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The following is an article that I found in the March/April 2005 issue of Prime Magazine which I picked up free at a local coffee shop a couple of weeks ago. The article says it is reprinted from the April 1994 issue of New Orleans Magazine. I tried to find this somewhere on the web to copy or link it but I could not. I enjoyed reading it enough that I decided to retype it and post it for everyone, so here goes:
Past Tense
by Liz Scott Monaghan
The Founding of Jazz Fest
The BLACK and WHITE of it
It's been growing and thriving for a quarter century now, but even so, the Jazz Fest was late arriving here in the cradle of jazz. Newport, RI, of all places, gave birth to one, years before New Orleans did. And thereon hangs a tale.
But a happier story is how it did, eventually, come to be, and we'll talk about that first.
The details change, as they do in good stories, depending on who's telling it. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's 1970 brochure syas that 300 musicians entertained a crowd half that number.
George Wein, Jazz Fest founder, remembered 200 attendees and 320 musicians.
The attendance was bolstered when Joyce Wein, George's wife, walked over to a nearby grade school and talked the teachers into letting the kids come over and soak up a little culture. Or so said Quint Davis, director/producer. When Wein tells it, it's not school children, but orphans, who came to the fest.
What's documented is that it lasted five days. Pete Fountain and Clyde Kerr and their orchestras kicked things off on Wednesday night, April 22, aboard theSteamer President. On Thursday, at noon, the Eureka Brass Band lined up on Canal Street and enticed the faithful and the merely curious to follow their sweet sounds along the curve in Basin Street and through the gates of the New Orleans Jazz Fest and Louisiana Heritage Fair.
"That was the official name then," said Davis, "the longest, stupidest name you could imagine." Now, it's the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but mostly it's called Jazz Fest.
Admission was $3. There were four sound stages featuring jazz, Cajun, blues and gospel music; plus the Olympia, the Eureka and the Tuxedo brass bands. And there were several tribes of Mardi Gras Indians, appearing in full regalia for the first time (Davis is particularly proud of that) on a day other than their two traditional parading days: Mardi Gras and St. Joseph's Day.
All this, plus 20-somehting booths featuring homestyle New Orleans food and crafts, were enclosed by a canvas fence in what was then Beauregard Square, named for New Orleans' Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. (Now it's Congo Square, which it was called before the Civil War, when slaves met and danced and sang there.)
There were also performances in the adjoining Municipal Auditorium.
Davis hadn't bothered the musicians about signing contracts. "I just told them to be there Thursday at 2 o'clock," he said. Betty Rankin, who'd worked with him in the Tulane University Archives, and the wife of clarinet player Willie Humphrey, were stationed at an entrance. "We were supposed to recognize the performers by sight and let them in," she said.
They had a couple of unexpected visitors.
Woody Allen, who is a jazz clarinetist in addition to everything else, happened to be in the neighborhood. He wandered in, walked around, and sat in with a Preservation Hall Band playing under an oak tree.
Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson were scheduled for evening concerts in the auditorium. On Thursday afternoon, when things were just getting underway, they turned up in the Square. Jackson listened to the Eureka Brass Band, then hooked her purse over her arm, took the microphone, and launched in "Just A Closer Walk with Thee." Nobody had expected that. Davis took it as a good omen.
"It was a prototype of what the Jazz Fest is all about, bridging the gap between gospel and jazz," said Davis.
Performers at the evening concerts included Duke Ellington, Al Hirt, Fats Domino, the Dukes of Dixieland, Germaine Bazzle, James Rivers and Sweet Erma Barrett. These were a bit more formal, with reserved seats for $3.50 to $6.50.
There were no reserved seats for the daytime shows though. Onlookers, both blacks and whites, stood around the stages, and pretty soon they wee clapping, then tapping their feet, then unabashedly dancing. This, in 1970, when the South was freshly emerging from nearly a century of segregation, and events attended by both races were still a bit of a novelty. New Yorker George Wein marveled. He'd thought this was a redneck city. And with reason.
Bakc in 1962, after both the Newport Jazz Festival and the Newport Folk Festival that he'd helped launch with Pete Seeger became widely known, he'd been invited by New Orleans Mayor Victor H. Schiro, members of the Chamber of Commerce, and other local luminaries to talk about staring a festival here. But that was before the Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination in public accomodations was passed, and in New Orleans, as elswhere in the South, black musicians oculdn't expect to stay in top-flight hotels or play before mixed-race audiences. Wein knew that would never work.
"We met for three or four hours in a little room beneath the Rib Room at the Royal Orleans Hotel, while they tried to think of ways to get around their own laws," he says. But no one could come up with a solution.
the act became law in 1964, and Wein was contacted again. "They said we could do it now, and so we planned it for the spring of 1965.
"But on New Year's Day in 1965, a professional football game was scheduled in New Orleans. And black football players arrived at the airport. And a lot of taxi drivers weren't ready for integration yet, and wouldn't take them as passengers. So the players went on strike. And after that the festival was cancelled."
It had already been publicized as "The New Orleans International Jazz Festival." Later that year, an event billed as "The Annual International Jazz Festival of New Orleans, La." was held, but it consisted only of a series of concerts at the Roosevelt Hotel. (Its promoter was a lawyer anmed Dean Andrews, who would two years later land in the spotlight when he testified at the Kennedy assassination trial.)
"I got called back in 1968," said Wein. "They wanted me to try again. Then they realized my wife is an African Amercan. So they didn't want me."
An organization headed by Durel Black staged two jazz festivals in the Municipal Auditorium, but neither was an over whelming success. In 1969, the year after Woodstock, Wein was contacted for the fourth time.
"Durel Black said, 'George, we want you to run the festival.' He'd cleared me with the Chamber of Commerce.
"I said, 'Durel, the days of the Newport Festival are over. We have to create something new.'
"This had to do with the relationship to young people, especially after Woodstock. The Newport Festival had reserved seats, and people couldn't move around. Besides, I wanted to reach everybody. Jazz wasn't enough.
We called Dick Allen, head of the Jazz Archives at Tulane University, and he recommended Quint Davis."
Davis was a skinny, long-haired student who worked at the archives. "I was just a kid," he said, "but all this music was what my life was all about; rhythm andblues, gospel, second-lining, the Mardi Gras Indians-that was my life. I knew nothing aobut the music business, but I knew all the musicains."
He and Allison Miner, who also worked at the archives, took on the job of lining up the acts, visiting chuches and clubs.
"The first Fest had three elements which it still has: workshops in the morning, evening concerts, and the jazz and heritage fair," says Davis.
But it lost money and Durel Black was all for cutting it back to a series of evening concerts in 1971. Wein held his ground and won.
The second year, Quint Davis rediscovered Professor Longhair, Henry Roeland Byrd, and talked him into performing at the Jazz Fest. He was a sensation, of course, and the rest is history.
By the third year, the Fest had outgrown congo Square. George Rhode III, then catering manager at the Fair Grounds racetrack, suggested moving it there, and that's where it's been ever since. It lasts 10 days, and annually hosts as many people as Woodstock did. It may, says Wein, be the largest paid-admission festival in the world. But there's no Disney slickness to it. The homegrown spirit from Congo Square lingers on.
Davis is pleased that it does. "That's something strange to strive for-depolishment," he said. "But we do."
Of course, things change as they grow. Betty Rankin, who guarded the entrance back at the first fair, sometimes wishes it wasn't so.
"I'm elated that it's so successful, of course," she said. "But it used to be that you went because you love the music. People still go because they love the music, but now a lot of others go because it is the place to be. I see kids with boom boxes on their shoulders-listening to that when thre's live music all around.
It used to be that you'd see everbody you knew there. You still see everybody you know. It's just that there are a lot of faces in between."
2005-03-26 18:59
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Thanks, windowman. This one is another "keeper". I'll be bumping this one up with the other History threads later this evening.
2005-03-26 19:13
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Interesting stuff from another perspective, Windowman. Thanks for typing and shareing.
Here's a related story I just read on the Sound of New Orleans website I linked to off the 800 links tread on this board:
>> In the dim, dark years many years ago, a young woman by the name of Alison Miner asked Gary Edwards if he could supply sound systems for a little music festival that did not have a big budget, a whopping $200 for four stages for two days. After the end of the first really wonderful day, when there were more performers than audience members, everyone was basking in the glow of such a great idea as a New Orleans Jazz Festival. During the "basking," someone stole the bag with all of the microphones. So, over that Saturday night, Gary had to find enough microphones to use for the Sunday show. During the Sunday show, the only spare amplifier caught on fire. At the end of the Sunday show, everyone agreed that this was truly a magic event. It seems to have proven to be a pretty good idea. During the first festival, Gary met Mr. Sherman Washington, leader of The Zion Harmonizers. That fortuitous meeting began a relationship that has brought The Zion Harmonizers and many other New Orleans groups to stages all over the world.
2005-03-26 22:47
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Thanks Windowman! Great post!!
2005-03-26 23:46
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No Disney slickness??? The homegrown spirit from Congo Square lingers on??? Yes, that's what we love so much about Jazz Fest! Thank you freida and windowman for your lovely posts.
2005-03-27 15:56
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Should join this post up with the history posts next time they are bumped
2005-03-27 19:32
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Bump
2005-03-29 08:41
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Geez, this is gonna be hard to keep up.
2005-03-31 00:58
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NUTRIA LUST !
I had to get that outt my system.
2005-04-02 22:59
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2005-04-05 19:03
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Thanks for a great post!
2005-04-06 20:57
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Bump, and thanks for the kind feedback. I am glad y'all are enjoying the article.
2005-04-08 15:54
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Rootin' Tootin' Bump-o-matic
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McBump
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Round and round and round we go...
2005-04-16 01:03
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Needs to be near the History threads.
2005-04-18 20:12
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Female nutria have eight furry teats on their back. Just a reminder...
2005-04-20 00:43
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Pad those posts bump
2005-04-21 18:48
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burping these back out there...
2005-05-10 18:25
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thanks, windowman...good to meet ya at the patry...like i said then, you answer questions we don't even know to ask...
2005-05-10 18:38
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threads that go bump in the nite
2005-05-10 23:00
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backn up
2005-05-25 13:56
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Boy, you know things are slow on the board when it took almost a month for these posts to drift down toward the bottom! So I have done my public service and bumped, kicked, soared, bounced, drifted, etc. these historical threads back to the top.
2005-06-21 16:57
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Thanks for the post, great to have more insight.
2005-06-21 23:12
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tanx zybon!
2005-06-21 23:39
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Anybody know what happend to that "800 links" thread? I think it was related to a B&B but that's all I remember. Some good, obscure stuff there. Be a shame to lose it.
2005-06-22 01:04
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You rock Wynn, I love when you post this stuff for us!!!
2005-06-23 21:21
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Bump
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Thanks for bringing this back. We new folk appreciate it.
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ba da bump!
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Hey Festngator, how the heck are ya mister? What's new? What are your plans for Jazzfest? You going to make our party this year? We miss you on here. Tell Vicki I said hi okay?
2006-01-14 09:44
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Bimp? Did you say Bimp?
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Of course I said bimp.
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Bimp is thet word of the day. Bimpism rules. Am I a Bimphead?
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The following is an article that I found in the March/April 2005 issue of Prime Magazine which I picked up free at a local coffee shop a couple of weeks ago. The article says it is reprinted from the April 1994 issue of New Orleans Magazine. I tried to find this somewhere on the web to copy or link it but I could not. I enjoyed reading it enough that I decided to retype it and post it for everyone, so here goes:
Past Tense
by Liz Scott Monaghan
The Founding of Jazz Fest
The BLACK and WHITE of it
It's been growing and thriving for a quarter century now, but even so, the Jazz Fest was late arriving here in the cradle of jazz. Newport, RI, of all places, gave birth to one, years before New Orleans did. And thereon hangs a tale.
But a happier story is how it did, eventually, come to be, and we'll talk about that first.
The details change, as they do in good stories, depending on who's telling it. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's 1970 brochure syas that 300 musicians entertained a crowd half that number.
George Wein, Jazz Fest founder, remembered 200 attendees and 320 musicians.
The attendance was bolstered when Joyce Wein, George's wife, walked over to a nearby grade school and talked the teachers into letting the kids come over and soak up a little culture. Or so said Quint Davis, director/producer. When Wein tells it, it's not school children, but orphans, who came to the fest.
What's documented is that it lasted five days. Pete Fountain and Clyde Kerr and their orchestras kicked things off on Wednesday night, April 22, aboard theSteamer President. On Thursday, at noon, the Eureka Brass Band lined up on Canal Street and enticed the faithful and the merely curious to follow their sweet sounds along the curve in Basin Street and through the gates of the New Orleans Jazz Fest and Louisiana Heritage Fair.
"That was the official name then," said Davis, "the longest, stupidest name you could imagine." Now, it's the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but mostly it's called Jazz Fest.
Admission was $3. There were four sound stages featuring jazz, Cajun, blues and gospel music; plus the Olympia, the Eureka and the Tuxedo brass bands. And there were several tribes of Mardi Gras Indians, appearing in full regalia for the first time (Davis is particularly proud of that) on a day other than their two traditional parading days: Mardi Gras and St. Joseph's Day.
All this, plus 20-somehting booths featuring homestyle New Orleans food and crafts, were enclosed by a canvas fence in what was then Beauregard Square, named for New Orleans' Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. (Now it's Congo Square, which it was called before the Civil War, when slaves met and danced and sang there.)
There were also performances in the adjoining Municipal Auditorium.
Davis hadn't bothered the musicians about signing contracts. "I just told them to be there Thursday at 2 o'clock," he said. Betty Rankin, who'd worked with him in the Tulane University Archives, and the wife of clarinet player Willie Humphrey, were stationed at an entrance. "We were supposed to recognize the performers by sight and let them in," she said.
They had a couple of unexpected visitors.
Woody Allen, who is a jazz clarinetist in addition to everything else, happened to be in the neighborhood. He wandered in, walked around, and sat in with a Preservation Hall Band playing under an oak tree.
Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson were scheduled for evening concerts in the auditorium. On Thursday afternoon, when things were just getting underway, they turned up in the Square. Jackson listened to the Eureka Brass Band, then hooked her purse over her arm, took the microphone, and launched in "Just A Closer Walk with Thee." Nobody had expected that. Davis took it as a good omen.
"It was a prototype of what the Jazz Fest is all about, bridging the gap between gospel and jazz," said Davis.
Performers at the evening concerts included Duke Ellington, Al Hirt, Fats Domino, the Dukes of Dixieland, Germaine Bazzle, James Rivers and Sweet Erma Barrett. These were a bit more formal, with reserved seats for $3.50 to $6.50.
There were no reserved seats for the daytime shows though. Onlookers, both blacks and whites, stood around the stages, and pretty soon they wee clapping, then tapping their feet, then unabashedly dancing. This, in 1970, when the South was freshly emerging from nearly a century of segregation, and events attended by both races were still a bit of a novelty. New Yorker George Wein marveled. He'd thought this was a redneck city. And with reason.
Bakc in 1962, after both the Newport Jazz Festival and the Newport Folk Festival that he'd helped launch with Pete Seeger became widely known, he'd been invited by New Orleans Mayor Victor H. Schiro, members of the Chamber of Commerce, and other local luminaries to talk about staring a festival here. But that was before the Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination in public accomodations was passed, and in New Orleans, as elswhere in the South, black musicians oculdn't expect to stay in top-flight hotels or play before mixed-race audiences. Wein knew that would never work.
"We met for three or four hours in a little room beneath the Rib Room at the Royal Orleans Hotel, while they tried to think of ways to get around their own laws," he says. But no one could come up with a solution.
the act became law in 1964, and Wein was contacted again. "They said we could do it now, and so we planned it for the spring of 1965.
"But on New Year's Day in 1965, a professional football game was scheduled in New Orleans. And black football players arrived at the airport. And a lot of taxi drivers weren't ready for integration yet, and wouldn't take them as passengers. So the players went on strike. And after that the festival was cancelled."
It had already been publicized as "The New Orleans International Jazz Festival." Later that year, an event billed as "The Annual International Jazz Festival of New Orleans, La." was held, but it consisted only of a series of concerts at the Roosevelt Hotel. (Its promoter was a lawyer anmed Dean Andrews, who would two years later land in the spotlight when he testified at the Kennedy assassination trial.)
"I got called back in 1968," said Wein. "They wanted me to try again. Then they realized my wife is an African Amercan. So they didn't want me."
An organization headed by Durel Black staged two jazz festivals in the Municipal Auditorium, but neither was an over whelming success. In 1969, the year after Woodstock, Wein was contacted for the fourth time.
"Durel Black said, 'George, we want you to run the festival.' He'd cleared me with the Chamber of Commerce.
"I said, 'Durel, the days of the Newport Festival are over. We have to create something new.'
"This had to do with the relationship to young people, especially after Woodstock. The Newport Festival had reserved seats, and people couldn't move around. Besides, I wanted to reach everybody. Jazz wasn't enough.
We called Dick Allen, head of the Jazz Archives at Tulane University, and he recommended Quint Davis."
Davis was a skinny, long-haired student who worked at the archives. "I was just a kid," he said, "but all this music was what my life was all about; rhythm andblues, gospel, second-lining, the Mardi Gras Indians-that was my life. I knew nothing aobut the music business, but I knew all the musicains."
He and Allison Miner, who also worked at the archives, took on the job of lining up the acts, visiting chuches and clubs.
"The first Fest had three elements which it still has: workshops in the morning, evening concerts, and the jazz and heritage fair," says Davis.
But it lost money and Durel Black was all for cutting it back to a series of evening concerts in 1971. Wein held his ground and won.
The second year, Quint Davis rediscovered Professor Longhair, Henry Roeland Byrd, and talked him into performing at the Jazz Fest. He was a sensation, of course, and the rest is history.
By the third year, the Fest had outgrown congo Square. George Rhode III, then catering manager at the Fair Grounds racetrack, suggested moving it there, and that's where it's been ever since. It lasts 10 days, and annually hosts as many people as Woodstock did. It may, says Wein, be the largest paid-admission festival in the world. But there's no Disney slickness to it. The homegrown spirit from Congo Square lingers on.
Davis is pleased that it does. "That's something strange to strive for-depolishment," he said. "But we do."
Of course, things change as they grow. Betty Rankin, who guarded the entrance back at the first fair, sometimes wishes it wasn't so.
"I'm elated that it's so successful, of course," she said. "But it used to be that you went because you love the music. People still go because they love the music, but now a lot of others go because it is the place to be. I see kids with boom boxes on their shoulders-listening to that when thre's live music all around.
It used to be that you'd see everbody you knew there. You still see everybody you know. It's just that there are a lot of faces in between."
2005-03-26 18:59
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Thanks, windowman. This one is another "keeper". I'll be bumping this one up with the other History threads later this evening.
2005-03-26 19:13
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Interesting stuff from another perspective, Windowman. Thanks for typing and shareing.
Here's a related story I just read on the Sound of New Orleans website I linked to off the 800 links tread on this board:
>> In the dim, dark years many years ago, a young woman by the name of Alison Miner asked Gary Edwards if he could supply sound systems for a little music festival that did not have a big budget, a whopping $200 for four stages for two days. After the end of the first really wonderful day, when there were more performers than audience members, everyone was basking in the glow of such a great idea as a New Orleans Jazz Festival. During the "basking," someone stole the bag with all of the microphones. So, over that Saturday night, Gary had to find enough microphones to use for the Sunday show. During the Sunday show, the only spare amplifier caught on fire. At the end of the Sunday show, everyone agreed that this was truly a magic event. It seems to have proven to be a pretty good idea. During the first festival, Gary met Mr. Sherman Washington, leader of The Zion Harmonizers. That fortuitous meeting began a relationship that has brought The Zion Harmonizers and many other New Orleans groups to stages all over the world.
2005-03-26 22:47
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Thanks Windowman! Great post!!
2005-03-26 23:46
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No Disney slickness??? The homegrown spirit from Congo Square lingers on??? Yes, that's what we love so much about Jazz Fest! Thank you freida and windowman for your lovely posts.
2005-03-27 15:56
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Should join this post up with the history posts next time they are bumped
2005-03-27 19:32
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Bump
2005-03-29 08:41
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Geez, this is gonna be hard to keep up.
2005-03-31 00:58
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NUTRIA LUST !
I had to get that outt my system.
2005-04-02 22:59
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2005-04-05 19:03
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Thanks for a great post!
2005-04-06 20:57
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Bump, and thanks for the kind feedback. I am glad y'all are enjoying the article.
2005-04-08 15:54
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Rootin' Tootin' Bump-o-matic
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McBump
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Round and round and round we go...
2005-04-16 01:03
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Needs to be near the History threads.
2005-04-18 20:12
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Female nutria have eight furry teats on their back. Just a reminder...
2005-04-20 00:43
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Pad those posts bump
2005-04-21 18:48
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burping these back out there...
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mymecca
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posts: 573
registered: 2004-01-19
location: San Francisco
thanks, windowman...good to meet ya at the patry...like i said then, you answer questions we don't even know to ask...
2005-05-10 18:38
breezin
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posts: 115
registered: 2005-04-21
location: orlando
threads that go bump in the nite
2005-05-10 23:00
breambob
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posts: 2359
registered: 2002-03-01
location: Shreveport
backn up
2005-05-25 13:56
bonnie zydeco
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posts: 720
registered: 2003-12-09
location: Boston
Boy, you know things are slow on the board when it took almost a month for these posts to drift down toward the bottom! So I have done my public service and bumped, kicked, soared, bounced, drifted, etc. these historical threads back to the top.
2005-06-21 16:57
jazzbluesguy
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posts: 107
registered: 2003-12-30
location: Collingwood, Canada
Thanks for the post, great to have more insight.
2005-06-21 23:12
ohio
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posts: 4658
registered: 2004-05-05
location: cincy
tanx zybon!
2005-06-21 23:39
freida2fest
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posts: 13
registered: 2005-06-06
location: louisville
Anybody know what happend to that "800 links" thread? I think it was related to a B&B but that's all I remember. Some good, obscure stuff there. Be a shame to lose it.
2005-06-22 01:04
corona
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posts: 5887
registered: 2004-03-13
location: windsor
You rock Wynn, I love when you post this stuff for us!!!
2005-06-23 21:21
breambob
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posts: 2359
registered: 2002-03-01
location: Shreveport
Bump
2005-10-19 00:42
oldozzie
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posts: 2133
registered: 2005-09-18
location: Cairns Australia
Thanks for bringing this back. We new folk appreciate it.
2005-10-19 01:07
flcajun
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posts: 686
registered: 2005-07-26
location: out_there
ba da bump!
2005-11-08 13:07
windowman
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posts: 652
registered: 2003-02-07
location: New Orleans
reneworleans bump
2005-12-29 11:26
mcgarvies
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posts: 229
registered: 2002-04-02
location: annapolis
Bump it up..
2005-12-29 18:24
festngator
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posts: 1434
registered: 2002-03-19
location: tampa
2006-01-07 02:13
ohio
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posts: 4658
registered: 2004-05-05
location: cincy
non-ghost bump
2006-01-14 04:06
corona
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posts: 5887
registered: 2004-03-13
location: windsor
Hey Festngator, how the heck are ya mister? What's new? What are your plans for Jazzfest? You going to make our party this year? We miss you on here. Tell Vicki I said hi okay?
2006-01-14 09:44
windowman
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posts: 652
registered: 2003-02-07
location: New Orleans
bimp (for Clouseau)
2006-01-27 20:26
breambob
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posts: 2359
registered: 2002-03-01
location: Shreveport
Bimp? Did you say Bimp?
2006-02-03 02:09
windowman
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posts: 652
registered: 2003-02-07
location: New Orleans
Of course I said bimp.
2006-02-16 23:36
breambob
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posts: 2359
registered: 2002-03-01
location: Shreveport
Bimp is thet word of the day. Bimpism rules. Am I a Bimphead?
2006-02-17 00:27
festngator
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posts: 1434
registered: 2002-03-19
location: tampa
B
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2006-04-15 11:02
ronimyers
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posts: 57
registered: 2006-04-19
location: New Orleans
Tons of rooms at Drury Inn & Suites 504-529-7800 May 4th-8th $164 per night, free breakfast, free internet, free evening cocktails, free long distance. 4 blks from French Quater.
2006-04-19 17:32
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