On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 8:12:06 PM UTC-5, Piper wrote:   
   > sgcim@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > > In Steve Katz' new autobiography, "Blood Sweat, and My Years in Rock   
   Music", he mentions that the Blues Project hired a black, chick singer,   
   Emmaretta Marx, for a tour after their lead singer split the band.   
   > >   
   > > EM brought along her own 'roadie', a cute girl named Gail, on the tour.   
   > > Gail turned out to be so cute, that all the guys in the band fell in love   
   with her, without telling each other, or Gail herself.   
   > >   
   > > This wound up causing problems with the band, and Gail, who soon   
   afterwards married FZ.   
   > >   
   > > The Katz book makes a good companion piece to Al Kooper's autobio,   
   "Backstage passes&  Backstabbing Bastards"(2008 edition), if you are   
   interested in the crazy shit that was going on in The Blues Project and BS&T.   
   > >   
   > > Katz leaves no opportunity behind to tell us what a POS he thought AK was,   
   and what an even bigger, even gargantuan POS David Clayton Thomas was.   
   > >   
   > > AK is actually pretty light on SK (except his guitar playing), but really   
   reams Bobby Colomby to no end.   
   > > He also reams a bunch of other people in the music biz, and we're talkin'   
   non-stop reamfest here- fun reading!   
   >    
   >    
   > I have Kooper's book. On what page does he disrespect Colomby?   
      
   Pages 112(when he talked about doing "The Modern Adventures of Plato Diogenes   
   and Freud without the band), and pages 120-123, when Colomby leads the band   
   mutiny that made Kooper quit (Colomby and Katz thought Kooper was a shitty   
   singer, and wanted him to    
   just play the organ and write songs in the band).   
      
   In the new edition, Kooper says he was shot down by Lee Harvey Colomby!   
   He then goes on to call Colomby a liar for a bunch of reasons on p.123.   
      
   One thing Kooper said that annoyed me was that the genius re-working of the    
   Billie Holiday tune, "God Bless the Child" by arranger/keyboardist/trombone   
   player Dick Halligan, was a Las Vegas desecration of the tune!   
      
      
      
   The only good songs,IMHO, on BS&T 2, were the ones that Halligan arranged.   
      
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