patrick Hunter 
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 3:17 PM
Subject: ordering pizza in 2010


fyi...from a friend  in N.M.















  http://aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf




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From bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu  Tue Apr  4 06:24:43 2006
From: bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu (Wm-A Gonzalez)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:24:43 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
In-Reply-To: <20060404003553.EE270EE368@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <004c01c657eb$26514830$edde0680@Romano>

For anyone who may be interested, Thank God It's Friday will finally be
released on DVD today.  This 1978 disco film features HAiR alums Paul Jabara
and Donna Summer, and won an Oscar for best song - Last Dance.  That song,
which Paul Jabara wrote, and the movie, inspired my 20+ year DJing career.

-Bil Gonzalez

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com 
> [mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Bremers
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 8:36 PM
> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> 
> Thanks, Michael!
> 
> Beverly
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
> > To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:21:21 -0700
> > 
> > 
> > WOW! I wish I had seen that show!
> > XO M
> > 
> > > I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made, 
> > > replacing Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the 
> movie at that 
> > > time, so I had the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from 
> > > "Hair" in the role of Franknfurter!
> > >
> > > Beverly
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "richard haase"
> > > To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> > >
> > > beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe 
> roxy castwho 
> > > did you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut 
> they sent me 
> > > the karoake version instead?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael 
> > > Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03, 
> 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> > > Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > >
> > > Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?
> > >
> > > Beverly
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   ----- Original Message -----
> > >   From: "Michael Ramirez"
> > >   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > >   Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > >   Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> > >
> > >
> > >   Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> > >
> > >   I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
> > >
> > >
> > >
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Apr  4 07:48:59 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:48:59 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
References: <004c01c657eb$26514830$edde0680@Romano>
Message-ID: <002401c657f6$e82f40a0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

last dance is one of my favorite favorite songs
and i love love love donna summer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wm-A Gonzalez" <bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


> For anyone who may be interested, Thank God It's Friday will finally be
> released on DVD today.  This 1978 disco film features HAiR alums Paul
Jabara
> and Donna Summer, and won an Oscar for best song - Last Dance.  That song,
> which Paul Jabara wrote, and the movie, inspired my 20+ year DJing career.
>
> -Bil Gonzalez
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com
> > [mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Bremers
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 8:36 PM
> > To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >
> > Thanks, Michael!
> >
> > Beverly
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
> > > To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > > Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:21:21 -0700
> > >
> > >
> > > WOW! I wish I had seen that show!
> > > XO M
> > >
> > > > I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made,
> > > > replacing Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the
> > movie at that
> > > > time, so I had the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
> > > > "Hair" in the role of Franknfurter!
> > > >
> > > > Beverly
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "richard haase"
> > > > To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > > > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> > > >
> > > > beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe
> > roxy castwho
> > > > did you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut
> > they sent me
> > > > the karoake version instead?
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael
> > > > Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03,
> > 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> > > > Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > > >
> > > > Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?
> > > >
> > > > Beverly
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   ----- Original Message -----
> > > >   From: "Michael Ramirez"
> > > >   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > > >   Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> > > >   Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> > > >
> > > >   I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Apr  4 09:32:45 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:32:45 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR]  "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
In-Reply-To: <001701c657b0$5e29dbe0$8e48e804@0019448444>
Message-ID: <C057EDBD.2AEC0%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Seen first in London. Only vague memories as under the influence of
agricultural produce. I had a good time.
I still wish I had seen the version with Beverly (with or w/o the influence)
Michael

> On 3 April, 2006 "Michael Ramirez" <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,
> wrote:
>    "Who here likes Rocky Horror?"
> 
> Hebe and I have loved the show since first viewing.  I first saw it in a
> live production at the Roxy in Los Angeles, and I think I am still trying to
> get the crick out of my neck! Seating was sideways and so cramped that I had
> to watch the whole show (what little was visible) by looking over my right
> shoulder!  Needless to say, I found the filmed version much more enjoyable!
> We look forward to seeing a live production with better seating and viewing.
> 
> By the way, I understand that Susan Sarrandon says playing Janet was the
> most enjoyable role of her most enjoyable of her long career.
> 
> Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Apr  4 09:35:27 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:35:27 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
In-Reply-To: <004c01c657eb$26514830$edde0680@Romano>
Message-ID: <C057EE5F.2AEC2%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Cool going to order it.
Michael

> For anyone who may be interested, Thank God It's Friday will finally be
> released on DVD today.  This 1978 disco film features HAiR alums Paul Jabara
> and Donna Summer, and won an Oscar for best song - Last Dance.  That song,
> which Paul Jabara wrote, and the movie, inspired my 20+ year DJing career.
> 
> -Bil Gonzalez
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com
>> [mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Bremers
>> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 8:36 PM
>> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>> 
>> Thanks, Michael!
>> 
>> Beverly
>> 
>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
>>> To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>>> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:21:21 -0700
>>> 
>>> 
>>> WOW! I wish I had seen that show!
>>> XO M
>>> 
>>>> I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made,
>>>> replacing Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the
>> movie at that 
>>>> time, so I had the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
>>>> "Hair" in the role of Franknfurter!
>>>> 
>>>> Beverly
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "richard haase"
>>>> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>>>> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
>>>> 
>>>> beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe
>> roxy castwho 
>>>> did you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut
>> they sent me 
>>>> the karoake version instead?
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael
>>>> Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03,
>> 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
>>>> Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>>>> 
>>>> Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?
>>>> 
>>>> Beverly
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>>   From: "Michael Ramirez"
>>>>   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>>>>   Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
>>>>   Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   Who here likes Rocky Horror?
>>>> 
>>>>   I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   [IMAGE]
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> www.voicercise.net
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Apr  4 10:10:28 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 13:10:28 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
References: <C057EE5F.2AEC2%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <002501c6580a$ac62c830$f1476c42@hotprojects>

the film is not much mike; its when donna " got out of acting "
but its all worth it to hear her do the song at the end
it is so so so so good both auditorily and performancewise
just a sublime moment and a sublime song

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror


> Cool going to order it.
> Michael
>
> > For anyone who may be interested, Thank God It's Friday will finally be
> > released on DVD today.  This 1978 disco film features HAiR alums Paul
Jabara
> > and Donna Summer, and won an Oscar for best song - Last Dance.  That
song,
> > which Paul Jabara wrote, and the movie, inspired my 20+ year DJing
career.
> >
> > -Bil Gonzalez
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com
> >> [mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Bremers
> >> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 8:36 PM
> >> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >>
> >> Thanks, Michael!
> >>
> >> Beverly
> >>
> >>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
> >>> To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >>> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:21:21 -0700
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> WOW! I wish I had seen that show!
> >>> XO M
> >>>
> >>>> I played Janet, but joined the cast after the album was made,
> >>>> replacing Abigail Haness. BTW, they were shooting the
> >> movie at that
> >>>> time, so I had the pleasure of re-uniting with Paul Jabara from
> >>>> "Hair" in the role of Franknfurter!
> >>>>
> >>>> Beverly
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "richard haase"
> >>>> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >>>> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:50:02 -0400
> >>>>
> >>>> beverly that was the best recording of the showeverthe
> >> roxy castwho
> >>>> did you play in it?i had just ordered it from amazonbut
> >> they sent me
> >>>> the karoake version instead?
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverly BremersTo: Michael
> >>>> Ramirez ; mb-hair at islandlists.comSent: Monday, April 03,
> >> 2006 2:02 AMSubject:
> >>>> Re: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >>>>
> >>>> Michael - I was in it at the Roxy in LA. What do you want to know?
> >>>>
> >>>> Beverly
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>   From: "Michael Ramirez"
> >>>>   To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >>>>   Subject: [Mb-hair] Rocky Horror
> >>>>   Date: 3 Apr 2006 01:34:55 -0000
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   Who here likes Rocky Horror?
> >>>>
> >>>>   I was just listening to to the Norweigan cast album of it...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   [IMAGE]
> >>>>   _______________________________________________
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> >>>>
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Apr  4 10:11:22 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 13:11:22 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR]  "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
References: <C057EDBD.2AEC0%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <003001c6580a$ceb232e0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

the one with beverly gleaned from the recordings
the arrangements the energy
is the quintessential production i think
eg the original roxy cast
\i reccomend ordering that for a mind blowing experience
eg audio cd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"


> Seen first in London. Only vague memories as under the influence of
> agricultural produce. I had a good time.
> I still wish I had seen the version with Beverly (with or w/o the
influence)
> Michael
>
> > On 3 April, 2006 "Michael Ramirez" <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,
> > wrote:
> >    "Who here likes Rocky Horror?"
> >
> > Hebe and I have loved the show since first viewing.  I first saw it in a
> > live production at the Roxy in Los Angeles, and I think I am still
trying to
> > get the crick out of my neck! Seating was sideways and so cramped that I
had
> > to watch the whole show (what little was visible) by looking over my
right
> > shoulder!  Needless to say, I found the filmed version much more
enjoyable!
> > We look forward to seeing a live production with better seating and
viewing.
> >
> > By the way, I understand that Susan Sarrandon says playing Janet was the
> > most enjoyable role of her most enjoyable of her long career.
> >
> > Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Mb-hair at islandlists.com
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Apr  4 10:12:18 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 13:12:18 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] i still play my record of hair every day
Message-ID: <004b01c6580a$ee01cb10$f1476c42@hotprojects>

the one i got at nine
particularly before i compose or write
thank you michael
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From azurac at hotmail.com  Wed Apr  5 09:12:23 2006
From: azurac at hotmail.com (an g t)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:12:23 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
In-Reply-To: <C057EDBD.2AEC0%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <BAY115-F15A848C00CECF74D3A0CED1CB0@phx.gbl>

My first memory of Rocky Horror was the day my friend, Animal came by and 
said, "Get dressed!  You've got to see this show!"
She had already seen it earlier (I think it was in previews on Broadway) and 
was crazy about it and knew I would love it too.
We walked over and entered the theater to find that tables and chairs had 
been set up like a nightclub.  Oh yeah! This is going to be good!

We sat off to the side and read the program where I discovered that a 
friend, Graham Jarvis was playing the Inspector and Richard Kim Milford was 
cast as Rocky. (better & better...)  ...and some guy named Tim Curry in the 
lead.  (not sure if Meatloaf was in it at that time--please forgive my poor, 
battered memory...)

Then came the opening and Animal & I lost it when we heard "Science 
Fiction"!  (We were Home, Baby!!)
During the entire show we went nutz--we got all the jokes and danced along 
with the songs--just like I did at Hair--it was GREAT (and I'm talkin' Tony 
the Tiger GRRRRREAT!!)

If any of you have been to a good Star Trek and/or Sci-fi convention, you 
know that the audiences are very uninhibited and responsive--that's what 
RHPS felt like and we responded!

Afterwards, we went backstage to say hi to Graham and while waiting in the 
foyer, the actor who played Frankenfurter came downstairs, stopped, pointed 
at Animal and me, smiled and said (still in character)--"You two were just 
Marr-vellous!!!" and continued on his way.
What a wonderful compliment!  We would always remember the name of Tim Curry 
after that!

BTW- at a west-coast Costume Convention (like a Trek con but all costumes, 
all the time), around '82 (?) a masquerade entrant devised her own special 
Rocky Horror costume which consisted of the standard corset, black hose & 
high heels and a black "bag" that covered her to her hips and featured a 
huge pair of luscious red lips on it which the wearer operated to lip-synch 
"Science Fiction"  and finished with a large tongue "wetting" the lips.  The 
audience went crazy and she won "Best Science Fiction Costume".

good times....
angee


>From: Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>To: HAIR List <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR]  "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
>Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:32:45 -0700
>
>Seen first in London. Only vague memories as under the influence of
>agricultural produce. I had a good time.
>I still wish I had seen the version with Beverly (with or w/o the 
>influence)
>Michael
>
> > On 3 April, 2006 "Michael Ramirez" <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,
> > wrote:
> >    "Who here likes Rocky Horror?"
> >
> > Hebe and I have loved the show since first viewing.  I first saw it in a
> > live production at the Roxy in Los Angeles, and I think I am still 
>trying to
> > get the crick out of my neck! Seating was sideways and so cramped that I 
>had
> > to watch the whole show (what little was visible) by looking over my 
>right
> > shoulder!  Needless to say, I found the filmed version much more 
>enjoyable!
> > We look forward to seeing a live production with better seating and 
>viewing.
> >
> > By the way, I understand that Susan Sarrandon says playing Janet was the
> > most enjoyable role of her most enjoyable of her long career.
> >
> > Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mb-hair mailing list
> > Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
>
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Wed Apr  5 12:13:22 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:13:22 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
Message-ID: <20060405191323.10071109AB9@ws6-4.us4.outblaze.com>

Angee - What a great memory! FYI, Meatloaf was in that original cast.

Beverly


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "an g t"
> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:12:23 -0400
>
>
> My first memory of Rocky Horror was the day my friend, Animal came by
and
> said, "Get dressed! You've got to see this show!"
> She had already seen it earlier (I think it was in previews on
Broadway) and
> was crazy about it and knew I would love it too.
> We walked over and entered the theater to find that tables and chairs
had
> been set up like a nightclub. Oh yeah! This is going to be good!
>
> We sat off to the side and read the program where I discovered that a
> friend, Graham Jarvis was playing the Inspector and Richard Kim Milford
was
> cast as Rocky. (better & better...) ...and some guy named Tim Curry in
the
> lead. (not sure if Meatloaf was in it at that time--please forgive my
poor,
> battered memory...)
>
> Then came the opening and Animal & I lost it when we heard "Science
> Fiction"! (We were Home, Baby!!)
> During the entire show we went nutz--we got all the jokes and danced
along
> with the songs--just like I did at Hair--it was GREAT (and I'm talkin'
Tony
> the Tiger GRRRRREAT!!)
>
> If any of you have been to a good Star Trek and/or Sci-fi convention,
you
> know that the audiences are very uninhibited and responsive--that's
what
> RHPS felt like and we responded!
>
> Afterwards, we went backstage to say hi to Graham and while waiting in
the
> foyer, the actor who played Frankenfurter came downstairs, stopped,
pointed
> at Animal and me, smiled and said (still in character)--"You two were
just
> Marr-vellous!!!" and continued on his way.
> What a wonderful compliment! We would always remember the name of Tim
Curry
> after that!
>
> BTW- at a west-coast Costume Convention (like a Trek con but all
costumes,
> all the time), around '82 (?) a masquerade entrant devised her own
special
> Rocky Horror costume which consisted of the standard corset, black hose
&
> high heels and a black "bag" that covered her to her hips and featured
a
> huge pair of luscious red lips on it which the wearer operated to
lip-synch
> "Science Fiction" and finished with a large tongue "wetting" the lips.
The
> audience went crazy and she won "Best Science Fiction Costume".
>
> good times....
> angee
>
>
> > From: Michael Butler
> > Reply-To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > To: HAIR List
> > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
> > Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:32:45 -0700
> >
> > Seen first in London. Only vague memories as under the influence of
> > agricultural produce. I had a good time.
> > I still wish I had seen the version with Beverly (with or w/o the
influence)
> > Michael
> >
> > > On 3 April, 2006 "Michael Ramirez" ,
> > > wrote:
> > > "Who here likes Rocky Horror?"
> > >
> > > Hebe and I have loved the show since first viewing. I first saw it
in a
> > > live production at the Roxy in Los Angeles, and I think I am still
trying
> > to
> > > get the crick out of my neck! Seating was sideways and so cramped
that I
> > had
> > > to watch the whole show (what little was visible) by looking over
my right
> > > shoulder! Needless to say, I found the filmed version much more
enjoyable!
> > > We look forward to seeing a live production with better seating and
> > viewing.
> > >
> > > By the way, I understand that Susan Sarrandon says playing Janet
was the
> > > most enjoyable role of her most enjoyable of her long career.
> > >
> > > Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Mb-hair mailing list
> > > Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > > http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mb-hair mailing list
> > Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
>
>
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>



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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Apr  5 14:12:33 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe at juno.com)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:12:33 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
Message-ID: <20060405.141323.19490.857999@webmail10.lax.untd.com>

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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Wed Apr  5 16:20:36 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:20:36 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV79547C1316DA0665357D7ABCB0@phx.gbl>

Yeah yeah yeah!!  Tioga is alive and well.... Welcome back Sib.

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: tiogajoe at juno.com
Sent: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:12:33 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"

I like Rocky Horror.

I was late in the game turning on to it. It was with the movie, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."  It must've been 1977.  Richmond, Virginia. A group of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhists took me to see it. Good guides.  Clued me in to all the audience participation aspects of the full experience.  Nice "virgin" experience.  The Buddhists also took me to see "Rock and Roll High School" with The Ramones.  Is it any wonder I have an affinity for Buddhism?

I also, as was apparently Claude Hooper Bukowski, a sci-fi film-ophile.  And Rocky Horror starts:

Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man

All sci-fi stars I remember from my '50s youth.

Claude sings:

I fashion my future on films in space

Anyway, yeah, I like Rocky Horror.

--Tioga 

==========================================================
>Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:12:23 -0400
>From: "an g t" <azurac at hotmail.com>
>
>My first memory of Rocky Horror was the day my friend, Animal came by and 
said, "Get dressed!  You've got to see this show!"
She had already seen it earlier (I think it was in previews on Broadway) and 
was crazy about it and knew I would love it too.
We walked over and entered the theater to find that tables and chairs had 
been set up like a nightclub.  Oh yeah! This is going to be good!

We sat off to the side and read the program where I discovered that a 
friend, Graham Jarvis was playing the Inspector and Richard Kim Milford was 
cast as Rocky. (better & better...)  ...and some guy named Tim Curry in the 
lead.  (not sure if Meatloaf was in it at that time--please forgive my poor, 
battered memory...)

Then came the opening and Animal & I lost it when we heard "Science 
Fiction"!  (We were Home, Baby!!)
During the entire show we went nutz--we got all the jokes and danced along 
with the songs--just like I did at Hair--it was GREAT (and I'm talkin' Tony 
the Tiger GRRRRREAT!!)

If any of you have been to a good Star Trek and/or Sci-fi convention, you 
know that the audiences are very uninhibited and responsive--that's what 
RHPS felt like and we responded!

Afterwards, we went backstage to say hi to Graham and while waiting in the 
foyer, the actor who played Frankenfurter came downstairs, stopped, pointed 
at Animal and me, smiled and said (still in character)--"You two were just 

Marr-vellous!!!" and continued on his way.
What a wonderful compliment!  We would always remember the name of Tim Curry 
after that!

BTW- at a west-coast Costume Convention (like a Trek con but all costumes, 
all the time), around '82 (?) a masquerade entrant devised her own special 
Rocky Horror costume which consisted of the standard corset, black hose & 
high heels and a black "bag" that covered her to her hips and featured 
a 
huge pair of luscious red lips on it which the wearer operated to lip-synch 
"Science Fiction"  and finished with a large tongue 
"wetting" the lips.  The 
audience went crazy and she won "Best Science Fiction Costume".

good times....
angee


>From: Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>To: HAIR List <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Re- [MB-HAiR]  "Who here Likes Rocky 
Horror?"
>Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:32:45 -0700
>
>Seen first in London. Only vague memories as under the influence of
>agricultural produce. I had a good time.
>I still wish I had seen the version with Beverly (with or w/o the 
>influence)
>Michael



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From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Thu Apr  6 07:03:50 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 07:03:50 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Russian HAiR tickets
Message-ID: <000c01c65982$f1d9c840$f5cce804@BELJPZ>

Dear Michael,

Thank you for your offer to register our 5 names for discount tickets to today's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific Design Center.

Due to my own screw-ups, which were compounded by my computer having a massive failure and having to be replaced, I have been unable to get tickets and I am concerned that the house might sell out.

Specifically:
1) Nicole Goesseringer, the contact person listed at (310) 822-4775, told me that the website was probably not set up to accept the "Michael Butler" discount, so that I must place my order by telephone.

2) When I called (323) 874-8216, the gentleman there said that they do not take any phone orders, and strohngly suggested that I just buy the tickets at the door.  He ttold me that I  could come by his office and get the discount by purchasing tickets in person.  Unfortunately his office closes at 5:00PM, and I could not make it in time.

I still do not know what I am doing wrong.

If it is ok with you, I would appreciate reservations being made in the following six names, and hope to see you there:

John Zuehlke
Hebe Barrera
Hector Barrera
Homer Barrera
Artur Manvelyan

Please excuse my making this request on the list rather than by direct e-mail to you, but your e-mail address (along with all my HAiR-related information) is still on the hard drive of my dead computer.  I expect that it will be several days before I can effect recovery and transfer to my new computer.

Thank you.

Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
John
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Apr  6 08:48:19 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:48:19 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Russian HAiR tickets
References: <000c01c65982$f1d9c840$f5cce804@BELJPZ>
Message-ID: <006901c65991$874a47c0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

IM JEALOUS of you guys
im sure the russian hair is going to be so fascinating
have a wonderful wonderful time
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Zuehlke 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:03 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Russian HAiR tickets


  Dear Michael,

  Thank you for your offer to register our 5 names for discount tickets to today's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific Design Center.

  Due to my own screw-ups, which were compounded by my computer having a massive failure and having to be replaced, I have been unable to get tickets and I am concerned that the house might sell out.

  Specifically:
  1) Nicole Goesseringer, the contact person listed at (310) 822-4775, told me that the website was probably not set up to accept the "Michael Butler" discount, so that I must place my order by telephone.

  2) When I called (323) 874-8216, the gentleman there said that they do not take any phone orders, and strohngly suggested that I just buy the tickets at the door.  He ttold me that I  could come by his office and get the discount by purchasing tickets in person.  Unfortunately his office closes at 5:00PM, and I could not make it in time.

  I still do not know what I am doing wrong.

  If it is ok with you, I would appreciate reservations being made in the following six names, and hope to see you there:

  John Zuehlke
  Hebe Barrera
  Hector Barrera
  Homer Barrera
  Artur Manvelyan

  Please excuse my making this request on the list rather than by direct e-mail to you, but your e-mail address (along with all my HAiR-related information) is still on the hard drive of my dead computer.  I expect that it will be several days before I can effect recovery and transfer to my new computer.

  Thank you.

  Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
  John



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From SShafer at tensorengr.com  Thu Apr  6 09:12:45 2006
From: SShafer at tensorengr.com (Sally Shafer)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:12:45 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Happy Spring
Message-ID: <44353DFD.F9437A4B@tensorengr.com>

Greetings tribe ... does anyone have a contact for tickets to Radio City
Music Hall?  My daughter and I are looking to buy 2 tix for May 19 (The
Roots, Erykah Badu, Mos Def) which is "sold out" ... airfares going up
every minute and we're hoping to book soon.  

Thanks and Love and Happy Spring, Sally Shafer


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From nemo1043 at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  6 06:36:22 2006
From: nemo1043 at yahoo.com (Allison Burnett)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:36:22 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fun read
Message-ID: <E1FRYGu-0003mX-Pl@smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

An Evening with Ann Coulter v. Al Franken:

Franken?s Opening Statement

 DEBATE OPENING STATEMENT ? UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM

Thank you. First of all, I know I join Ann in thanking the University of
Judaism for hosting this event. We?ve had an opportunity to spend some time
with President Wexler and have dinner with many folks from the University
community.

And I?d like to answer the question that I actually get asked the most when
I do an event for a Jewish organization. Yes, I had enough to eat.

You know, in these kinds of debate forums, someone has to go first. It?s
always preferable to go second, because you can react to what?s been said,
giving you something of a tactical advantage. More importantly, it pretty
much spares you the chore of writing out pre-prepared remarks.

Both Ann and I said we preferred going second, but I didn?t insist on it,
because I understood somebody had to go first. And being a liberal, I just
wasn?t tough-minded enough to insist on a coin toss.

So, I?ll try to use my time to define the terms of the debate ? if you will.
?Whence Judaism??

No. I think we should talk about the Bush Administration and the Republican
Congress and what it has accomplished over the past five years. I?m talking,
of course, about well over two trillion dollars added to the national debt,
the increase in poverty in our country and the added millions of Americans,
including children, without health insurance. I?m talking about the sale of
our democracy to corporate interests that pollute our water and our air. I?m
talking about the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in this
country. And I?m talking about the war in Iraq.

I?m talking about an increasingly corrupt, secretive, and incompetent
federal government that rewards cronies, a Republican majority in Congress
that?s acted as a rubber stamp, that has performed virtually no oversight
and which excludes the minority party from the legislative process in a way
unprecedented in our recent history.

I also want to discuss with Ann the coarsening of dialogue in this country.
I want to discuss values with Ann. Values like love, of family, of your
fellow man, of country. Ann has said repeatedly that liberals hate America.
I disagree.

Last year I had the honor of speaking at West Point. It was an audience not
so very different from this one. Except that instead of you, the audience
was made up of about twelve hundred cadets. Many of whom will be going to
Iraq in the next year or so.

The occasion was the Sol Feinstone Lecture on the Meaning of Freedom endowed
by philanthropist Sol Feinstone. It?s an annual event and Sol Feinstein?s
granddaughter, who is about my age, attended.

After telling a number jokes and getting the cadets on my side. I told them
that we had been lied into the war in Iraq. I had just published a book
entitled The Truth (with jokes), and I told the cadets that you can?t have
freedom without the truth. You can have freedom without jokes, as has been
proven by the Dutch and the Swiss.

I proceeded to prove that we had been lied into war, citing example after
example of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice, who had been National Security Advisor in the
lead-up to the war, telling the public information that they knew not to be
true.

At the end of the speech I received a standing ovation from the cadets. Sol
Feinstone?s granddaughter told me she had gone to every lecture for the last
thirty or so years, and that I received only the second standing ovation.
The other was for Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.

By the way, Ann has written that Max Cleland was lucky to have lost his legs
and his arm in Vietnam. I disagree. More importantly, I know Max, and he
disagrees.

I believe I received the standing ovation because the cadets knew that I was
speaking from the heart, and that the information I had given them was all
true. And as I said, you can?t have freedom without the truth.

You can?t have good government without the truth. During the crafting and
passage of the Medicare prescription drug bill, the chief actuary of
Medicare was told to withhold from Congress the true cost of the bill. He?d
be fired if he told the truth.

The bill costs so much, in large part, because the bill prohibits Medicare
from negotiating with the pharmaceutical companies on the price of drugs. As
a result, seniors now pay on average 44% more than veterans getting the same
drugs through the VA which is allowed to use its size to negotiate with the
drug companies. To get the bill passed, the vote was held open for three
hours. Tom DeLay was later admonished by Republicans on the ethics committee
for attempting to bribe, and then extort, Republican Nick Smith of Michigan
to get him to change his vote. The chairman of the Commerce Committee Billy
Tauzin who ushered the legislation through, soon left Congress for a two
million dollar a year job as the chief lobbyist for the pharmaceutical
industry. Obviously, a complete coincidence.

During the 2000 campaign George Bush ran for president by saying repeatedly,
and I quote, ?by far the vast majority of my tax cut goes to those at the
bottom.? Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, the president continues to ask for and sign tax cuts that go
primarily to those at the top. By the way, until George W. Bush, our country
had never cut taxes during a time of war.

As a result, our deficits grow and the cuts ? in Medicaid, Pell Grants, food
stamps, low-income housing subsidies, community block grants ? are targeted
at the poorest in our society.

George W. Bush famously said that Jesus was his favorite political
philosopher. Frankly, I don?t get it.

I?m Jewish. Thank you. I?m not an expert on the New Testament. But I know
that if you cut out all the passages where Jesus talks about helping the
poor, helping the least among us, if you literally took a pair of scissors
and cut out all those passages, you?d have the perfect box to smuggle Rush
Limbaugh?s drugs in.

I don?t understand when the Christian right says that equal rights in
marriage threatens marriage. I?ve been married 30 years, many of them happy.
I don?t think that if my wife and I were walking around in Boston, where we
met, if we saw two men holding hands with wedding bands? I don?t think I?d
say ?Hey, that looks good. Y?know, honey, you don?t like watching football
on Sundays. Maybe I could marry a guy, watch football with him, and then if
I wanted to have sex, I could come over and have sex with you.?

I was just talking to Newt Gingrich the other day. And I said to him, ?Don?t
you want for a gay couple what you had with your first wife? Don?t you want
that bond that comes with the pledge of fidelity that you had with your
second wife? Don?t you want what comes with that lifelong bond that you may
or may not have with your third wife ? I have no idea what?s going on
there.?

You know, Bill O?Reilly always talks about his ?traditional values? ? as
opposed to ?the far left?s secular humanist values.? I didn?t realize phone
sex was a traditional value. I didn?t think the phone had been around long
enough. Maybe telegraph sex.

In her book Slander, Ann referred to Democrats and our ?Marquis de Sade
lifestyle.? I?ve been married for thirty years. Ann, you?re an attractive
woman. And I know you support the president?s abstinence-only sex education.
I want to congratulate you for saving yourself for your one true love.

When my daughter was six years old, her teacher asked all her students to
write about how their parents had met. We told Thomasin that we met at a
mixer freshman year of college. I saw Franni across the room, gathering up
some friends to leave. I liked the way she was taking control and I thought
she was beautiful. So I asked her to dance, and then got her a ginger ale,
then escorted her to her dorm and asked for a date.

My daughter wrote, ?My dad asked my mom to dance, bought her a drink, and
then took her home.? Now all the facts were accurate, but what my daughter
wrote was extremely misleading. Now my daughter wasn?t lying. She didn?t
realize that what she wrote made her mom seem like a slut.

Ann, however, is not six years old. And she has developed her own techniques
for misleading, by leaving out important facts. Let me give you an example
of Ann lying by omission.

Also in her book Slander, Ann tells her readers that Al Gore had a leg up on
George W. Bush when applying to their respective colleges. Harvard and Yale.
Ann writes:

?Oddly, it was Bush who was routinely accused of having sailed through life
on his father?s name. But the truth was the reverse. The media was
manipulating the fact that ? many years later ? Bush?s father became
president. When Bush was admitted to Yale, his father was a little-known
congressman on the verge of losing his first Senate race. His father was a
Yale alumnus, but so were a lot of other boys? parents. It was Gore, not
Bush, who had a famous father likely to impress college admissions
committees.?

What does Ann omit? Well, that Bush?s grandfather Prescott Bush was also a
Yale alum and had been Senator from Connecticut, the home state of Yale
University. That Prescott Bush had been a trustee of Yale. That Prescott
Bush had been the first chair of Yale?s Development Board ? the folks who
raise the money. That Prescott Bush sat on the Yale Corporation for twelve
years. That Prescott Bush, like George W. Bush?s father, George H. W, Bush,
had been a member of Skull and Bones. That the first Bush to go to Yale was
Bush?s great great grandfather James Bush, who graduated in 1844. That in
addition to his father, grandfather, and greatgreatgrandfather, Bush was the
legacy of no less than twenty-seven other relatives who preceded him at
Yale, including five great great uncles. Seven great uncles. Five uncles,
and a number of first cousins.

Now why did Ann leave out these somewhat relevant facts? Ann grew up in
Connecticut. Ann, did you really not know that Prescott Bush had been your
senator when you were born?

Ann, is it possible that when Prescott?s son George H. W. Bush became
president, it totally escaped your notice that his father had represented
your state in the United States Senate? Did neither of your parents mention
it in passing at the dinner table? Did no one at home in Darien make any
comments about the new president?s lineage?

Understand. This isn?t sloppiness. This is deliberate. For Ann?s purposes ?
to claim that the media that was manipulating facts here ? Ann herself had
to manipulate facts ? in such a shameless way. This is what she does.

And she does it over and over and over again.

Let me give you another example.

On page 265 of her book Treason, Ann writes of Tom Friedman, the New York
Times columnist. ?He blamed twenty years of relentless attacks by Muslim
extremists on- I quote ? ?religious fundamentalists of any stripe.??

This didn?t sound like Tom Friedman to me, so I found the one Friedman
column that contained that phrase ? ?religious fundamentalists of any
stripe.? It was from a December 26, 2001 column called ?Naked Air,? about an
airline where everyone would fly naked. ?Think about it,? Friedman writes,
tongue firmly planted in cheek, ?If everybody flew naked, not only would you
never have to worry about the passenger next to you carrying box cutters or
exploding shoes, but no religious fundamentalists of any stripe would ever
be caught dead flying nude.?

Let me repeat. Ann wrote of Tom Friedman, Jewish by the way, that ?he blamed
twenty years of relentless attacks by Muslim extremists on ? I quote ?
?religious fundamentalists of any stripe.?? She bothered to put ?I quote? in
there for emphasis.

Friedman actually wrote ?no religious fundamentalists of any stripe would
ever be caught dead flying nude? in service of a conceit that illustrated
our dilemma of either becoming less open as a society or learning to live
with much higher risks than we?ve ever been used to before.

Friedman was not blaming 9/11 on the Lubavichers, as Ann suggests.

Now this sort of deliberate misrepresentation contributes to a coarsening of
our nation?s dialogue. Ann recently told an audience:

?We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens? creme brulee,?
Coulter said. ?That?s just a joke, for you in the media.?

Here?s my question. What?s the joke? Maybe it?s a prejudice from my days as
a comedy writer, but I always thought the joke had to have an operative
funny idea. I?ll give you an example of a joke.

Like they do every Saturday night, two elderly Jewish couples are going out
to dinner. The guys are in front, the girls riding in back. Irv says to Sid,
?Where should we go tonight??

Sid says, ?How about that place we went about a month ago. The Italian place
with the great lasagna.?

Irv says, ?I don?t remember it.?

Sid says, ?The place with the great lasagna.?

Irv says, ?I don?t remember. What?s the name of the place??

Sid thinks. But can?t remember. ?A flower. Gimme a flower.?

?Tulip?? Irv says.

?No, no. A different flower.?

?Magnolia??

?No, no. A basic flower.?

?Orchid??

?No! Basic.?

?Rose??

That?s it! Sid turns to the back seat. ?Rose. What was the name of that
restaurant???

That?s a joke. What exactly is the joke in ?We need somebody to put rat
poisoning in Justice Stevens? creme brulee?? Is it the cr?me brulee? Is that
it? Because Stevens is some kind of Francophile or elitist? Is it the rat
poison? See, I would have gone with Drano. I?m really trying here, Ann.
Please, when you come up, explain the joke about murdering an associate
justice of the Supreme Court. One who by the way, was appointed to the
Supreme Court by Gerald Ford, and who, also, by the way, won a Bronze Star
serving in the Navy in World War II. What is the joke? ?Cause I don?t get
it.

Now in Ann?s defense, she doesn?t always make horribly offensive remarks or
knowingly craft lies. Very often Ann is just wrong out of ignorance or pure
laziness. Take this from the MSNBC Show ? Saturday Final ? on August 30,
2003 ? MSNBC. She is talking about how well the war in Iraq is going.

COULTER: I think the rebuilding is going extremely well. Douglas MacArthur
was in Japan five years after V.J. Day. There were enormous casualties in
Germany after World War II. The rebuilding is actually going quite well
compared to past efforts. And really, all we?re getting from Democrats is
constant carping.

Ann, do you know how many combat fatalities the American military had in
Germany after V-E day? Zero. You know how many in Japan after V-J day? Zero.

Ann and I have debated once before. In May of 2004, and Ann still felt the
war was going amazingly well. Let me quote her from that debate:

??. This war is going amazingly well? the casualty rate is incredibly small
for the rebuilding. It is going better than can be expected. You cannot read
about how well things are going against Al Sadr, where you have Iraqis
protesting against Al Sadr; all these stories about how Al Sadr had (this)
vast support among the Iraquis? oh no no no. They recently held a protest
march saying, ?Al Sadr, get out.??

As you know, Ann, Moktadr al Sadr, recently picked the Shiite choice for
prime minister for the new government, Mohamed al Jafaari. Sadr has
thirty-two seats in the Iraqi assembly compared to Ahmed Chalabi?s zero. And
remember, it was Chalabi to whom we were going to turn over the Iraqi
government.

Things are not going amazingly well in Iraq. And they haven?t been going
amazingly well since we allowed the looting of Baghdad. A week ago, former
prime minister Ayad Allawi said that Iraq was already in a civil war. And as
George Bush said in September of 2004, we should listen to Allawi because ?
and I quote ? ?he understands what?s going on there ? after all, he lives
there.?

The first thing this Administration needs to do in Iraq is to start
acknowledging the truth and level with the American people.

I think the one lesson we can all agree on from Vietnam is that we cannot
blame the troops. By and large, the vast, vast majority of our troops have
performed heroically. And they deserve our gratitude and support. And that
means supporting them after they?ve come home.

Two thirds of the wounded in Iraq now have brain injuries. That?s because so
many of the casualties are from IED?s, and the injuries are concussive and
not ballistic. Each one of those brain injuries is going to cost a million
dollars over the course of that veteran?s life. And we need to fund programs
for those who come back with post traumatic stress disorder ? a higher
percentage than in any previous war.

Now another value I believe in is love of country. For some reason it
rankles Ann that I?ve done six USO tours and have had the nerve to talk
about it. I do so because I want people to be aware of the work that the USO
does. I want anyone here today who is a Hollywood celebrity to think about
giving up a couple weeks of your life to entertain our men and women in
uniform. I think it rankles Ann that I?ve talked about going on the USO
tours because she can?t conceive that anyone would actually do something for
anyone else. I didn?t go to Iraq to prove that Democrats are patriotic, Ann.
I did my first USO tour in 1999, when Clinton was president. We went to
Kosovo, a war that was vehemently and vocally opposed by many Republicans.
Even so, we didn?t call them traitors. I was invited by the USO to go to
Iraq because they know I do a good job and that it means a lot to the troops
when anyone comes over to show them we care.

My daughter is 25. She teaches inner city kids in the Bronx. And that makes
me proud. She hates when I say it, and that makes me even more proud.

My son is an engineering student. He wants to build fuel efficient cars.
He?s a junior in college and got a job at Ford this summer working on a new
manufacturing process for power trans. I don?t know what that means either.
But he got there because he works his butt off.

But my son doesn?t feel that he got where he is because he is some kind of
rugged individual. That he did it all himself. He knows that he stands on
the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the
shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the
necks of Indians.

My wife and I tried to instill certain values in our kids. But we don?t love
them because they?re perfect. We love them because they?re decent, loving
kids. Kids who care about others and care, by the way, about the truth.

One last thing. Speaking of the truth. A few months after my last debate
with Ann, the following appeared in a New York Observer story about Ann.

From laurie at cubedsquared.com  Thu Apr  6 10:20:13 2006
From: laurie at cubedsquared.com (Laurie Hodges)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:20:13 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Happy Spring
References: <44353DFD.F9437A4B@tensorengr.com>
Message-ID: <01c701c6599e$5ddf2dd0$6401a8c0@Cubed21>

http://www.cheappricedtickets.com/ResultsVenue.aspx?venid=49

according to this there are still some left !  Expensive but available.
Hope that helps.

Laurie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sally Shafer" <SShafer at tensorengr.com>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] Happy Spring


> Greetings tribe ... does anyone have a contact for tickets to Radio City
> Music Hall?  My daughter and I are looking to buy 2 tix for May 19 (The
> Roots, Erykah Badu, Mos Def) which is "sold out" ... airfares going up
> every minute and we're hoping to book soon.
>
> Thanks and Love and Happy Spring, Sally Shafer
>
>
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Apr  6 09:47:26 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:47:26 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Russian HAiR tickets
In-Reply-To: <000c01c65982$f1d9c840$f5cce804@BELJPZ>
Message-ID: <C05A942E.2AFC8%michael@michaelbutler.com>

John,
 I think you will find seats. It is general seating so I suggest your being
early. I will email Joseph Zharovsky this so he will know you are getting
the discount ticket. He is probably the person you talked to.
He is very helpful.
Michael
Sorry about your computer
-- Carpe Diem



> Dear Michael,
> 
> Thank you for your offer to register our 5 names for discount tickets to
> today's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific Design Center.
> 
> Due to my own screw-ups, which were compounded by my computer having a massive
> failure and having to be replaced, I have been unable to get tickets and I am
> concerned that the house might sell out.
> 
> Specifically:
> 1) Nicole Goesseringer, the contact person listed at (310) 822-4775, told me
> that the website was probably not set up to accept the "Michael Butler"
> discount, so that I must place my order by telephone.
> 
> 2) When I called (323) 874-8216, the gentleman there said that they do not
> take any phone orders, and strohngly suggested that I just buy the tickets at
> the door.  He ttold me that I  could come by his office and get the discount
> by purchasing tickets in person.  Unfortunately his office closes at 5:00PM,
> and I could not make it in time.
> 
> I still do not know what I am doing wrong.
> 
> If it is ok with you, I would appreciate reservations being made in the
> following six names, and hope to see you there:
> 
> John Zuehlke
> Hebe Barrera
> Hector Barrera
> Homer Barrera
> Artur Manvelyan
> 
> Please excuse my making this request on the list rather than by direct e-mail
> to you, but your e-mail address (along with all my HAiR-related information)
> is still on the hard drive of my dead computer.  I expect that it will be
> several days before I can effect recovery and transfer to my new computer.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
> John
> 
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From michaeldavidarian at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  6 09:41:05 2006
From: michaeldavidarian at yahoo.com (Michael Arian)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:41:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York Theater Workshop
Message-ID: <20060406164105.83124.qmail@web50305.mail.yahoo.com>

The play that has raised up so much  concern about being cancelled.It was due to
scheduling not politics.So,you can all settle down till they get their timing together.M A

Michael David Arian 
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Thu Apr  6 12:56:02 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:56:02 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Happy Spring
In-Reply-To: <44353DFD.F9437A4B@tensorengr.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F253711C0F4EB1965FF1C3AB2C80@phx.gbl>

Dear, dear Sally,

I can't help with Radio City tickets, but if you and Lauren are coming north 
can I tempt you a few more hours in that direction? It would be so wonderful 
to see you!
Love,
Nina

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From raesing4u at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  6 13:52:02 2006
From: raesing4u at yahoo.com (rachel anderson)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] Russian HAiR tickets
In-Reply-To: <C05A942E.2AFC8%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <20060406205202.94446.qmail@web51812.mail.yahoo.com>

dear michael,

how early is early?  what time are you planning to
arrive tonight?  i was thinking between
6:30-6:45.....do you think thats early enough?

cant wait to see you!

much love!

--- Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com> wrote:

> John,
>  I think you will find seats. It is general seating
> so I suggest your being
> early. I will email Joseph Zharovsky this so he will
> know you are getting
> the discount ticket. He is probably the person you
> talked to.
> He is very helpful.
> Michael
> Sorry about your computer
> -- Carpe Diem
> 
> 
> 
> > Dear Michael,
> > 
> > Thank you for your offer to register our 5 names
> for discount tickets to
> > today's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific
> Design Center.
> > 
> > Due to my own screw-ups, which were compounded by
> my computer having a massive
> > failure and having to be replaced, I have been
> unable to get tickets and I am
> > concerned that the house might sell out.
> > 
> > Specifically:
> > 1) Nicole Goesseringer, the contact person listed
> at (310) 822-4775, told me
> > that the website was probably not set up to accept
> the "Michael Butler"
> > discount, so that I must place my order by
> telephone.
> > 
> > 2) When I called (323) 874-8216, the gentleman
> there said that they do not
> > take any phone orders, and strohngly suggested
> that I just buy the tickets at
> > the door.  He ttold me that I  could come by his
> office and get the discount
> > by purchasing tickets in person.  Unfortunately
> his office closes at 5:00PM,
> > and I could not make it in time.
> > 
> > I still do not know what I am doing wrong.
> > 
> > If it is ok with you, I would appreciate
> reservations being made in the
> > following six names, and hope to see you there:
> > 
> > John Zuehlke
> > Hebe Barrera
> > Hector Barrera
> > Homer Barrera
> > Artur Manvelyan
> > 
> > Please excuse my making this request on the list
> rather than by direct e-mail
> > to you, but your e-mail address (along with all my
> HAiR-related information)
> > is still on the hard drive of my dead computer.  I
> expect that it will be
> > several days before I can effect recovery and
> transfer to my new computer.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and
> happiness!
> > John
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mb-hair mailing list
> > Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> >
>
http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
> > 
> 
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Thu Apr  6 15:10:05 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:10:05 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Happy Spring
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV16C33B0CE5FFB2391B45B7ABC80@phx.gbl>

WoW! Sally sounds like a good concert I love Mos Def he is multi talented great jazz singer as well... :-)>

Happy Spring.

peace,
barbara
ps: Sorry I cannot help out with tickets


-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Shafer
Sent: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:12:45 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Happy Spring

Greetings tribe ... does anyone have a contact for tickets to Radio City
Music Hall?  My daughter and I are looking to buy 2 tix for May 19 (The
Roots, Erykah Badu, Mos Def) which is "sold out" ... airfares going up
every minute and we're hoping to book soon.  

Thanks and Love and Happy Spring, Sally Shafer


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From garry.d.lennon at csun.edu  Thu Apr  6 15:22:16 2006
From: garry.d.lennon at csun.edu (Garry Lennon)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:22:16 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] CSUN Hair
Message-ID: <200604062222.EQI59087@csun.edu>

Hello all,

 

Just a quick update and a question - I'm hoping that I can capitalize on the
vast Hair knowledge to solve a mystery.  

 

Things are going great, still very rough but moving along.  It's been
fascinating reading the emails on the list because I've been dealing with a
lot of issues regarding the material and whether or not to update.  I don't
remember who said it but they were right - Vietnam history to the vast
number of my students is like Egyptian history.  They know it happened but
don't necessarily understand how it shapes who they are today.  We haven't
updated it but the tribe and I have had many conversations linking events
from 1968 into events of today - I'm hoping to try reviving their sense of
activism, if I can.  One of my colleagues and I have a running argument
about how Vietnam/Iraqi, she sees absolutely no similarity.  But as a
teacher and director, I would feel irresponsible if Hair didn't connect to
these students' lives or at least their view of history.

 

It seems the biggest barrier has been getting them to be themselves onstage.
I have been quoted as saying "don't act groovy, just be groovy" which may be
silly but getting everyone to relax and stop ACTING has been a challenge.
Luckily, the sense of tribe is truly taking over and it's great to watch
them evolve. 

 

My question revolves around a line that Claude says "And I am the Aluminum
Coxman and you'll eat me up, up, up."  Who or what is the "Aluminum Coxman"?

 

Again thanks for all the debate and comments about everything - it's really
helped me!

 

Peace,

Garry Lennon

 

 

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From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:07:54 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] quote
Message-ID: <20060407150558.56D7813B772@lax-gw04.mroute.net>

The Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short
again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself
for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while
daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt  April 23, 1910

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Editorial: Windows on Apple

How you feel about Apple allowing Microsoft Windows to run on its machines depends very much on whether you're a Windows or an Apple person.
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Apr  7 11:59:02 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:59:02 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] About the Russian Night
Message-ID: <C05C0486.2B084%michael@michaelbutler.com>

A very pleasant evening had by all. Understood few words, not the same show
we put together in Moscow so long ago. However a nice feeling, for sure
HAIR. The tribe was really hampered by the film screen stage. They did a
super job in such confines. It is nice to see that it has run so long in
Russia. (understand they start and stop shoe on a frequent basis-different
than here).
Stas Namin is to be complemented on presenting it and for his hospitality
afterwards.
Glad to see so many American Tribe members watching and enjoying the
evening.
Michael


From tiogajoe at juno.com  Fri Apr  7 13:10:20 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe at juno.com)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:10:20 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] G.I. War Resisters in the Vietnam Era
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From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe at juno.com)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:17:29 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] [MB-HAiR] "Who here Likes Rocky Horror?"
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Fri Apr  7 13:43:40 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:43:40 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] CSUN Hair
In-Reply-To: <200604062222.EQI59087@csun.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F3832465C80268999868F4DB2C90@phx.gbl>

Hi Garry,

Sounds like things are going well for you and your Tribe. Please let me know 
if The Archives can be of any assistance helping your Tribe grok Hair or the 
times it came out of. Also, our own Tioga Joe, who has certain connections 
at the Vietnam Era Educational Center, which is part of the New Jersey 
Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation, can, I am sure, contribute something 
here. :-)

>My question revolves around a line that Claude says "And I am the Aluminum
>Coxman and you'll eat me up, up, up."  Who or what is the "Aluminum 
>Coxman"?

Ahhh, the ALuminum Coxman. Actually, it's Berger who says it (Claude says he 
is Aquarius, destined for greatness or madness). This is one of Hair's great 
mysteries, along with what Moon Oysters (called for in the dcript as part of 
Oh Great God of Power). People have put forth theories about who or what the 
aluminum Coxman is/was/or could be, but there has never been a definitive 
answer.

Sorry not to be of more help on the very first question you ask! If you want 
to know more about the resources we offer to current productions feel free 
to email me at dayton3 at rcn, and I will fill you in.
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html



From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Fri Apr  7 15:37:58 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:37:58 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] quote
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV89A78427BC59CD4BB1A51ABC90@phx.gbl>

Awesome........ thank you for sending.

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Sherwin Ross
Sent: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:07:54 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] quote

The Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short
again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself
for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while
daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt  April 23, 1910


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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Fri Apr  7 16:03:05 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:03:05 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] G.I. War Resisters in the Vietnam Era
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Apr  7 22:30:13 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:30:13 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] quote
In-Reply-To: <20060407150558.56D7813B772@lax-gw04.mroute.net>
Message-ID: <C05C9875.2B0B9%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Very nice
Michael

> The Man in the Arena
> 
> "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong
> man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit
> belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
> dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short
> again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
> but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself
> for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high
> achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while
> daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
> souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
> 
> Theodore Roosevelt  April 23, 1910
> 
> 
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> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
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From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Fri Apr  7 22:49:15 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 22:49:15 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR - Aluminum Coxman
Message-ID: <001f01c65ad0$59b0bc50$4ed5e804@BELJPZ>

HAiR, especially in the paperback version, but also strongly in the script, has a rather strong understory of rather callously and brutally rejected love. Jeannie clearly delineates a long chain of un-requited love: 

1) Jeanie (who is knocked up with "some speed freak's child) loves Claude even though he pretty much avoids/ignores her. Some productions have the telephone call sequence that, IMHO brilliantly, both softens his rejection and underscores it. 

2) Claude is in love with Sheila, though she often rejects him, especially when she gives the yellow shirt to Berger and off-handedly disses Claude when he wonders if she also brought him a gift. 

3) Sheila is in love with Berger, who, in turn, rejects her, most strongly in the shirt scene. Some productions have Claude trying to comfort her right before "How Can People Be So Heartless..." In addition, some productions also temper this rejection with Berger returning to Sheila and saying that he was going to get the shirt repaired. 

4) Finally, and hopefully to at last get around to try to help answer your question: Berger "is hung up everywhere," according to Jeanie, who often serves as a "Greek Chorus" in the play. He does express his love for a vague ideal "Democracy's Daughter" (then acknowledging that what he sees is the Statue of Liberty.) Although other tribe members equate Sheila with "Democracy's Daughter" (and why I'd love to see the draft cards burned in a hand-held torch carried by Sheila representing the Statue of Liberty) as is written in the paperback version, I don't believe that Berger clearly sees Sheila in that role, or as a lover. Berger fancies himself as being irresistible, and claims that "you'll eat me up, up, up." Berger is quite polyamorus, and some productions have Berger making out with other female tribe members. Hebe pointed out that Berger was "fooling around" with other female tribe members in yesterday's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific Design Center. 

So, "Aluminum Coxman," I believe, is a pun operating on several different levels:

a) Coxman, or more accurately, Cocksman for his promiscuous tendencies. 

b) Coxman, or more accurately, Coxswain for his being the leader/steersman of the tribe. 

c) Coxman, for the Tinman, i.e.: the one with the brains of the tribe. 

d) Aluminum, as opposed to Tin, because the latter is ever enduring and does not rust. 

Just my thoughts. 





Telling the tribe not to ACT groovy but rather to BE groovy might be a very scary demand on them. Once the tribe bonds, and the tribe members "inhabit" their roles, they will BE groovy whether they try or not. They have to live the roll; they have to enjoy themselves in the production, even though the fun may not come into full bloom until they have been before an appreciative audience. I read somewhere that the original production used "consciousness raising" and other tribe building exercises to build the tribal community. Hopefully some past tribe members will comment on this.



As for your (female) colleague's inability to draw very strong parallels between our war against Vietnam and our current war on Iraq - - - well, the mind boggles. This is such a big topic that I will not go into it here at this time. Suffice it to say, that if the current crop of DLC Democrats (e.g.: Hillary) come to power in the next election, there is a very high probability that they will convert the current "poverty draft" into a "more egalitarian" Selective Service Draft as we had in the Viet Nam era. Then HaiR's relevance will be comprehendible by anyone.

Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness! 

John 


==================================== 

Original Message: 

Hello all,



Just a quick update and a question - I'm hoping that I can capitalize on the vast Hair knowledge to solve a mystery. 



Things are going great, still very rough but moving along. It's been fascinating reading the emails on the list because I've been dealing with a lot of issues regarding the material and whether or not to update. I don't remember who said it but they were right - Vietnam history to the vast number of my students is like Egyptian history. They know it happened but don't necessarily understand how it shapes who they are today. We haven't updated it but the tribe and I have had many conversations linking events from 1968 into events of today - I'm hoping to try reviving their sense of activism, if I can. One of my colleagues and I have a running argument about how Vietnam/Iraqi, she sees absolutely no similarity. But as a
teacher and director, I would feel irresponsible if Hair didn't connect to these students' lives or at least their view of history.



It seems the biggest barrier has been getting them to be themselves onstage. I have been quoted as saying "don't act groovy, just be groovy" which may be silly but getting everyone to relax and stop ACTING has been a challenge. Luckily, the sense of tribe is truly taking over and it's great to watch
them evolve. 



My question revolves around a line that Claude says "And I am the Aluminum Coxman and you'll eat me up, up, up." Who or what is the "Aluminum Coxman"?



Again thanks for all the debate and comments about everything - it's really helped me!



Peace,

Garry Lennon

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Apr  8 09:39:32 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:39:32 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR - Aluminum Coxman
References: <001f01c65ad0$59b0bc50$4ed5e804@BELJPZ>
Message-ID: <002601c65b2b$036c2c20$f1476c42@hotprojects>

i always thought the book was tight brilliant profound flowed like glass
and never got the credit it deserved
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Zuehlke 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Cc: "bcc:hebebarrera"@earthlink.net 
  Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 1:49 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR - Aluminum Coxman


  HAiR, especially in the paperback version, but also strongly in the script, has a rather strong understory of rather callously and brutally rejected love. Jeannie clearly delineates a long chain of un-requited love: 

  1) Jeanie (who is knocked up with "some speed freak's child) loves Claude even though he pretty much avoids/ignores her. Some productions have the telephone call sequence that, IMHO brilliantly, both softens his rejection and underscores it. 

  2) Claude is in love with Sheila, though she often rejects him, especially when she gives the yellow shirt to Berger and off-handedly disses Claude when he wonders if she also brought him a gift. 

  3) Sheila is in love with Berger, who, in turn, rejects her, most strongly in the shirt scene. Some productions have Claude trying to comfort her right before "How Can People Be So Heartless..." In addition, some productions also temper this rejection with Berger returning to Sheila and saying that he was going to get the shirt repaired. 

  4) Finally, and hopefully to at last get around to try to help answer your question: Berger "is hung up everywhere," according to Jeanie, who often serves as a "Greek Chorus" in the play. He does express his love for a vague ideal "Democracy's Daughter" (then acknowledging that what he sees is the Statue of Liberty.) Although other tribe members equate Sheila with "Democracy's Daughter" (and why I'd love to see the draft cards burned in a hand-held torch carried by Sheila representing the Statue of Liberty) as is written in the paperback version, I don't believe that Berger clearly sees Sheila in that role, or as a lover. Berger fancies himself as being irresistible, and claims that "you'll eat me up, up, up." Berger is quite polyamorus, and some productions have Berger making out with other female tribe members. Hebe pointed out that Berger was "fooling around" with other female tribe members in yesterday's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific Design Center. 

  So, "Aluminum Coxman," I believe, is a pun operating on several different levels:

  a) Coxman, or more accurately, Cocksman for his promiscuous tendencies. 

  b) Coxman, or more accurately, Coxswain for his being the leader/steersman of the tribe. 

  c) Coxman, for the Tinman, i.e.: the one with the brains of the tribe. 

  d) Aluminum, as opposed to Tin, because the latter is ever enduring and does not rust. 

  Just my thoughts. 





  Telling the tribe not to ACT groovy but rather to BE groovy might be a very scary demand on them. Once the tribe bonds, and the tribe members "inhabit" their roles, they will BE groovy whether they try or not. They have to live the roll; they have to enjoy themselves in the production, even though the fun may not come into full bloom until they have been before an appreciative audience. I read somewhere that the original production used "consciousness raising" and other tribe building exercises to build the tribal community. Hopefully some past tribe members will comment on this.



  As for your (female) colleague's inability to draw very strong parallels between our war against Vietnam and our current war on Iraq - - - well, the mind boggles. This is such a big topic that I will not go into it here at this time. Suffice it to say, that if the current crop of DLC Democrats (e.g.: Hillary) come to power in the next election, there is a very high probability that they will convert the current "poverty draft" into a "more egalitarian" Selective Service Draft as we had in the Viet Nam era. Then HaiR's relevance will be comprehendible by anyone.

  Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness! 

  John 


  ==================================== 

  Original Message: 

  Hello all,



  Just a quick update and a question - I'm hoping that I can capitalize on the vast Hair knowledge to solve a mystery. 



  Things are going great, still very rough but moving along. It's been fascinating reading the emails on the list because I've been dealing with a lot of issues regarding the material and whether or not to update. I don't remember who said it but they were right - Vietnam history to the vast number of my students is like Egyptian history. They know it happened but don't necessarily understand how it shapes who they are today. We haven't updated it but the tribe and I have had many conversations linking events from 1968 into events of today - I'm hoping to try reviving their sense of activism, if I can. One of my colleagues and I have a running argument about how Vietnam/Iraqi, she sees absolutely no similarity. But as a
  teacher and director, I would feel irresponsible if Hair didn't connect to these students' lives or at least their view of history.



  It seems the biggest barrier has been getting them to be themselves onstage. I have been quoted as saying "don't act groovy, just be groovy" which may be silly but getting everyone to relax and stop ACTING has been a challenge. Luckily, the sense of tribe is truly taking over and it's great to watch
  them evolve. 



  My question revolves around a line that Claude says "And I am the Aluminum Coxman and you'll eat me up, up, up." Who or what is the "Aluminum Coxman"?



  Again thanks for all the debate and comments about everything - it's really helped me!



  Peace,

  Garry Lennon




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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr  8 11:21:42 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:21:42 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR - Aluminum Coxman
In-Reply-To: <001f01c65ad0$59b0bc50$4ed5e804@BELJPZ>
Message-ID: <C05D4D46.2B0F6%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Nice summary and thoughts.
I feel that the book of HAIR has always been slandered by hostile critics.
Anyone who can listen or read realizes there is a definite story there (with
some historical antecedents) easily understood. It was due to the extreme
abrupt change in our entire method of presentation which gave critics of
anything new or anti Broadway establishment cause to attack. Really evident
when the League changed the dates of the Tony's so we could not qualify.
Michael

> HAiR, especially in the paperback version, but also strongly in the script,
> has a rather strong understory of rather callously and brutally rejected love.
> Jeannie clearly delineates a long chain of un-requited love:
> 
> 1) Jeanie (who is knocked up with "some speed freak's child) loves Claude even
> though he pretty much avoids/ignores her. Some productions have the telephone
> call sequence that, IMHO brilliantly, both softens his rejection and
> underscores it. 
> 
> 2) Claude is in love with Sheila, though she often rejects him, especially
> when she gives the yellow shirt to Berger and off-handedly disses Claude when
> he wonders if she also brought him a gift.
> 
> 3) Sheila is in love with Berger, who, in turn, rejects her, most strongly in
> the shirt scene. Some productions have Claude trying to comfort her right
> before "How Can People Be So Heartless..." In addition, some productions also
> temper this rejection with Berger returning to Sheila and saying that he was
> going to get the shirt repaired.
> 
> 4) Finally, and hopefully to at last get around to try to help answer your
> question: Berger "is hung up everywhere," according to Jeanie, who often
> serves as a "Greek Chorus" in the play. He does express his love for a vague
> ideal "Democracy's Daughter" (then acknowledging that what he sees is the
> Statue of Liberty.) Although other tribe members equate Sheila with
> "Democracy's Daughter" (and why I'd love to see the draft cards burned in a
> hand-held torch carried by Sheila representing the Statue of Liberty) as is
> written in the paperback version, I don't believe that Berger clearly sees
> Sheila in that role, or as a lover. Berger fancies himself as being
> irresistible, and claims that "you'll eat me up, up, up." Berger is quite
> polyamorus, and some productions have Berger making out with other female
> tribe members. Hebe pointed out that Berger was "fooling around" with other
> female tribe members in yesterday's Russian HAiR production at the Pacific
> Design Center. 
> 
> So, "Aluminum Coxman," I believe, is a pun operating on several different
> levels:
> 
> a) Coxman, or more accurately, Cocksman for his promiscuous tendencies.
> 
> b) Coxman, or more accurately, Coxswain for his being the leader/steersman of
> the tribe. 
> 
> c) Coxman, for the Tinman, i.e.: the one with the brains of the tribe.
> 
> d) Aluminum, as opposed to Tin, because the latter is ever enduring and does
> not rust. 
> 
> Just my thoughts.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Telling the tribe not to ACT groovy but rather to BE groovy might be a very
> scary demand on them. Once the tribe bonds, and the tribe members "inhabit"
> their roles, they will BE groovy whether they try or not. They have to live
> the roll; they have to enjoy themselves in the production, even though the fun
> may not come into full bloom until they have been before an appreciative
> audience. I read somewhere that the original production used "consciousness
> raising" and other tribe building exercises to build the tribal community.
> Hopefully some past tribe members will comment on this.
> 
> 
> 
> As for your (female) colleague's inability to draw very strong parallels
> between our war against Vietnam and our current war on Iraq - - - well, the
> mind boggles. This is such a big topic that I will not go into it here at this
> time. Suffice it to say, that if the current crop of DLC Democrats (e.g.:
> Hillary) come to power in the next election, there is a very high probability
> that they will convert the current "poverty draft" into a "more egalitarian"
> Selective Service Draft as we had in the Viet Nam era. Then HaiR's relevance
> will be comprehendible by anyone.
> 
> Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
> 
> John 
> 
> 
> ====================================
> 
> Original Message:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> 
> Just a quick update and a question - I'm hoping that I can capitalize on the
> vast Hair knowledge to solve a mystery.
> 
> 
> 
> Things are going great, still very rough but moving along. It's been
> fascinating reading the emails on the list because I've been dealing with a
> lot of issues regarding the material and whether or not to update. I don't
> remember who said it but they were right - Vietnam history to the vast number
> of my students is like Egyptian history. They know it happened but don't
> necessarily understand how it shapes who they are today. We haven't updated it
> but the tribe and I have had many conversations linking events from 1968 into
> events of today - I'm hoping to try reviving their sense of activism, if I
> can. One of my colleagues and I have a running argument about how
> Vietnam/Iraqi, she sees absolutely no similarity. But as a
> teacher and director, I would feel irresponsible if Hair didn't connect to
> these students' lives or at least their view of history.
> 
> 
> 
> It seems the biggest barrier has been getting them to be themselves onstage. I
> have been quoted as saying "don't act groovy, just be groovy" which may be
> silly but getting everyone to relax and stop ACTING has been a challenge.
> Luckily, the sense of tribe is truly taking over and it's great to watch
> them evolve. 
> 
> 
> 
> My question revolves around a line that Claude says "And I am the Aluminum
> Coxman and you'll eat me up, up, up." Who or what is the "Aluminum Coxman"?
> 
> 
> 
> Again thanks for all the debate and comments about everything - it's really
> helped me!
> 
> 
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Garry Lennon
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
> 


From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr  8 11:56:00 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:56:00 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] For Those Who Are Fortunate Enough To Have A Mac
Message-ID: <C05D5550.2B0FF%michael@michaelbutler.com>

The New York Times
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April 8, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Microsoft's Mac Attack
By ROBERT X. CRINGELY

Charleston, S.C.

HELL froze over this week as Apple Computer unveiled Boot Camp, a free
program that will allow its new Macintosh computers with Intel
microprocessors to run Microsoft's Windows XP operating system as an
alternative to Apple's OS X. The news media were agog and Apple's stock
price zoomed at the announcement. In my view, it was mildly interesting, but
hardly the revolution Apple users want to see.

Many Mac enthusiasts view Boot Camp as a huge coup for Apple that will
eventually take the computer hardware leadership away from Dell and the
software leadership away from Microsoft. The more skeptical warn that Boot
Camp shows the final mastery of the Apple platform by Microsoft. Both
positions are absurd.

Boot Camp, itself, is unexciting. So now you can start your computer running
Windows or OS X ? big deal. You can't run Windows and OS X simultaneously,
so you can't cut and paste data between the two operating systems or even
get access to the same data. For that you'd need a version of the program
Virtual PC ? a Microsoft product ? redesigned to run on the Intel Mac
platform. (Or, I guess, you could use a program called Parallel Workstation
that allows users to run OS X, Windows the Linux operating system on the
same Intel Mac at the same time, madly cutting and pasting between all
three. Now that's exciting.)

The real reason people are in a tizzy about this news is that Mac users love
their computers and Windows users, for the most part, tolerate theirs. So
the Mac people think that this Apple software will demonstrate the inherent
superiority of the product they love and will result in lots of Mac hardware
sales to people who want to continue to use Windows. I don't think so.

It's just too darned hard, for one thing. A Windows PC user would have to
buy a Mac, buy Windows XP, download Boot Camp, then load everything ? with
the result that he had a Mac that costs a lot and doesn't run as well as it
would using the traditional Apple software. The PC market is such that few
people are likely to buy Macs just to run Windows, especially since it will
cost $140 for a copy of Windows XP and Apple's machines are far more
expensive than, say, Dell's.

Boot Camp, being free, makes no revenue for Apple and never will. And while
it might help show prospective purchasers the superiority of Apple hardware,
those purchasers would have to buy their Macs first and then convince
themselves that they had done the right thing, which is totally backwards.

Most commentators seem to think that Boot Camp was a shock to Microsoft,
too, which I guarantee you it is not. After all, Microsoft is the one that
truly benefits, because it will get to sell a retail copy of Windows for
every copy of Boot Camp downloaded. The retail version of Windows makes
Microsoft about three times as much profit as the version that comes
preloaded onto PC's made by third parties like Dell.

Now, here is some breaking news: word in Silicon Valley is that another
reason Microsoft wasn't surprised by Boot Camp is that the company has been
quietly working with Apple for months to make sure that Windows Vista (the
next generation of Windows, which is supposed go on sale next January) will
run on Macs with Intel chips.

If that is true, we can expect Apple to make it possible to run Windows
Vista alongside its own operating system by putting an improved Boot Camp
into the next version of OS X (which we can guess now will also ship next
January). I don't know if the folks at Apple would then actually sell copies
of Windows Vista preloaded on their hardware, but it is hard to imagine why
they wouldn't, since it would be an easy source of revenue and be popular
with business customers.

In any case, it seems clear that opening Macs to Windows is all about
selling computers to big businesses and making money, and not about any
religious computing experiences or proselytizing to the Microsoft-buying
infidels.

Besides, Apple-Microsoft alliances never last long ? remember that Microsoft
supplied the Basic-language interpreter for the Apple II, amusingly (in
retrospect) named Applesoft ? and this one won't, either. Among other
reasons, Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, bristles at the thought of
serving under Microsoft's master, Bill Gates.

My bet is that once Apple has Windows Vista running smoothly on its
operating system and helping its business sales, the company will try a more
profitable avenue: marketing a version of OS X able to run on regular PC's
that now use Windows.

This strategy would turn Boot Camp on its head, as the company selling all
those $140 retail copies of its operating system would be Apple. And with
hundreds of millions of Windows machines in the world, getting even 1
percent of PC users to switch to OS X would be a huge new business for
Apple. It would also create another headache for Microsoft. And that, in the
end, is what Apple does best.

Robert X. Cringely is the host of the online PBS program"NerdTV."

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr  8 11:57:52 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:57:52 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] The Gospel Truth By ELAINE PAGELS
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April 8, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
The Gospel Truth
By ELAINE PAGELS

The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with
Judas Iscariot during a week three days before he celebrated Passover. ...
Jesus said to him, "Step away from the others and I shall tell you the
mysteries of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will
grieve a great deal."
? The Gospel of Judas

THE Gospel of Judas, which remained virtually unknown to us from the time it
was written 1,700 years ago until its publication this week, says that when
Judas Iscariot handed Jesus over to the Romans, he was acting on orders from
Jesus to carry out a sacred mystery for the sake of human salvation: "Jesus
said to Judas, 'Look, you have been told everything. You will exceed all of
them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.' "

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of
tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New
Testament. But the unexpected discovery at Nag Hammadi in 1945 of more than
50 ancient Christian texts proved what church fathers said long ago: that
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are only a small selection of gospels from
among the dozens that circulated among early Christian groups. But now the
Gospel of Judas ? like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
and many others ? opens up new perspectives on familiar gospel stories.

Many scholars who first read these gospels had been taught that they were
"heretical," which meant they were the wrong gospels. When I was introduced
to them as a student, we called them "Gnostic" gospels, the name given to
them nearly 2,000 years ago by Irenaeus, one of the fathers of the church,
who denounced them as false and "heretical."

Yet those early Christians who loved and revered such texts did not think of
themselves as heretics, but as Christians who had received not only what
Jesus preached publicly, but also what he taught his disciples when they
were talking privately. Many regarded these secret gospels not as radical
alternatives to the New Testament Gospels, but as advanced-level teaching
for those who had already received Jesus' basic message. Even the Gospel of
Mark tells us that Jesus explained things to certain disciples in private,
entrusting to them alone "the mystery of the Kingdom of God."

If so, Jesus would have been doing what many other rabbis did then, and most
teachers do today. Many of the gospels not included in the New Testament
claim to offer secret teaching: Thus the Gospel of Thomas opens, "These are
the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and Didymus Judas Thomas
wrote them down." The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals what Jesus showed
Mary in a vision, and the Gospel of Judas claims to offer a spiritual
mystery entrusted to Judas alone.

Irenaeus, however, insisted that Jesus did not teach any of his disciples
secretly; such secret revelations, he said, were all illegitimate, and those
who revered them heretics. Knowing many such gospels circulated among early
Christian groups, Irenaeus wrote that "the heretics say that they have more
gospels than there actually are; but really, they have no gospel that is not
full of blasphemy."

Many of these secret writings, however, were still read and revered by
Christians 200 years later when Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria, an admirer
of Irenaeus, wrote an Easter letter to Christians in Egypt. He ordered them
to reject what he called those "secret, illegitimate books" and keep only 27
approved ones. The 27 he named constitute the earliest known list of the New
Testament canon, which Athanasius intended above all to be a guideline for
books to be read publicly in church. The New Testament Gospels, which
contain much that Jesus taught in public, were the most obvious books to put
on that list. The secret books, which contained paradox and mystery akin to
the mystical teachings of kabbalah, were not considered suitable for
beginners.

What in the Gospel of Judas, published this week by the National Geographic
Society (disclosure: I was a consultant on the project), goes back to Jesus'
actual teaching, and how would we know? And what else was there in the early
Christian movement that we had not known before? These are some of the
difficult questions that the discoveries raise for us ? issues that
historians are already debating. What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas
has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of
a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early
Christian movement really was.

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long
read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the
events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan. Those of us who
go to church may find our Easter reflections more mysterious than ever.

Elaine Pagels, the author of "The Gnostic Gospels" and "Beyond Belief: The
Secret Gospel of Thomas," is a professor of religion at Princeton.

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From dekuyper at sbcglobal.net  Fri Apr  7 21:44:09 2006
From: dekuyper at sbcglobal.net (Gerald Gerald)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:44:09 -0700 (PDT)
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  8 15:51:14 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 8 Apr 2006 22:51:14 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Actor's Benefit Fund of America CD
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I'm thinking about ordering this recording of hair. Is it any good? Is it overproduced?
What do you guys think of it?

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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Sat Apr  8 19:51:24 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:51:24 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Actor's Benefit Fund of America CD
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Quoting Michael Ramirez <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>:

> I'm thinking about ordering this recording of hair. Is it any good?   
> Is it overproduced?
> What do you guys think of it?

I borrowed Tioga's copy not too long ago...personally, I didn't like  
it very much. I wouldn't say it was overproduced, but it was kind of  
disappointing.

However...."Electric Blues" alone is easily worth the price of the CD.

-- 
dauber at banana-and-louie.org
AIM: ddaauubbeerr
blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com


From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr  8 20:39:42 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 9 Apr 2006 03:39:42 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Video
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http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=501221
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 05:22:08 -0500
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Sun Apr  9 11:07:21 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:07:21 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits - Steve
 Morse - Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
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I am forwarding this from Civic cause I thought HAiR folks would enjoy it as well, Hopefully you do NOT mind Bill..

peace,
barbara


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From: William Swiggard
Sent: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 06:58:12 -0700
To: mb-civic
Subject: [Mb-civic] A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits - Steve Morse - Boston Globe Sunday Magazine


  A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits


    I shared bourbon with Keith Richards, followed my nose to track down
    Bob Marley, and had Bruce Springsteen practically drip sweat on me.
    In 30 years of covering rock for the Globe, I collected enough
    stories to last a lifetime. These are a few of my favorites.

By Steve Morse  |  April 9, 2006  |  The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine

MY LIFELONG OBSESSION with rock music began as a teenager, when I went 
to see the Rolling Stones at the Manning Bowl in Lynn in 1966. It was a 
short-lived gig that featured a mini-riot, when fans rushed a small 
stage and police repelled them with tear gas as Mick Jagger, Keith 
Richards, and company piled into cars and left. Amid that brief flurry 
of sound and insanity, my appetite was whetted.

Lured deeper, I caught Janis Joplin at Harvard Stadium (her last live 
performance), Jimi Hendrix at the now-defunct Carousel Theatre in 
Framingham, the Byrds at the Boston Tea Party in the South End, and 
Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, and Jethro Tull at Boston's Ark, where 
Avalon now stands. I slapped high-fives with crazed rock poet Jim 
Morrison of The Doors as he zigzagged through a crowd at the Crosstown 
Bus in Brighton, where hippie girls danced in go-go cages and tinfoil 
adorned the walls for a psychedelic ambience.

During the summer of 1969, I caught the Stones again, this time with 
400,000 fans in London's Hyde Park, just days after their guitarist, 
Brian Jones, was found dead in his swimming pool. Jagger read parts of 
Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley and released thousands of butterflies in 
Jones's honor. I also saw Led Zeppelin in England twice that summer. 
First I hitchhiked to the Bath Festival of Blues and pushed through the 
hordes until I was 20 feet from Zeppelin's onstage mania. Then I took a 
4:15 a.m. train back to London to see them again at Royal Albert Hall. 
They were the best live band I had heard back then, though Hendrix was 
the best individual talent. His guitar solos were intoxicating, and it 
was all true about how he rubbed up against his microphone stand and 
sent women into hysterics.

In 30 years of covering rock music for the Boston Globe, I attended 
about 250 shows annually. I traveled, covering tour openings for Michael 
Jackson in Kansas City, Pink Floyd in Miami, Prince in Detroit, and U2 
in Las Vegas. And even if I'd never left town, I still could say that I 
saw Peter Wolf, Steven Tyler, Brad Delp, Aimee Mann, and Ric Ocasek lift 
the Boston rock scene to its greatest heights. It was a dream ride 
through a golden age of rock 'n' roll, from AC/DC to Phish, from James 
Brown to Eminem, from Live Aid to FarmAid, and the last two Woodstock 
festivals.

I get goose bumps looking back on it all, but the way I see it, I was 
just in the right place at the right time. And you can't ask for more 
than that.

I GREW UP IN THE BOSTON AREA in the 1950s and '60s, living in Beacon 
Hill, Brighton, Weymouth, and finally Wellesley, where my self-made 
businessman father eventually brought us. He was a wool buyer who was 
gone for long stretches in Montana, Wyoming, and other Western states. 
After attending Wellesley High School, I went off to Brown University, 
graduating in 1970, and then landed a job teaching social studies at 
Barrington High School in Rhode Island. My career as a high school 
teacher was short-lived (I was far too lax to control the kids), and my 
love of music was too strong to ignore. So I tried my hand at freelance 
writing, starting with country music for a long-gone publication called 
Pop Top.

My first Boston Globe review appeared on December 20, 1975. I went to 
hear country fiddler Vassar Clements at Club Passim in Harvard Square. I 
was hooked even more when, the day after the show, I accompanied 
Clements to the Berklee College of Music, where he wowed an audience of 
students with his unschooled style. "Anything you hear in your head is 
on this here fiddle," he said. "Any sound at all."

When my Globe predecessor, Ernie Santosuosso, decided to focus on jazz, 
he ceded me the rock beat. The timing was ideal. Arena concerts were 
booming, and rock was taking off. Predictably, ticket prices took off, 
too. It used to cost maybe $2.50 to see the average show at the Boston 
Tea Party (fans were outraged when The Who charged $4), but now the 
Stones can throw a show with $453 seats - and still sell out in hours.

In the '70s and '80s, I covered all the giants at their Boston Garden 
shows, including Queen, Yes, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, 
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Van Halen, and that Texas power trio ZZ Top, who 
shocked their fans by stationing a live buffalo on one side of the 
stage, a longhorn steer on the other, a rattlesnake in front, and a 
black vulture in the rear. ZZ Top even brought a veterinarian on tour to 
care for this peculiar menagerie.

My early years as a rock critic were an education in how music changes 
through generations. In the New Wave era, I vividly recall seeing the 
Talking Heads at the Rat in Kenmore Square and interviewing eccentric 
lead singer David Byrne at a pizza parlor next door. "We've been 
described as neurotic and cathartic by some people and catatonic by 
others," Byrne said wryly. It was an era of colorful characters, like 
the bluesy anti-hero Tom Waits, who snappily described his band after a 
Sanders Theatre show in Cambridge: "We've got an Italian-American, a 
Cherokee-Afro-American, and a black, so we can play any damned 
neighborhood we want."

The punk movement reached its zenith with the Clash, a cocky British 
group that made its American debut at the Harvard Square Theatre in 
1979. The Clash opened with the caustic anthem "I'm So Bored With the 
USA." I had never experienced such musical aggression before, but I 
became a Clash defender for years and was shattered when 
self-destructive singer Joe Strummer died of a heart attack at age 50 in 
2002.

The key to my job was trying to see bands just as their careers were 
beginning. If you back a group with your reviews early on, it's more 
likely they'll remember it and continue to grant you interviews as they 
rise to stardom. Catching Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at the Jazz 
Workshop in 1976 (in front of about eight people) solidified my bond 
with them. A night of revelry with beach-boy minstrel Jimmy Buffett, 
whom I accidentally met in a Springfield bar after he opened for the 
Eagles in the late 1970s, was the beginning of a rapport that led to 
some wonderful, exclusive interviews in recent years. And when I retired 
from the Globe last year, Bono showed up at my going-away party at J.J. 
Foley's on Kingston Street downtown, just hours after U2 played the TD 
Banknorth Garden.

I had covered U2 from the time they played the Paradise. Not every 
review was favorable (the night of my retirement bash, Bono told the 
crowd that I wasn't afraid to "kick them in the arse" once in a while), 
but I always called a show like I saw it. The band's Fleet-Center show 
in 2001 didn't sustain its usual peaks, and Bono wasn't attacking the 
songs. So I wrote that. Sometimes an artist might not talk to you for a 
few years after a bad review, but my paycheck didn't come from the 
record industry. It came from the Boston Globe, and I always cherished 
that independence.

Right up there with U2 was Bruce Springsteen. I first saw him at the 
Music Hall (now the Wang Theatre), and he was a force of nature. I 
caught his Boston Garden engagements (once he raced down the center 
aisle and stood on a seat next to mine, sweat pouring down his face as 
he shouted out to the rafters), as well as his tour openings in his 
native New Jersey, a special Amnesty International benefit in Toronto, 
and - the single best show I saw him do - at the Saratoga Performing 
Arts Center as part of the "Born in the U.S.A." tour. I also interviewed 
him a half-dozen times, talking about everything from his idols Chuck 
Berry and Hank Williams, to his working-class politics, to his fondness 
for his friend, Lenny Zakim, for whom Boston's iconic new downtown 
bridge is named. When Springsteen came to sing "Thunder Road" at the 
bridge's dedication ceremonies, I was hardly surprised. That's who he is.

The Grateful Dead were another love of mine. Who can forget their 
six-night runs at the Garden, when the scents of patchouli and ganja 
transformed the scene into an interplanetary journey? Jerry Garcia was 
like an alien spirit. When I interviewed him, it was in his customized 
private dressing room at the back of the Dead's towering stage set, 
where he had a sanctuary for reading and meditating. He avoided the 
crowds in the regular backstage area, which included then-Governor Bill 
Weld and US Senator John Kerry. Everyone back then, it seemed, was a 
Deadhead.

AS MUCH AS ROCK was in my blood, I had cut my teeth on country music, 
and I enjoyed other musical genres, too. I was drawn to folk music, 
including the Chieftains, Tom Rush, Joan Baez, and Boston's bluegrass 
pioneers the Lilly Brothers, who played the much-missed Hillbilly Ranch 
in Park Square.

I was willing to see any act at least once. I wound up hearing Liberace, 
Eddy Arnold, and Sergio Franchi at the South Shore Music Circus in 
Cohasset, Greek star Nana Mouskouri at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, 
bluegrass avatar Bill Monroe at the Berkshire Mountains Bluegrass 
Festival, and honky-tonker Merle Haggard in Lowell.

I supported the other end of the musical spectrum - heavy metal - as 
well. I enjoyed covering the fiendish 13-hour Ozzfests led by metal 
legend Ozzy Osbourne, though I got a flat tire after last summer's 
Ozzfest and had to write the review on the back of a flatbed truck. I 
loved the crunch of a good ear-shredding metal/hard-rock show, from the 
bruising side of AC/DC and Metallica, to the elemental power of Pearl 
Jam, to the "nu metal" of Korn and Rage Against the Machine, and the 
punk-metal of Iggy Pop. And I almost never wore earplugs. Call me 
stupid, but that's the truth.

I also fell hard for reggae, going to Jamaica a couple of times and 
interviewing reggae patriarch Bob Marley at the Essex House hotel in 
Manhattan. That was a chaotic experience. I arrived at 11 a.m. and 
couldn't find his room. I asked a cleaning attendant, and she said with 
a smile, "Just follow your nose." The scent of marijuana led me to a 
room where several members of Marley's entourage were sharing two 
king-size joints while kicking a soccer ball and bumping into a picture 
window overlooking Central Park. Marley sat on a couch, reading aloud 
from the Bible's Book of Revelation (with its "lion of the tribe of 
Judah" reference so important to Marley's Rastafarian religion). He 
ignored me and kept reading for about 10 minutes, until I finally dared 
to say, "Bob, I appreciate the reading, but the Globe sent me down to 
talk about your music." Suddenly, the soccer playing stopped. Everyone 
looked at me as though I had interrupted God himself. But after a 
moment, Marley said, "You're right, mon. Come over and let's talk." He 
closed the Bible and gave me his attention as we discussed his theme of 
world brotherhood. As soon as the interview was finished, the soccer 
playing resumed, the Bible was reopened, and I was ushered out the door.

Marley was a brilliant performer, and I reviewed his memorable Amandla 
peace concert at Harvard Stadium. It was the only time I saw bongs being 
sold inside the stadium. You'd see clusters of fans puffing on the bongs 
in the bleachers as puzzled security guards left them alone.

I traveled a lot in those days, trying to catch as many musical pioneers 
as I could. I remember having breakfast with bluesman Muddy Waters in 
Montreal, where he described his frustration at how African-Americans 
were growing away from the blues. "Young black kids," he said, "think my 
kind of blues is a slavery-time kind of music."

A sunnier moment was interviewing soul star Al Green at his compound in 
Memphis. It included a recording studio, a tour bus in the driveway, and 
a beauty parlor called Al Green International Hair. The studio had a 
large bumper sticker on the wall ("Tried everything else? Why not try 
Jesus?") and an isolation booth where Green cut his vocals. It was 
covered with wooden shingles, corn husks, deer antlers, and cotton 
stalks, with a microphone hanging from the ceiling. "I love the rustic 
quality of it," Green said, laughing. "You wouldn't want it to be nice 
and crystal clean, would you? You at least need some cotton stalks and 
bell peppers on the wall."

The most bizarre interview had to be in 1979 with a Macon, 
Georgia-raised singer named Richard Wayne Penniman. He was on one of his 
periodical sabbaticals from rock 'n' roll (he first left the scene in 
the middle of a tour in 1957) and was working as a fundamentalist 
preacher and traveling salesman for Memorial Bibles International in 
Nashville. I met him there and hopped into a yellow Eldorado that his 
friend drove at 80 miles an hour to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where 
Penniman preached in a field house to 200 people, ranging from Army 
brass to drug offenders from the base's halfway house. It was a 
fire-and-brimstone sermon ("Don't you know the world is going to end 
very soon, and you're drinking and smoking and using everything in your 
bodies?"). The believers hung on his every word, but some of the drug 
offenders snoozed in the bleachers. Afterward, Penniman - better known 
as Little Richard - went back to his hotel to read the Book of Job.

THE ROCK BEAT has to be one of the most physical beats a critic can 
have. I wasn't a movie reviewer sitting in air-conditioned screenings or 
an art critic contemplating paintings in a quiet museum. I had to fight 
the same traffic jams as everyone else to get to concerts. And more than 
a few times, I'd have screaming fans behind me and next to me, or maybe 
even vomiting in their seats from too much imbibing (thankfully, this 
isn't as big a problem now as it was back at the old Boston Garden, 
which could be a true zoo).

It's a late-night job, to be sure, but I thrived in those hours. I loved 
the 2 a.m. interview with Springsteen in person at the Providence Civic 
Center; the 3:30 a.m. phone call with Stevie Wonder; and talking with 
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour at 5 a.m. (10 a.m. in London, where he was). 
We joked that he was having his morning tea while I was about to have my 
nighttime beer.

Nor was I afraid to be a road warrior late at night. I'd think nothing 
of driving to and from New York the same day. I did it to cover the 
Grammys there, plus the post-9/11 Concert for New York City, the return 
of Phish at Madison Square Garden, and to interview Pearl Jam on a hotel 
roof deck in SoHo, among other trips.

My worst night had to be getting mugged at a Parliament-Funkadelic show 
at the Twin Rinks arena in Danvers, where I was gang-tackled and had my 
pants torn apart in the melee. Minutes later, I confronted the promoter, 
Frank Russo, who was talking to a female reporter, and he said, with 
some embarrassment, "Steve, tidy up." Needless to say, I stayed, I got 
my story (crowded conditions had caused other incidents and arrests that 
night), and afterward my editor told me to make sure I put the cost of a 
new pair of pants on my expense account.

"WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE INTERVIEWS?" That's the question I hear the 
most. I've already mentioned some of them, but joining the list are Neil 
Diamond (on his porch in Los Angeles), Celine Dion (at a video studio in 
LA), Bonnie Raitt (back in her drinking days, she had two Bloody Marys 
during a noontime chat at a Newton hotel and wound up misty-eyed as I 
drove her around her old digs in Cambridge), Carly Simon (sitting by her 
pool on Martha's Vineyard - yes, this can be a rough job), Phish's Trey 
Anastasio at the band's barn studio in Vermont, the Pretenders' Chrissie 
Hynde in Philadelphia (where she shooed away a couple of intrusive 
fans), Sting at his Manhattan town house, David Bowie at a New York 
hotel (probably the most articulate rock star I have ever met), James 
Taylor at his home next to conservation land in the Berkshires (he 
complained that a bear had broken into his garbage can), and Art 
Garfunkel, who drove me to Staten Island and pointed out imagery from 
Simon & Garfunkel songs.

One of my funniest interviews was with Mick Jagger in 1980 during the 
release of the Rolling Stones' Emotional Rescue album. I told him I 
wanted to talk about the band's music and not about his sex life, which 
was filling gossip magazines at the time. It was my first meeting with 
him, and I was trying to prove that I was a "serious" critic, but Jagger 
couldn't resist bringing up the taboo topics. So I asked him if he ever 
put Stones music on to set the mood. "No, no. I never play music!" he 
exclaimed. "I coo and sing in the girl's ear. That's the music."

If Jagger is the prankster of the Stones, Keith Richards is the soul. 
One of my most challenging days was when I interviewed Richards at his 
manager Jane Rose's office in Manhattan, sucked down a hit of his Rebel 
Yell bourbon, then wobbled onto a plane to Roanoke, Virginia, to 
interview ZZ Top that night. ZZ Top singer Billy Gibbons had me up late 
listening to obscure rock and R&B records that he had brought on the 
road. I finally crashed in a groggy heap, but it was well worth it.

The longest days, though, were spent covering the last two Woodstock 
festivals. (I missed the original Woodstock, because I was in England 
the summer of '69.) During the rain-soaked Woodstock '94 in Saugerties, 
New York, I heard 15 hours of music in one day - ending with a 
blitz-krieg of Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, and Aerosmith, who played 
until 3 a.m., when fireworks went off. I think it was the best show 
Aerosmith ever played. They held nothing back.

Woodstock '99 was another marathon, this time at a steamy Air Force base 
in Rome, New York. It was the peak of the nu metal era, with Rage 
Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit, and Godsmack, but it ended 
horrendously with fires and vandalism after the final set by the Red Hot 
Chili Peppers. There hasn't been another Woodstock, and the cost of 
liability insurance may preclude any more. Goodbye to another cultural icon.

If I have one regret, it's not getting to interview John Lennon. I still 
wonder what rock 'n' roll would be like if he were alive today. I was 
due to meet him in New York a month after he was murdered. Lennon was my 
idol, and I admired his music right through his gut-wrenching solo 
period of "Working Class Hero" and "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)." 
The night he died, I went to the Globe to write his obituary with fellow 
music critic Jim Sullivan. We cried as we wrote, but somehow finished 
for the paper's late edition.

EVEN WITH AS MUCH TIME as I spent on the road, it was the Boston club 
scene I know the best. It's not as good as it was, but it remains 
strong, with venues like the Paradise, the Middle East, and T.T. the 
Bear's Place. As for the music, it has always been potent, dating to the 
'60s with Barry & the Remains, then the '70s with Aerosmith, the J. 
Geils Band, the Cars, Boston, and Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band.

The group I miss the most is J. Geils. It's hard to pinpoint how big 
Geils became after "Centerfold" and "Freeze-Frame" in the early '80s, 
followed by three sold-out shows at the Garden before breaking up. 
High-octane singer Peter Wolf, alias the Woofa Goofa in his stage 
persona, ignited audiences with his song-and-dance routines.

Any city that can produce bands like these is diverse. And even though 
Boston has been known more for rock than for pop, the variety to come 
out of this region has been astonishing, from the raging Godsmack to Top 
40 stars New Edition and New Kids on the Block, plus folkie Tracy 
Chapman, funk-jazz players Morphine, and cabaret-rockers the Dresden Dolls.

The music scene has changed over the years on a national level as well. 
There are ridiculous expectations for stardom on a first album. If it 
flops, or it just doesn't sell as well as hoped, the band is fired. 
R.E.M. needed four albums before they landed their first hit single, 
but, sadly, such patience would be unheard of today. Complicating things 
even more has been the sheer number of bands and niche radio stations, 
making it harder to score the across-the-dial success that creates 
superstars. Too many acts only get played on one format (modern rock, 
classic rock, Top 40, etc.), and they lose out on a larger audience. The 
Internet and satellite radio are creating fresh ways for new artists to 
reach listeners and avoid the record business entirely, but the process 
still often falls short of paying the rent.

But hope is never lost; integrity still matters. And nationally, though 
the record industry is in disarray from file sharing and corporate 
mergers, every so often a Radiohead, System of a Down, or Beck takes us 
all to a new place.

Living on the run and battling late-night deadlines was my career, but I 
loved it. As Willie Nelson sang, "The night life ain't no good life, but 
it's my life." I know what he means. I'll miss the adrenaline rushes, 
but maybe now I'll finally get some sleep.

Steve Morse covered pop music for the Globe from 1975-2005. E-mail him a 
spmorse at gmail.com <mailto:spmorse at gmail.com>. Go to boston.com/magazine 
<http://boston.com/magazine> to hear Morse talk about his favorite 
concerts in a slideshow with music. 


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Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits -	Steve
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> Sunday Magazine
> 
> 
> A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits
> 
> 
>   I shared bourbon with Keith Richards, followed my nose to track down
>   Bob Marley, and had Bruce Springsteen practically drip sweat on me.
>   In 30 years of covering rock for the Globe, I collected enough
>   stories to last a lifetime. These are a few of my favorites.
> 
> By Steve Morse  |  April 9, 2006  |  The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
> 
> MY LIFELONG OBSESSION with rock music began as a teenager, when I went
> to see the Rolling Stones at the Manning Bowl in Lynn in 1966. It was a
> short-lived gig that featured a mini-riot, when fans rushed a small
> stage and police repelled them with tear gas as Mick Jagger, Keith
> Richards, and company piled into cars and left. Amid that brief flurry
> of sound and insanity, my appetite was whetted.
> 
> Lured deeper, I caught Janis Joplin at Harvard Stadium (her last live
> performance), Jimi Hendrix at the now-defunct Carousel Theatre in
> Framingham, the Byrds at the Boston Tea Party in the South End, and
> Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, and Jethro Tull at Boston's Ark, where
> Avalon now stands. I slapped high-fives with crazed rock poet Jim
> Morrison of The Doors as he zigzagged through a crowd at the Crosstown
> Bus in Brighton, where hippie girls danced in go-go cages and tinfoil
> adorned the walls for a psychedelic ambience.
> 
> During the summer of 1969, I caught the Stones again, this time with
> 400,000 fans in London's Hyde Park, just days after their guitarist,
> Brian Jones, was found dead in his swimming pool. Jagger read parts of
> Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley and released thousands of butterflies in
> Jones's honor. I also saw Led Zeppelin in England twice that summer.
> First I hitchhiked to the Bath Festival of Blues and pushed through the
> hordes until I was 20 feet from Zeppelin's onstage mania. Then I took a
> 4:15 a.m. train back to London to see them again at Royal Albert Hall.
> They were the best live band I had heard back then, though Hendrix was
> the best individual talent. His guitar solos were intoxicating, and it
> was all true about how he rubbed up against his microphone stand and
> sent women into hysterics.
> 
> In 30 years of covering rock music for the Boston Globe, I attended
> about 250 shows annually. I traveled, covering tour openings for Michael
> Jackson in Kansas City, Pink Floyd in Miami, Prince in Detroit, and U2
> in Las Vegas. And even if I'd never left town, I still could say that I
> saw Peter Wolf, Steven Tyler, Brad Delp, Aimee Mann, and Ric Ocasek lift
> the Boston rock scene to its greatest heights. It was a dream ride
> through a golden age of rock 'n' roll, from AC/DC to Phish, from James
> Brown to Eminem, from Live Aid to FarmAid, and the last two Woodstock
> festivals.
> 
> I get goose bumps looking back on it all, but the way I see it, I was
> just in the right place at the right time. And you can't ask for more
> than that.
> 
> I GREW UP IN THE BOSTON AREA in the 1950s and '60s, living in Beacon
> Hill, Brighton, Weymouth, and finally Wellesley, where my self-made
> businessman father eventually brought us. He was a wool buyer who was
> gone for long stretches in Montana, Wyoming, and other Western states.
> After attending Wellesley High School, I went off to Brown University,
> graduating in 1970, and then landed a job teaching social studies at
> Barrington High School in Rhode Island. My career as a high school
> teacher was short-lived (I was far too lax to control the kids), and my
> love of music was too strong to ignore. So I tried my hand at freelance
> writing, starting with country music for a long-gone publication called
> Pop Top.
> 
> My first Boston Globe review appeared on December 20, 1975. I went to
> hear country fiddler Vassar Clements at Club Passim in Harvard Square. I
> was hooked even more when, the day after the show, I accompanied
> Clements to the Berklee College of Music, where he wowed an audience of
> students with his unschooled style. "Anything you hear in your head is
> on this here fiddle," he said. "Any sound at all."
> 
> When my Globe predecessor, Ernie Santosuosso, decided to focus on jazz,
> he ceded me the rock beat. The timing was ideal. Arena concerts were
> booming, and rock was taking off. Predictably, ticket prices took off,
> too. It used to cost maybe $2.50 to see the average show at the Boston
> Tea Party (fans were outraged when The Who charged $4), but now the
> Stones can throw a show with $453 seats - and still sell out in hours.
> 
> In the '70s and '80s, I covered all the giants at their Boston Garden
> shows, including Queen, Yes, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull,
> Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Van Halen, and that Texas power trio ZZ Top, who
> shocked their fans by stationing a live buffalo on one side of the
> stage, a longhorn steer on the other, a rattlesnake in front, and a
> black vulture in the rear. ZZ Top even brought a veterinarian on tour to
> care for this peculiar menagerie.
> 
> My early years as a rock critic were an education in how music changes
> through generations. In the New Wave era, I vividly recall seeing the
> Talking Heads at the Rat in Kenmore Square and interviewing eccentric
> lead singer David Byrne at a pizza parlor next door. "We've been
> described as neurotic and cathartic by some people and catatonic by
> others," Byrne said wryly. It was an era of colorful characters, like
> the bluesy anti-hero Tom Waits, who snappily described his band after a
> Sanders Theatre show in Cambridge: "We've got an Italian-American, a
> Cherokee-Afro-American, and a black, so we can play any damned
> neighborhood we want."
> 
> The punk movement reached its zenith with the Clash, a cocky British
> group that made its American debut at the Harvard Square Theatre in
> 1979. The Clash opened with the caustic anthem "I'm So Bored With the
> USA." I had never experienced such musical aggression before, but I
> became a Clash defender for years and was shattered when
> self-destructive singer Joe Strummer died of a heart attack at age 50 in
> 2002.
> 
> The key to my job was trying to see bands just as their careers were
> beginning. If you back a group with your reviews early on, it's more
> likely they'll remember it and continue to grant you interviews as they
> rise to stardom. Catching Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at the Jazz
> Workshop in 1976 (in front of about eight people) solidified my bond
> with them. A night of revelry with beach-boy minstrel Jimmy Buffett,
> whom I accidentally met in a Springfield bar after he opened for the
> Eagles in the late 1970s, was the beginning of a rapport that led to
> some wonderful, exclusive interviews in recent years. And when I retired
> from the Globe last year, Bono showed up at my going-away party at J.J.
> Foley's on Kingston Street downtown, just hours after U2 played the TD
> Banknorth Garden.
> 
> I had covered U2 from the time they played the Paradise. Not every
> review was favorable (the night of my retirement bash, Bono told the
> crowd that I wasn't afraid to "kick them in the arse" once in a while),
> but I always called a show like I saw it. The band's Fleet-Center show
> in 2001 didn't sustain its usual peaks, and Bono wasn't attacking the
> songs. So I wrote that. Sometimes an artist might not talk to you for a
> few years after a bad review, but my paycheck didn't come from the
> record industry. It came from the Boston Globe, and I always cherished
> that independence.
> 
> Right up there with U2 was Bruce Springsteen. I first saw him at the
> Music Hall (now the Wang Theatre), and he was a force of nature. I
> caught his Boston Garden engagements (once he raced down the center
> aisle and stood on a seat next to mine, sweat pouring down his face as
> he shouted out to the rafters), as well as his tour openings in his
> native New Jersey, a special Amnesty International benefit in Toronto,
> and - the single best show I saw him do - at the Saratoga Performing
> Arts Center as part of the "Born in the U.S.A." tour. I also interviewed
> him a half-dozen times, talking about everything from his idols Chuck
> Berry and Hank Williams, to his working-class politics, to his fondness
> for his friend, Lenny Zakim, for whom Boston's iconic new downtown
> bridge is named. When Springsteen came to sing "Thunder Road" at the
> bridge's dedication ceremonies, I was hardly surprised. That's who he is.
> 
> The Grateful Dead were another love of mine. Who can forget their
> six-night runs at the Garden, when the scents of patchouli and ganja
> transformed the scene into an interplanetary journey? Jerry Garcia was
> like an alien spirit. When I interviewed him, it was in his customized
> private dressing room at the back of the Dead's towering stage set,
> where he had a sanctuary for reading and meditating. He avoided the
> crowds in the regular backstage area, which included then-Governor Bill
> Weld and US Senator John Kerry. Everyone back then, it seemed, was a
> Deadhead.
> 
> AS MUCH AS ROCK was in my blood, I had cut my teeth on country music,
> and I enjoyed other musical genres, too. I was drawn to folk music,
> including the Chieftains, Tom Rush, Joan Baez, and Boston's bluegrass
> pioneers the Lilly Brothers, who played the much-missed Hillbilly Ranch
> in Park Square.
> 
> I was willing to see any act at least once. I wound up hearing Liberace,
> Eddy Arnold, and Sergio Franchi at the South Shore Music Circus in
> Cohasset, Greek star Nana Mouskouri at Mechanics Hall in Worcester,
> bluegrass avatar Bill Monroe at the Berkshire Mountains Bluegrass
> Festival, and honky-tonker Merle Haggard in Lowell.
> 
> I supported the other end of the musical spectrum - heavy metal - as
> well. I enjoyed covering the fiendish 13-hour Ozzfests led by metal
> legend Ozzy Osbourne, though I got a flat tire after last summer's
> Ozzfest and had to write the review on the back of a flatbed truck. I
> loved the crunch of a good ear-shredding metal/hard-rock show, from the
> bruising side of AC/DC and Metallica, to the elemental power of Pearl
> Jam, to the "nu metal" of Korn and Rage Against the Machine, and the
> punk-metal of Iggy Pop. And I almost never wore earplugs. Call me
> stupid, but that's the truth.
> 
> I also fell hard for reggae, going to Jamaica a couple of times and
> interviewing reggae patriarch Bob Marley at the Essex House hotel in
> Manhattan. That was a chaotic experience. I arrived at 11 a.m. and
> couldn't find his room. I asked a cleaning attendant, and she said with
> a smile, "Just follow your nose." The scent of marijuana led me to a
> room where several members of Marley's entourage were sharing two
> king-size joints while kicking a soccer ball and bumping into a picture
> window overlooking Central Park. Marley sat on a couch, reading aloud
> from the Bible's Book of Revelation (with its "lion of the tribe of
> Judah" reference so important to Marley's Rastafarian religion). He
> ignored me and kept reading for about 10 minutes, until I finally dared
> to say, "Bob, I appreciate the reading, but the Globe sent me down to
> talk about your music." Suddenly, the soccer playing stopped. Everyone
> looked at me as though I had interrupted God himself. But after a
> moment, Marley said, "You're right, mon. Come over and let's talk." He
> closed the Bible and gave me his attention as we discussed his theme of
> world brotherhood. As soon as the interview was finished, the soccer
> playing resumed, the Bible was reopened, and I was ushered out the door.
> 
> Marley was a brilliant performer, and I reviewed his memorable Amandla
> peace concert at Harvard Stadium. It was the only time I saw bongs being
> sold inside the stadium. You'd see clusters of fans puffing on the bongs
> in the bleachers as puzzled security guards left them alone.
> 
> I traveled a lot in those days, trying to catch as many musical pioneers
> as I could. I remember having breakfast with bluesman Muddy Waters in
> Montreal, where he described his frustration at how African-Americans
> were growing away from the blues. "Young black kids," he said, "think my
> kind of blues is a slavery-time kind of music."
> 
> A sunnier moment was interviewing soul star Al Green at his compound in
> Memphis. It included a recording studio, a tour bus in the driveway, and
> a beauty parlor called Al Green International Hair. The studio had a
> large bumper sticker on the wall ("Tried everything else? Why not try
> Jesus?") and an isolation booth where Green cut his vocals. It was
> covered with wooden shingles, corn husks, deer antlers, and cotton
> stalks, with a microphone hanging from the ceiling. "I love the rustic
> quality of it," Green said, laughing. "You wouldn't want it to be nice
> and crystal clean, would you? You at least need some cotton stalks and
> bell peppers on the wall."
> 
> The most bizarre interview had to be in 1979 with a Macon,
> Georgia-raised singer named Richard Wayne Penniman. He was on one of his
> periodical sabbaticals from rock 'n' roll (he first left the scene in
> the middle of a tour in 1957) and was working as a fundamentalist
> preacher and traveling salesman for Memorial Bibles International in
> Nashville. I met him there and hopped into a yellow Eldorado that his
> friend drove at 80 miles an hour to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where
> Penniman preached in a field house to 200 people, ranging from Army
> brass to drug offenders from the base's halfway house. It was a
> fire-and-brimstone sermon ("Don't you know the world is going to end
> very soon, and you're drinking and smoking and using everything in your
> bodies?"). The believers hung on his every word, but some of the drug
> offenders snoozed in the bleachers. Afterward, Penniman - better known
> as Little Richard - went back to his hotel to read the Book of Job.
> 
> THE ROCK BEAT has to be one of the most physical beats a critic can
> have. I wasn't a movie reviewer sitting in air-conditioned screenings or
> an art critic contemplating paintings in a quiet museum. I had to fight
> the same traffic jams as everyone else to get to concerts. And more than
> a few times, I'd have screaming fans behind me and next to me, or maybe
> even vomiting in their seats from too much imbibing (thankfully, this
> isn't as big a problem now as it was back at the old Boston Garden,
> which could be a true zoo).
> 
> It's a late-night job, to be sure, but I thrived in those hours. I loved
> the 2 a.m. interview with Springsteen in person at the Providence Civic
> Center; the 3:30 a.m. phone call with Stevie Wonder; and talking with
> Pink Floyd's David Gilmour at 5 a.m. (10 a.m. in London, where he was).
> We joked that he was having his morning tea while I was about to have my
> nighttime beer.
> 
> Nor was I afraid to be a road warrior late at night. I'd think nothing
> of driving to and from New York the same day. I did it to cover the
> Grammys there, plus the post-9/11 Concert for New York City, the return
> of Phish at Madison Square Garden, and to interview Pearl Jam on a hotel
> roof deck in SoHo, among other trips.
> 
> My worst night had to be getting mugged at a Parliament-Funkadelic show
> at the Twin Rinks arena in Danvers, where I was gang-tackled and had my
> pants torn apart in the melee. Minutes later, I confronted the promoter,
> Frank Russo, who was talking to a female reporter, and he said, with
> some embarrassment, "Steve, tidy up." Needless to say, I stayed, I got
> my story (crowded conditions had caused other incidents and arrests that
> night), and afterward my editor told me to make sure I put the cost of a
> new pair of pants on my expense account.
> 
> "WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE INTERVIEWS?" That's the question I hear the
> most. I've already mentioned some of them, but joining the list are Neil
> Diamond (on his porch in Los Angeles), Celine Dion (at a video studio in
> LA), Bonnie Raitt (back in her drinking days, she had two Bloody Marys
> during a noontime chat at a Newton hotel and wound up misty-eyed as I
> drove her around her old digs in Cambridge), Carly Simon (sitting by her
> pool on Martha's Vineyard - yes, this can be a rough job), Phish's Trey
> Anastasio at the band's barn studio in Vermont, the Pretenders' Chrissie
> Hynde in Philadelphia (where she shooed away a couple of intrusive
> fans), Sting at his Manhattan town house, David Bowie at a New York
> hotel (probably the most articulate rock star I have ever met), James
> Taylor at his home next to conservation land in the Berkshires (he
> complained that a bear had broken into his garbage can), and Art
> Garfunkel, who drove me to Staten Island and pointed out imagery from
> Simon & Garfunkel songs.
> 
> One of my funniest interviews was with Mick Jagger in 1980 during the
> release of the Rolling Stones' Emotional Rescue album. I told him I
> wanted to talk about the band's music and not about his sex life, which
> was filling gossip magazines at the time. It was my first meeting with
> him, and I was trying to prove that I was a "serious" critic, but Jagger
> couldn't resist bringing up the taboo topics. So I asked him if he ever
> put Stones music on to set the mood. "No, no. I never play music!" he
> exclaimed. "I coo and sing in the girl's ear. That's the music."
> 
> If Jagger is the prankster of the Stones, Keith Richards is the soul.
> One of my most challenging days was when I interviewed Richards at his
> manager Jane Rose's office in Manhattan, sucked down a hit of his Rebel
> Yell bourbon, then wobbled onto a plane to Roanoke, Virginia, to
> interview ZZ Top that night. ZZ Top singer Billy Gibbons had me up late
> listening to obscure rock and R&B records that he had brought on the
> road. I finally crashed in a groggy heap, but it was well worth it.
> 
> The longest days, though, were spent covering the last two Woodstock
> festivals. (I missed the original Woodstock, because I was in England
> the summer of '69.) During the rain-soaked Woodstock '94 in Saugerties,
> New York, I heard 15 hours of music in one day - ending with a
> blitz-krieg of Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, and Aerosmith, who played
> until 3 a.m., when fireworks went off. I think it was the best show
> Aerosmith ever played. They held nothing back.
> 
> Woodstock '99 was another marathon, this time at a steamy Air Force base
> in Rome, New York. It was the peak of the nu metal era, with Rage
> Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit, and Godsmack, but it ended
> horrendously with fires and vandalism after the final set by the Red Hot
> Chili Peppers. There hasn't been another Woodstock, and the cost of
> liability insurance may preclude any more. Goodbye to another cultural icon.
> 
> If I have one regret, it's not getting to interview John Lennon. I still
> wonder what rock 'n' roll would be like if he were alive today. I was
> due to meet him in New York a month after he was murdered. Lennon was my
> idol, and I admired his music right through his gut-wrenching solo
> period of "Working Class Hero" and "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)."
> The night he died, I went to the Globe to write his obituary with fellow
> music critic Jim Sullivan. We cried as we wrote, but somehow finished
> for the paper's late edition.
> 
> EVEN WITH AS MUCH TIME as I spent on the road, it was the Boston club
> scene I know the best. It's not as good as it was, but it remains
> strong, with venues like the Paradise, the Middle East, and T.T. the
> Bear's Place. As for the music, it has always been potent, dating to the
> '60s with Barry & the Remains, then the '70s with Aerosmith, the J.
> Geils Band, the Cars, Boston, and Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band.
> 
> The group I miss the most is J. Geils. It's hard to pinpoint how big
> Geils became after "Centerfold" and "Freeze-Frame" in the early '80s,
> followed by three sold-out shows at the Garden before breaking up.
> High-octane singer Peter Wolf, alias the Woofa Goofa in his stage
> persona, ignited audiences with his song-and-dance routines.
> 
> Any city that can produce bands like these is diverse. And even though
> Boston has been known more for rock than for pop, the variety to come
> out of this region has been astonishing, from the raging Godsmack to Top
> 40 stars New Edition and New Kids on the Block, plus folkie Tracy
> Chapman, funk-jazz players Morphine, and cabaret-rockers the Dresden Dolls.
> 
> The music scene has changed over the years on a national level as well.
> There are ridiculous expectations for stardom on a first album. If it
> flops, or it just doesn't sell as well as hoped, the band is fired.
> R.E.M. needed four albums before they landed their first hit single,
> but, sadly, such patience would be unheard of today. Complicating things
> even more has been the sheer number of bands and niche radio stations,
> making it harder to score the across-the-dial success that creates
> superstars. Too many acts only get played on one format (modern rock,
> classic rock, Top 40, etc.), and they lose out on a larger audience. The
> Internet and satellite radio are creating fresh ways for new artists to
> reach listeners and avoid the record business entirely, but the process
> still often falls short of paying the rent.
> 
> But hope is never lost; integrity still matters. And nationally, though
> the record industry is in disarray from file sharing and corporate
> mergers, every so often a Radiohead, System of a Down, or Beck takes us
> all to a new place.
> 
> Living on the run and battling late-night deadlines was my career, but I
> loved it. As Willie Nelson sang, "The night life ain't no good life, but
> it's my life." I know what he means. I'll miss the adrenaline rushes,
> but maybe now I'll finally get some sleep.
> 
> Steve Morse covered pop music for the Globe from 1975-2005. E-mail him a
> spmorse at gmail.com <mailto:spmorse at gmail.com>. Go to boston.com/magazine
> <http://boston.com/magazine> to hear Morse talk about his favorite
> concerts in a slideshow with music.
> 
> 
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> reatest_hits/
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Apr  9 10:41:08 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:41:08 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Christ Among The Partisans
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Apr  9 13:29:02 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:29:02 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] For Serious Study
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Friends,
This is 16 pages long but really worth while.
"Iran-The Next Neocon Target".
It was sent by an Iranian diplomat.
He was/is a supporter of the Shah, as am I.
This is by, of all people, a Texas Congressman.
Peace
Michael

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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Sun Apr  9 17:45:21 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:45:21 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits - Steve
 Morse - Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
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Great article, Barbara. Thanks!

Beverly




> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
> To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits -	Steve	Morse - Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:57:14 -0700
> 
> 
> Super, Barbara I am certain Bill doesn't mind.
> XO M
> 
> > I am forwarding this from Civic cause I thought HAiR folks would enjoy it as
> > well, Hopefully you do NOT mind Bill..
> >
> > peace,
> > barbara
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Swiggard
> > Sent: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 06:58:12 -0700
> > To: mb-civic
> > Subject: [Mb-civic] A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits - Steve Morse - Boston 
> > Globe
> > Sunday Magazine
> >
> >
> > A Rock Critic's Greatest Hits
> >
> >
> >   I shared bourbon with Keith Richards, followed my nose to track down
> >   Bob Marley, and had Bruce Springsteen practically drip sweat on me.
> >   In 30 years of covering rock for the Globe, I collected enough
> >   stories to last a lifetime. These are a few of my favorites.
> >
> > By Steve Morse  |  April 9, 2006  |  The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
> >
> > MY LIFELONG OBSESSION with rock music began as a teenager, when I went
> > to see the Rolling Stones at the Manning Bowl in Lynn in 1966. It was a
> > short-lived gig that featured a mini-riot, when fans rushed a small
> > stage and police repelled them with tear gas as Mick Jagger, Keith
> > Richards, and company piled into cars and left. Amid that brief flurry
> > of sound and insanity, my appetite was whetted.
> >
> > Lured deeper, I caught Janis Joplin at Harvard Stadium (her last live
> > performance), Jimi Hendrix at the now-defunct Carousel Theatre in
> > Framingham, the Byrds at the Boston Tea Party in the South End, and
> > Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, and Jethro Tull at Boston's Ark, where
> > Avalon now stands. I slapped high-fives with crazed rock poet Jim
> > Morrison of The Doors as he zigzagged through a crowd at the Crosstown
> > Bus in Brighton, where hippie girls danced in go-go cages and tinfoil
> > adorned the walls for a psychedelic ambience.
> >
> > During the summer of 1969, I caught the Stones again, this time with
> > 400,000 fans in London's Hyde Park, just days after their guitarist,
> > Brian Jones, was found dead in his swimming pool. Jagger read parts of
> > Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley and released thousands of butterflies in
> > Jones's honor. I also saw Led Zeppelin in England twice that summer.
> > First I hitchhiked to the Bath Festival of Blues and pushed through the
> > hordes until I was 20 feet from Zeppelin's onstage mania. Then I took a
> > 4:15 a.m. train back to London to see them again at Royal Albert Hall.
> > They were the best live band I had heard back then, though Hendrix was
> > the best individual talent. His guitar solos were intoxicating, and it
> > was all true about how he rubbed up against his microphone stand and
> > sent women into hysterics.
> >
> > In 30 years of covering rock music for the Boston Globe, I attended
> > about 250 shows annually. I traveled, covering tour openings for Michael
> > Jackson in Kansas City, Pink Floyd in Miami, Prince in Detroit, and U2
> > in Las Vegas. And even if I'd never left town, I still could say that I
> > saw Peter Wolf, Steven Tyler, Brad Delp, Aimee Mann, and Ric Ocasek lift
> > the Boston rock scene to its greatest heights. It was a dream ride
> > through a golden age of rock 'n' roll, from AC/DC to Phish, from James
> > Brown to Eminem, from Live Aid to FarmAid, and the last two Woodstock
> > festivals.
> >
> > I get goose bumps looking back on it all, but the way I see it, I was
> > just in the right place at the right time. And you can't ask for more
> > than that.
> >
> > I GREW UP IN THE BOSTON AREA in the 1950s and '60s, living in Beacon
> > Hill, Brighton, Weymouth, and finally Wellesley, where my self-made
> > businessman father eventually brought us. He was a wool buyer who was
> > gone for long stretches in Montana, Wyoming, and other Western states.
> > After attending Wellesley High School, I went off to Brown University,
> > graduating in 1970, and then landed a job teaching social studies at
> > Barrington High School in Rhode Island. My career as a high school
> > teacher was short-lived (I was far too lax to control the kids), and my
> > love of music was too strong to ignore. So I tried my hand at freelance
> > writing, starting with country music for a long-gone publication called
> > Pop Top.
> >
> > My first Boston Globe review appeared on December 20, 1975. I went to
> > hear country fiddler Vassar Clements at Club Passim in Harvard Square. I
> > was hooked even more when, the day after the show, I accompanied
> > Clements to the Berklee College of Music, where he wowed an audience of
> > students with his unschooled style. "Anything you hear in your head is
> > on this here fiddle," he said. "Any sound at all."
> >
> > When my Globe predecessor, Ernie Santosuosso, decided to focus on jazz,
> > he ceded me the rock beat. The timing was ideal. Arena concerts were
> > booming, and rock was taking off. Predictably, ticket prices took off,
> > too. It used to cost maybe $2.50 to see the average show at the Boston
> > Tea Party (fans were outraged when The Who charged $4), but now the
> > Stones can throw a show with $453 seats - and still sell out in hours.
> >
> > In the '70s and '80s, I covered all the giants at their Boston Garden
> > shows, including Queen, Yes, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull,
> > Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Van Halen, and that Texas power trio ZZ Top, who
> > shocked their fans by stationing a live buffalo on one side of the
> > stage, a longhorn steer on the other, a rattlesnake in front, and a
> > black vulture in the rear. ZZ Top even brought a veterinarian on tour to
> > care for this peculiar menagerie.
> >
> > My early years as a rock critic were an education in how music changes
> > through generations. In the New Wave era, I vividly recall seeing the
> > Talking Heads at the Rat in Kenmore Square and interviewing eccentric
> > lead singer David Byrne at a pizza parlor next door. "We've been
> > described as neurotic and cathartic by some people and catatonic by
> > others," Byrne said wryly. It was an era of colorful characters, like
> > the bluesy anti-hero Tom Waits, who snappily described his band after a
> > Sanders Theatre show in Cambridge: "We've got an Italian-American, a
> > Cherokee-Afro-American, and a black, so we can play any damned
> > neighborhood we want."
> >
> > The punk movement reached its zenith with the Clash, a cocky British
> > group that made its American debut at the Harvard Square Theatre in
> > 1979. The Clash opened with the caustic anthem "I'm So Bored With the
> > USA." I had never experienced such musical aggression before, but I
> > became a Clash defender for years and was shattered when
> > self-destructive singer Joe Strummer died of a heart attack at age 50 in
> > 2002.
> >
> > The key to my job was trying to see bands just as their careers were
> > beginning. If you back a group with your reviews early on, it's more
> > likely they'll remember it and continue to grant you interviews as they
> > rise to stardom. Catching Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at the Jazz
> > Workshop in 1976 (in front of about eight people) solidified my bond
> > with them. A night of revelry with beach-boy minstrel Jimmy Buffett,
> > whom I accidentally met in a Springfield bar after he opened for the
> > Eagles in the late 1970s, was the beginning of a rapport that led to
> > some wonderful, exclusive interviews in recent years. And when I retired
> > from the Globe last year, Bono showed up at my going-away party at J.J.
> > Foley's on Kingston Street downtown, just hours after U2 played the TD
> > Banknorth Garden.
> >
> > I had covered U2 from the time they played the Paradise. Not every
> > review was favorable (the night of my retirement bash, Bono told the
> > crowd that I wasn't afraid to "kick them in the arse" once in a while),
> > but I always called a show like I saw it. The band's Fleet-Center show
> > in 2001 didn't sustain its usual peaks, and Bono wasn't attacking the
> > songs. So I wrote that. Sometimes an artist might not talk to you for a
> > few years after a bad review, but my paycheck didn't come from the
> > record industry. It came from the Boston Globe, and I always cherished
> > that independence.
> >
> > Right up there with U2 was Bruce Springsteen. I first saw him at the
> > Music Hall (now the Wang Theatre), and he was a force of nature. I
> > caught his Boston Garden engagements (once he raced down the center
> > aisle and stood on a seat next to mine, sweat pouring down his face as
> > he shouted out to the rafters), as well as his tour openings in his
> > native New Jersey, a special Amnesty International benefit in Toronto,
> > and - the single best show I saw him do - at the Saratoga Performing
> > Arts Center as part of the "Born in the U.S.A." tour. I also interviewed
> > him a half-dozen times, talking about everything from his idols Chuck
> > Berry and Hank Williams, to his working-class politics, to his fondness
> > for his friend, Lenny Zakim, for whom Boston's iconic new downtown
> > bridge is named. When Springsteen came to sing "Thunder Road" at the
> > bridge's dedication ceremonies, I was hardly surprised. That's who he is.
> >
> > The Grateful Dead were another love of mine. Who can forget their
> > six-night runs at the Garden, when the scents of patchouli and ganja
> > transformed the scene into an interplanetary journey? Jerry Garcia was
> > like an alien spirit. When I interviewed him, it was in his customized
> > private dressing room at the back of the Dead's towering stage set,
> > where he had a sanctuary for reading and meditating. He avoided the
> > crowds in the regular backstage area, which included then-Governor Bill
> > Weld and US Senator John Kerry. Everyone back then, it seemed, was a
> > Deadhead.
> >
> > AS MUCH AS ROCK was in my blood, I had cut my teeth on country music,
> > and I enjoyed other musical genres, too. I was drawn to folk music,
> > including the Chieftains, Tom Rush, Joan Baez, and Boston's bluegrass
> > pioneers the Lilly Brothers, who played the much-missed Hillbilly Ranch
> > in Park Square.
> >
> > I was willing to see any act at least once. I wound up hearing Liberace,
> > Eddy Arnold, and Sergio Franchi at the South Shore Music Circus in
> > Cohasset, Greek star Nana Mouskouri at Mechanics Hall in Worcester,
> > bluegrass avatar Bill Monroe at the Berkshire Mountains Bluegrass
> > Festival, and honky-tonker Merle Haggard in Lowell.
> >
> > I supported the other end of the musical spectrum - heavy metal - as
> > well. I enjoyed covering the fiendish 13-hour Ozzfests led by metal
> > legend Ozzy Osbourne, though I got a flat tire after last summer's
> > Ozzfest and had to write the review on the back of a flatbed truck. I
> > loved the crunch of a good ear-shredding metal/hard-rock show, from the
> > bruising side of AC/DC and Metallica, to the elemental power of Pearl
> > Jam, to the "nu metal" of Korn and Rage Against the Machine, and the
> > punk-metal of Iggy Pop. And I almost never wore earplugs. Call me
> > stupid, but that's the truth.
> >
> > I also fell hard for reggae, going to Jamaica a couple of times and
> > interviewing reggae patriarch Bob Marley at the Essex House hotel in
> > Manhattan. That was a chaotic experience. I arrived at 11 a.m. and
> > couldn't find his room. I asked a cleaning attendant, and she said with
> > a smile, "Just follow your nose." The scent of marijuana led me to a
> > room where several members of Marley's entourage were sharing two
> > king-size joints while kicking a soccer ball and bumping into a picture
> > window overlooking Central Park. Marley sat on a couch, reading aloud
> > from the Bible's Book of Revelation (with its "lion of the tribe of
> > Judah" reference so important to Marley's Rastafarian religion). He
> > ignored me and kept reading for about 10 minutes, until I finally dared
> > to say, "Bob, I appreciate the reading, but the Globe sent me down to
> > talk about your music." Suddenly, the soccer playing stopped. Everyone
> > looked at me as though I had interrupted God himself. But after a
> > moment, Marley said, "You're right, mon. Come over and let's talk." He
> > closed the Bible and gave me his attention as we discussed his theme of
> > world brotherhood. As soon as the interview was finished, the soccer
> > playing resumed, the Bible was reopened, and I was ushered out the door.
> >
> > Marley was a brilliant performer, and I reviewed his memorable Amandla
> > peace concert at Harvard Stadium. It was the only time I saw bongs being
> > sold inside the stadium. You'd see clusters of fans puffing on the bongs
> > in the bleachers as puzzled security guards left them alone.
> >
> > I traveled a lot in those days, trying to catch as many musical pioneers
> > as I could. I remember having breakfast with bluesman Muddy Waters in
> > Montreal, where he described his frustration at how African-Americans
> > were growing away from the blues. "Young black kids," he said, "think my
> > kind of blues is a slavery-time kind of music."
> >
> > A sunnier moment was interviewing soul star Al Green at his compound in
> > Memphis. It included a recording studio, a tour bus in the driveway, and
> > a beauty parlor called Al Green International Hair. The studio had a
> > large bumper sticker on the wall ("Tried everything else? Why not try
> > Jesus?") and an isolation booth where Green cut his vocals. It was
> > covered with wooden shingles, corn husks, deer antlers, and cotton
> > stalks, with a microphone hanging from the ceiling. "I love the rustic
> > quality of it," Green said, laughing. "You wouldn't want it to be nice
> > and crystal clean, would you? You at least need some cotton stalks and
> > bell peppers on the wall."
> >
> > The most bizarre interview had to be in 1979 with a Macon,
> > Georgia-raised singer named Richard Wayne Penniman. He was on one of his
> > periodical sabbaticals from rock 'n' roll (he first left the scene in
> > the middle of a tour in 1957) and was working as a fundamentalist
> > preacher and traveling salesman for Memorial Bibles International in
> > Nashville. I met him there and hopped into a yellow Eldorado that his
> > friend drove at 80 miles an hour to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where
> > Penniman preached in a field house to 200 people, ranging from Army
> > brass to drug offenders from the base's halfway house. It was a
> > fire-and-brimstone sermon ("Don't you know the world is going to end
> > very soon, and you're drinking and smoking and using everything in your
> > bodies?"). The believers hung on his every word, but some of the drug
> > offenders snoozed in the bleachers. Afterward, Penniman - better known
> > as Little Richard - went back to his hotel to read the Book of Job.
> >
> > THE ROCK BEAT has to be one of the most physical beats a critic can
> > have. I wasn't a movie reviewer sitting in air-conditioned screenings or
> > an art critic contemplating paintings in a quiet museum. I had to fight
> > the same traffic jams as everyone else to get to concerts. And more than
> > a few times, I'd have screaming fans behind me and next to me, or maybe
> > even vomiting in their seats from too much imbibing (thankfully, this
> > isn't as big a problem now as it was back at the old Boston Garden,
> > which could be a true zoo).
> >
> > It's a late-night job, to be sure, but I thrived in those hours. I loved
> > the 2 a.m. interview with Springsteen in person at the Providence Civic
> > Center; the 3:30 a.m. phone call with Stevie Wonder; and talking with
> > Pink Floyd's David Gilmour at 5 a.m. (10 a.m. in London, where he was).
> > We joked that he was having his morning tea while I was about to have my
> > nighttime beer.
> >
> > Nor was I afraid to be a road warrior late at night. I'd think nothing
> > of driving to and from New York the same day. I did it to cover the
> > Grammys there, plus the post-9/11 Concert for New York City, the return
> > of Phish at Madison Square Garden, and to interview Pearl Jam on a hotel
> > roof deck in SoHo, among other trips.
> >
> > My worst night had to be getting mugged at a Parliament-Funkadelic show
> > at the Twin Rinks arena in Danvers, where I was gang-tackled and had my
> > pants torn apart in the melee. Minutes later, I confronted the promoter,
> > Frank Russo, who was talking to a female reporter, and he said, with
> > some embarrassment, "Steve, tidy up." Needless to say, I stayed, I got
> > my story (crowded conditions had caused other incidents and arrests that
> > night), and afterward my editor told me to make sure I put the cost of a
> > new pair of pants on my expense account.
> >
> > "WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE INTERVIEWS?" That's the question I hear the
> > most. I've already mentioned some of them, but joining the list are Neil
> > Diamond (on his porch in Los Angeles), Celine Dion (at a video studio in
> > LA), Bonnie Raitt (back in her drinking days, she had two Bloody Marys
> > during a noontime chat at a Newton hotel and wound up misty-eyed as I
> > drove her around her old digs in Cambridge), Carly Simon (sitting by her
> > pool on Martha's Vineyard - yes, this can be a rough job), Phish's Trey
> > Anastasio at the band's barn studio in Vermont, the Pretenders' Chrissie
> > Hynde in Philadelphia (where she shooed away a couple of intrusive
> > fans), Sting at his Manhattan town house, David Bowie at a New York
> > hotel (probably the most articulate rock star I have ever met), James
> > Taylor at his home next to conservation land in the Berkshires (he
> > complained that a bear had broken into his garbage can), and Art
> > Garfunkel, who drove me to Staten Island and pointed out imagery from
> > Simon & Garfunkel songs.
> >
> > One of my funniest interviews was with Mick Jagger in 1980 during the
> > release of the Rolling Stones' Emotional Rescue album. I told him I
> > wanted to talk about the band's music and not about his sex life, which
> > was filling gossip magazines at the time. It was my first meeting with
> > him, and I was trying to prove that I was a "serious" critic, but Jagger
> > couldn't resist bringing up the taboo topics. So I asked him if he ever
> > put Stones music on to set the mood. "No, no. I never play music!" he
> > exclaimed. "I coo and sing in the girl's ear. That's the music."
> >
> > If Jagger is the prankster of the Stones, Keith Richards is the soul.
> > One of my most challenging days was when I interviewed Richards at his
> > manager Jane Rose's office in Manhattan, sucked down a hit of his Rebel
> > Yell bourbon, then wobbled onto a plane to Roanoke, Virginia, to
> > interview ZZ Top that night. ZZ Top singer Billy Gibbons had me up late
> > listening to obscure rock and R&B records that he had brought on the
> > road. I finally crashed in a groggy heap, but it was well worth it.
> >
> > The longest days, though, were spent covering the last two Woodstock
> > festivals. (I missed the original Woodstock, because I was in England
> > the summer of '69.) During the rain-soaked Woodstock '94 in Saugerties,
> > New York, I heard 15 hours of music in one day - ending with a
> > blitz-krieg of Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, and Aerosmith, who played
> > until 3 a.m., when fireworks went off. I think it was the best show
> > Aerosmith ever played. They held nothing back.
> >
> > Woodstock '99 was another marathon, this time at a steamy Air Force base
> > in Rome, New York. It was the peak of the nu metal era, with Rage
> > Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit, and Godsmack, but it ended
> > horrendously with fires and vandalism after the final set by the Red Hot
> > Chili Peppers. There hasn't been another Woodstock, and the cost of
> > liability insurance may preclude any more. Goodbye to another cultural icon.
> >
> > If I have one regret, it's not getting to interview John Lennon. I still
> > wonder what rock 'n' roll would be like if he were alive today. I was
> > due to meet him in New York a month after he was murdered. Lennon was my
> > idol, and I admired his music right through his gut-wrenching solo
> > period of "Working Class Hero" and "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)."
> > The night he died, I went to the Globe to write his obituary with fellow
> > music critic Jim Sullivan. We cried as we wrote, but somehow finished
> > for the paper's late edition.
> >
> > EVEN WITH AS MUCH TIME as I spent on the road, it was the Boston club
> > scene I know the best. It's not as good as it was, but it remains
> > strong, with venues like the Paradise, the Middle East, and T.T. the
> > Bear's Place. As for the music, it has always been potent, dating to the
> > '60s with Barry & the Remains, then the '70s with Aerosmith, the J.
> > Geils Band, the Cars, Boston, and Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band.
> >
> > The group I miss the most is J. Geils. It's hard to pinpoint how big
> > Geils became after "Centerfold" and "Freeze-Frame" in the early '80s,
> > followed by three sold-out shows at the Garden before breaking up.
> > High-octane singer Peter Wolf, alias the Woofa Goofa in his stage
> > persona, ignited audiences with his song-and-dance routines.
> >
> > Any city that can produce bands like these is diverse. And even though
> > Boston has been known more for rock than for pop, the variety to come
> > out of this region has been astonishing, from the raging Godsmack to Top
> > 40 stars New Edition and New Kids on the Block, plus folkie Tracy
> > Chapman, funk-jazz players Morphine, and cabaret-rockers the Dresden Dolls.
> >
> > The music scene has changed over the years on a national level as well.
> > There are ridiculous expectations for stardom on a first album. If it
> > flops, or it just doesn't sell as well as hoped, the band is fired.
> > R.E.M. needed four albums before they landed their first hit single,
> > but, sadly, such patience would be unheard of today. Complicating things
> > even more has been the sheer number of bands and niche radio stations,
> > making it harder to score the across-the-dial success that creates
> > superstars. Too many acts only get played on one format (modern rock,
> > classic rock, Top 40, etc.), and they lose out on a larger audience. The
> > Internet and satellite radio are creating fresh ways for new artists to
> > reach listeners and avoid the record business entirely, but the process
> > still often falls short of paying the rent.
> >
> > But hope is never lost; integrity still matters. And nationally, though
> > the record industry is in disarray from file sharing and corporate
> > mergers, every so often a Radiohead, System of a Down, or Beck takes us
> > all to a new place.
> >
> > Living on the run and battling late-night deadlines was my career, but I
> > loved it. As Willie Nelson sang, "The night life ain't no good life, but
> > it's my life." I know what he means. I'll miss the adrenaline rushes,
> > but maybe now I'll finally get some sleep.
> >
> > Steve Morse covered pop music for the Globe from 1975-2005. E-mail him a
> > spmorse at gmail.com <mailto:spmorse at gmail.com>. Go to boston.com/magazine
> > <http://boston.com/magazine> to hear Morse talk about his favorite
> > concerts in a slideshow with music.
> >
> >
> > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/04/09/a_rock_critics_g
> > reatest_hits/
> >
> >
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From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Mon Apr 10 02:53:04 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:53:04 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- About the Russian Night
Message-ID: <003501c65c84$93256de0$fa48e804@BELJPZ>

Thank you Michael.  Hebe and I really enjoyed the Russian production of HAiR 
even though we, like you, didn't understand any of the Russian.

The band was really excellent, and the performances quite good.
The Director, Stas Namin, was a most gracious host, and everyone with us had 
a blast talking with the Russian Tribe!  I really felt sorry for their 
prospects for fame and fortune in Russia (nil by their analysis), and the 
fact that evidently many of them have completely bought into the Hollywood 
Dream of stardom.

You made a most astute observation about the venue being designed for motion 
picture viewing rather than for live presentations.  We were fortunate to be 
able to get front-row seats in the side section, because the very 
high-backed chairs made it most difficult for Hebe to see anyone on stage 
over a chair row in front of her.

I was a little bothered when they performed "Frank Mills" after "Where Do I 
Go?", but then, when I discovered that they had cut HAiR into a one-act, I 
agreed with the song's placement.  (It's placement is not crucial to the 
development of the plot, and it, being a relatively slow ballad, helped as a 
buffer that kept "Where Do I Go?" from being clobbered by the rest of the 
show.  I was disappointed that so many of my favorite songs/segments had 
been cut, i.e.:  The whole Abraham Lincoln/Black Power number, "Don't Put It 
Down,"  "My Conviction,"  "The Bed," etc.  Is this the way it plays in 
Moscow, or were these cuts made to shorten the US performance?

But, all in all, it ROCKED!

Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
John

=================================
Original message:

Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:59:02 -0700
From: Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com>
Subject: [Mb-hair] About the Russian Night
Message-ID: <C05C0486.2B084%michael at michaelbutler.com>


A very pleasant evening had by all. Understood few words, not the same show
we put together in Moscow so long ago. However a nice feeling, for sure
HAIR. The tribe was really hampered by the film screen stage. They did a
super job in such confines. It is nice to see that it has run so long in
Russia. (understand they start and stop shoe on a frequent basis-different
than here).
Stas Namin is to be complemented on presenting it and for his hospitality
afterwards.
Glad to see so many American Tribe members watching and enjoying the
evening.
Michael


From venuetheatre at juno.com  Mon Apr 10 05:49:56 2006
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (venuetheatre at juno.com)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:49:56 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Mb-hair Digest, Vol 22, Issue 13
Message-ID: <20060410.093818.2468.14.venuetheatre@juno.com>

 
I don't know either, but I'm willing to give it a try if it will help -- 
anyway, I'm mostly a Hess kinda gal, myself!

I don't know if this will work or if it's just another half-assed attempt
to fight corporate america (the former, "city hall" as it were), in which
case, it would seem a rough row to hoe,  ... but what the hey!  I'll play
the game and see what happens -- quite frankly, I'm tired of funding the
war!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now here is something that just might work. I typically don't send stuff
through the office group. But we Americans HAVE to do something about the
fuel prices. The gas war WILL work if we can get enough people involved. 
 
I am definitely going to join in. How about you!!!
 
GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work
This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive . It came from
one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It ' s worth
your consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a
gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to
come down? We need to take some intelligent, united act ion. Phillip
Hollsworth offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day"
campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just
laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt"
ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us
than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can
really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably
thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap.  Me too! It is
currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil
companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost
of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive
action to teach them that BUYERS control the
marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more
each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to
see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by
not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we
CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price
war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two
biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not
selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they
reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and
Mobil gas buyers.  It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this
point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach
millions of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least
ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more
(300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the
sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers.
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each,
then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level
further, you guessed it..... THREE
>>>>HUNDRED MILLION >>>>PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you
don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is
send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a
mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten
more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could
conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you,
please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL
UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael at intrafi.com)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:50:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: 'West Wing' Writers' Novel Way of Picking
	the President
Message-ID: <20060410165005.A43409FE6F@lax-gw05.mroute.net>

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From michael at intrafi.com  Mon Apr 10 11:34:56 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael at intrafi.com)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] AlterNet: Ain't Just Whistling Dixie
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Ain't Just Whistling Dixie
http://www.alternet.org/story/34637

What if the South had won the Civil War? Kevin Wilmott's sly mockumentary imagines an America that is very different from today's -- or is it? 
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Wed Apr 12 03:13:24 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:13:24 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Space Place, Needs Some Help
In-Reply-To: mb-civic-request@islandlists.com's message of Tue, 11 Apr 2006
	18:34:31 -0700
Message-ID: <22372-443CD2C4-4683@storefull-3271.bay.webtv.net>

 
What's neat about this museum in Florida is not only that it's hands-on,
but that it's FREE to the public. (Bizarrely, and conversely, the
government turned the Kennedy Space Center--a fantastic place to tour,
by the way--over to a PRIVATE company, a few years ago, and entrance
fees, I believe, are no around FIFTY BUCKS...) 

Those of you who have known me for a while know how vital I beliee
museums and libraries are to a society's well-being... (Oh, my! That
sounded pretentious...) 

:-) 

But this place, as you'll see from this article, if you're so inclined
could use some help. I'm certain that even a couple of buckaroos would
come in handy. 

It seems sad to let a locale that celebrates our attempts at achieving a
better future, to slip into its own antiquity. 

Best, Jim 
__________________ 

April 11, 2006 

Space museum has high hopes for fundraiser BY TOM BREEN 
FLORIDA TODAY 

Dane Beard dug into his pockets the other day and dropped about $2 in
change on the counter of the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum in
Titusville. 

"Here's all I have," the 9-year-old Port St. John boy said. "Please use
this. I really don't want you to close." 

Dane is hoping adults in the community and in government, who have far
more money than he does, also can help. 

Unless the museum comes up with rent money soon, it will close this
summer, said Charlie Mars, president of the U.S. Space Walk of Fame
Foundation, which oversees a place that is packed with one-of-a-kind
items from the space program's 50-plus years. 

To help it stay open, the local chapter of the National Space Society
will hold a fundraiser Wednesday. It is being held in conjunction with
an international event called "Yuri's Night" honoring Russian Yuri
Gagarin's flight into space 45 years ago Wednesday as well as the 25th
anniversary year of the first shuttle launch. 
"We will be losing a great collection of space artifacts, as well as the
stories told daily by the volunteers themselves, if the museum closes,"
said Tim Bailey, an aerospace engineer and member of the local
space-society chapter. 

The space society, which is based in Washington, D.C., works for the
advancement of space programs in chapters around the country. It has no
direct connection to the local foundation that oversees the museum, but,
Bailey said, "Everybody interested in space needs to help." 

Wednesday's event is expected to draw a large crowd of museum
supporters, Bailey said. 
One of them is Dane's mother. 

"My son was horrified when he heard it might have to close," said Cathy
Beard, who worked the Kennedy Space Center for 18 years in the shuttle
program and as a typesetter and illustrator. Her husband, Richard, still
works there as a graphic artist. "Nobody wants to see it close. There is
so much history there." 

But whether the public's interest in keeping the place open "translates
into real financial help" remains an open question, Mars said. In
addition to overseeing the museum, the foundation has set up a Walk of
Fame at Space View Park in Titusville. Among the tributes to space there
are handprints of many famous astronauts, including those of Alan
Shepard and John Glenn. 

"All our money comes from foundations and grants, and we just aren't
getting enough funds," Mars said. He said the rent at Searstown Mall has
been raised from about $1,500 a month to $5,000 a month. Opened in 2002,
the Titusville facility is one of three such space museums in Brevard
County. The others are the Astronaut Hall of Fame and the Kennedy Space
Center Visitor Complex. 

The latter two are commercial ventures, charging admission, while the
Titusville museum operates through donations and grants. 

"We don't charge to come here because we want it to be a people's
place," Mars said. 
Also, unlike the other two museums, this one displays scores of personal
items revealing the human side of space and allows visitors to get up
close and personal with the artifacts. 

"You can actually work a joy stick from the Apollo simulators and feel
the fabric of the test suits," engineer Bailey, 26, said. "It's so cool
and interactive. Where else can you do this?" 

Neither Dane nor Bailey, of course, go back far enough to remember the
heyday of the space program in the 1960s and 1970s. But both provide
ample anecdotal evidence that younger generations are captivated by
space as much as previous ones. 

"We all should think like astronauts, to try to be part of space,"
Bailey said. 

? Copyright 2006 Florida Today



From flipthatswitch at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 13 07:22:12 2006
From: flipthatswitch at yahoo.com (willber)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:22:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] ATTORNEY'S ADVICE -- NO CHARGE
Message-ID: <20060413142212.2552.qmail@web32413.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


  
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        ATTORNEY'S ADVICE -- NO CHARGE 
Read  this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday. Maybe we should all take some of his advice!

A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company. 



        1.  The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank will know how you sign your checks.

2.  Do not sign the back of your credit cards.   Instead, put "PHOTO ID REQUIRED".

3 When you are writing checks to  pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on  the "For" line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won't have access to it.

4. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a P.O. Box, use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a P.O. Box, use your work address. Never have your SS#  printed on your checks.(DUH!) You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have it printed, anyone can get it. 


      5. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. I also carry a photocopy of my passport when travel either here or abroad. We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed on us in stealing a name, address, Social Security number, credit cards.

Unfortunately I, an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my wallet was stolen last month. Within a week, the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package,  applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information online, and more. But here's some critical  information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know:

1. We have been told we should cancel our credit cards  immediately. But the key is having the toll free numbers and your card  numbers handy so you know whom to call.  Keep those where you can find them.

2. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where  your credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if  there ever is one).

But here's what is perhaps most important of all: (I never even thought to do this.)

3. Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and Social Security number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.

By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert.  Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away. This weekend (someone turned it in).
It seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks.

Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet, etc., has been stolen:
1.) Equifax:  1-800-525-6285
2.) Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742
3.) Trans  Union: 1-800-680-7289
4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line):  1-800-269-0271

We pass along jokes on the Internet; we pass along just about
everything.
But if you are willing to pass this information along, it could really
help someone that you care about.




  
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From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:45:50 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] happy easter passover good friday people
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Apr 16 16:17:11 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:17:11 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] INTRODUCING CINDY SHEEHAN
Message-ID: <C0681E87.9927%michael@michaelbutler.com>


Michael Butler's Blog

http://www.michaelbutler.com/blog/mbutler/

http://www.michaelbutler.com




From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Apr 16 17:18:08 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:18:08 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Uncomfortable in our seats
Message-ID: <C0682CD0.9936%michael@michaelbutler.com>

calendarlive.com   
http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-ca-polplays16apr16,0,4021741.story?coll
=cl-stage-features
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Uncomfortable in our seats
The fate of "Rachel Corrie" prompts a question: Where will theater that
takes an unpopular stand find a home?
By Charles McNulty
Times Staff Writer

April 16, 2006

VANESSA REDGRAVE describes it as the "blacklisting of a dead girl and her
diaries." Harold Pinter says it's nothing less than the "suppression of
dissent and truth." And Tony Kushner professes to be "baffled" by the
attempts to justify what has been seen as egregious self-censorship.

The hullabaloo concerns New York Theatre Workshop's postponement of "My Name
Is Rachel Corrie," the play based on e-mails and letters of the 23-year-old
American student who was killed in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer while
protesting the leveling of Palestinian homes on the Gaza Strip.

It's no surprise that the incident has provoked widespread condemnation from
left-leaning critics and artists in the U.S. and abroad. But now that we're
all beginning to catch our breaths (and recover our voices), the time has
come to more calmly reflect on our theater's willingness to steer the public
dialogue in directions that it may otherwise be reluctant to venture in.

How daringly political will we allow our stages to become? The question
urges us to move beyond the self-congratulatory platitudes and catchphrases
that we who love this art form all too readily dispense. It comes down to
something more difficult: Can we envision (and, more to the point, finance)
a theater that embraces what the great midcentury Italian critic Nicola
Chiaromonte called its inherent and potentially liberating "unpopularity"?

In an age in which the value of "balance" ? meaning equal time for opposing
perspectives no matter their intellectual worth ? has rendered the network
news impotent, playwrights and performance artists with committed viewpoints
are finding audiences who appreciate their piercing advocacy. While none are
misguided enough to have large-scale commercial ambitions, they have found
producers who recognize that though theater may have a peripheral status in
the larger culture it nonetheless provides an influential forum that can
enrich the broader conversation in areas in which it is deficient.

The passion to present "My Name is Rachel Corrie" stems in part from a
frustration with the media's narrowly focused portrayal of Palestinians as
suicide bombers.

For those not keeping up with one of the more heavily blogged theater
stories in recent memory (and www.playgoer.blogspot.comis a good place to
catch up), the crux of the controversy involves New York Theatre Workshop
artistic director James Nicola's admission that he was delaying the
production for fear of the way the play's critical perspective on Israeli
policies might be received in the wake of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
severe stroke and Hamas' unexpected victory in the Palestinian elections.

Nicola's request for more time to "contextualize" the production through
carefully planned post-show discussions and other such educational offerings
was seen by many as uncharacteristic cowardice from a man who has created
one of the most influentially adventurous theaters off-Broadway.

The Royal Court, the storied London theater company that commissioned the
play, went public with its dismay at New York Theatre Workshop's handling of
the matter and subsequently pulled the rights. Seattle Rep, which announced
it will produce the play in March, is the only American theater to commit to
a full-scale production.

Meanwhile, a retooled version of the Royal Court premiere has moved to the
West End, where it has received respectful though by no means
earth-shattering reviews. Matt Wolf, writing in the New York Times, said "My
Name Is Rachel Corrie" "remains an impassioned eulogy that isn't quite the
same thing as a play." No one, in short, seems to be making a case for the
work on aesthetic grounds.

Nevertheless, the play marks a watershed moment in American political
theater. It's a symbolic fight ? not even the co-creators, Alan Rickman
(who's also the director) and Guardian features editor Katharine Viner, are
likely to make the claim that their drama is going to have a significant
effect on Middle East relations ? or for that matter find a lasting place in
the repertory. But at a time when our stages are becoming increasingly
political, the play is asking us to put our money where our sanctimony is.

For all our righteous claims about theater's ability to tackle taboos, flout
received ideas and deepen debate, what are we to make of the news that
certain hot-button issues may be too hot to present without an arsenal of
mediating outreach measures to soften the blow for ticked-off donors and
subscribers?

That the offending subject matter deals with the Palestinian cause seems
somehow fitting. Fueling the indignation is the sense that New York Theatre
Workshop's delay in producing the Rachel Corrie play is of a piece with
America's pro-Israel stand ? and perceived closed-mindedness when it comes
to hearing the other side of the story.

All of this, set against reports that Nicola had consulted with a Jewish
board member and a close friend who questioned the play's message, was
enough to raise suspicion over the way even a forward-thinking institution
such as New York Theatre Workshop may, if not lose sight of its higher
artistic mandate, dither in the face of vague pressures.

*

It might as well be now

IT'S a ripe time to have this discussion. Since Sept. 11 our stages have
been gravitating toward more difficult issues, and it's only a matter of
time before producers and artistic directors confront more such "Rachel
Corries."

Hollywood is already feeling the heat, with studio heads being told by
commentators on the right that box office declines are a direct consequence
of out-of-touch message flicks that wear their bleeding hearts on their
sleeves. Of course, there are other reasons for plummeting numbers (DVDs and
pay-per-view perhaps?), but everyone knows that the best way to quell
progressive vision is to equate it with financial suicide.

Still, some movies have been setting a brave example. In addition to the
dashing lead of George Clooney and the rest of this year's Oscar-contending
politicos, we've been enjoying a renaissance in documentary filmmaking that
has sharpened our sensibility for such fact-based stage dramas as "The
Exonerated" and "Guant?namo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom," which make up
in courage and conviction what they lack in sophisticated artistry.

This isn't to denigrate the theater of testimony's own rich tradition. The
work of Anna Deavere Smith ("Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los
Angeles, 1992," in particular) and Emily Mann (most notably her elegantly
structured "Still Life") demonstrate the remarkable strength and sweep of
the form.

But there's no denying that much of this work of late has made for rather
pedestrian theater. "Guant?namo" is important not because it's memorable art
but because it brings wider attention to the plight of human beings deemed
undeserving of the judicial protections on which our democracy was founded.
"The Exonerated" may lack the gripping dramatic complexity of Tim Robbins'
"Dead Man Walking," but it bears crucial witness to the fallibility of our
criminal justice system and to the individuals victimized by the inevitable
errors.

Though not everyone was taken with the writing and acting of Iraqi American
Heather Raffo's solo performance piece "Nine Parts of Desire," the work
(presented by the Geffen last fall) strove to put a human face on the female
population of a country we understand largely through grim statistics,
nefarious buzzwords and photographed chaos.

David Hare's "Stuff Happens," stirringly directed by Gordon Davidson last
summer at the Mark Taper Forum, represents one of the more compelling
theatrical forays into disastrous current events. The play, which was just
updated for a new production at the New York Public Theater, corrals the
Bush and Blair administrations into a penetrating dramatization of the
lead-up to this latest Iraq invasion. And instead of skewing the material
toward a predictable bias, Hare finds in Colin Powell a protagonist who can
movingly embody the diplomatic tragedy that paves the road to any war.

In addition to these more topical offerings, there has been a rise in
old-school engagement, which, rather than pursuing direct confrontation with
historical headlines, seeks to cultivate greater complexity in the framing
of social problems. For example, Bertolt Brecht, the foremost 20th century
political writer, seems to be making a comeback in New York. "The Threepenny
Opera" has just opened on Broadway, in a production featuring Alan Cumming
and that lovable '80s pop-wacko Cyndi Lauper, while Meryl Streep stars in
Kushner's new adaptation of "Mother Courage and Her Children" this summer in
Central Park.

Brecht's vision of theater as an incitement to critical thought rather than
uncritical emotion has never really caught on in America, where easy
sentiment is a prerequisite for solvency. Yet his works, beyond their
underestimated capacity to entertain, have inspired new ways of
understanding the societal structures limiting our possibilities.

The Geffen's current season is devoted to American masters (Tennessee
Williams, David Mamet, Arthur Miller and Sam Shepard), all of whom
demonstrate unique styles of public-mindedness. Miller's 1947 breakthrough
play, "All My Sons," which opens Wednesday, plunges into what the critic
Harold Clurman describes as the contemporary battle between "a memory of
morality and the pressure of 'practicality' " ? a line that speaks equally
well to the dilemma artistic directors are facing.

And Shepard, who's not normally thought to be overly concerned with
political matters, follows in June with "God of Hell," his most explicit
commentary on the increasingly autocratic tendencies of government today. An
allegory about the modern abuses of power, the play was hurried into
production in New York before the last presidential election, and it will be
interesting to see how it resonates now as Bush's approval ratings continue
to wilt.

These Geffen offerings carry the cachet of canonical playwrights, which
makes it harder to simply dismiss their visions as ideological hectoring.
Their challenge isn't so much drawing an audience as finding the right
director and actors to animate the human dimension of each work.

Political theater at its most dangerous, after all, has less to do with the
presentation of revolutionary ideas than with the depiction of characters in
the grip of seemingly insoluble conflicts. If rational argument or a new way
of thinking were enough, the stalemate would cease to exist and so too would
the drama.

Yes, it's true, as Robbins' production of "1984" at the Actors' Gang
reminds, that autonomous thought is the enemy of all who would curtail our
freedom. But theater's ability to put us into a more intimate relationship
with our supposed enemies is an even more radical proposition.

Why else would there be such backsliding about producing a drama about a
young woman's diaries and e-mails? Sympathy for an American casualty of the
Palestinian cause won't change foreign policy, but it will open minds and
hearts to a situation that's less black and white than many have been told.

The audience for such theater may not be of Broadway proportions, but
leaders in the field such as Nicola need to have faith in the potentially
large impact of producing small and dangerously.

*

Contact McNulty, The Times' theater critic, at calendar.letters at latimes.com.


If you want other stories on this topic, search the Archives at
latimes.com/archives.
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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sun Apr 16 18:00:46 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:00:46 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
Message-ID: <000f01c661ba$5ca7f400$1f1c7c46@CowBox>





Hey Tribe


Neil Young records new album called "Living With The War" the single is titled "Impeach The President." (link below) How good or bad it is I don't know  but I have always said the only thing that has a chance to wake up our country to protest like we did in the 60's would be music, music was our 'weapon' back then it gave the peace & love movement power . Let's hope this is a start in that direction George Dick & Don are leading us toward the abyss, it's time to rise up against this ignorance.



http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article358210.ece



Love forever
Robin

www.robinmcnamara.com
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From mblaxill at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 17 12:32:58 2006
From: mblaxill at yahoo.com (Mike Blaxill)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] Birthday Party for HAiR
Message-ID: <20060417193258.47911.qmail@web53008.mail.yahoo.com>

Hey Hey!

Wanted to get info out and invite everyone to a
private Birthday party for HAiR on Saturday night
April 29th..the night HAiR opened on Broadway at
the Biltmore Theater - myself, Alisa Farina (a
friend of HAiR drummer Jimmie Young) and Nina are
helping put this together

The party will be in Manhattan at..
"Dillon's" on 245 West 54th St 
(between Broadway and 8th Ave)
..from 8 o clock till whenever

..there's a $10 donation at the door for room
rental and other expenses..

We're going to be repeating what we did at the
Coda club in January where we put on a concert
version of the show that featured members of the
original Broadway cast, band and '68-72 run,
alongside members of other fabulous first run
HAiR productions.  We had wacky, emotional fun in
January..it'll be more of the same.

All are welcome!! Hope to see you there!!

PEACE
Mike Blaxill

From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Mon Apr 17 18:39:50 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:39:50 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
References: <mailman.1.1145300403.24231.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <000801c66288$fc493bd0$6601a8c0@Leo>

Robin my brother, you are so right on here! Something's gotta give so let it 
begin with music; we need to unite and we need to do it now! Hopefully this 
music will be a unifying force and a call to action.

PEACE,
Leo

 From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
 Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"

 Hey Tribe
Neil Young records new album called "Living With The War" the single is 
titled "Impeach The President." (link below) How good or bad it is I don't 
know  but I have always said the only thing that has a chance to wake up our 
country to protest like we did in the 60's would be music, music was our 
'weapon' back then it gave the peace & love movement power . Let's hope this 
is a start in that direction George Dick & Don are leading us toward the 
abyss, it's time to rise up against this ignorance.

 http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article358210.ece
Love forever
Robin



From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Tue Apr 18 07:01:32 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:01:32 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Birthday Party for HAiR
In-Reply-To: <20060417193258.47911.qmail@web53008.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F31D5BF1BF0A34064D5E4DBB2C40@phx.gbl>

Mike Blaxill wrote:

>- myself, Alisa Farina (a
>friend of HAiR drummer Jimmie Young) and Nina are
>helping put this together

Mike, you are far too generous. Other than send out an email mailing for you 
I have done nothing to help with this event, and wouldn't want to take any 
of the credit from you and Alisa, who are working so hard to put this all 
together.

I hope to be there, and see the resilts of your hard work on the 29th!
XO,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html



From captainkeyboards at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 18 22:59:01 2006
From: captainkeyboards at yahoo.com (D Anders)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
In-Reply-To: <000801c66288$fc493bd0$6601a8c0@Leo>
Message-ID: <20060419055901.89439.qmail@web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

When I was a kid the song Aquarius came along my way.
It was always more than just a song to me....
It entered my soul without assaulting it, it was
welcomed into my heart forever and like so many other
songs from this great show it sang back to me over the
years...echoing over the caverns of time...
I love you guys. Do us all a favor and never leave
this earth.
But if you do please remember that there's a heart
full of love and soul that follows after here and will
always, always remember you...
After many grizzled years, after many cynical
ambitions faltered, somehow through a miracle I have
found the song again. Along with that I found the
show...
For the first time I UNDERSTANED!
What a privelige to be among you here to tell you all
how much you meant to us. How frigging fantastic that
moment you stole from mainstream mediocrity meant -
and how it has lasted and will be, must be, again.  
It happened last Christmas when my girlfriend bought
me the Broadway Deluxe CD. She loves me you see...and
she could see somehow that this music and this spirit
was something I needed to find again.
Thankyou all for the work you did and continue to do.
You have no idea how much we loved you.
You have no idea...
Best,
CaptainKeyboards



--- Leo <peacefreak at metrocast.net> wrote:

> Robin my brother, you are so right on here!
> Something's gotta give so let it 
> begin with music; we need to unite and we need to do
> it now! Hopefully this 
> music will be a unifying force and a call to action.
> 
> PEACE,
> Leo
> 
>  From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
>  Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
> 
>  Hey Tribe
> Neil Young records new album called "Living With The
> War" the single is 
> titled "Impeach The President." (link below) How
> good or bad it is I don't 
> know  but I have always said the only thing that has
> a chance to wake up our 
> country to protest like we did in the 60's would be
> music, music was our 
> 'weapon' back then it gave the peace & love movement
> power . Let's hope this 
> is a start in that direction George Dick & Don are
> leading us toward the 
> abyss, it's time to rise up against this ignorance.
> 
> 
>
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article358210.ece
> Love forever
> Robin
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
>
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From bruce at bpaine.com  Tue Apr 18 23:49:24 2006
From: bruce at bpaine.com (Bruce Michael Paine)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:49:24 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Does anyone know how to reach Tad Gallerine
Message-ID: <4445DD74.1090301@bpaine.com>

Hi Guys,

Bruce Paine here, trying to reach Tad to see if he wants to play 
keyboards and harp with my group of
old farts "Cheap Suit". I would appreciate any help.
-- 

Bruce Michael Paine
www.bpaine.com
bruce at bpaine.com
310-399-4486



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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Apr 19 11:14:24 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:14:24 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Iraq II or a Nuclear Iran? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Message-ID: <C06BCC10.9A9F%michael@michaelbutler.com>

The New York Times
Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By

April 19, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Iraq II or a Nuclear Iran?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

If these are our only choices, which would you rather have: a nuclear-armed
Iran or an attack on Iran's nuclear sites that is carried out and sold to
the world by the Bush national security team, with Don Rumsfeld at the
Pentagon's helm?

I'd rather live with a nuclear Iran.

While I know the right thing is to keep all our options open, I have zero
confidence in this administration's ability to manage a complex military
strike against Iran, let alone the military and diplomatic aftershocks.

As someone who believed ? and still believes ? in the importance of getting
Iraq right, the level of incompetence that the Bush team has displayed in
Iraq, and its refusal to acknowledge any mistakes or remove those who made
them, make it impossible to support this administration in any offensive
military action against Iran.

I look at the Bush national security officials much the way I look at
drunken drivers. I just want to take away their foreign policy driver's
licenses for the next three years. Sorry, boys and girls, you have to stay
home now ? or take a taxi. Dial 1-800-NATO-CHARGE-A-RIDE. You will not be
driving alone. Not with my car.

If ours were a parliamentary democracy, the entire Bush team would be out of
office by now, and deservedly so. In Iraq, the president was supposed to
lead, manage and hold subordinates accountable, and he did not. Condoleezza
Rice was supposed to coordinate, and she did not. Donald Rumsfeld was
supposed to listen, and he did not. But ours is not a parliamentary system,
and while some may feel as if this administration's over, it isn't. So what
to do? We can't just take a foreign policy timeout.

At a minimum, a change must be made at the Pentagon. Mr. Rumsfeld paints
himself as a concerned secretary, ready to give our generals in Iraq
whatever troops they ask for, but they just haven't asked. This is hogwash,
but even if the generals didn't ask, the relevant question, Mr. Rumsfeld,
is: What did you ask them?

What did you ask them when you saw the looting, when you saw Saddam's ammo
dumps unguarded, when you saw that no one had control of the Iraq-Syria
border and when you saw that Iraq was so insecure that militias were
sprouting everywhere? What did you ask the generals? You didn't ask and you
didn't tell, because you never wanted to send more troops. You actually
thought we could just smash Saddam's regime and leave. Insane.

So if our choice is another Rummy-led operation on Iran or Iran's going
nuclear and our deterring it through classic means, I prefer deterrence. A
short diplomatic note to Iran's mullahs will suffice: "Gentlemen, should you
ever use a nuclear device, or dispense one to terrorists, we will destroy
every one of your nuclear sites with tactical nuclear weapons. If there is
any part of this sentence you don't understand, please contact us. Thank
you."

Do I wish there was a third way? Yes. But the only meaningful third way
would be to challenge Iran to face-to-face negotiations about all the issues
that divide us: Iraq, sanctions, nukes. Such diplomacy, though, would
require two things.

First, the Bush team would have to make up its mind on something that has
divided it for five years: Does it want a change of regime in Iran or a
change of behavior? If it will settle only for regime change, then diplomacy
has no chance. The Iranians will never negotiate, and our allies will be
wary of working with us.

Second, if the Bush team is ready to live with a change in Iran's behavior,
diplomacy has a chance ? but only if it has allies and a credible threat of
force to make the Iranians negotiate seriously. The only way Iran will
strike a grand bargain with the U.S. is if it thinks America has the support
at home and abroad for a military option (or really severe sanctions.)

The main reason Mr. Rumsfeld should leave now is because we can't have a
credible diplomatic or military option vis-?-vis Iran when so many people
feel, as I do, that in a choice between another Rumsfeld-led confrontation
and just letting Iran get nukes and living with it, we should opt for the
latter.

It may be that learning to live with a nuclear Iran is the wisest thing
under any circumstances. But it would be nice to have a choice. It would be
nice to have the option of a diplomatic deal to end Iran's nuclear program ?
but that will come only with a credible threat of force. Yet we will not
have the support at home or abroad for that threat as long as Don Rumsfeld
leads the Pentagon. No one in their right mind would follow this man into
another confrontation ? and that is a real strategic liability.



Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

    




From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Wed Apr 19 12:28:55 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:28:55 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV16AF61E6EACED976FE5050ABC50@phx.gbl>

Captain Keyboards...you have much love to share and we welcome you and your girlfriend... :-)

Peace and Love,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: D Anders
Sent: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:59:01 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"

When I was a kid the song Aquarius came along my way.
It was always more than just a song to me....
It entered my soul without assaulting it, it was
welcomed into my heart forever and like so many other
songs from this great show it sang back to me over the
years...echoing over the caverns of time...
I love you guys. Do us all a favor and never leave
this earth.
But if you do please remember that there's a heart
full of love and soul that follows after here and will
always, always remember you...
After many grizzled years, after many cynical
ambitions faltered, somehow through a miracle I have
found the song again. Along with that I found the
show...
For the first time I UNDERSTANED!
What a privelige to be among you here to tell you all
how much you meant to us. How frigging fantastic that
moment you stole from mainstream mediocrity meant -
and how it has lasted and will be, must be, again.  
It happened last Christmas when my girlfriend bought
me the Broadway Deluxe CD. She loves me you see...and
she could see somehow that this music and this spirit
was something I needed to find again.
Thankyou all for the work you did and continue to do.
You have no idea how much we loved you.
You have no idea...
Best,
CaptainKeyboards



--- Leo <peacefreak at metrocast.net> wrote:

> Robin my brother, you are so right on here!
> Something's gotta give so let it 
> begin with music; we need to unite and we need to do
> it now! Hopefully this 
> music will be a unifying force and a call to action.
> 
> PEACE,
> Leo
> 
>  From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
>  Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
> 
>  Hey Tribe
> Neil Young records new album called "Living With The
> War" the single is 
> titled "Impeach The President." (link below) How
> good or bad it is I don't 
> know  but I have always said the only thing that has
> a chance to wake up our 
> country to protest like we did in the 60's would be
> music, music was our 
> 'weapon' back then it gave the peace & love movement
> power . Let's hope this 
> is a start in that direction George Dick & Don are
> leading us toward the 
> abyss, it's time to rise up against this ignorance.
> 
> 
>
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article358210.ece
> Love forever
> Robin
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
>
http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
> 


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Apr 19 12:29:43 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:29:43 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
In-Reply-To: <20060419055901.89439.qmail@web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <C06BDDB7.9ABB%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Thanks for your kind words. We all appreciate hearing from a fellow spirit.
Peace and Love,
Michael
--Those who have experienced altered forms of consciousness, by whatever
means, never forget that space in which they have been. Now that they have
learned how to function within the system, it is time they act to run it. MB







> When I was a kid the song Aquarius came along my way.
> It was always more than just a song to me....
> It entered my soul without assaulting it, it was
> welcomed into my heart forever and like so many other
> songs from this great show it sang back to me over the
> years...echoing over the caverns of time...
> I love you guys. Do us all a favor and never leave
> this earth.
> But if you do please remember that there's a heart
> full of love and soul that follows after here and will
> always, always remember you...
> After many grizzled years, after many cynical
> ambitions faltered, somehow through a miracle I have
> found the song again. Along with that I found the
> show...
> For the first time I UNDERSTANED!
> What a privelige to be among you here to tell you all
> how much you meant to us. How frigging fantastic that
> moment you stole from mainstream mediocrity meant -
> and how it has lasted and will be, must be, again.
> It happened last Christmas when my girlfriend bought
> me the Broadway Deluxe CD. She loves me you see...and
> she could see somehow that this music and this spirit
> was something I needed to find again.
> Thankyou all for the work you did and continue to do.
> You have no idea how much we loved you.
> You have no idea...
> Best,
> CaptainKeyboards
> 
> 
> 
> --- Leo <peacefreak at metrocast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Robin my brother, you are so right on here!
>> Something's gotta give so let it
>> begin with music; we need to unite and we need to do
>> it now! Hopefully this
>> music will be a unifying force and a call to action.
>> 
>> PEACE,
>> Leo
>> 
>>  From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
>>  Subject: [Mb-hair] "Neil Young"
>> 
>>  Hey Tribe
>> Neil Young records new album called "Living With The
>> War" the single is
>> titled "Impeach The President." (link below) How
>> good or bad it is I don't
>> know  but I have always said the only thing that has
>> a chance to wake up our
>> country to protest like we did in the 60's would be
>> music, music was our
>> 'weapon' back then it gave the peace & love movement
>> power . Let's hope this
>> is a start in that direction George Dick & Don are
>> leading us toward the
>> abyss, it's time to rise up against this ignorance.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article358210.ece
>> Love forever
>> Robin
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mb-hair mailing list
>> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
>> 
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
>> 
> 
> 
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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Wed Apr 19 21:14:07 2006
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:14:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: West LA Dem Club - Candidate Forum Update
Message-ID: <2119664422.2461091145506447074.JavaMail.wasadmin@WS02>

Dear Michael Butler,
 
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April 19, 2006

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Apr 19 21:11:15 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:11:15 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Jerusalem: the key to peace Apr 12th 2006
Message-ID: <C06C57F3.9B0F%michael@michaelbutler.com>



Jerusalem: the key to peace
Apr 12th 2006

From eyster at verizon.net  Thu Apr 20 11:13:33 2006
From: eyster at verizon.net (Bruce Eyster)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:13:33 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Does anyone know how to reach Tad Gallerine
In-Reply-To: <4445DD74.1090301@bpaine.com>
Message-ID: <60A09AB5-D099-11DA-A104-00039352B692@verizon.net>

Hi Michael:
    I don't know where Bruce Paine is but I am friends with Charlie 
Wheeler who was in "Cheap Suit " > He and his wife live in St.Louis and 
both their sons are musicians . One of them : Noah , is in N.Y.C. 
making his way , in the music scene .
    Since I don't give out personal info. without permission , I'll 
forward this to Charlie and maybe he can contact you if he has any 
leads ........

                                                                         
    PEACE - BRUCE
On Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at 02:49  AM, Bruce Michael Paine wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Bruce Paine here, trying to reach Tad to see if he wants to play 
> keyboards and harp with my group of
> old farts "Cheap Suit". I would appreciate any help.
> --
>
>
>
>
> Bruce Michael Paine
> www.bpaine.com
> bruce at bpaine.com
> 310-399-4486
>
> 
>
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From eyster at verizon.net  Thu Apr 20 11:19:38 2006
From: eyster at verizon.net (Bruce Eyster)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:19:38 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Does anyone know how to reach Tad Gallerine
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Message-ID: <3AB506DE-D09A-11DA-A104-00039352B692@verizon.net>

OOOOpps , I misread this sorry Bruce .
Is this the R.Crumb , " Cheap Suit " ?

                     Thanks - Bruce
On Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at 02:49  AM, Bruce Michael Paine wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Bruce Paine here, trying to reach Tad to see if he wants to play 
> keyboards and harp with my group of
> old farts "Cheap Suit". I would appreciate any help.
> --
>
>
>
>
> Bruce Michael Paine
> www.bpaine.com
> bruce at bpaine.com
> 310-399-4486
>
> 
>
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From lilacamy11 at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 20 23:45:10 2006
From: lilacamy11 at yahoo.com (Amy Kazan)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] Michael - CDs
Message-ID: <20060421064510.51094.qmail@web36615.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Sorry to post this to the whole group (although it is
about HAIR)

Michael R., I got the CDs and I'm really excited to
listen to them! I don't know what I did with your
individual email address, but this will get to you so
it works.

for the rest of the list... Michael R. had asked me to
do a HAIR cd exhange (he wanted copies of two CDs I
had and he made me copies of 2 he had) which isn't a
bad idea for the whole group. Maybe we could all post
the versions of HAIR that we have and see if we can
get a big exchange:) 

- Amy

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" - e.e. cummings

"Life is around you and in you . . . Let the sunshine in!" - HAIR (the musical)

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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Fri Apr 21 07:51:56 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 21 Apr 2006 14:51:56 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] albums
Message-ID: <20060421145156.23829.qmail@webmail53.rediffmail.com>

 Amy
Yeah 
they're nice
I liked how the live Germany one opened Act II with a medley of Oh Great God Of Power and Aquarius. The Argentine version is probably one of the best cast albums I've heard. 

Anyways...
I think that a big trade is a great idea. 
I have
Off Broadway CD
Original Broadway Cast Album CD
Original German Cast LP
Live in Germany 1970
Mexican Cast CD
1971 Argentina CD
197? Boston Pops plays selections from HAIR
Movie Soundtrack CD
1992 Australian CD
1993 London CD [finally!]
1996 C.C. Productions Cd [a studio cast?]
2001 Vienna Cast
2005 Actor's Benefit Of America CD

DisinHAIRited LP






<3
Mike
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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael at intrafi.com)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:18:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From
	Marijuana
Message-ID: <20060421181817.2E713249E31@lax-gw08.mroute.net>

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From michael at intrafi.com  Fri Apr 21 11:44:25 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael at intrafi.com)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:44:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] AlterNet: Driving Toward Energy Independence
Message-ID: <20060421184425.04927B8222@alternet.org>


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From lilacamy11 at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 21 13:19:21 2006
From: lilacamy11 at yahoo.com (Amy Kazan)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:19:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] Albums
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1145646003.2624.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <20060421201921.54378.qmail@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I gave my list a little while ago, and right now the
majority of my CDs are all packed away getting ready
to move. But if anyone wants anything I'll have, I'll
be happy to get it to you sometime in July after I've
moved and gotten married and honeymooned, etc.:)


- Amy

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" - e.e. cummings

"Life is around you and in you . . . Let the sunshine in!" - HAIR (the musical)

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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Fri Apr 21 18:42:01 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:42:01 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Albums
In-Reply-To: <20060421201921.54378.qmail@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F3723171CFFB78F765A888FB2B80@phx.gbl>

Hi folks,

The thing I like least about being the moderator of this list is when I have 
to be the copyright police. I really am sorry to be the killjoy in this 
conversation, but as this list is owned by Michael Butler we must ask that 
all discussion of copying Hair recordings be taken to private email. To have 
these discussions here puts our dear Michael in the position of seeming to 
condone the illegal copying of Hair recordings, which puts him in a legally 
awkward position with Hair's other copyright holders.

I understand that some of these recordings are rare, and I can easily 
understand the desire to share them, but as some of the copyright holders 
are members of this list, and others check in ocassionally, I really think 
that these discussions need to be held somewhere other than here. Listing 
the contents of your collections is fine, but please no discussions here of 
making copies for anyone.

Thanks,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair



From lindahassler at sbcglobal.net  Fri Apr 21 23:15:44 2006
From: lindahassler at sbcglobal.net (Linda Hassler)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:15:44 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Cabal" Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks With Iran
Message-ID: <b757de6221b8a9b64403574940e3de03@sbcglobal.net>

More about "the other side of the story" regarding Iran's fruitless 
attempts to talk to the U.S. a while back.

Linda Hassler

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106N.shtml


"Cabal" Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks With Iran
  ? ?By Gareth Porter
  ????Inter Press Service

  ????Tuesday 28 March 2006

  ????Washington - The George W. Bush administration failed to enter 
into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme in May 2003 
because neoconservative zealots who advocated destabilisation and 
regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with 
Tehran, according to former administration officials.

  ????The same neoconservative veto power also prevented the 
administration from adopting any official policy statement on Iran, 
those same officials say.

  ??? Lawrence Wilkerson, then chief of staff to Secretary of State 
Colin Powell, says the failure to adopt a formal Iran policy in 
2002-2003 was the result of obstruction by a "secret cabal" of 
neoconservatives in the administration, led by Vice Pres. Dick Cheney.

  ????"The secret cabal got what it wanted: no negotiations with 
Tehran," Wilkerson wrote in an e-mail to IPS.

  ????The Iranian negotiating offer, transmitted to the State Department 
in early May 2003 by the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, acknowledged that 
Iran would have to address U.S. concerns about its nuclear programme, 
although it made no specific concession in advance of the talks, 
according to Flynt Leverett, then the National Security Council's 
senior director for Middle East Affairs.

  ????It also raised the possibility of cutting off Iran's support for 
Hamas and Islamic Jihad and converting Hezbollah into a purely 
socio-political organisation, according to Leverett. That was an 
explicit response to Powell's demand in late March that Iran "end its 
support for terrorism".

  ????In return, Leverett recalls, the Iranians wanted the United States 
to address security questions, the lifting of economic sanctions and 
normalisation of relations, including support for Iran's integration 
into the global economic order.

  ????Leverett also recalls that it was drafted with the blessing of all 
the major political players in the Iranian regime, including the 
"Supreme Leader", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

  ????Realists, led by Powell and his Deputy Richard Armitage, were 
inclined to respond positively to the Iranian offer. Nevertheless, 
within a few days of its receipt, the State Department had rebuked the 
Swiss ambassador for having passed on the offer.

  ????Exactly how the decision was made is not known. "As with many of 
these issues of national security decision-making, there are no 
fingerprints," Wilkerson told IPS. "But I would guess Dick Cheney with 
the blessing of George W. Bush."

  ????As Wilkerson observes, however, the mysterious death of what 
became known among Iran specialists as Iran's "grand bargain" 
initiative was a result of the administration's inability to agree on a 
policy toward Tehran.

  ????A draft National Security Policy Directive (NSPD) on Iran calling 
for diplomatic engagement had been in the process of interagency 
coordination for more than a year, according to a source who asks to 
remain unidentified.

  ????But it was impossible to get formal agreement on the NSPD, the 
source recalls, because officials in Cheney's office and in 
Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's Office of Special 
Plans wanted a policy of regime change and kept trying to amend it.

  ????Opponents of the neoconservative policy line blame Condoleezza 
Rice, then the National Security Adviser, for the failure of the 
administration to override the extremists in the administration. The 
statutory policymaker process on Iran, Wilkerson told IPS in e-mail, 
was "managed by a national security adviser incapable of standing up to 
the cabal..."

  ????In the absence of an Iran policy, the two contending camps 
struggled in 2003 over a proposal by realists in the administration to 
reopen the Geneva channel with Iran that had been used successfully on 
Afghanistan in 2001-2002. They believed Iran could be helpful in 
stabilising post-conflict Iraq, because the Iraqi Shiite militants who 
they expected to return from Iran after Hussein's overthrow owed some 
degree of allegiance to Iran.

  ????The neoconservatives tried to block those meetings on tactical 
policy grounds, according to Leverett. "They were saying we didn't want 
to engage with Iran because we didn't want to owe them," he recalls.

  ????Nevertheless, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad was 
authorised to begin meeting secretly in Geneva with Iranian officials 
to discuss Iraq. The neoconservatives then tried to sandbag the talks 
by introducing a demand for full information on any high-ranking al 
Qaeda cadres who might be detained by the Iranians.

  ????Iran regarded that information as a bargaining chip to be given up 
only for a quid pro quo from Washington. The Bush administration, 
however, had adopted a policy in early 2002 of refusing to share any 
information with Iran on al Qaeda or other terrorist organisations.

  ????On May 3, as the Iranian "grand bargain" proposal was on its way 
to Washington, Tehran's representative in Geneva, Javad Zarif, offered 
a compromise on the issue, according to Leverett: if the United States 
gave Iran the names of the cadres of the Mujahideen e Kalq (MEK) who 
were being held by U.S. forces in Iraq, Iran would give the United 
States the names of the al Qaeda operatives they had detained.

  ????The MEK had carried out armed attacks against Iran from Iraqi 
territory during the Saddam regime and had been named a terrorist 
organisation by the United States. But it had capitulated to U.S. 
forces after the invasion, and the neoconservatives now saw the MEK as 
a potential asset in an effort to destabilise the Iranian regime.

  ????The MEK had already become a key element in the alternative draft 
NSPD drawn up by neoconservatives in the administration.

  ????The indictment of Iran analyst Larry Franklin on Feith's staff 
last year revealed that, by February 2003, Franklin had begun sharing a 
draft NSPD that he knew would be to the liking of the Israeli Embassy.

  ????(Franklin eventually pled guilty to passing classified information 
to two employees of an influential pro-Israel lobbying group and was 
sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison.)

  ????Reflecting the substance of that draft policy, ABC News reported 
on May 30, 2003 that the Pentagon was calling for the destabilisation 
of the Iranian government by "using all available points of pressure on 
the Iranian regime, including backing armed Iranian dissidents and 
employing the services of the Mujahideen e Kalq..."

  ????Nevertheless, Pres. Bush apparently initially saw nothing wrong 
with trading information on MEK, despite arguments that MEK should not 
be repatriated to Iran. "I have it on good authority," Leverett told 
IPS, "that Bush's initial reaction was, 'But we say there is no such 
thing as a good terrorist'." Nevertheless, Bush finally rejected the 
Iranian proposal.

  ????By the end of May, the neoconservatives had succeeded in closing 
down the Geneva channel for good. They had hoped to push through their 
own NSPD on Iran, but according to the Franklin indictment, in October 
1983, Franklin told an Israeli embassy officer that work on the NSPD 
had been stopped.

  ????But the damage had been done. With no direct diplomatic contact 
between Iran and the United States, the neoconservatives had a clear 
path to raising tensions and building political support for regarding 
Iran as the primary enemy of the United States.

  ????--------

  ? ??Gareth Porter is an historian and national security policy 
analyst. His latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and 
the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in June 2005. 
  


From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr 22 09:20:38 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:20:38 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Albums
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F3723171CFFB78F765A888FB2B80@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <C06FD016.9C5F%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Nina,
Thanks
Michael




> Hi folks,
> 
> The thing I like least about being the moderator of this list is when I have
> to be the copyright police. I really am sorry to be the killjoy in this
> conversation, but as this list is owned by Michael Butler we must ask that
> all discussion of copying Hair recordings be taken to private email. To have
> these discussions here puts our dear Michael in the position of seeming to
> condone the illegal copying of Hair recordings, which puts him in a legally
> awkward position with Hair's other copyright holders.
> 
> I understand that some of these recordings are rare, and I can easily
> understand the desire to share them, but as some of the copyright holders
> are members of this list, and others check in ocassionally, I really think
> that these discussions need to be held somewhere other than here. Listing
> the contents of your collections is fine, but please no discussions here of
> making copies for anyone.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nina
> 
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair



From lilacamy11 at yahoo.com  Sat Apr 22 12:00:17 2006
From: lilacamy11 at yahoo.com (Amy Kazan)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:00:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] CDs
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1145732404.5275.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <20060422190017.93507.qmail@web36610.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Sorry Nina (and anyone else who may have been put in
an awkward place) !!! My fault and I apologize. Thanks
for the reminder. 

- Amy

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" - e.e. cummings

"Life is around you and in you . . . Let the sunshine in!" - HAIR (the musical)

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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Sat Apr 22 14:53:54 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe at juno.com)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:53:54 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR-Israel 2002 on CD
Message-ID: <20060422.145406.11899.1014057@webmail45.lax.untd.com>

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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Sun Apr 23 06:54:19 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:54:19 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR-Israel 2002 on CD
In-Reply-To: <20060422.145406.11899.1014057@webmail45.lax.untd.com>
Message-ID: <353f0fb83dd.c3ca07d@outgoing.verizon.net>

On 04/22/2006, tiogajoe at juno.com wrote:

> If you're a HAIR-head with a vast collection of HAIR recordings or
> you're just starting a collection, you need this one. And for only
> twenty bucks, including shipping, straight from Israel, it can't be
> beat: Tamuz Records Ltd.
> PO Box 198
> Ra'anana 43102, ISRAEL
> www.israel-music.com

Oh, good Lord...I'm falling way, way behind with my obsession!

> Liner notes are in Hebrew.  Booklet, as Hebrew, opens and reads right
> to left.

Waitaminit, waitaminit, waitaminit...if you don't understand a word, how do
you know you're s'posed to read it right-to-left? 8)

BTW, friends -- Lisa and I saw The Odd Couple last night...and I swear to
God, I was thinking to myself "Y'know, before I move to Chicago, I gotta
come back and take a pilgrimage here to find the Biltmore." And three
minutes later I actually looked ACROSS THE STREET, and there it was! Yeah,
I've seen the pictures, but I must say, that's a nice looking building. I'm
glad it's in use again.

Now I just gotta find the Cheetah and the Public Theater.

--
dauber at banana-and-louie.org
 * ICQ: 28677921 * YIM: dau_ber * AIM: ddaauubbeerr
blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com

From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr 23 08:24:14 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:24:14 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR-Israel 2002 on CD
References: <353f0fb83dd.c3ca07d@outgoing.verizon.net>
Message-ID: <005501c666e9$fac893e0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

i used to collect hair recordings
i have the original french and british casts
also have tape of HAIR 1980 i should make into a cd
unusual recording of whole show
?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Courtney" <dauber at banana-and-louie.org>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] HAIR-Israel 2002 on CD


> On 04/22/2006, tiogajoe at juno.com wrote:
>
> > If you're a HAIR-head with a vast collection of HAIR recordings or
> > you're just starting a collection, you need this one. And for only
> > twenty bucks, including shipping, straight from Israel, it can't be
> > beat: Tamuz Records Ltd.
> > PO Box 198
> > Ra'anana 43102, ISRAEL
> > www.israel-music.com
>
> Oh, good Lord...I'm falling way, way behind with my obsession!
>
> > Liner notes are in Hebrew.  Booklet, as Hebrew, opens and reads right
> > to left.
>
> Waitaminit, waitaminit, waitaminit...if you don't understand a word, how
do
> you know you're s'posed to read it right-to-left? 8)
>
> BTW, friends -- Lisa and I saw The Odd Couple last night...and I swear to
> God, I was thinking to myself "Y'know, before I move to Chicago, I gotta
> come back and take a pilgrimage here to find the Biltmore." And three
> minutes later I actually looked ACROSS THE STREET, and there it was! Yeah,
> I've seen the pictures, but I must say, that's a nice looking building.
I'm
> glad it's in use again.
>
> Now I just gotta find the Cheetah and the Public Theater.
>
> --
> dauber at banana-and-louie.org
>  * ICQ: 28677921 * YIM: dau_ber * AIM: ddaauubbeerr
> blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com
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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Sun Apr 23 07:00:00 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:00:00 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Maybe I'm just looking TOO MUCH into this, but...
Message-ID: <353f1120d.e7ed2fc@outgoing.verizon.net>

...has anybody else noticed that "Donna / Hashish" on the current movie
soundtrack CD clocks in at 4:20?   Hmmmm....hash....4:20....

Perhaps those folks over at UA are more astute than we give them credit for.
:)

--
dauber at banana-and-louie.org
 * ICQ: 28677921 * YIM: dau_ber * AIM: ddaauubbeerr
blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com

From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr 23 11:57:30 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 23 Apr 2006 18:57:30 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD
Message-ID: <20060423185730.14194.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>

 ?
I know Hebrew 
took Hebrew for 5 years at my synagogue 
nice language
I should get this CD
and don't call me black [!]
thats a great show
but not as great as Hair
I have an LP of it

anyways
thats cool

<3
Mike

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr 23 12:30:27 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:30:27 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD
References: <20060423185730.14194.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <001e01c6670c$603bad30$f1476c42@hotprojects>

michael youre a jewish hispanic boy?
thats really cool
im a sicilian jewish boy

poor blacks nobody wants to be called black?
why?

found out something interesting about that
anthropologically
that the preference in many cultures for lighter skin
had to do with that darker people were the ones in the sun; the workers
the lighter ones had greater status because they were indoors, could study etc
got lighter from less exposure to sun?
interesting social psych theory ( i never thought about it before in those terms )
?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:57 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD


   
  I know Hebrew 
  took Hebrew for 5 years at my synagogue 
  nice language
  I should get this CD
  and don't call me black [!]
  thats a great show
  but not as great as Hair
  I have an LP of it

  anyways
  thats cool

  <3
  Mike





   


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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr 23 12:57:46 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 23 Apr 2006 19:57:46 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD
Message-ID: <20060423195746.29485.qmail@webmail57.rediffmail.com>

 ?
yeah
thats cool

have you ever been to israel? 
I went to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
 on a trip once for about a month 
when I was 14 years old, I think
was really nice I enjoyed it a lot


I need to get this Cd...... 
I looked for an LP of the Israel cast when we went to Jerusalem
didn't find it... but found don't call me black
I almost bought it online once and the company emailed me
they told me they didn't have it anymore


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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr 23 13:35:14 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:35:14 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD
References: <20060423195746.29485.qmail@webmail57.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <004601c66715$6d9d7e50$f1476c42@hotprojects>

michael why are you so flipped out if someone calls you black?
in the white mans world we are not black but we are certainly non white
( eg jews hispanics asians indians etc )
im not calling you black but just curious why you find it so objectionable
?
are you like me the product of mixed marriage
or are you from ladezmo jews?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:57 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD


   
  yeah
  thats cool

  have you ever been to israel? 
  I went to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
  on a trip once for about a month 
  when I was 14 years old, I think
  was really nice I enjoyed it a lot


  I need to get this Cd...... 
  I looked for an LP of the Israel cast when we went to Jerusalem
  didn't find it... but found don't call me black
  I almost bought it online once and the company emailed me
  they told me they didn't have it anymore






   


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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr 23 15:25:15 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 23 Apr 2006 22:25:15 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
Message-ID: <20060423222515.31417.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Richard
Sorry for the confusion- 
I am talking about a musical called "Don't Call Me Black", 
which was a middle eastern 1970's spinoff of Hair. 
I don't care if anyone calls me "black".  
I know- it is really confusing. 
I am not meaning it as dont call ME black, 
I'm talking about the show "Don't Call Me Black"
You can get the CD at
http://www.israel-music.com/various/dont_call_me_black/
really sorry for the confusion
Mike
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr 23 15:34:12 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:34:12 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
References: <20060423222515.31417.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <001701c66726$0bcb5150$f1476c42@hotprojects>

oh lol
i vaguely remember the show
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:25 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD


   
  Richard
  Sorry for the confusion- 
  I am talking about a musical called "Don't Call Me Black", 
  which was a middle eastern 1970's spinoff of Hair. 
  I don't care if anyone calls me "black".  
  I know- it is really confusing. 
  I am not meaning it as dont call ME black, 
  I'm talking about the show "Don't Call Me Black"
  You can get the CD at
  http://www.israel-music.com/various/dont_call_me_black/
  really sorry for the confusion
  Mike 



   


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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr 23 16:22:21 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 23 Apr 2006 23:22:21 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Jay Records ?
Message-ID: <20060423232221.29791.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>

 ?
I once heard that Jay Records recorded the whole show [like the Mexican-Orfeon LP and CD]but it never was released. Is this true? Why wasn't it released if its true?

?
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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sun Apr 23 17:05:06 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:05:06 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
References: <20060423222515.31417.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <003701c66732$bef2d990$1f1c7c46@CowBox>

I'm pink, I'm pink :)

Love forever
Robin



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:25 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD


   
  Richard
  Sorry for the confusion- 
  I am talking about a musical called "Don't Call Me Black", 
  which was a middle eastern 1970's spinoff of Hair. 
  I don't care if anyone calls me "black".  
  I know- it is really confusing. 
  I am not meaning it as dont call ME black, 
  I'm talking about the show "Don't Call Me Black"
  You can get the CD at
  http://www.israel-music.com/various/dont_call_me_black/
  really sorry for the confusion
  Mike 



   


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From bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu  Mon Apr 24 06:27:01 2006
From: bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu (Wm-A Gonzalez)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:27:01 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Jay Records ?
In-Reply-To: <20060423232221.29791.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>
References: <20060423232221.29791.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <444CD225.4050702@rci.rutgers.edu>

Hi Michael,

I corresponded with John Yap in May of 2001 regarding this release.  At 
that time he told me that it was recorded, but not "finished", which I 
took to mean that the production masters were not yet done.  It has 
since disappeared from mention on their site.  My feeling was that they 
were waiting to release it to correspond with a major production, as 
Reprise and Encores had just done their concert versions, creating a 
"revival buzz", and MB was also then planning the Liberty Tour.  Maybe 
they are still waiting for such a production.

-Bil Gonzalez

Michael Ramirez wrote:
>  
> I once heard that Jay Records recorded the whole show [like the 
> Mexican-Orfeon LP and CD]but it never was released. Is this true? Why 
> wasn't it released if its true?
> 
> ?
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> <http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1507191490 at Middle5?PARTNER=3> 
> 
> 
> 
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Mon Apr 24 06:53:49 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:53:49 +0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] Jay Records ?
In-Reply-To: <444CD225.4050702@rci.rutgers.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F6A273CBDB107A9565EBCEB2BE0@phx.gbl>

Did they record a current production of the show, or was it staged for the 
recording?
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html





>From: Wm-A Gonzalez <bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu>
>Reply-To: bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu, mb-hair at islandlists.com
>To: Michael Ramirez <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,        
>mb-hair at islandlists.com
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Jay Records ?
>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:27:01 -0400
>
>Hi Michael,
>
>I corresponded with John Yap in May of 2001 regarding this release.  At
>that time he told me that it was recorded, but not "finished", which I
>took to mean that the production masters were not yet done.  It has
>since disappeared from mention on their site.  My feeling was that they
>were waiting to release it to correspond with a major production, as
>Reprise and Encores had just done their concert versions, creating a
>"revival buzz", and MB was also then planning the Liberty Tour.  Maybe
>they are still waiting for such a production.
>
>-Bil Gonzalez
>
>Michael Ramirez wrote:
> >
> > I once heard that Jay Records recorded the whole show [like the
> > Mexican-Orfeon LP and CD]but it never was released. Is this true? Why
> > wasn't it released if its true?
> >
> > ?
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > 
><http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1507191490 at Middle5?PARTNER=3>
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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From bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu  Mon Apr 24 07:45:13 2006
From: bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu (Wm-A Gonzalez)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:45:13 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Jay Records ?
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F6A273CBDB107A9565EBCEB2BE0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY104-F6A273CBDB107A9565EBCEB2BE0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <444CE479.90103@rci.rutgers.edu>

It was going to be a studio recording of the full score, similar to the 
one they did for Cabaret, part of their Masterworks series.  I didn't 
think that it also included dialog, but according to the description of 
the series:

"JAY Original Masterworks Edition recordings utilise the original book, 
music, lyrics and orchestrations of the musical masterworks. By 
recording the original version, the essence of these musical 
masterworks, as originally conceived by the authors and enjoyed by the 
public, is preserved for the new Digital era."

So maybe it was indeed a complete recording.  If so, maybe it is delayed 
due to rights issues?

-Bil

Little Birdie wrote:
> Did they record a current production of the show, or was it staged for the 
> recording?
> Nina
> 
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Wm-A Gonzalez <bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu>
>> Reply-To: bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu, mb-hair at islandlists.com
>> To: Michael Ramirez <lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com>,        
>> mb-hair at islandlists.com
>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Jay Records ?
>> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:27:01 -0400
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I corresponded with John Yap in May of 2001 regarding this release.  At
>> that time he told me that it was recorded, but not "finished", which I
>> took to mean that the production masters were not yet done.  It has
>> since disappeared from mention on their site.  My feeling was that they
>> were waiting to release it to correspond with a major production, as
>> Reprise and Encores had just done their concert versions, creating a
>> "revival buzz", and MB was also then planning the Liberty Tour.  Maybe
>> they are still waiting for such a production.
>>
>> -Bil Gonzalez
>>
>> Michael Ramirez wrote:
>>> I once heard that Jay Records recorded the whole show [like the
>>> Mexican-Orfeon LP and CD]but it never was released. Is this true? Why
>>> wasn't it released if its true?
>>>
>>> ?
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> <http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1507191490 at Middle5?PARTNER=3>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Mb-hair mailing list
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>>> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
>> _______________________________________________
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> 
> 
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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Mon Apr 24 15:13:13 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:13:13 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
References: <mailman.3.1145905203.10849.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <003701c667ec$47aeab10$6601a8c0@Leo>

I'm Rinso white!

PEACE,
Leo
 
From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
 Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
 
I'm pink, I'm pink :)
 
 Love forever
Robin



From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr 24 15:23:23 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:23:23 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
References: <mailman.3.1145905203.10849.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
	<003701c667ec$47aeab10$6601a8c0@Leo>
Message-ID: <01e001c667ed$b3219370$f1476c42@hotprojects>

im invisible
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo" <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD


> I'm Rinso white!
> 
> PEACE,
> Leo
>  
> From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
>  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Hair-Israel 2002 on CD
>  
> I'm pink, I'm pink :)
>  
>  Love forever
> Robin
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr 24 15:36:20 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:36:20 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] it is very nice to hang with the hair tribe
Message-ID: <025e01c667ef$82661290$f1476c42@hotprojects>

as when i was ten years old 
this was my dream
thank you

R
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Apr 24 13:22:56 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:22:56 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] You Will Find This Of Interest
Message-ID: <C072ABE0.9D9B%michael@michaelbutler.com>



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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Mon Apr 24 19:09:18 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 25 Apr 2006 02:09:18 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] it is very nice to hang with the hair tribe
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 ?
same here : )

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr 24 19:37:33 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:37:33 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] it is very nice to hang with the hair tribe
References: <20060425020918.1849.qmail@webmail53.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <010a01c66811$35422d60$f1476c42@hotprojects>

thats nice mike then we share that
i was 10 in 1968 and my parents took me to see it as an early present for my 
10th birthday 
this was after wearing out the record for months before
?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:09 PM
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  same here : )

  Mike 



   


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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Mon Apr 24 19:40:19 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:40:19 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] i had a candy that paul jabara gave me until it melted
	about 5 years ago
Message-ID: <012a01c66811$981e67a0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

because the box it was in was too close to a light bulb
but when i was a boy jim and jerry and michael and tom and galt were on a very short list of heros
and it is still a thrill to me to know them today
as when i was 10 it was my fondest most fanciful dream
and the boy inside cries and squeals with unimaginable delight
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From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Tue Apr 25 08:11:56 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 25 Apr 2006 15:11:56 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] i had a candy that paul jabara gave me until it melted
	about 5 years ago
Message-ID: <20060425151156.26140.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com>

 ?
That?s really cool that you had that candy. That would have been the greatest birthday present to see Hair on Broadway. I saw it at the Gate theatre in the  in 2005 as a late birthday present
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Apr 25 08:22:27 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:22:27 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] i had a candy that paul jabara gave me until it
	melted	about 5 years ago
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particularly when you were 10 at the height of the 60s
it was mind blowing lol
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:11 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] i had a candy that paul jabara gave me until it melted about 5 years ago


   
  That's really cool that you had that candy. That would have been the greatest birthday present to see Hair on Broadway. I saw it at the Gate theatre in the  in 2005 as a late birthday present.. 



   


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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Tue Apr 25 12:48:57 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:48:57 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR-Israel 2002 on CD
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Tue Apr 25 12:59:44 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:59:44 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV9BF8272F2BBEBA1B0B0A7ABBF0@phx.gbl>

Richard in a film I just viewed called "Lost Boys" about the boys who walked years to a refugee camp to escape death squads and were from Sudan discussed that.... their skin is very very black and they were treated here (after they finally were given visas to come to various states) as lower class.... The people that helped them were not about skin color but the black people they met on the street and while working looked down upon them because they are so black... Odd isn't it?

If you folks have not seen this film, check it out. I got it from NETFLIX, where I get a lot of rare films and documentaries. Right now I am viewing all of "Akira Kurosawa films wow was HE a master... I cannot get enough of his films and of course my true love "Toshiro Mifune"

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: richard haase
Sent: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:30:27 -0700
To: Michael Ramirez, mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD

michael youre a jewish hispanic boy?
thats really cool
im a sicilian jewish boy

poor blacks nobody wants to be called black?
why?

found out something interesting about that
anthropologically
that the preference in many cultures for lighter skin
had to do with that darker people were the ones in the sun; the workers
the lighter ones had greater status because they were indoors, could study etc
got lighter from less exposure to sun?
interesting social psych theory ( i never thought about it before in those terms )
?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Ramirez 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:57 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD


   
  I know Hebrew 
  took Hebrew for 5 years at my synagogue 
  nice language
  I should get this CD
  and don't call me black [!]
  thats a great show
  but not as great as Hair
  I have an LP of it

  anyways
  thats cool

  <3
  Mike





   


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Apr 25 09:59:57 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:59:57 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Bill Moyers | A Time for Heresy
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Apr 25 20:46:27 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:46:27 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD
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barbara you and i are in agreement
akira was greatest director ever
ran seven samaurai ; his macbeth ( throne of blood ); his dostoyevskys the idiot
now that hes gone

bergman is the best
mike nichols number two
and tom ohorgan three
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Siomos 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com ; Michael Ramirez 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD


  Richard in a film I just viewed called "Lost Boys" about the boys who walked years to a refugee camp to escape death squads and were from Sudan discussed that.... their skin is very very black and they were treated here (after they finally were given visas to come to various states) as lower class.... The people that helped them were not about skin color but the black people they met on the street and while working looked down upon them because they are so black... Odd isn't it?

  If you folks have not seen this film, check it out. I got it from NETFLIX, where I get a lot of rare films and documentaries. Right now I am viewing all of "Akira Kurosawa films wow was HE a master... I cannot get enough of his films and of course my true love "Toshiro Mifune"

  peace,
  barbara

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  From: richard haase
  Sent: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:30:27 -0700
  To: Michael Ramirez, mb-hair at islandlists.com
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD


  michael youre a jewish hispanic boy?
  thats really cool
  im a sicilian jewish boy

  poor blacks nobody wants to be called black?
  why?

  found out something interesting about that
  anthropologically
  that the preference in many cultures for lighter skin
  had to do with that darker people were the ones in the sun; the workers
  the lighter ones had greater status because they were indoors, could study etc
  got lighter from less exposure to sun?
  interesting social psych theory ( i never thought about it before in those terms )
  ?
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Michael Ramirez 
    To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
    Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:57 PM
    Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR- Israel 2002 on CD



    I know Hebrew 
    took Hebrew for 5 years at my synagogue 
    nice language
    I should get this CD
    and don't call me black [!]
    thats a great show
    but not as great as Hair
    I have an LP of it

    anyways
    thats cool

    <3
    Mike





     


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From lindahassler at sbcglobal.net  Wed Apr 26 13:29:39 2006
From: lindahassler at sbcglobal.net (Linda Hassler)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:29:39 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] New movie trailer-Freedom to Fascism
Message-ID: <1a7039fe00571ddea9ec5a6ee01a5d35@sbcglobal.net>

Can't wait to see this this new film about changes in America....the 
link will give you a film clip.
from Linda Hassler

http://www.freedomtofacism.com/


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Apr 26 13:45:28 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:45:28 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] New movie trailer-Freedom to Fascism
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Linda,
Agreed, I have seen it. Just posted a review. Dining with the Director next
month. For sure see it.
Michael




> Can't wait to see this this new film about changes in America....the
> link will give you a film clip.
> from Linda Hassler
> 
> http://www.freedomtofacism.com/
> 
> 
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From goldengirlny at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 26 15:25:50 2006
From: goldengirlny at yahoo.com (Annie Golden)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mb-hair] You Will Find This Of Interest this too to all
	concerned
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annie golden is guest soloist at town hall's series broadway by the year
  this monday night at 8pm the year we honor this time around is 1968
  guess what i get to sing? also promises promises and zorba and golden
  rainbow and ..... spread the word please to all interested parties thanks

Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com> wrote:
  



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From lindahassler at sbcglobal.net  Wed Apr 26 19:08:25 2006
From: lindahassler at sbcglobal.net (Linda Hassler)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:08:25 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Health Cover-up Summary
Message-ID: <afd8eba3ebad6556b52e6d0169ca23f7@sbcglobal.net>

This book sounds like the answer to a prayer. This is what we need now  
more than ever - whistle-blowers - since there are very few savvy  
Congresspeople or un-co-opted media folks.

Linda Hassler

Health Cover-up Summary
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060426newsarticleshttp:// 
www.wanttoknow.info/060426newsarticles

"The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500  
($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490  
businesses put together ($33.7 billion). Over the past two decades the  
pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high  
purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a  
marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses  
its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in  
its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers,  
and the medical profession itself."
??-- Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the New England  
Journal of Medicine



The below book review taken from the prestigious New England Journal of  
Medicine clearly reveals just how corrupt the pharmaceutical and health  
care industries have become. The book's author, Marcia Angell, M.D., is  
a former editor in chief of the highly respected Journal. She is  
currently a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical  
School. Her book,?The Truth About the Drug Companies, provides yet  
another?eye-opening example of how greed has taken over many facets of  
business and government, and offers empowering ideas on what we can do  
about it.

New England Journal of Medicine
Volume 351:1580-1581, October 7, 2004, Number 15
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/15/1580 (payment required  
to view article)




The Truth About the Drug Companies:
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

In this book, her most recent, Marcia Angell explores pharmaceutical  
research, deplores the rapidly expanding involvement (and distortion of  
truth) of Big Pharma, and implores us all (physicians, patients,  
politicians) to do something about it. The dust-jacket blurb asserts  
that Angell, "during her two decades at The New England Journal of  
Medicine had a front-row seat on the growing corruption of the  
pharmaceutical industry."

Since leaving the Journal, she's gone behind the curtains of Big  
Pharma, Big University, and Big Faculty. Drawing on her own work and on  
her thoughtful analysis of research, company financial statements, and  
investigative reports into drug development and marketing, Angell  
writes with the unambiguous and unyielding style that Journal readers  
came to expect and trust.

By Angell's account, the current slide toward the commercialization and  
corruption of clinical research coincided with the election of  
President Ronald Reagan in 1980 and the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, a  
new set of laws that permitted and encouraged universities and small  
businesses to patent discoveries from research sponsored by the  
National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research paid for by the public to  
serve the public instantly became a private, and salable good?one that  
is producing drug sales of more than $200 billion a year.

Commercialization had both specific and broad effects. Readers of this  
journal and others are familiar with investigations into the control  
that research sponsors at pharmaceutical companies exert on the design  
and analysis of clinical trials (including the distortion of primary  
outcome measures in trials) and the issue of reporting, nonreporting,  
and biased reporting of results.

Angell reminds us of the increasingly cozy relationships between big  
industry and the faculties of universities. Not only are narcissistic  
donors renaming the medical schools; they are buying access to the best  
minds of their faculties. Angell's examples of the large consulting  
fees paid by industry to individual faculty members and to NIH  
scientists and directors are astounding.

The broader effects are felt in the commercialization of universities,  
medical faculties, and our profession. In 2000, in a letter written in  
response to Angell's Journal editorial, "Is Academic Medicine for  
Sale?" a reader supplied the answer: "No. The current owner is very  
happy with it." The increasing intrusion of industry into medical  
education and the almost complete domination of continuing medical  
education (especially regarding drugs) by the marketing departments of  
large pharmaceutical companies are a scandal.

The same companies also spend heavily to lobby governments. According  
to Angell, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the  
pharmaceutical industry's U.S. trade association has "the largest lobby  
in Washington," which in 2002 employed 675 lobbyists (including 26  
former members of Congress) at a cost of more than $91 million. The  
result has been above-average growth in corporate profits during both  
Republican and Democratic administrations.

The most recent and perplexing lobbying effort caused Congress  
explicitly to prohibit Medicare from using its huge purchasing power to  
get lower prices for drugs, thus opening up a dollar pipeline, in the  
form of higher drug prices, directly from taxpayers to corporate  
coffers. These changes, along with the cave-in by the Food and Drug  
Administration (FDA) in 1997 that permitted direct-to-consumer  
advertising to bypass mention in their ads of all but the most serious  
side effects, have further augmented profits. The overall effect has  
been a corruption not only of science but also of the dissemination of  
science.

Angell documents that, contrary to what they claim, large  
pharmaceutical companies have "paltry output" in innovative research.  
In fact, as permitted by Bayh-Dole, pharmaceutical companies buy  
discoveries coming out of the basic-science enterprises, including  
universities and publicly funded granting agencies. The real costs of  
research on drugs by pharmaceutical companies are much less than the  
oft-quoted $800 million or so per new drug brought to market. Most of  
their research is on me-too drugs?unoriginal, tax-deductible (and thus  
paid for in lost taxes by the public), and mostly unnecessary. The Big  
Pharma companies are, in essence, manufacturing and marketing  
companies.

Angell's concluding chapter, the least convincing in an otherwise  
fascinating and penetrating book, contains the solutions, all of them  
predictable: control me-too drugs, re-empower the FDA, oversee Big  
Pharma's clinical research, curb patent length and abuse, keep Big  
Pharma out of medical education, make company financial statements  
transparent (so we can tell what the costs of research really are, as  
distinct from marketing), and impose price controls or guidelines.  
Granted, the problems are so prevalent and the corporate tentacles so  
entwined with our way of being that it is hard to see what else to  
recommend.

But perhaps Angell is right. We must change the way we manage research  
and the development and distribution of new drugs. Not only are health  
and health care at risk, but so are the research enterprise and the  
reputations of universities and governments. The integrity of  
scientific research is too important to be left to the invisible hand  
of the marketplace.

John Hoey, M.D.
john.hoey at cma.ca?

To purchase The Truth About Drug Companies from amazon.com, click here
The quote at the top is from Dr. Angell's summary of her own book on  
the New York Review of Books.

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From lindahassler at sbcglobal.net  Wed Apr 26 22:24:47 2006
From: lindahassler at sbcglobal.net (Linda Hassler)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:24:47 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd: Neil Young Lets Loose A War Cry
Message-ID: <35fd4622637aa93a180ae9e4c1541428@sbcglobal.net>



Begin forwarded message:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042606F.shtml
?
Neil Young Lets Loose a War Cry
????By Robert Everett-Green
????The Globe and Mail

?Wednesday 26 April 2006
> The world awaits Young's most powerful album in years, a disc fuelled 
> by outrage at Washington.????We met outside a bagel joint in north 
> Toronto, then drove a few blocks to a quiet street where two strangers 
> could sit in a big old Cadillac and listen to the car stereo in peace. 
> Then Robert Young slipped a CD-ROM from a plain white sleeve and gave 
> me a rare preview of the nine explosive new songs on his brother Neil 
> Young's much-anticipated album, Living With War.

????The disc was made in a hurry, recorded in three days on Neil 
Young's California ranch and another 12-hour session in a Los Angeles 
studio. I can hear the urgency in Young's singing, as if there's not a 
moment to lose when a great lie has spread over the land and only 
strong, sustained truth-telling can turn it back.

????Living With War is a fierce, comprehensive indictment of the Bush 
administration and all its failures, at home and abroad, but it doesn't 
feel like an outsider's dissent. It's the work of someone who clearly 
identifies with the core values of ordinary Middle Americans who voted 
for Bush, who sent their sons and daughters to war, and who are 
beginning to feel betrayed.

????Flags of Freedom, for example, starts like a proudly patriotic song 
from the days before the Vietnam War began to stain the self-image of 
the republic. Young depicts a parade of recruits marching off to war 
down the main street of their small town, church bells ringing and "the 
flags of freedom flying." But when the soldiers have passed, with 
parents and sisters watching, Young pointedly asks: "Have you seen the 
flags of freedom? / What colour are they now?" It would be hard to miss 
the sense of doubt and disappointment, made sharper by Young's allusion 
to a similar, more confident query at the end of The Star-Spangled 
Banner.

????The disappointment turns into rage in Let's Impeach the President. 
This long impassioned outcry begins with a trumpet flourish from the 
Last Post and ends with a 100-voice chorus shouting Young's angry 
responses to numerous clips of Bush's own words about Bin Laden, Saddam 
Hussein and the case for war in Iraq.

????"Let's impeach the president for lying / and leading our country 
into war," Young hollers, "abusing all the power that we gave him / and 
shipping all our money out the door . . . Let's impeach the president 
for spying / on citizens inside their own homes / breaking every law in 
the country / tapping our computers and telephones."

????The text alone can't convey the sense of gasping outrage in Young's 
singing, and his forceful arrangements for guitar, bass, drums and 
sometimes trumpet. His electric guitar's gnarly, saturated tone has an 
almost drunken quality, as if it too were reeling from the great 
betrayal.

????But the music throughout the album feels sparse and tightly 
controlled, as if these statements were too important to be gussied up 
with ornament. The trumpet, when it appears, does so only briefly, with 
a different character each time, evoking the sounds of a border town in 
Bush's native Texas (in Shock and Awe), or doubling the guitar melody 
like a quasi-human voice (in Living With War).

????Likewise, the choir plays several roles, and offers much more than 
backing vocals. It's the sound of the people, whether represented as a 
church congregation (in the title song) or a chanting crowd of 
protesters (in Let's Impeach the President).

????Mostly, it's a big-tent collection of ordinary citizens, which at 
the end of the album sings an a cappella version of America the 
Beautiful, recalling in a more robust key the final scene of Michael 
Cimino's devastating Vietnam film, The Deer Hunter.

????The title song makes the most powerful use of core American themes 
and symbols, and the rhetoric of the religious right. Both the melody 
and the lyrics ("I join the multitudes, I raise my hand in peace . . . 
I take a holy vow never to kill again") feel hymn-like, in spite of the 
song's rock idiom. The voices rise as Young inserts a line from The 
Star-Spangled Banner ("the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in 
air") and it seems at first as if the reference is purely ironic. But 
he goes on with another line from the anthem, and suddenly the meaning 
is more ambivalent, more complicated by a sense of bedrock patriotism.

????At bottom, this is a profoundly patriotic record. Its predominant 
theme is spoiled hopes, and the list is long, including hopes for a 
safe environment, for economic justice at home and abroad, for peace 
between nations. But a few songs make it clear that Young isn't 
finished with hoping. Looking for a Leader, which comes right after 
Let's Impeach the President, is an unvarnished call for a new authority 
figure who can right the wrong, clear out the corruption, and make the 
nation's symbols feel pure again. "Some one walks among us, and I hope 
he hears the call," Young sings, "Maybe it's a woman, or a black man 
after all."

????Young supported Reagan, and was one of the first major rock 
musicians to lend support to the so-called war on terror, in his 2001 
song Let's Roll. It would seem to be a challenge for Bush's allies to 
brush off his attacks on "the shadow man running the government." But 
the struggle is already skewed in their favour, because most of these 
songs probably won't make it on to American radio, which is heavily 
dominated by the ClearChannel empire. Those are the folks, you may 
remember, who yanked the Dixie Chicks from the airwaves after Natalie 
Maines dared to criticize the President in front of a microphone.

????Young knows all about that, which is why this album will be 
streamed for free on his website (http://www.neilyoung.com) for a week 
starting Friday, before a commercial release on Reprise/Warner. It's 
going to spread on-line, and on college radio, and by word of mouth. 
It's a media virus, and it's also Young's strongest record in years.



????Angry Young Man

????Sample lyrics from Neil Young's upcominga album, Living With War:

????Back in the days of shock and awe
????We came to liberate them all
????History was the cruel judge of overconfidence
????Back in the days of shock and awe
????Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
????Our chief was landing on the deck
????The sun was setting on a golden photo-op
????Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
????- from Shock and Awe

????Don't need no Madison Avenue War
????Don't need no more boxes I can't see
????Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV
????Don't need no more lies
????- from The Restless Consumer

????Won't need no shadow man
????Runnin' the government
????Won't need no stinkin' WAR
????Won't need no haircut
????Won't need no shoeshine
????After the garden is gone
????- from After the Garden

????Lookin' for a leader
????To bring our country home
????Reunite the red white and blue
????Before it turns to stone . . .
????Yeah maybe it's Obama
????But he thinks that he's too young
????Maybe it's Colin Powell
????To right what he's done wrong
????- from Lookin' for a Leader


From judylynn at hamptons.com  Wed Apr 26 20:31:13 2006
From: judylynn at hamptons.com (Judy McDowell)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:31:13 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] important info
References: <200604261455312.SM03892@TMMC181>
Message-ID: <E1FZBBN-0003yh-Tc@smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Judy McDowell" <JMcDowell at manhattanmortgage.com>
> Date: April 26, 2006 2:55:08 PM EDT
> To: <judylynn at hamptons.com>
> Subject: FW: MUST KNOW *677
> Reply-To: <JMcDowell at manhattanmortgage.com>
>
>
>
> From: Sari Rosenberg [mailto:SRosenberg at manhattanmortgage.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:58 AM
> Subject: MUST KNOW *677
>
>
>
>
>
>
> MUST KNOW *677
>
> I knew about the red light on cars, but not the *677. It was about  
> 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a  
> friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his  
> lights on. Lauren's parents have always told them never to pull  
> over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to  
> wait until they get to a gas station, etc.
>
>
>
> Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly  
> called *677 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that  
> she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the  
> dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing  
> red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see  
> if there were police cars where she was and there weren't. He told  
> her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on  
> the way.
>
> Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car  
> behind her.
> One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car  
> behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the  
> ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.
> I never knew about the Feature *677. Women, especially, alone in a  
> car, should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police  
> have to respect your right to keep going to a safe place. You  
> obviously need to make some signals that you acknowledge them (i.e.  
> put on your hazard lights) or call *677 like Lauren did.
>
>
> Too bad the cell phone companies don't generally give you this  
> little bit of wonderful information.
> *Speaking to a service representative at **Bell** Mobility  
> confirmed that *677 was a direct link to State Police Dispatch. So,  
> now it's your turn to let your friends know about *677.
>
> Send this to every person you know

Judy Lynn-McDowell
Day-Dream Inc
Don't give up your day dream
PO Box 1115
Wainscott, NY 11975
631-324-6620
631-835-8040 cell
judylynn at hamptons.com
judylynn at DAY-DREAM.NET



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From azurac at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 27 11:42:24 2006
From: azurac at hotmail.com (an g t)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:42:24 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] verification of *677
Message-ID: <BAY115-F6ADF80FFCD012341A31D4D1BD0@phx.gbl>


The following link has a well-researched article about *677 that may be 
helpful--for instance: it points out that some states recognize *77 as a 
highway patrol contact.


http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/fakecop.asp



From rrreuteb at mac.com  Thu Apr 27 11:53:49 2006
From: rrreuteb at mac.com (Reute Butler)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:53:49 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd: The battle has begun...
References: <68fd9c-1cf8-444ff4bf@web01.moveon.org>
Message-ID: <E1FZBsg-0005sA-UI@smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

Dear M, Please forward. This is bad news. xox, R

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Civic Action" <moveon- 
> help at list.moveon.org>
> Date: April 26, 2006 5:31:27 PM CDT
> To: Reute Butler <ccchaibutler at mac.com>
> Subject: The battle has begun...
>
>
>
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> Today, a Republican-dominated House Committee caved to telecom  
> companies like AT&T and voted to gut Net Neutrality, the Internet's  
> First Amendment. It's too bad we lost the vote, but more important  
> votes on this issue are coming?and what the big telecom companies  
> weren't expecting was that we'd get as many votes as we did.
>
> Because of thousands of phone calls from people like you, some  
> members of Congress who recently voted against Net Neutrality in  
> sub-committee switched and voted for it in full committee!   
> Politicians are scared when they realize we are paying attention.
>
> Congress needs to hear from us right away?the good guys deserve  
> thanks, the bad guys deserve outrage, and those who weren't on the  
> committee need to know their constituents demand they vote for "the  
> Markey Amendment" for Net Neutrality if it comes before the entire  
> House of Representatives in coming weeks.
>
> Can you call your Representative right away?
>
> Let us know you called at:
> http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1670&id=7416-6880668- 
> _TJu_km7DRYcuTHcf6e_oA&t=2
>
> When you click the above link, you can check today's vote to see if  
> your Representative is on that committee that voted.
>
> If they voted no on the Markey Amendment to preserve Net  
> Neutrality, you can express your outrage and tell them you expect  
> them to switch their vote on the House floor. If they voted yes,  
> your encouragement will let them know they did the right thing.  If  
> they are not on the committee, tell them you support Net Neutrality  
> and ask how they will vote on the House floor if the Markey  
> Amendment comes up for a vote.
>
> Rep. Ed Markey's amendment is the only true Network Neutrality  
> proposal. If your member's office says something like, "Yes, we  
> support Network Neutrality," it is important to insist they support  
> Rep. Markey's amendment. Anything else is a decoy lacking teeth and  
> is intended to provide political cover to members of Congress who  
> cave to big telecom companies and gut Internet freedom.
>
> The battle has just begun, and we've already proved that regular  
> people can make a difference in this fight to preserve Internet  
> freedom
>
> Thanks for all you do.
>
> ?Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic  
> Action team
>   Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
>
> P.S. Here is a recap of the Network Neutrality issue:
>
> We are fighting to protect Internet freedom. Internet companies  
> like AT&T and Verizon are spending millions lobbying Congress to  
> gut Network Neutrality?the Internet's First Amendment. The "Markey  
> Amendment" would protect Net Neutrality.
> Net Neutrality ensures that all speech is treated equally online so  
> the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest  
> corporate Web site. Without Net Neutrality, Internet companies  
> could rig the playing field?forcing websites like MoveOn and Google  
> to pay "protection money" to work properly.
> Internet freedom has made the Internet great. The idea that  
> everyone's site gets treated the same has led the Internet to be a  
> revolutionary force for economic innovation, civic participation,  
> and free speech. We're fighting to keep this rule in place to keep  
> the Internet great.
> Get more details at www.SavetheInternet.com
> P.P.S. Please tell your friends about our petition to Congress  
> supporting Network Neutrality by sending them this link:
> http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/?id=7416-6880668- 
> _TJu_km7DRYcuTHcf6e_oA&t=3
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Fri Apr 28 15:31:37 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:31:37 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Akira Kurosawa
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV16C49A91914CB3345D2753ABB20@phx.gbl>

To anyone interested in this great director I have just seen today on DVD a "Bonus Disc" in addition to the film "Ikiru" filmed in 1962 .... It is about and includes interviews and spoken bits regarding HIS feeling on films etc. It is marvelous....

It is a separate disc with two parts and is 2hrs and 23 min. long...... I ordered it from NETFLIX which has many many of his films on hand.... If anyone wants to order they can do so on the web from NETFLIX.... They have FREE trial offers usually of one week, but I have also seen some trial periods longer. Check it out Richard since you are a fan... I could not believe it, it is so great....

One of his quotes: "it's critical to make sure you have a good subject. If the subject itself is flawed, changing the shooting method will not help the shot. The challenge is in shooting something worthy of watching.   
"Building a film school is fine, but talent can't be taught".     Hmmmn. so simple and so true. :-)

peace,
barbara

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Fri Apr 28 15:51:19 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:51:19 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Akira Kurosawa
References: <BAY114-DAV16C49A91914CB3345D2753ABB20@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <001b01c66b16$43cdc850$f1476c42@hotprojects>

kurasowa
was the greatest in my lifetime

eg

1) kurasawa
2) bergman
3) mike nichols
4) tom ohorgan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Siomos 
  To: mb-civic at islandlists.com 
  Cc: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:31 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Akira Kurosawa


  To anyone interested in this great director I have just seen today on DVD a "Bonus Disc" in addition to the film "Ikiru" filmed in 1962 .... It is about and includes interviews and spoken bits regarding HIS feeling on films etc. It is marvelous....

  It is a separate disc with two parts and is 2hrs and 23 min. long...... I ordered it from NETFLIX which has many many of his films on hand.... If anyone wants to order they can do so on the web from NETFLIX.... They have FREE trial offers usually of one week, but I have also seen some trial periods longer. Check it out Richard since you are a fan... I could not believe it, it is so great...

  One of his quotes: "it's critical to make sure you have a good subject. If the subject itself is flawed, changing the shooting method will not help the shot. The challenge is in shooting something worthy of watching.   
  "Building a film school is fine, but talent can't be taught".     Hmmmn. so simple and so true. :-)

  peace,
  barbara


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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Fri Apr 28 15:53:03 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:53:03 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Akira Kurosawa
References: <BAY114-DAV16C49A91914CB3345D2753ABB20@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <003e01c66b16$81c3c060$f1476c42@hotprojects>

thats what i seek to emulate
kurisawa; the hair people, tom et al, bergman
the rsc and the bbc ( eg glenda jackson as elizabeth r; six wives of henry viii etc
margaret tyzek as cousin bette , i claudius etc )
fellini the really good french comedies
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Siomos 
  To: mb-civic at islandlists.com 
  Cc: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:31 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Akira Kurosawa


  To anyone interested in this great director I have just seen today on DVD a "Bonus Disc" in addition to the film "Ikiru" filmed in 1962 .... It is about and includes interviews and spoken bits regarding HIS feeling on films etc. It is marvelous....

  It is a separate disc with two parts and is 2hrs and 23 min. long...... I ordered it from NETFLIX which has many many of his films on hand.... If anyone wants to order they can do so on the web from NETFLIX.... They have FREE trial offers usually of one week, but I have also seen some trial periods longer. Check it out Richard since you are a fan... I could not believe it, it is so great...

  One of his quotes: "it's critical to make sure you have a good subject. If the subject itself is flawed, changing the shooting method will not help the shot. The challenge is in shooting something worthy of watching.   
  "Building a film school is fine, but talent can't be taught".     Hmmmn. so simple and so true. :-)

  peace,
  barbara


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From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Sat Apr 29 06:18:39 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:18:39 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR Alert - Grant High School
Message-ID: <000501c66b8f$6f64a500$e648e804@BELJPZ>

Hi tribe.

Just found out that HAiR is being performed at my local high school for 
three days only!

Ulysses S. Grant High School

13000 Oxnard Boulevard

Van Nuys, California

The school is located in the North-East corner of the Los Angeles Valley 
(Community) College campus area, and the auditorium/multi-purpose room is 
accessible from the east side of the campus from a small service driveway 
that is located just west of-, and parallel to-, Coldwater Canyon Boulevard. 
The service drive may be entered from Oxnard Boulevard.

Opened Friday, April 28, 2006 at 7pm

Remaining performances:

Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 3pm and 7pm

Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 3pm and 7pm

All performances are $5.00, and tickets may be purchased at the auditorium 
door.

Hebe and I ran out to the opening performance, and we really enjoyed 
ourselves. Since this event is mostly unpublicized (I only found out about 
it - on the day of its opening - from a notice in a small, directly-mailed, 
community newsletter) I believe that the audience consisted mostly of the 
parents and siblings of the tribe and the tribe's fellow students. This made 
for a much younger audience than I usually see at HAiR shows.

The production is directed by a STUDENT (who also played Jeanie) and was 
backed by an excellent band - or should I say, small orchestra since there 
were 8 members and the only synthesizer to be seen was at the sound mixing 
table!

The school's (sole?) drama teacher delivered a cautionary disclaimer before 
the start of the show, explaining that, because it was a high-school troop, 
the nude scene(s) had been cut along with a lot of the other sensitive 
material. He did announce that it still contained very controversial 
material that would surely shock and offend members of the audience, but 
that any further cuts would have rendered the show meaningless. He announced 
that there would be a discussion forum following the performance to try to 
address audience concerns with such material being presented in a high 
school.

With these caveats presented, the show began.

The first thing that I noticed was the singing. Although several of the 
soloists had some vocal difficulties with the score's demands (a problem 
exacerbated by major problems with the sound-reinforcement equipment), the 
ensemble songs were performed wonderfully, with excellent feeling, tonality, 
and extremely crisp diction. The 16 year old black girl who played Chrissy 
delivered a "Frank Mills" that ranks among the best renditions that I have 
heard (plus she could act!). Despite obvious opening-night jitters and some 
quite slow moments caused by forgotten cues and a scene blocking that had 
most of the cast running off stage only to have to run back on to deliver 
their lines, the show really was HAiR.

The youthful audience appeared to have little problem understanding the show 
even though it had been cut into a two hour long one-act by eliminating 
almost all of the script's text! They sang almost all of the songs, cutting, 
I believe, only "Hippie Life", "Abie Baby", "The Bed", and "Don't Put It 
Down" and they appeared not to have altered/softened any lyrics like they 
did in the recent Orange County college production. Incidentally, "Don't Put 
It Down" was listed to be performed on the program. The cutting of the whole 
Abraham Lincoln and following scenes did disappoint me as I was especially 
waiting to see how The Ulysses S. Grant number would go over in a school 
named after him.

The discussion after the show was quite interesting. Even with multiple 
attempts to prod the audience into voicing their offence at the material 
(even the tribe tried to evoke some response) no one said anything negative! 
I know that this was not quite the case, since there was a major gasp from 
the audience followed by a couple of audience members calling out ("Bye, 
bye" and "You're Outta' Here". if I recall correctly) when Berger slapped 
Sheila's face. I have never heard such a loud gasp, let alone any vocal 
catcall, from an audience ever before. Curiously, the face slap was 
performed so gently it could even have been mistaken for a caress! 
Interesting how audience sensibilities have changed over the years!



From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Apr 28 22:25:04 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:25:04 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Gore Goes Hollywood   Al Gore for President?
Message-ID: <C07846C0.A0A9%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Read it. You May be surprised
Michael Butler's Blog

http://www.michaelbutler.com/blog/mbutler/

http://www.michaelbutler.com




From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sat Apr 29 07:53:20 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:53:20 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Happy Birthday"
Message-ID: <000801c66b9c$a8822710$1f1c7c46@CowBox>

Happy Birthday Broadway Hair :)

Love forever
Robin



www.robinmcnamara.com
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr 29 09:48:51 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:48:51 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR Alert - Grant High School
In-Reply-To: <000501c66b8f$6f64a500$e648e804@BELJPZ>
Message-ID: <C078E703.A0E1%michael@michaelbutler.com>

What a shame to miss. Hope for a great time.
Michael




> Hi tribe.
> 
> Just found out that HAiR is being performed at my local high school for
> three days only!
> 
> Ulysses S. Grant High School
> 
> 13000 Oxnard Boulevard
> 
> Van Nuys, California
> 
> The school is located in the North-East corner of the Los Angeles Valley
> (Community) College campus area, and the auditorium/multi-purpose room is
> accessible from the east side of the campus from a small service driveway
> that is located just west of-, and parallel to-, Coldwater Canyon Boulevard.
> The service drive may be entered from Oxnard Boulevard.
> 
> Opened Friday, April 28, 2006 at 7pm
> 
> Remaining performances:
> 
> Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 3pm and 7pm
> 
> Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 3pm and 7pm
> 
> All performances are $5.00, and tickets may be purchased at the auditorium
> door.
> 
> Hebe and I ran out to the opening performance, and we really enjoyed
> ourselves. Since this event is mostly unpublicized (I only found out about
> it - on the day of its opening - from a notice in a small, directly-mailed,
> community newsletter) I believe that the audience consisted mostly of the
> parents and siblings of the tribe and the tribe's fellow students. This made
> for a much younger audience than I usually see at HAiR shows.
> 
> The production is directed by a STUDENT (who also played Jeanie) and was
> backed by an excellent band - or should I say, small orchestra since there
> were 8 members and the only synthesizer to be seen was at the sound mixing
> table!
> 
> The school's (sole?) drama teacher delivered a cautionary disclaimer before
> the start of the show, explaining that, because it was a high-school troop,
> the nude scene(s) had been cut along with a lot of the other sensitive
> material. He did announce that it still contained very controversial
> material that would surely shock and offend members of the audience, but
> that any further cuts would have rendered the show meaningless. He announced
> that there would be a discussion forum following the performance to try to
> address audience concerns with such material being presented in a high
> school.
> 
> With these caveats presented, the show began.
> 
> The first thing that I noticed was the singing. Although several of the
> soloists had some vocal difficulties with the score's demands (a problem
> exacerbated by major problems with the sound-reinforcement equipment), the
> ensemble songs were performed wonderfully, with excellent feeling, tonality,
> and extremely crisp diction. The 16 year old black girl who played Chrissy
> delivered a "Frank Mills" that ranks among the best renditions that I have
> heard (plus she could act!). Despite obvious opening-night jitters and some
> quite slow moments caused by forgotten cues and a scene blocking that had
> most of the cast running off stage only to have to run back on to deliver
> their lines, the show really was HAiR.
> 
> The youthful audience appeared to have little problem understanding the show
> even though it had been cut into a two hour long one-act by eliminating
> almost all of the script's text! They sang almost all of the songs, cutting,
> I believe, only "Hippie Life", "Abie Baby", "The Bed", and "Don't Put It
> Down" and they appeared not to have altered/softened any lyrics like they
> did in the recent Orange County college production. Incidentally, "Don't Put
> It Down" was listed to be performed on the program. The cutting of the whole
> Abraham Lincoln and following scenes did disappoint me as I was especially
> waiting to see how The Ulysses S. Grant number would go over in a school
> named after him.
> 
> The discussion after the show was quite interesting. Even with multiple
> attempts to prod the audience into voicing their offence at the material
> (even the tribe tried to evoke some response) no one said anything negative!
> I know that this was not quite the case, since there was a major gasp from
> the audience followed by a couple of audience members calling out ("Bye,
> bye" and "You're Outta' Here". if I recall correctly) when Berger slapped
> Sheila's face. I have never heard such a loud gasp, let alone any vocal
> catcall, from an audience ever before. Curiously, the face slap was
> performed so gently it could even have been mistaken for a caress!
> Interesting how audience sensibilities have changed over the years!
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair



From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr 29 10:18:29 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:18:29 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
Message-ID: <C078EDF5.A0F1%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Who would have thought that almost two score years ago we would be the
beginning of an extended family with great effect and affection. Thanks to
Gerry, Jim, Galt, Tom, Julie, Bertrand, Richard, Michael G and countless
Hairites too many to list. Only our Nina can count us all.
Peace and Love,
Blessings
Michael



From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Apr 29 11:34:44 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:34:44 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Neil Young's 'Living With War' Shows He Doesn't Like ItBy
 JON PARELES
Message-ID: <C078FFD4.A108%michael@michaelbutler.com>

The New York Times
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April 28, 2006
Critic's Notebook
Neil Young's 'Living With War' Shows He Doesn't Like It
By JON PARELES

Neil Young unleashes a digital broadside today. His new album, "Living With
War" (Reprise), was recorded and mostly written three to four weeks ago and
as of Friday can be heard in its entirety free on his Web site,
www.neilyoung.com, and on satellite radio networks.

Mr. Young half-jokingly describes "Living With War" as his "metal folk
protest" album. It's his blunt statement about the Iraq war; "History was a
cruel judge of overconfidence/back in the days of shock and awe," he sings,
strumming an electric guitar and leading a power trio with a sound that
harks back to Young albums like "Rust Never Sleeps" and "Ragged Glory."

Some songs add a trumpet or a 100-voice choir, hastily convened in Los
Angeles for one 12-hour session. During the nine new songs he sympathizes
with soldiers and war victims, insists "Don't need no more lies," longs for
a leader to reunite America and prays for peace.

In a song whose title alone has already brought him the fury of right-wing
blogs, he urges, "Let's Impeach the President." It ends with Mr. Young
shouting, "Flip, flop," amid contradictory sound bites of President Bush.
But Mr. Young insists the album is nonpartisan.

"If you impeach Bush, you're doing a huge favor for the Republicans," he
argued, speaking by telephone from California. "They can run again with some
pride."

Mr. Young is a Canadian citizen. But having lived in the United States since
the 1960's, he sings as if he were an American. The title song of "Living
With War" quotes "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the album ends with the
choir singing "America the Beautiful."

The album's release is a high-tech, globe-spanning update of a topical song
tradition that's much older than recordings: the broadside, a songwriter's
rapid response to events of the day. "They had these songs that everybody
knew the melodies to," Mr. Young said. "They'd just write new words, and the
minstrels would be traveling around spreading the word. Music spreads like
wildfire when you do it that way."

On Tuesday a higher-quality version will be for sale as a download from
online music stores, and a CD will be in stores next week as soon as it can
be manufactured and shipped. Eventually a DVD will be released with video of
the recording sessions, which took place March 29 to April 6. Many of the
songs on the album were first takes, recorded immediately after Mr. Young
taught them to the band. On March 31 he wrote three songs: "Let's Impeach
the President" before breakfast, "Looking for a Leader" after he recorded
"Let's Impeach the President" and "Roger and Out" the same evening.

Mr. Young's Web site will have a more elaborate presentation, available
free. It will include a page designed like a cable-news broadcast, complete
with visuals (including recording-session scenes), ticker and logo: LWW (for
"Living With War") rather than CNN. "Even if it turns out that we can't sell
it with the news in it, we won't sell it, we'll just stream it," he said.
"We don't have to sell it. We can still get it out there. This has nothing
to do with money as far as I'm concerned."

Mr. Young wants the album heard as a whole. The online streams play through
from beginning to end; until the CD is ready, the downloadable copies will
be available only as a bundle of the full album. "That first impression is
so important," he said. "Instead of just going to 'Let's Impeach the
President,' people will have to absorb the whole thing. To understand the
songs, you need to understand where the whole album's coming from. It
protects my right as an artist to have the work presented the way I created
it."

Mr. Young has always been impatient with the time lag between writing a song
and getting it to the world. When four student protesters were shot dead at
Kent State University in 1970, he wrote "Ohio," recorded it with Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young and released it two and a half weeks later by sending
acetates ? preliminary pressings ? to radio stations. (He will be on tour
this summer as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in what's billed
as the Freedom of Speech Tour.)

After 9/11 Mr. Young wrote "Let's Roll," a song about the passengers who
brought down a hijacked plane in Pennsylvania, and released it free online.
"Now we have the Internet," he said. "It doesn't sound as good, but it's
much faster, and it gets around the world. That's huge, that's as big as we
get."

The songs on "Living With War" are straightforward and single-minded,
setting aside the allusive, enigmatic quality of Mr. Young's rock classics.
"These are all ideas we've heard before," he said. "There's nothing new in
there. I just connected the dots."

The protest song, rocked-up slightly from its folky 1960's form, has been
making a comeback during the Iraq war, from arena bands like Pearl Jam, the
Rolling Stones and Green Day to indie-rockers like Bright Eyes and
blues-rockers like Keb' Mo' and Robert Cray. Bruce Springsteen's latest
album is a tribute to the protest-song mentor Pete Seeger, although it
features old folk songs rather than Mr. Seeger's topical material.

"We are the silent majority now, and we haven't done a damn thing," Mr.
Young said. "We've stood by and watched this happen. But there's more of us
than there is of them, and we have to do something. When people start
talking and see they can get away with it, it's going to happen everywhere.
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Apr 29 12:20:43 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:20:43 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
References: <C078EDF5.A0F1%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <001301c66bc2$02cc2ac0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

Thank you Michael I love you
yeah three cheers for Nina!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:18 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought


> Who would have thought that almost two score years ago we would be the
> beginning of an extended family with great effect and affection. Thanks to
> Gerry, Jim, Galt, Tom, Julie, Bertrand, Richard, Michael G and countless
> Hairites too many to list. Only our Nina can count us all.
> Peace and Love,
> Blessings
> Michael
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair


From cpreston2 at tds.net  Sat Apr 29 18:33:55 2006
From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:33:55 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Happy Birthday"
References: <000801c66b9c$a8822710$1f1c7c46@CowBox>
Message-ID: <001901c66bf6$26775740$0500a8c0@Charles>

Hi Tribe,   

Yes this was the day in 1968 when we started the big GO of HAiR opening on Broadway. Happy 38th birthday HAiR.

Forever we will be together.  
Much LOVE to all ~Charles~~
  ----- Original ----- 
  From: Robin McNamara 
  To: mb-hair at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 10:53 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] "Happy Birthday"


  Happy Birthday Broadway Hair :)

  Love forever
  Robin



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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Sat Apr 29 21:59:51 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:59:51 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] "Happy Birthday"
References: <mailman.1.1146337206.25004.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <002901c66c12$e9e72a90$6601a8c0@Leo>

Right on Robin, right on!!

PEACE,
Leo

> From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] "Happy Birthday"
> To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> Message-ID: <000801c66b9c$a8822710$1f1c7c46 at CowBox>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Happy Birthday Broadway Hair :)
> 
> Love forever
> Robin



From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Sat Apr 29 22:02:20 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:02:20 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
References: <mailman.1.1146337206.25004.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <002c01c66c13$430a3a40$6601a8c0@Leo>

Ain't that the truth Michael! It's a mind blowing reality. And of course we 
heartily add your name to that list cuz without your vision HAIR would not 
have been what it is today.

PEACE,
Leo

> Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
> To: HAIR List <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Who would have thought that almost two score years ago we would be the 
beginning of an extended family with great effect and affection. Thanks to 
Gerry, Jim, Galt, Tom, Julie, Bertrand, Richard, Michael G and countless 
Hairites too many to list. Only our Nina can count us all.
 Peace and Love,
 Blessings
 Michael



From bev at beverlybremers.com  Sat Apr 29 23:09:58 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:09:58 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
Message-ID: <20060430060958.0C7744F466@ws6-5.us4.outblaze.com>

Amen to that!!!

Beverly

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Leo <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:02:20 -0400
> 
> 
> Ain't that the truth Michael! It's a mind blowing reality. And of course we
> heartily add your name to that list cuz without your vision HAIR would not
> have been what it is today.
> 
> PEACE,
> Leo
> 
> > Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
> > To: HAIR List <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> Who would have thought that almost two score years ago we would be the
> beginning of an extended family with great effect and affection. Thanks to
> Gerry, Jim, Galt, Tom, Julie, Bertrand, Richard, Michael G and countless
> Hairites too many to list. Only our Nina can count us all.
>   Peace and Love,
>   Blessings
>   Michael
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
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>



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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Apr 30 06:33:55 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:33:55 -0400
Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
References: <mailman.1.1146337206.25004.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
	<002c01c66c13$430a3a40$6601a8c0@Leo>
Message-ID: <002f01c66c5a$ba3d16e0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

happy happy happy birthday
i threw hair its twelfth birthday party under the arch
at washington square park and jimmy blew out the candles
on a cake we baked
and said ( i remember ) " well we have to start planning for the bar mitzvah
"
as i just wrote to jim
happy birthday hair and 1000 more
i hope they read you like aeschylus

all love

R
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo" <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought


> Ain't that the truth Michael! It's a mind blowing reality. And of course
we
> heartily add your name to that list cuz without your vision HAIR would not
> have been what it is today.
>
> PEACE,
> Leo
>
> > Subject: [Mb-hair] Who Would Have Thought
> > To: HAIR List <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> Who would have thought that almost two score years ago we would be the
> beginning of an extended family with great effect and affection. Thanks to
> Gerry, Jim, Galt, Tom, Julie, Bertrand, Richard, Michael G and countless
> Hairites too many to list. Only our Nina can count us all.
>  Peace and Love,
>  Blessings
>  Michael
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair


From lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com  Sun Apr 30 07:41:05 2006
From: lookingformydonna1 at rediffmail.com (Michael Ramirez)
Date: 30 Apr 2006 14:41:05 -0000
Subject: [Mb-hair] writing on the wall no not that song but flesh failures!
Message-ID: <20060430144105.10814.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>

no not the song on disinhairited but the flesh failures?
i thought this was really cool
http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/sets/72057594066843158/comments/

maybe sheila wrote it or read it lol
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Apr 30 09:11:15 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:11:15 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] Great Picture
Message-ID: <C07A2FB5.A180%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Vincent Edwards sent this

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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Sun Apr 30 15:53:39 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe at juno.com)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:53:39 GMT
Subject: [Mb-hair] Birthday Party for HAiR
Message-ID: <20060430.155346.8594.1082717@webmail53.lax.untd.com>

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From paul at paulkorda.com  Sun Apr 30 23:31:36 2006
From: paul at paulkorda.com (Paul Korda)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:31:36 -0700
Subject: [Mb-hair] The Birth Day of HAIR
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1833.1146433367.3391.mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <000201c66ce8$e8961440$b572e904@pkorda>

Dear Tribe,
Our Hair is 38 years long, young and still uncontrolled. I took my first
trip with Jim and Gerry, not that I knew I was on it. It was the opening
preview night of the London show, that was spawned from the success of
the Broadway show. After we were refused admission to the Revolution
Club because our hair was too long, we danced down the street into
Mayfairs Berkeley Square (Remember the song about Nightingales!), we
were soaking wet in the downpour, singing "Singing in the Rain",  and
I've never been the same since! So this is a very Happy Birthday for me,
indeed. Think I'm having a flashback! Thanks to all of you for helping
me to be a part of the real musical of our Age, "HAIR",
a-rock-solid-state-of-the-freedom-of-expression. Bring back the freedom
of Expression. 

Paul Korda
http://PaulKorda.com  

PS Great picture Vincent. Who would have guessed Princess Anne was such
a 'freak'.
 


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