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I'm a 62 year old punk rocker but, I have developed an appreciation for jazz.... it took a very long time but, persistence paid off! Wes Montgomery and Charlie Green are my favorite jazz guitarists but, I've been getting into the beatnik genre lately.
This YouTube vid is Ellie Girl & Seven Beats Sulks performing at Cafe Bizarre in the late 1950's. Cafe Bizarre was a tourist trap in Greenwich Village and the musicians played a kind of punk/jazz hence, my attraction.
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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