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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:46 |
"VIPER MAD"
HOMAGE TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG & MEZZ MEZZROW
ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR INDUCTION INTO THE CANNABIS HALL OF FAME
PART I: "Sendin' The Vipers" PART II: "Really The Blues" PART III: "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" PART IV: "There'll Be Some Changes Made" PART V: "Everybody Loves My Baby" PART VI: "If You'se A Viper" PART VII: "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" PART VIII: "Tin Roof Blues" PART IX: "When The Saints Go Marching In" PART X: "It's All Good"
"VIPER MAD" Suite Text composed & arranged by John Sinclair & performed by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars Featuring James Andrews & Chris Kohl Musical Director: Bill Lynn
WORLD PREMIERE: Cannabis Cup, Amsterdam November 25, 1998
Transcribed & edited by John Sinclair New Orleans November 11-18. 1998
Louis Armstrong quotes & quotes by Sammy Price, Lawrence Brown, Duke Ellington, Rex Stewart, Jack Teagarden & Bill Coleman are from LOUIS: The Louis Armstrong Story by Max Jones & John Chilton (Boston: Little, Brown and Company,1976; Original edition: London: November Books Limited, 1971)
Mezz Mezzrow quotes from Really The Blues by Milton Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe (New York: Random House, 1946) as cited in David Ebin, Editor, The Drug Experience: First-person Accounts of Addicts, Writers, Scientists,and others (New York: The Orion Press, 1961; Paperback: Grove Press Black Cat Edition, 1965)
All other text composed by & "Viper Mad" Suite transcribed & edited by John Sinclair New Orleans, November 10-17, 1998 Edited & revised December 18, 1998
Special thanks to my wife Penny & my daughter Celia, Bill Lynn, Mike Voelker, Chris Kohl & Ron Esposito, James Andrews, Steve Gebhardt, Steven Hager & High Times magazine, & Barry Smith & Jerry Brock at the Lousiana Music Factory
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