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Judging by academic shitheads, http://academicshithead.blogspot.com sure are some long memories down
Alabama way...along those lines, disparagement of Berkeley, Boulder
Ann Arbor, etc.,...a little known fact of the 1972 Presidential campaign is before he got shot Wallace was coming on very strong. So strong that the McGovern campaign studied the Wallace campaign. Feelers were sent out. Because in his ability to address blue collar concerns, Wallace was appealing to people who really wanted a fundamental economic change. Wallace's campaign was not very organized though. And then he got shot. Interesting to ponder an FDR-style coalition...McGovern/Wallace.
PS, where I live, Ypsilanti, Michigan is informally known as Ypsitucky...'cause so many Kentucky, Tennessee natives came up to work in factories hereabouts.
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

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It's nice to meet you Rydtrue, I live in Cleveland. Same situation here.
Everyone down West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee way came up here
to work. Making Cleveland one of the biggest hillbilly got rich mixtures of people possible.

Hope to hear more from you.

Ryan

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FROM ROBERTO
I taught in practically all black schools in Alabama for 17 years. We called the kids from Ypsi , The Detroit Wheels because they showed up about a month late for school.
In the 80s, I spent a lot of time in Ann
Arbor and East Lansing selling South American handmade earbobs, handbags, belts and sweaters to sorority girls. Big Blue was really good to me. Only Yankee outfit that can compare to IU. Indiana was a sweet hit. So was Champagne/Urbana but the jokers acted like they were still in Chicago instead of being in a cornfield in the middle of Illinois.
Ho hum, that's part of my take on the Mid-West. I also tore dinero out uv Purdue, Badger Town and Gopher Country too.
Oh, yeah & I remember Cleveland. They say that hell hole has improved in the last twenty years, however, I remember when they rolled the sidewalks up downtown at 6 o'clock. Don't worry. We got way more worser folks to send ya as long as you write those checks!
best,
reg
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rydn4tru

Location: Ypsilanti
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: Bring 'em on!

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Doctor Reg,
You bragged: "We got way more worser folks to send ya as long as you write those checks!"
The only righteous reply? "The checks are in the mail, baby!"
Seriously, up here in the cities teeming with smugly-empty corporate
types, it do get pretty boring. If'n you are tired of the next Duane
Allman masquerading as a down-n-outer send him on up. That goes
for the next kid-banjo-picker willing to play in the next "Deliverance."
Gotta love 'em: inbred, holler-dwellers, ain't never been of enough interest to the Combine to get programmed.
You might as well give up a coupla moonshiners while you are at it.
Sitting in gridlock on 1-94 is tedium squared as is...
watchin' some dude pilot his stripped-down Plymouth on down
the median just ahead of the
cops would be a gas...
Rydn

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FROM ROBERTO
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject:

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Naw, man, you ain't got quite my drift. What I'm talking 'bout is what I call "The Hell Train". It is filled with the bullet-proof twenty something gangsters who spend their days slinging and binging. The little towns around Tuscaloosa [Selma, Demopolis, Marion, Livingston, Eutaw, York, Aliceville, Union Town,etc] ship us their wannabe gangsters and hoes on a daily basis. Since we have thugs arriving all the time, it is necessary that we ship our sho' nuff gangsters down I-20/59 to Bessemer/ Birmingham and points east, north & west. It's a daily struggle to maintain this mass migration in order to establish some sort of public safety but it's worth it. Eventually they'll make it to Detroit, Gary, Ypsi, Cleveland, etc- especially if they got outstanding warrants Down South and kinfolks up Nawth.

There ain't no mean people in Alabama because all the mean folks in Alabama are dead and in the cemetery.
HUGH TAYLOR


rydn4tru

Location: Ypsilanti
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject: Hellucinating?

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Drift? What drift did I not quite get? Your drift down into hallucinatory
infernoes of hell populated by fevered visions leaping full-bodied from
your forehead? Bullet-proof gangstas? You been tipplin' the 180 proof
sour mash before hittin' the keys? Hoes? Sheesh, been reading too
many R. Crumb comic books, my man.
You in law enforcement, or like hanging around jails and cop bars
to get your cheap voyeuristic thrills?
As for your view of the dead, hm. how is it put by the decent folk, oh yeah: don't speak ill of the dead.
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FROM ROBERTO
I maintain property in neighborhoods where I have worked for over 30 years. I am a former teacher so I get to see my former students. One of them, Deborah, is now a 46 year old great grandmother. Her mother, not much older than me[I'm 55], is now a great, great grandmother. These women are accustomed to putting their children six feet under or seeing them go to the penitentiary. I work on streets in Tuscaloosa where the postman has told me that most of the mail he delivers comes from the jailhouse. I don't know anything about you so I don't know about voyeuristic hallucinations. You may live in a nice little safe neighborhood where the worst thing that happens is a family fight or a dog bite, however, I live and work in a different world. I don't have to get on the Internet and insult people to get a nice big dose of Hell in my life. I get enough trouble doing business everyday.

To:
"robert register"
Subject:
Re: Townsend Inspires A Hendrix Epiphany, Robert Register Gets Arrested For Jogging Nude & Mo'
Date:
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:01:36 -0500

ROBERT,
JUST THOUGHT I WOULD PASS ON ANOTHER HENDRIX MEMORY. WHEN WE (THE CANDYMEN) PLAYED STEVE PAUL'S THE SCENE NITE CLUB, IN NEW YORK, IT SEEMED LIKE THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC WAS ALWAYS THERE. ONE NIGHT I REMEMBER HENDRIX AND CO. WERE HANGING OUT. WE HAD ONE GIANT JAM WITH NOEL REDDING ON LEAD GUITAR WITH JOHN RAINEY, AL KOOPER ON KEYS, ME ON DRUMS, RODNEY SINGING VOCALS, AND, GET THIS FOR A MIXED BAG, BOBBY GOLDSBORO ON BASS!!!! THERE WERE LOTS OF OTHERS THERE, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE MEMORY CELL, RODNEY(ROCKER) JUSTO FOR THE REST OF THE STORY. GOOD EVENING,
ROBERT NIX................
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AND ALISON AND 'BLOODSUGAR'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.alisonheafner.biz/

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left to right: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter at Steve Paul's THE SCENE
Jogging Justo's Memories

The Candymen because of the type of band that we were, were not a band that would have other musicians "sit in".
I guess it was because we had a formula devised, that ensured that we would sound good as a band, and, weren't concerned about individual recognition.
But.....for some reason when we went to New York to play at Steve Paul's THE SCENE (unquestionably THE place to play) the other musicians wanted to play with us, and we, for lack of a better word aquiesced.
Though I can't claim that anything remarkable happened while these other musicians "sat in" with us,I guess in hindsight I guess it was in fact,memorable.
Jimi Hendrix as I recall played Stormy Monday with us but the one that would really enjoy being with us was Noel Redding Jimi's bass player who liked that we would let him play guitar since he regarded himself as a guitar playerwho was playing bass ( which he really didn't like). I thought that was really complimentary when in an article in HIT PARADER magazine he told the interviewer that we were his favorite American band.
John Entwistle also would show up and ask if he could play with us,and of course Al Kooper who was the first person to say hello to me when we finished our first set,telling me that within three days we would be the talk of New York, loved to play whenever he had a chance.
We played I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU, the Ray Charles song.
All in all, looking back on our times at THE SCENE specifically the most remarkable thing really was that all of the well known musucian/singer/artists were kinda' like any other people that wanted to hear music.
Jimi would walk up to the stage during the middle of our set and request us to play a particular song,more than once it was THE SUN AIN'T GONNA' SHINE ANYMORE.
The only singers I remember sitting in with us were Keith of 98.6 fame who was a guy we hang around with quite a bit in NYC and, Bobby Goldsboro came by to see us once as did Brian Hyland.
I don't remember if it was Bobby,or Brian, but, we turned one of them into a solo act, because we were tired, and just left the stage to him forcing him to play by himself,bringing the comment,"have you ever felt like you've been left holding the bag ?"


STEVE PAUL'S THE SCENE 301 W. 46TH STREET AT THE CORNER OF 8TH AVENUE:
a maze of cellar walls and passageways....

"I believe that we followed THE DOORS.
Meaning that we appeared there the week after them.
We were paid $700 for ten days.I remember that it cost $10.00 a day to park our car and trailer
The Doors got $700 for a week and their record was #1 in the country at the time
Steve Paul liked us so much that he brought us back for $750 and I think that we once got $1,000 for a week.
I tried to get more money out of him one time since we were going to be in or near New York and we really wanted to play there and he told me that $1,000 was the most he would ever pay and that there were only two groups that he would pay that much for .
The Candymen and The Jeff Beck Group which incidentally had a young singer by the name of Rod Stewart."
RODNEY JUSTO

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HEY YA'LL:
Ya'll did what you were supposed to do and put us over the 2000 mark on the counter and now that mug is spinning.
Hey, if ya know any 501-c3 corporations in Tuscaloosa who need a new source of funding, tell them to contact ilovetuscaloosa@hotmail.com

In the next 36 hours, the "I LOVE TUSCALOOSA" website, bumper sticker, yard sign and T shirt will be in the possession of some Tuscaloosa charity. ARC, Community Soup Bowl, Temporary Emergency Services and Turning Point are in the mix.
Who will get the franchise?
best,
ka$h
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http://www.ilovetuscaloosa.net

Tuscaloosa T-shirts, signs are the work of BoothBy Stephanie Taylor Staff WriterApril 13, 2005
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Print this story.TUSCALOOSA Mark Booth loves Tuscaloosa. He just didn’t want you to know it until today.He’s the one behind the mysterious “I Love Tuscaloosa" Web site, T-shirts and signs that have cropped up across the city in recent weeks.Booth, who ran for mayor in 2001, said the Web site has nothing to do with the possibility he might seek that office again.“Anybody who knows me well enough, they know that I want what’s best for Tuscaloosa," he said. “If that means me as mayor, fine. If it means somebody else as mayor, fine."Booth said he has not decided whether he will run for mayor. Qualifying for that race begins July 5.So why spend in the neighborhood of $6,000 on 2,000 bumper stickers, around 400 T-shirts, billboards and signs, if it’s not a political ploy?“The reason I did it is that I think we sometimes need a reminder about what a wonderful place this is to live," he said.The T-shirts, bumper stickers and signs all direct people to the Web site, www.ilovetuscaloosa.net. The site links to almost anything Tuscaloosa-related: the city’s Web site and Web sites for the schools, Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama, Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority, Sister Cities Commission, Arts Council and The Tuscaloosa News.The site does not mention anyone’s name. Ordering from the site won’t reveal the source either -- only an unsigned letter accompanied bumper stickers ordered last week.“It’s not about me," Booth said when asked why he didn’t attach his name to the site.The purpose of the site, he said, is to promote the community to those who live here and those who don’t. He’s promoting Tuscaloosa to Tuscaloosans to encourage pride and community involvement, he said.“Sometimes, when you pique people’s attention, you get them to think about what’s going on in the community, which might cause them to become a little more active in the community," he said.Booth received 46 percent of the vote total in a runoff against Mayor Al DuPont in 2001. If he were to run again, the Web site could raise questions about whether the site was a violation of the state’s election law. The Fair Campaign Practices Act requires that any paid political advertisement for a candidate disclose who paid for it.“You have to define what is a paid political advertisement and what is a candidate," City Clerk Stan McCracken said.The law states that a person is officially a candidate for office once they qualify, have raised contributions or have spent at least $1,000, “with a view to bringing about his or her nomination or election to any state office or local office."“So the difficulty is, if somebody has made expenditures, are those expenditures political in nature or not," McCracken said. “If the signs or Web site doesn’t have anything that says 'Vote for Mark Booth,’ then it would be hard to prove that it’s a political advertisement."The two confirmed mayoral candidates, Walt Maddox and Sammy Watson, weighed in on the Web site. Maddox questioned whether the site was indeed political in nature.“I think that anyone running for a position of public service would have to love Tuscaloosa," Maddox said. “I know that I am very passionate about our community and the possibilities that exist for residential and economic growth over the next few years. I am not sure that it has to be considered a political statement."When asked his opinion of 'I Love Tuscaloosa,’ Watson plugged his own Web site.“I don’t have any comments about anyone else’s Web site, but I will be happy to answer any questions pertaining to mine at sammywatson.com," he said. “It does have the required disclaimer on it and meets all the requirements of the law."Reach Stephanie Taylor at stephanie.taylor@tuscaloosanews.com or 722-0210.

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HEY YA'LL:
Man, I really need a favor from ya.
You know I don't ask for that too often so please consider helping the po' boy out.

Some of my friends have started a website http://www.ilovetuscaloosa.net
This is how they describe their site:

iloveTuscaloosa.net
I Love Tuscaloosa is an unofficial website for Tuscaloosa Alabama. We want to bring everything Tuscaloosa to one site. Our City is one of the best places in America to work, raise a family, attend school and enjoy the great outdoors. We are proud of Tuscaloosa and wanted to bring Tuscaloosa to to the Internet. We hope that you find our site useful.

They are on the verge of getting a BLAST of publicity and they need some numbers on their counter. The counter is accurate so every "log on" is counted.
Help my buddies and help yourself by linking up with T-town, THE TOWN WE LOVE! @
http://www.ilovetuscaloosa.net

BEST,
KA$H http://robertoreg.blogspot.com