[Dixielandjazz] OKOM & Boobs

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/05 6:57:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

> 
> The way those of us who did/do it see it, "Art is Art." Those gigs and girls
> are fondly remembered.
> 
> 
Ah yes Art does rear it's beautiful presence in many shapes and forms, and 
you have not lived until you have played an avant guard jazz gig in an 
avant-guard ART GALLERY watching some Snit trying to sell "Art" to Avant-Guard Art 
collectors and Patrons of the Arts.

The gigs usually paid well, and there was lots of free wine and or cocktails 
and horse doovers, and the gigs were usually from like 4:00 to 6:00 so we 
could still make a cocktail gig in a hotel or local watering hole, before going to 
the regular gig at 9:00.

It was always fun to play abstract noise for folks to listen to and pretend 
to understand while they stared at paintings of blank Canvas and or those 
wonderfully deep artistic renderings of three dots on the canvas or maybe two 
parallel lines, or the frequent burst of color that looked like a guy hit a stack 
of paint cans at home depot with a fork lift and spilled them all over the 
canvas.  After a bottle or two of their wine you could actually start to feel the 
artist if not the wife of some Art patron. :))

I just love ART.  Especially well paid art.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
Now where is my Elvis on Velour painting that I stole from the original 
artist at a Tijuana Flea Market for $2.00?