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Post by Lonnie on May 31, 2015 14:05:05 GMT -5
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Post by Doug on May 31, 2015 14:21:17 GMT -5
Good read
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Post by billhammond on May 31, 2015 14:23:03 GMT -5
No wonder he was grinning all the time.
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Post by Doug on May 31, 2015 14:36:58 GMT -5
I noticed that he picked up on one of the things I've always wondered. I'm not very religious but I all ways wondered how being religious meshed with criminalizing gods creations.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 31, 2015 17:44:36 GMT -5
The most interesting question this raises is how his manager managed to green-light him to smoke all the pot he wanted without interference - if in fact he did. The narrative mentions the manager had mob connections, implying that he succeeded in paying off the cops.
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Post by millring on May 31, 2015 18:15:25 GMT -5
I'm just having trouble believing that a professional musician would compromise his performance by taking such risky drugs. What serious musician would consider smoking pot?
I know, right?
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Post by Chesapeake on May 31, 2015 19:44:30 GMT -5
Speaking for myself, I was shocked.
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Post by Village Idiot on May 31, 2015 19:47:08 GMT -5
The most interesting question this raises is how his manager managed to green-light him to smoke all the pot he wanted without interference - if in fact he did. The narrative mentions the manager had mob connections, implying that he succeeded in paying off the cops. That would be the real story. I had no idea pot was such a big crime back then. |
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Post by Russell Letson on May 31, 2015 22:53:20 GMT -5
Weed wasn't the only herb Pops was real fond of--  |
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Post by epaul on May 31, 2015 23:13:09 GMT -5
I don't like a lot of jazz, but I love everything Louie has done. (I like early jazz and middle jazz, but somewhere around Bebop, I got lost in every way possible)
Back in college, I had a record that featured Louie and his wife, Lil. My memory tells me it was called "Saturday Night in Harlem". I can't find any recording by that name now. I have found a song Lil and Louie did called "Harlem on a Saturday Night". So, I don't know what I remember, other than I played that record to the nubs. Man, did I like it. (the other record I wore out that year was a Deutsche Gramophone recording of two Beethoven sonatas, "Waldstein" and "Pathetique").
I have both of Louie's recording with Ella. Wonderful.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 1, 2015 12:18:05 GMT -5
A quick story.
In the 70s when I was stage managing I met the mother of an actress who was in a few of our shows. The mother had lost her left arm at the elbow, and in the 40s had been a stripper in New Orleans billed as the "Modern Venus." She had a number of stories of Louie and his friends coming over to the house early in the morning and smoking a lot of pot.
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