Re: [tuning] Digest Number 994

on 12/13/00 7:14 PM, tuning@egroups.com at tuning@egroups.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:31:36 -0700
> From: "Neil Haverstick" <STICK@USWEST.NET>
> Subject: bad motor etc.
>
> Yo Franz...when I was a youngster, I lived in a very funky part of St.
> Louis, and there weren't a lot of white folks around...one picks up a
> lot of slang that way. Also, I've played blues/jazz and country in a lot
> of fairly slimy locations, and that adds to the stew. I enjoy slang,
> feeling it is quite expressive...I'd use more of it, but I don't want to
> scare all the nice college educated folks on this list (sense of humor,
> please). And, I first saw the phrase "bad motorcycle" on an Albert
> Collins album a long time ago "The Cool Sounds of...) And, indeed, Mr.
> Collins was a very bad feller....Hstick

> BTW. read Miles Davis's autobiography for the ultimate in slang talk...
>

Right on, that's one baaad ?/$#xzy&*%@ book, to quote the man himself,
Miles.

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