[Dixielandjazz] practishing drunk

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

I was just following my source 
I would bow to the deeper scholarship on this issue of the worthiest of informants,
even if the original line hadn't been superior to what I heard from another. 

This reminds me of the Condon response when someone said he'd heard there was now a Mrs. Condon. 
Eddie referred to her father's prize-winning accomplishment with the rifle. 

Viva Steve!

Robert Calder 


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> From: Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
>To: ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> 
>Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
>Sent: Sunday, 20 October 2013, 21:09
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] practishing drunk
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>Eddie said 'I've never regarded myself as an athlete.'
>More evocative!
>
>Steve Voce
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>> On 20 Oct 2013, at 20:32, "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> It is very refreshing that nobody suggested our friend looking to find means of guidance for a dixieland ensemble (maps might be as good a word as charts) should follow the example of those who rehearsed blotto.
>> 
>> There is small musical guidance in the tale of Mr. Condon, medically imperilled without alcohol, incapacitated by stomach ulcers, and being plied with an enema, offering to buy a round for the whole ward. 
>> 
>> He would presumably be in the position, face down across a bed, but dressed, from which he offered to answer questions from the press when he first arrived in England. Asked to assume a position from which his speech would be more clearly audible he is said to have responded, "I'll try, but I'm no athlete!" 
>> 
>> Exactly to the musical point was Mr. Condon's entry into his own club while young Master Wilber was rehearsing, and his response to the sound:  "make some mistakes!"  (This is Bob Wilber's story!)
>> 
>> Drinking does you harm, but outside special fields like medicine a dread of making mistakes can harm lots of other folks. 
>> 
>> Slainte!
>> Robert R. Calder 
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