[Dixielandjazz] YOBS

[David Richoux]

A "loving" parody of this Lennie Hastings drum tag can be  heard on  
the Bonzo Dog Band "Gorilla" recording "Jazz, Delicious Hot,  
Disgusting Cold!"
The whole song is a version of "Bill Bailey/Tiger Rag" that must be  
heard and enjoyed by all Trad jazz Fans ;-P

Here is what one reviewer has to say about it:
> On other tunes, the Bonzos are apt to demonstrate their  
> musicianship, as on the pull-out-the-stops frantic pub jazz  
> instrumental 'Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold!' which is just  
> THE kind of jazz that goes right up my alley. Sweat it out!  
> Absolutely no ambition, absolutely no self-indulgence, just a lot  
> of messy (but rhythmic) brass-and-piano fun, with trombone, sax,  
> and ukulele solos alternating with the band in full coordinated  
> swing just as you'd expect in a hot Fifties' movie. In any case,  
> "generic" never really is supposed to mean "unenjoyable", and to  
> hear such a swell, accessible, and well-played instrumental in an  
> era where jazz was already forgetting its roots at giant paces, not  
> to mention an era plagued by lengthy incoherent acid instrumentals,  
> for some people at least must have been just as much of a delight  
> as for me to be hearing it now.
( http://starling.rinet.ru/music/bonzo.htm )

It is available on several Bonzo re-issue collections.

Dave Richoux

On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:21 PM, John Farrell wrote:

> Bill Gunter said :
>
>
> In fact that was a famous gimmick of the late, great British OKOM  
> drummer
> Lennie Hastings who on a four-bar drum break at the end of a tune  
> would play
> the first two bars then for the last two would rip off his wig,  
> throw it in
> the air and pretend to shoot it with a rimshot, at the same time  
> yelling
> "Ooyah, ooyah, ooyah!".
>
> Dear old Lennie, he was a talented, fun guy sadly missed by  
> everybody who
> played with him.
>
> John Farrell
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm