[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 8, Issue 16

[Richard Broadie]

Hic!   I can't find a reed that works!   Hic!  Gotta have another drink!
Hic!

I'm a tortured genius!   ?????

Dick (Ain't no mith!) Broadie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Thompson" <butcht at sihope.com>
To: "djml" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:36 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 8, Issue 16


> On 8/8/03 1:59 AM, "dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com"
> <dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com> wrote:
>
> > I was told years
> > ago that one of the reasons Bix drank as much as he did was that he was
> > frustrated by the limitations of the music of his era.
>
> Dick
>
> As I'm sure you know, the sad truth is that he was an alcoholic.
"Reasons"
> like this contribute to the myth of the tortured genius, a romantic notion
> that many of us (me, too) would like to maintain -- but, well . . . .
>
> Butch Thompson
>
>
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