Private Property - No Trespassing!!

2011-06-01T23:54:00.000-07:00

ONE OF MY KIND!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpv8-5XWOI

Music may be our salvation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcLuVhRbkU

Marvin & Tammi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZNbfKibFLE&feature=related

Two Can Let That Light Shine Through!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciFqFkpv3Fg

Little girl, Baby Doll, you are the epitome of THE FEMALE RACE!

All three are there.

#1) You are Aphrodite, Goddess of Love. The Absolute Perfection of Beauty

#2) You are Persephone, The Huntress...someone who has seen Heaven & Hell

#3) You are Hecate, the Hag, the witch & the poisoner of the pot

Like I said, "You are the EPITOME of the female race."

You & I come from different backgrounds. I may be wrong but I feel that your Mother's family's values dominated your life. My Daddy's family's values dominated mine.

Anywayzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Sure nice to say I got next to you

best,
r

2011-06-01T01:03:00.000-07:00

S~
That wuzzzzzzzzzzzzz kinda mean, wuddn't it?!
Anywayzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
I'm gonna write you a love letter whether YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, Shawn Burke!!!!

As mean & hateful & ornery & mean as you really are,
YOU'RE SWEET!

Hearing your voice tonight was a real tonic for MY SOUL.
Hope I'm not making a mistake with this but
this song by Adele has a lot of hate in it because it's a big FUCK YOU SONG but that's not what attracted me to the song.
It was the FIRST line "We almost had it all."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw

best,
r

2011-05-27T16:34:00.000-07:00

Carport

Threshold of the kitchen door

Living room

Kitchen

Hallway

Unable to open bathroom door all the way

Bedroom

Office

Bedroom

Pillow, mattress, sleeping bag

Floor of porch @ back entrance to home

Cooking space on back porch

Kitchen

Roaches

Kitchen

Kitchen

Utility Room

Stove & Fridge looking toward hallway

Kitchen

Kitchen sink, counter top & stove

Back yard

2011-01-18T18:50:00.001-08:00

THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KEWL!
Oxford American's website features ME on their BEST OF BAMA'S RECORDED HISTORY
page. I'm the last one & they heated up TANTON's name in my interview so you can click on it & go to his SOUND CLICK page & listen to 40 of his songs FOR FREE! http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2011/jan/12/record/

2010-11-25T17:41:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles Times sports writer Chris Dufresne in his article, IF AUBURN LOSES, EVERYBODY WINS, invokes the spirit of Coach Bryant & calls upon THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT OF THE CRIMSON TIDE to whip Auburn & prevent a national nightmare in the world of college football.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1125-dufresne-20101125,0,3750270.column?page=1

2010-11-25T10:01:00.000-08:00

It ain't never gonna be fair that y'all have ignored us, however...

Tough questions,Kev, but here goes:

A) The Five Best Songs Ever Written or Performed by an Alabama artist
ARE!

1) LOVESICK BLUES written & performed by Hank Williams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xu71i89xvs

2) DANCIN' IN THE STREETS performed by MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

3) GEORGIA PINES written by Buddy Buie & John Rainey Adkins; performed by Wilbur Walton, Jr., & THE JAMES GANG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YpVtW4cKvo&feature=related

4) RED HOT CHICKEN written by Jimmy Hall, Lewis Ross, John Anthony, Jack Hall, Ricky Hirsch, Wick Larsen & performed by WET WILLIE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKRIo4s73PE

5) 634-5789 written by Eddie Floyd (AL native) & Steve Cropper & performed by Eddie Floyd & Wilson Pickett (AL native) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEHV2HvKiGc&feature=related

B) Who, in your opinion, is the most talented musician/singer to come out of Alabama?
Hank Williams
runner up: Jimmy Hall

C) What do you think is the best album of all time by an Alabama artist?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rock_and_Roll_Alternative

D)
What is the best unheard of Alabama artist or album?
TANTON http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

E) What is your favorite historical moment or episode in Alabama musical history?

When an Alabama cat named W.C. Handy witnessed another cat playing slide @ the depot in Tutwiler.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/bottleneck-slide-guitar-and-the-history-of-the-blues.html

F) What is your favorite personal moment?
When Buddy Buie came back to Tuscaloosa in '06!
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/2006_03_12_archive.html.

G) What is your favorite performance ever by an Alabama artist (or by a non-Alabama artist in Alabama)? Wet Willie opening for the Allmans back in the early 70's in Memorial Coliseum here in Tuscaloosa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJ-mCpoJ9c&feature=related

H) What is your favorite lyric from an Alabama band?
From "MOMENT OF TRUTH" http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187
"Who's gonna have the last say
about what you take with you
when it comes down to THAT MOMENT OF TRUTH"

2010-11-25T03:05:00.000-08:00

ALABAMA'S Nathan Glick IS an incredible artist. A B'ham native, he attended high school in Montgomery and then studied art in NYC. He was Art Director for Paragon Press which did all the yearbooks & he designed those enormous doors on the front of the Archives & History building.He's famous for his WWII illustrations of air combat & he worked for PROGRESSIVE FARMER until his retirement in '77. He's now 98 & living in B'ham. Here's his take on the burning of The University by Croxton on April 4, 1865 from the March 31, 1938 issue of Montgomery's THIS WEEK'S NEWS.
RTR!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Glick

2010-11-25T02:42:00.000-08:00

A & M~
Thought you two might appreciate this.
Lee found a bunch of copies of this entertainment newspaper (circa 1938) called THIS WEEK'S NEWS OF ALABAMA'S CAPITAL CITY. There's some Selma news in it. Mainly that a lot of Montgomery organizations like women's clubs and bowling leagues had Selma branches.
Anywayzzzzzzzzzzz...
Each issue has four of five Alabama History cartoons by Nathan Glick.
Here's Glick's view of the Yankee assault on Selma's earthworks.

http://www.archives.state.al.us/brnzdrs/about.html

2010-11-25T02:26:00.000-08:00

My boss' Dad owned a cafe in Montgomery during the thirties. He was one of the main advertisers for THIS WEEK'S NEWS. This little sheet is filled with classic gossip, jokes & philosophy but I think this parody of the Twenty-third Psalm is the best: "The politician is my shepherd. I shall not want for anything during this campaign. He leadeth me into the drug store for his vote's sake. He filleth my pocket with cheap cigars; my flask runneth over. He inquireth concerning my family, even unto the fourth generation. Yea, though I walk through the mud and rain to vote for him and shout myself hoarse when he is elected, straightway he forgetteth me. Although I meet him at his own house, he knoweth me not. Surely the wool has been pulled over my eyes all the days of my life and I shall dwell in THE HOUSE OF THE CHUMP FOREVER." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OixqPThDNE

2010-11-25T02:09:00.000-08:00

Some of you guitar pickers out there in South Alabama Facebook Land can rilly appreciate this ART'S MUSIC SHOP ad from the March 17, 1938 issue of Montgomery's THIS WEEK'S NEWS OF ALABAMA'S CAPITAL CITY, an entertainment/gossip rag put out by Wayne E. Scrivener. The movie theaters were the Paramount, Empire, Strand & Tivoli. I think the Strand had the best deal for kids on Sattiddee: SATURDAY ONLY ~ THE OLD WYOMING TRAIL with Charles Starrett. Plus "Male or Female," an Our Gang Comedy and Chapter Two of "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B707Ava4wrY

2010-11-24T16:53:00.000-08:00

MOONPIE317 does a pretty good job with this parody of SON OF A PREACHER MAN. Virtually every scandal Auburn now faces is in this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiL5UJmkfco

2010-11-24T02:16:00.000-08:00

BAMA QUEEN & ROBERTOREG @ THE TURKEY TROT, Nov. 20, 2010
http://thestrangersrock.com

M~

Like I said when you said,"This is Manera."
"WOW !"

Think about us just doing this.

I've sent you a friend request on Facebook.

You should know that ALL IN THE WORLD I want to do is to spend some time with you.

It was so wonderful to hear your voice once more.
Thanks for calling me.
I'll call you.

I LIKE YOU.
DO YOU LIKE ME?
MARK "yes".

best,
r

2010-11-24T01:40:00.000-08:00

There is NO ~ NOTHIN' ~ NADA
NATIONAL MEDIA coverage of the SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE CIVIL WAR!
Thank goodness, the local yokels are gearing up for this SUPER opportunity to let our grandchildren, nieces & nephews know that when they visit all that FEDERAL display @ Andersonville, they can remember that over 6000 of their g-g-g-great uncles and grandpas are buried up off OUT into
inside
& amongst SOME sketchy COLD ghetto Chicago mass grave that wasn't EVEN marked for 35 yrs.
READ EMBATTLED CONFEDERATES! An Illustrated History of Southerners at War!
https://sites.google.com/site/campdouglas516/

2010-11-23T01:34:00.000-08:00

M~

I'm so glad to have this melanoma thing off of me.
I'm still gonna have to go in for checkups every 6 months but that's good for a negligent s.o.b. like me.

I miss you so bad.
Wish you'd just call me once in a while when you feel like it.
I just wanna hear your voice.

Before I left town Sunday, I took some pictures I think you'd like.

best,
r

http://enewscourier.com/features/x967711270/Dothan-s-early-days-recalled-on-125th-birthday.

Saliba built it with the floor at the height of the wagon body so you could pull your wagons through the grocery & they could be loaded right into the bed of the wagon.

W. Main Side of Saliba Grocery

Zoe

Frist Instance of Slavery in the Bible

Eban a mule don't work all dah timezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Robert Register Our good friend, Buddy Buie, likes what TANTON, BURKE & THE CREW did
with his song, DREAMY ALABAMA. I'm so glad Buddy likes TANTON'S effort.
This song, the first of 35 on this site, represents the initial effort
of TANTON & company to give Buie's music a new interpretation. Buie
says this is "very cool and interesting"... but he'd "still like to hear a
version with a Joe Cocker vocal approach and a nasty blues guitar."
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

Robert Register Here's that blue moon rising over a cotton field between Brannon Stand
& Midland City yesterday evening. It was a great omen as I headed
down the road to Tuscaloosa after another wonderful weekend in my
hometown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-Vw-K4WMI

Robert Register Reminds me of Selma's State Senator Sanders getting on that robo call during the campaign & hollering about "ain't going back to the cotton fields." Hank, what you going back for? Are you gonna try to kill the fire ants? https://theattackmachine.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/so-does-hank-sanders-have-a-new-gig-this-morning/.

2010-11-23T00:39:00.000-08:00

Yeah, the Freudian slip most people make is when they ask the question, " In which song did Zappa write 'WHAT'S THE DIRTIEST PART OF YOUR BODY?' "
ZAPPA never wrote that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXCvZ0cWM-w

2010-11-22T20:47:00.000-08:00

Our good friend, Buddy Buie, likes what TANTON, BURKE & THE CREW did with his song, DREAMY ALABAMA. I'm so glad Buddy likes TANTON'S effort. This song, the first of 35 on this site, represents the initial effort of TANTON & company to give Buie's music a new interpretation. Buie says this is "very cool and interesting" but he'd "still like to hear a version with a Joe Cocker vocal approach and a nasty blues guitar."
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

2010-11-22T20:12:00.000-08:00

Here's that blue moon rising over a cotton field between Brannon Stand & Midland City yesterday evening. It was a great omen as I headed down the road to Tuscaloosa after another wonderful weekend in my hometown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-Vw-K4WMI

2010-11-22T19:53:00.000-08:00

Enterprise might have The Boll Weevil Monument but Dothan has THE MONUMENT TO THE HOG by the Godwin brothers, Larry & Ronald. I love most all the roadside art in town but this is about the oldest, circa 1967, & it's still my favorite. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11092

2010-11-22T16:44:00.001-08:00

October 10, 1995
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
HIGH SCHOOL TEAM OF THE WEEK
THE 1995 FLIPPEN BOOGERS
COACH-William D. IIBull" Horne
ASSISTANT COACH-Dwight IILefty" Wright
Trainer-Dr. C. D. Cox
STARTINGLINEUP
QB-Ivan Passmore
C-Snapper B. Goode
LT-Hugh G. Balles
LHB-Ron Amuck RHB--JacquesStrappe
RG-B.A. Blocker LG-Buster D. Legg
WR-N.E. Hand TE-Harry Palmer
FB--Jody Greinder
RT-Rocky Rhodes
K-TomAtoe
This week's pick was an easy one. Flippen, Georgia is a small rural town of about 3,000
people, south of Atlanta, between Morrow and McDonough. Whatever they lack in population, they
make up for in heart and soul on the local high school football field. The undefeated Flippen
Boogers are having another fine winning streak and as of today, are 610.Experts predict that they
will once again win the state championship. Looks like another memorable year for Coach Home
and his fine boys. The Boogers have won the state class A football championship 12 times in the
last 20 years, and they are respected all over the state. Many past members of the teams have
gone on to football success in college and the pros. Under the dynamic leadership of longtime
coach and 1962 alumni William "Bull" Home, the mighty Boogers have achieved an unequaled
athletic success record. They are a small team, and many of the players have to play both offense
and defense. They get tired, they don't complain, they just do it. Small in number, but big in heart.
Coach Home was presented with a lifetime achievement award last year at the annual sports
banquet at the Jodeco Road Waffle House. Whenasked about his secret for consistently winning
more games than any football coach in Georgia history, Coach Horne said, "Player happiness.
A happy team is a successful team, and I always make sure my boys are happy. You have to keep
their spirits up. You don't win championships with unhappy players. It's simple, if you make them
happy they will do anything for you, and if you make them unhappy, they will do nothing for you.
It's your choice as a coach." Coach Horne believes that his once a week (never when it's raining)
30 minute practice sessions, the nonstop womanizing, the lack of sleep, and a healthy diet of cold
beer, french fries, and chocolate MoonPies contributes to the team's phenomenal success. Coach
Home is a big man (6"5"' 29Slbs) and often says, "Just look at Babe Ruth. He was overweight and
often drunk while playing, but he was the greatest baseball player of all time." I reminded the
good coach that we were talking about football here, not baseball. He said, " It doesn't matter
what sport. A jock is ajock. My boys outplay many guys who are in much better shape. But, we
always beat them. It's the power of positive thinking. I'm into winning football games, not
producing role models. Weare ballplayers, not pretty boys. Slobs rule."

Coach Horne believes that other coaches, who make their players practice twice a day,
abstain from sex, get adequate rest, and eat healthy diets often do more harm than good. He says,
1'7"00 much practice takes the fun out of the game, causes too many injuries, and makes the
players tired and unhappy. I've only got 15players, and if any of them get mad at me and quit the
team, I might have to send in some of our cheerleaders as replacements." Co-Captain Mabel
McElroy (5" 2"' 205) says she's ready to go anytime she's needed. Now that's school spirit. He
added, IWhat if a kid comes here, behaves himself, avoids the girls, eats healthy food, does all
the right things, is a rising star with scholarship offers galore, and then gets his knee blown out
in the last game of his senior year. He'll never play again. There goes his scholarship, and he's
missed all that incredible teenage fun for nothing. I just can't do that to a kid. Youonly live once."
Onthe subject of player diet, the good coach says, " If you force players to eat food that doesn't
taste good, they are going to show up at practice, or the game, in a bad mood, unable to focus,
and they will not play well. Broccoli is healthy, but it tastes terrible. Thinking about broccoli puts
me in a bad mood. My boys get their protein from beer, their carbohydrates from french fries, and
their energy from the chocolate Moon Pies. It's not brain surgery, but, now that I think about it,
it might be heart surgery for them someday. I would never ask my boys to abstain from sex. It's
the greatest mood booster in the world. Have you ever tried to playa football game horny and
after eating broccoli? It just doesn't work. Talk about a bad mood. I can tell when one of my boys
shows up at practice or a game freshly laid. He plays with more enthusiasm than normal He is
wound up and running on ten. I like that." Always a powerhouse, the 1995Flippen Boogers have
been further strengthened by the recent arrival of two talented foreigners. This year's starting
quarterback with the golden arm, Ivan Passmore, is from St. Petersburg, Russia, and the fleet
footed new halfback, and leading rusher, Jacques Strappe, is from Paris, France. Ivan's family
owned a vodka fat;tory in Russia, and Jacque's family owned a winery in the south of France.
Their old world family connections ship treats to the boys, and help keep the team happy. The
team has benefitted greatly from the recent arrival of complementary alcoholic beverages, and
it's more fun than drinking Gatorade. Aided in the backfield by junior speedster Ron Amuck and
senior fullback Jody Greinder, the running oHense seems unstoppable. Sophomore tight end
Harry Palmer andjunior wide receiver N.E. Hand round out the passing attack. Both average 8or
more receptions per game. Senior kicker/punter Tom Atoe has not missed an extra point or field
goal in three seasons, and averages 51yards per punt. Pretty remarkable for a boy who had polio
in his right leg as a child. Center Snapper B. Goode and guard Buster D. Legg, both seniors, have
been working out daily at the county jail, and are expected to make bail and be ready to play
Friday night. If their families can't get them out, the coach can. Sophomore tackles Hugh G. Balles
and Rocky Rhodes both have part time jobs at McDonald's, but have arranged with their shift
supervisor to be 0"for the game. Whenquestioned about rumors that fullback Jody Greinder was
intoxicated when he ran the wrong way and scored a touchdown for the opposing team last week,
Coach Home replied, "That's called positive motivation. Wewere ahead 86 to nothing, and I let
him do that just to make the other team feel good and boost their self esteem. That coach is a
buddy of mine, and he really hates a shutout. No need for me to ruin his day." In response to
allegations that halfback Jacques Strappe was caught fondling the captain of the cheerleaders
under the bleachers at half time last week, Coach Home said, "Well, you know how them
Frenchmen are." And finally, in response to allegations by the referee, that the team members
were passing around a marijuana joint in the huddle, and not offering him any, thereby causing
a delay of game penalty, Coach Home said, "I see nothing, I see nothing." The Flippen Boogers
are heavy favorites this Friday night at home against the Pitt County Bulldogs.

2010-11-22T06:04:00.000-08:00

No matter how cute this video might me, I hate it. I don't hate it because it might be considered sacrilegious (faux-baby Jesus selling diapers). I hate it because it's sponsored by Pampers. Pampers are a nightmare for me because some tenants like to wrap them up, drop them on the floor and let them sit. Other tenants are more enterprising. They save money by not buying ANY diapers at all and just let the rug rats run wild. The results are unimaginable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndcCVfp0AMU

2010-11-21T20:37:00.000-08:00

My brother-in-law, Buddy Henry, is now regularly seeing eagles around his pond beside Cowarts Creek. That's less than a mile from the Dothan City Limits. He's guessing that they are coming over from Lake Seminole or the river to feed on the mice & other varmints in the peanut fields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnlTrq6wLf0&feature=related

2010-11-21T20:24:00.000-08:00

Had a wonderful time in Dothan last night @ THE TURKEY TROT with THE STRANGERS & guest, Wilbur Walton, Jr. Got a little tired on the way home today so I practiced recognizing Alabama car tags by the county's number. I'm pretty good but I've got friends who are waaaay better. My trick is I remember that 10 is Butler, 20 is Colbert, 30 is Escambia, 40 is Lamar, 50 is Marshall and 60 is Sumter. I use those as mental markers and then plug the others into that grid. It also helps to remember 15 is Choctaw, 25 is Cullman, 35 is Greene, 45 is Lowndes & 55 is Pike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPTYimAE7E

2010-11-19T20:26:00.000-08:00

It's gonna take a miracle to get me on the road before noon but the wheels of progress are turning once again. I got permission from Buddy to stay @ The Farm so I'll be able to appreciate once again the wonders of Cowarts which includes my sister Becky's outstanding collection of white enamel ware. She's got so much of that stuff you start thinking you're inside the operating room @ THE MOBILE INFIRMARY @ the turn of the 19th century. See all you Rec Center GEEZERS @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER Sattiddee night. WILBUR @ THE STRANGERS will kick it off @ 7:30. $5 cover (CHEAP!). Do yourself a favor, take a walk on the wild side & rock out with us, THE YOUNG JR. BABY CRIMINALZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! http://robertoreg.blogspot.com

2010-11-18T22:24:00.000-08:00

Buie~
Have you heard this version of your song,
Dreamy Alabama ?

best,
r
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

2010-11-18T01:22:00.000-08:00

The next show the Rolling Stones did was Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater on May 6, 1965 during their 22-show 1ST AMERICAN TOUR.
Pretty sho' Paul Cochran booked that gig.
That night, Keith Richards found the guitar riff for (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in his sleep, when he briefly woke up in his room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, recorded the riff and the phrase "I can't get no satisfaction", and went back to sleep.
http://paulcochran.com

2010-11-18T01:09:00.001-08:00

I need to ask Rodney Mills about that gig. I'm sure he was with THE BUSHMEN who opened.
http://thebushmen.net/stories.html.

2010-11-18T00:54:00.000-08:00

Randall Bramblett says HIS ROCK MOMENT IN TIME was May 4, 1965 when he went to see the Stones @ Georgia Southern at a concert sponsored by Sigma Epsilon Chi (SEX).
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33834&pg=2

2010-11-18T00:14:00.000-08:00

Remember that scene in the Graduate where the guy tells Dustin Hoffman,"PLASTICS!" Well,two other important words are "free margins" as in "all margins are free of malignant melanoma." After the weight had been lifted off my shoulders, I thought of the tune MOMENT OF TRUTH, Cut 34 on this TANTON link http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

2010-11-17T02:07:00.000-08:00

Can you imagine what his ANIMAL HUSBANDRY INSTRUCTOR @ Auburn thinks right now! WAUH EAGLE!
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/about/history.php

2010-11-17T01:27:00.000-08:00

Listen to Tanton's Congo Square (cut 18 on this link) & JUST BEFORE DAYLIGHT (CUT 31)
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

2010-11-17T00:30:00.000-08:00

Wonder whether THE WORTHY MATRON ever consecrated some ST. JOHN THE CONQUEROR root over on Hickory Skreet in Kaulton.
http://www.doktorsnake.com/2010/02/19/hoodoo-doctors/

2010-11-16T22:42:00.000-08:00

I'm already packing for the trip DOWN HOME this weekend for THE TURKEY TROT @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER. Kick off the HOLIDAYS right with some true legends of Dothan music. The Rec Center crowd will be there & they'll all be dancing whether they're on the floor or sitting in their comfortable chairs @ this non-smoking venue. Catered by the BBQ Shack. Enjoy some delicious sandwiches & Brunswick Stew! Band starts @ 7:30. SEE YA THERE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qmcQsXpuKQ

2010-11-16T01:09:00.000-08:00

I got this picture of the snake, however, it escaped during the photo shoot so, myself, at the pitiful age of just 36 could have EASILY had a heart attack because I had to catch the pissed off 62 inch SON OF A BITCH Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake & KILL IT OR I WAS IN DEEP YOU-KNOW -WHAT!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct4sVVqeoUE

2010-11-16T00:49:00.000-08:00

This shot is from the summer of '86. Pretty sure it was Buddy, Bobby Poole, Wild Man & me on a day trip down to Cape San Blas. This HUGE diamondback crossed the road & I begged everybody to let me catch it. I pulled it's tail to get it to coil & then I worked on it's head a little with the sharp edge of a tire tool but it woke up on the way to Dothan so we had to hear that rattling in the trunk all the way to town. When we got to the Farm, Buddy told me, "Kill it!" I pleaded my case that I wanted to take a picture of it in the morning. Buddy told me he wanted to see that snake's hide when he came to The Farm in the morning & if he didn't see it, he'd have my hide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

2010-11-14T23:16:00.000-08:00

This image from the 1902 Corolla clearly shows you the original Locks 1, 2 & 3 on the Black Warrior @ Tuscaloosa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVXeIdKyHcA

2010-11-14T20:29:00.000-08:00

Margo, do ya know anything about somebody named LITTLE RUBE WYKER. He was a freshman @ Bama in '02. I found all this in THE REALM OF THE FRESHMAN ~ CLASS OF '05
MOTTO: O, I Want to go Home.
YELL: MA! MA!

2010-11-14T18:23:00.000-08:00

I found an article about FSU's Coach Mickey Andrews quoting BILLY KNOWLES who played with Andrews @ Ozark's Carroll High. They both made All State in '59. Andrews was first team and Knowles was Honorable Mention. THE OZARK BILLY KNOWLES played ball @ Georgia. Could he be our DHS Coach Knowles? http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-01-02/news/9901010241_1_ronnie-andrews-mickey-andrews-diane-andrews/2

2010-11-14T04:14:00.001-08:00

Ann,
While I was in the doctor's office, I read a magazine article about beautiful beaches & they mentioned three in Hawaii: Lanikai in Oahu http://www.hawaiiweb.com/oahu/beaches/lanikai_beaches.htm.
Hulopoe in Lanai http://www.bestplaceshawaii.com/tips/10_best/beaches.html
& Kaanapali on Maui http://www.hawaiivtmaps.com/VTpreview/blackrockvtp.html

2010-11-14T03:53:00.000-08:00

Here's another PANAMA CITY ad from Lee's copy of Staunton Military Academy's 1920 yearbook, THE BLUE & GOLD.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6e9kQRhW70&feature=related

2010-11-14T03:14:00.000-08:00

You don't slow my boss, Lee Pake, down. Not only did he get a 1902 Corolla in the mail today, he hit all the garage sales & antique shops between Panama City Beach & Dothan where he acquired a 1920 copy of THE BLUE & GOLD, the yearbook of the Staunton Military Academy in Staunton, Va. Here's a pre-Hathaway bridge ad for Panama City which came out of it that I feel is significant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzk-aVUjw0

2010-11-14T01:57:00.000-08:00

VICTORY RIDE FOR COACH SIRMON AFTER DOTHAN WHIPS ENTERPRISE 33-13 in '65!
Left to right: Coach McCall, George Saad (?) Coach Sirmon, Joe Barber, Coach Knowles, RAY HUTTO (73) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBVOYkhNb1o&feature=related

2010-11-14T01:22:00.000-08:00

Went to the Pub for Closing Time this morning & a big group of football fans were raising hell out on the patio & right when I walked up, one of 'em yelled, "OUR-GASM, what in the hell is an OUR-GASM?"
"I don't know either but can I watch?", I remarked as I walked in the door of the Pub. I tell ya what folkzizissssssss, if we beat Auburn, we all gonna HAVE an OUR-GASM rite cheer in OLD TUSKEELOOSEE THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ak06IseGgg
Check out DOTHAN TIGERS Benny Doster (61) & RAY HUTTO (73) beaming down on The Enterprise WILDCAT'S Weigand (23).

2010-11-13T13:57:00.000-08:00

Football is an emotional game & this Kenny Chesney video tugs at my emotions. I still have vivid memories of working three yrs. for N.K. @ Young Jr. I heard that one time a reporter asked N.K. why he spent his entire career coaching ball at a jr. high. N.K. answered, "We play real football at Young Jr." THE BABY TIGERS played ball FOR CERTAIN! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXDo5WhQXI

2010-11-12T18:55:00.000-08:00

Old Sid Vicious got out his misery in Feb. of '79. On the night he made bail, his Mama bought him some pure heroin and he ODed. I had fun playing Sid for one night in '78 but I have never understood why somebody young & in perfect health can find so many excuses to be miserable. Life & God have ALWAYS been so good to me that I just never saw a reason to throw it all away. When I go, I'll go kicking and screaming!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQ

2010-11-12T18:34:00.000-08:00

Notice the torn V-neck Fruit of the Loom t-shirt. Those were way hip in '78 because Springsteen had worn one on the cover of DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN. Not only that, I'd worked with Fruit of the Loom that summer during the introduction of UNDERROOS. They ended up insulting me so I let 'em know I could cloud up and rain all over them right quick so I left Bowling Green, KY. and headed for San Francisco where I got a job but quit it on the first day because of the nightmares I had about California the night before. I came back to Alabama where I belonged plus I knew my Mama needed me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdEHlhZ6AE&feature=related

2010-11-12T18:16:00.000-08:00

1978 was one hell of year for me. I was 28 yrs. old & I bet I had ten different jobs that year. In October I was back in Tuscaloosa working night shift as an orderly on the Disruptive Behavior Unit at Partlow and teaching an education course @ The University during the day where I videotaped undergrads teaching they lessons. In October, Sid Vicious allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death and then later attempted suicide. That made him the perfect character for me to portray on HALLOWEEN '78. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oVgcpq5upw&feature=related

2010-11-11T23:04:00.000-08:00

WHAT A WONDERFUL LIFE I HAD ON DUSY STREET!
DOTHAN, ALABAMA ~ Looking forward to seeing some mo' morons live to regret putting her down without any basis AT ALL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJbFVJvRqOQ

2010-11-11T22:23:00.000-08:00

Buie gets his hit, Stormy, on TOMMY ROE'S Biggest Album, DIZZY, & his name ends up "B. Boni".
Wonder if he raised hell BACK THEN with abc records like he did with SONY when John Legend (a.k.a. Kanye West) stole STORMY. HeHeHe! http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/2006_11_05_archive.html

2010-11-11T21:00:00.000-08:00

Here's the two checks that paid for my delivery @ THE MOODY HOSPITAL.
$75 CA$H MONEY fo' Dr. Mazyck's assistance in getting my light-skinned ass back home to Dothan on the afternoon of April 29, 1950. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-n3Ydy7ras&feature=related

2010-11-11T20:04:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty sure this is an image of Goldsboro & Danny but it's on an album from '77 so this picture was probably over 5 yrs. old by then. Somebody shoot this to Danny or Mary Alice or any of 'em & get me some inside stuff on this photo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_gnIhVnzc&feature=related

2010-11-11T19:37:00.000-08:00

Pretty sho' this is ROBERTOREG @ Easter '52 on Dusy Street before walking down to LaFayette St. Methodist Church. The people who live there now seem to be real nice & they got all kinds of stuff growing around there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0

2010-11-11T16:21:00.000-08:00

Dug this out of the archives tonight. Must be the winter of '76-'77. I was 26 & Mountain Brook's Laurie Bensberg was 21 or 22. We were out in the woods at the springs on Big Sandy Creek between Coaling & Duncanville. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiFrFig35o&feature=related

2010-11-11T01:33:00.000-08:00

Daddy's Bomb Squad's patch was BUGS BUNNY riding a bomb firing two six shooters; a real ATMOSPHERIC JESSE JAMES! Earl's Bomb Squad, the 446th , was a part of THE 57TH BOMBARDMENT WING which included Joseph Heller's 340th BOMB SQUAD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-Y93b0oqQ&feature=related

2010-11-11T00:47:00.000-08:00

Watched WWII in HD on THE History Channel with my son, Yea Man & his girlfriend. Because that TV show is in color, they can better appreciate what my Daddy, Earl Register, helped to achieve. My Daddy was in the same BOMBARDMENT WING with Joseph Heller so when read Catch 22 you get a peek @ what Earl went through. We've gotta web page for Earl connected to a link to his unit's website. http://www.footnote.com/page/87933956_william_e_register/
This series of 1934 German stamps from THE PAKE COLLECTION lets you know what they were fightin' for.

2010-11-09T17:04:00.000-08:00

"We are learning, as has every generation passing before us, that memories gain value when those who make them leave us."
COURTNEY HAYDEN
Received an email from Igor this evening that our old friend & Facebook friend Roger Hagerty aka DICK FOOTE of Raudelunas had a heart attack and died at his house after playing tennis last night. I have many wonderful memories of Roger from his days in Tuscaloosa. This is an image taken by John Earl of THE HAIGHT HUT which was the first head shop in Tuscaloosa. Behind it you can see 1414 Univ. Blvd. Roger lived upstairs in the middle apartment. http://www.craignutt.com/raudelunas/deals/rmvb.html.

2010-11-06T11:49:00.000-07:00

This Bob Weston poster bought my groceries and paid my motel bills for three years back in 80s. All the way from Bar Harbor to Gainesville then back up to Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Urbana, Madison & St. Paul, I lived the life of a peddler making sure that lovely women had a fresh supply of handmade sweaters, earbobs, handbags & belts. (TRADE SECRET~ Womensizzzz can't get enough of those four items 'cause they uses 'em to change their outfits) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWkz_2albs

2010-11-05T00:57:00.000-07:00

WORLD FAMOUS "NORTHERN SOUL" R&B RECORDING ARTIST WILBUR WALTON,JR.,& THE STRANGERS LIVE IN DOTHAN, SEPT. 10, 2010, WITH SPECIAL GUEST, BUDDY BUIE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qmcQsXpuKQ

2010-11-04T22:53:00.000-07:00

Circle Saturday, Nov. 20,on your calender and GET READY TO ROCK with THE STRANGERS & special guest recording artist, WILBUR WALTON,JR., @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER located out toward Napier Field on Oxmoor.Good directions may be found on the LINKS section of THE STRANGERS website http://thestrangersrock.com This is a beautiful NON-SMOKING VENUE with a CA$H BAR & burgers, BBQ & Brunswick Stew provided by THE BBQ SHACK.Doors open @ 6 & the band starts up @ 7:30 SHARP! No Bama or Auburn game that Saturday so DUST OFF YOUR DANCING SHOES & join THE REC CENTER CROWD as we kick off the 2010 HOLIDAY SEASON WITH A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!!!!

2010-11-04T01:51:00.000-07:00

More details will follow concerning SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20's TURKEY TROT @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER but I wanna encourage all you cats to work together & maybe THINK ABOUT sitting in @ a couple of practices with THE STRANGERS so we can KICK OFF THE HOLIDAY SEASON RIGHT & MAKE THIS A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!!!! WILBUR is @ THE TOP OF HIS GAME! You oughta hear him sing "SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD"!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NOmtESOock&NR=1

2010-11-04T01:38:00.000-07:00

Heading back to Dothan on Saturday, Nov. 20, for the TURKEY TROT with THE STRANGERS & special guest artist,WILBUR WALTON,JR.,@ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER located out toward Napier Field on Oxmoor.That week Bama's playing on Thursday,Auburn's gotta BYE WEEK so there's no excuse for not hanging out with THE REC CENTER CROWD & WILBUR SATTIDDEE NITE!!!! BAND STARTS @ 8!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qmcQsXpuKQ

2010-11-04T01:28:00.000-07:00

Man,if we can get out of town by about ten we can make it to Downtown Dothan before 3. I can give you the full tour and we'll kick in the cemetery to boot. THE TURKEY TROT don't start till 8. Bama's game that week in on Thurs. in Tuscaloosa. Have no idea what Auburn's doing.WE GOT PALM TREES IN OUR CEMETERY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qmcQsXpuKQ

2010-11-04T01:21:00.000-07:00

Pat, since you like Ms. Luta's plot, I'm gonna trespass on your WALL! Here's my favorite seat for work breaks during the Summer of '68! I'm going down home Saturday, Nov. 20 for THE TURKEY TROT.http://thestrangersrock.com Coming back the neck day! Pack your satchel! You're welcome!

2010-11-03T20:57:00.001-07:00

The following link shows examples of sculpture produced by both Ronald & Larry Godwin.
http://www.themadhouseartists.com/ART_WURKS.php

2010-11-03T20:52:00.001-07:00

Larry Godwin is the cat who constructed to big bird dog that sits on top of the art studio @ THE KENTUCK CENTER in Northport. Pretty sure he constructed this bull located between Troy & Brundidge @ the stock yards.This link shows many examples of his tremendous body of work.
http://www.larrygodwin.com/SculptureISlice/SculptureIPg.html

2010-11-03T20:45:00.000-07:00

I took this picture Sunday of THE BIG CHROME ROOSTER parked outside of Art Wurks near Brundidge. I've always admired the work of the Godwin Brothers but I really enjoyed discovering so many examples of their work on the Net tonight.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11092

2010-11-03T16:33:00.000-07:00

The impressive granite obelisk in THE DOTHAN CITY CEMETERY erected @ the grave of Luta Irene Young in 1908.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUkVXYsuW2c

2010-11-03T04:30:00.001-07:00

In my professional opinion (I cut the grass in the Dothan City Cemeteries in the Summers of '68 & '69) this is one of the most impressive statues in either cemetery. This large monument marks the grave of Mrs. Luta Young who died in 1908. I always liked to take my breaks sitting on the coping around her plot. When I worked there only the angels thumbs were gone. Now she's lost her hands.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c&feature=related

2010-11-02T02:03:00.000-07:00

I think I may have a long lost cousin finding me on FACEBOOK! Just like the movie, SOCIAL NETWORK http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/ , this stuff is KOZZZZZZZZZZZZZZMICK! Looking at this family portrait, I now understand where the hair on my ears comes from! I don't think this side of my family is gonna rejoice in the poll results today!

2010-11-02T01:14:00.000-07:00

Cottonwood's BOBBY POOLE is the reason why I got my job with Lee Pake. My family had complimentary room & board @ THE ADMIRAL SEMMES on Government St. in Mobile @ the end of that week of April 9, 1999 but I was supposed to come back to Tuscaloosa & work @ Tuscaloosa Chevrolet on Sattiddee. I missed work to go to Bobby Poole's funeral so they fired me. All of my possessions in my office fit in an oil can box. I immediately went up River Hill & went to work for Lee. http://atlasofalabama.blogspot.com/2005/11/another-county-older-than-state-of.html

2010-11-02T00:49:00.000-07:00

Dennis Yost's version of Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb & John Rainey Adkins' 24 HOURS OF LONELINESS is in stark contrast to WILBUR'S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7bc6REXWCg&feature=related

2010-11-01T17:24:00.000-07:00

THE STRANGERS let me have their big HALLOWEEN ROCK-A-RAMA poster from THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER. I left it @ my sister, Becky, & her husband, Buddy's, farm house near Cowarts.
WILBUR doesn't have a clue how famous he is in England,New Zealand & Australia! "24 HOURS OF LONELINESS" was written by Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb & John Rainey Adkins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZVB5307q-0

2010-11-01T17:00:00.000-07:00

THE STRANGERS http://thestrangersrock.com without their lead singer, Danny Kennedy.
L. to R. : Larry Coe, Sid White, Carl Adams (older brother of DHS Sr. '68 Jo Ann Adams) & Jimmy Dean.

2010-10-31T18:52:00.000-07:00

THE HALLOWEEN HOP WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!!!! Great food, great fellowship, great music & terrific dancing for THE WIREGRASS SIXTY SOMETHING CROWD. Go ahead & circle Saturday,November 20, for THE STRANGERS' http://www.thestrangersrock.com/ next gig @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER(A NON-SMOKING VENUE WITH A CA$H BAR).This next event is called THE TURKEY TROT so dust off your dancing shoes & join Wilbur Walton,Jr. & THE STRANGERS as they kick off the 2010 Holiday Season with another superb show & dance. What a vibe you get when you hang out with a band and a Dothan crowd that's been together for over 50 years. The last time I saw some of these folks was @ THE REC CENTER back in the day! MUCHAS TO WILBUR & THE STRANGE GANG. Your magic created a night to remember for a lifetime.

2010-10-29T18:26:00.000-07:00

Gonna have Halloween a day early this year. Heading down 82 this morning & gonna do my best to be clean & sober until the band starts up @ 8. If you're down in the Wiregrass, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR & come out to the Dothan Conference Center out toward Napier Field Saturday night. Catered BBQ, cash bar, our old buddy Wilbur Walton, Jr., on stage with THE STRANGERS for THE HALLOWEEN HOP. Go to THE STRANGERS website & click on LINKS for excellent directions on how to get to THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER. http://www.thestrangersrock.com/

2010-10-29T18:02:00.000-07:00

I've agreed to write an article for a local magazine about all the buildings in Tuscaloosa that have served as slave quarters. Writing about the buildings in not a problem, however, any description of the lives of slaves is a political mine field & all the mines got buried by both left and right wing propaganda machines. Whew!!!! Anywayzzzz. I need all the help I can get so I'm soliciting my Facebook friends advice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLcELU1brA

http://cwmemory.com/2009/10/30/jim-limber-kidnapped-and-brought-to-beauvoir/

2010-10-29T00:47:00.000-07:00

Thought you might like this.
It came from my Daddy's '39 Gargoyle,Dothan High's yearbook.
If you can find the time today, I'd really appreciate it if you'd forward the following part of this email to all your Wiregrass friends or you can forward the whole thing.
I just gotta get the word out!

Well the big news is THIS WEEKEND.
The STRANGERS are gonna have their HALLOWEEN HOP @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER SATURDAY NIGHT.
Doors open @ 6 with a cash bar. Band starts at 8.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL!!!!
TELL EVERYBODY TO COME!
$5 COVER (CHEAP THRILLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ)

Please plan on going or, at least, get your friends going to THE STRANGERS HALLOWEEN HOP @ The Dothan Conference Center located out toward Napier Field.

Robert Register If you live near Dothan, go ahead & circle Saturday, October 30 on
your calender because that's the date of THE HALLOWEEN HOP @ THE DOTHAN
CONFERENCE CENTER featuring Dothan's own THE STRANGERS with special
guest WILBUR WALTON, JR. Go toTHE STRANGERS' website, www.thestrangersrock.com
click on LINKS & you'll get good directions to the Dothan
Conference Center and other details. We had the multi-class DHS Reunion
there two yrs. ago and it is an excellent venue. The doors will open at
6 with cash bar and food catered by The BBQ Shack & the band
starts playing at 8.

NO EXCUSES!

BRING YOUR FRIENDS & enjoy
another joyful night with Wilbur back on the stage. If this event is
successful, we'll do it again around Thanksgiving & NEW YEAR'S EVE.
I'll see ya there Saturday night!

2010-10-28T02:00:00.000-07:00

Aw, HELL YEAH, we can blame a bunch of that stuff on yo' boy from ChiCARgo!
I saw with my own eyes HOMELAND SECURITY IN THEM BLACK UNIFORMS WID BULLETPROOF VESTSTIZIZZZZZZZZZZ, HELLLACHOUS GUNS & A SAFE BOAT board EVERY commercial fishing vessel in St. Andrews Harbor,MONDAY, May 3, 2010 & PUT 'EM OUT OF BUSINESS & none of that damn oil EVER made it to Panama City. SO THERE!
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/2010_05_09_archive.html

2010-10-28T00:11:00.000-07:00

Frank, you oughta make THE GULF GUITAR. The Gulf's already shaped like a guitar. Let the neck come out @ the Straits of Florida & THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR 2011 THE YEAR OF ALABAMA MUSIC BECAUSE ATTENDANCE SUCKS & OUR "CITY FATHERS" IN TUSKEELOOSSEEE JUST BUILT US A NEW SHED, a.k.a. amphitheater!
http://www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com

http://picsdigger.com/keyword/map%20of%20gulf%20of%20mexico/

http://www.prismflex.com/pages/bamarok.html?ref=nf

http://www.prismflex.com/pages/jamesgng.html

2010-10-27T20:35:00.000-07:00

The St. Andrew's Bay Railroad, Land & Mining Co. sold the 25ft. by 125ft. lots mail order for a dollar a piece. The company was based in Cincinnati. If you were coming from up north to see your property, you took the railroad to Pensacola and traveled by boat to the future site of Panama City.
This lot was Number 9 on Block Number 4 in Section 13, Township 3 South, Range 14 West and was sold to John Goodin of Tuskaloosa, Alabama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCnHWas3HQ

2010-10-27T19:46:00.000-07:00

What a window into the past I found tonight in my boss' papers! Here's a 1887 deed to a city lot in Panama City which was purchased by a man in "Tuskaloosa" for $1. Maybe we'll get back to those prices in Obama's second term.http://www.baylifemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=174&Itemid=91

2010-10-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

If you live near Dothan, go ahead & circle Saturday, October 30 on your calender because that's the date of THE HALLOWEEN HOP @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER featuring Dothan's own THE STRANGERS with special guest WILBUR WALTON, JR. Go to
THE STRANGERS' website, www.thestrangersrock.com click on LINKS & you'll get good directions to the Dothan Conference Center and other details. We had the multi-class DHS Reunion there two yrs. ago and it is an excellent venue. The doors will open at 6 with cash bar and food catered by The BBQ Shack & the band starts playing at 8.
NO EXCUSES! BRING YOUR FRIENDS & enjoy another joyful night with Wilbur back on the stage. If this event is successful, we'll do it again around Thanksgiving & NEW YEAR'S EVE. I'll see ya there Saturday night!

2010-10-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

YOU MISSED IT if you missed THE DAYZZZZZZZZZ OF RAGE roundtable yestiddee. The wildest thing that happened was when I was reading Bill Moody's opinion on how Rubin ended up in Foster from the Monday, May 4, 1970 edition of THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS. I felt somebody looking over my shoulder, turned around & IT WAS MEISSNER! Not only did he take Rubin's picture, he wrote the damn article! First thing I told him was,"I loved your Mother!" "She loved you!," he replied! http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20101023/NEWS/101029867/1007?Title=Ex-UA-students-recall-anti-war-protest

2010-10-22T20:17:00.000-07:00

Y'all did great. So good to see you , Birdie, Meissner, John Earl , Igor & everybody else.
The coolest thing to me was finding out that Meissner's famous photograph is a picture of Browning getting slugged by a billy club. The officer is holding the billy in his hand as he grabs Browning by the collar.

2010-10-22T19:56:00.000-07:00

Ya know occasionally us WIREGRASS EXPATRIOTS will hear a disparaging word concerning our homeland. I would encourage each of you who wish to be WIREGRASS AMBASSADORS to encourage these illyfoamed-flictified critics to listen to the following link.Please encourage these IMBECILES to enjoy the 35 superb songs on the following link which easily serve as a soundtrack for any project you are trying to accomplish on the Web. They'll never be OUR PEOPLE but maybe they'll learn we know good music. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187

2010-10-20T01:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Frank & Richard~
Believe me you two are the only ones getting this email.
(Isn't is sad that adult entertainment in this country has always been such a gyp.)

I'm gonna be down home Saturday, Oct. 30, for the STRANGERS gig @ THE DOTHAN CONFERENCE CENTER.

ANYWAYZZZ... Wezzze needzzzz to get together & write a song called FRIENDZZZZ WITH BENEFITZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

Now, I already googled that shit & there two songs with lyrics like:
"Call me yo' friend with benefits"

Nudder one go:
"We could be best friends with benefits."

Now that's more like what I'm shooting fo'
Something like
the song TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
but the lyriczzzzzzzzzz
BEST FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS!
or
GOOD FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS!
or
FACEBOOK FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS!

AnyHOWZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

We got a song...

best,
r
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJprEyXMrIk&feature=related

2010-10-19T22:24:00.000-07:00

My son, Christopher, came by tonight so he could write a paper for his diesel class on the computer. I was grilling a big steak and a chicken so he got to chow. Anywayzzzzzzzzzz.... while I was cooking the chicken I started thinking about how much I loved the pulley bone & I decided I'm gonna come up with a way to get me a mess of pulley bones and have a pulley bone feast. Have fried pulley bone, barbeque pulley bone, pulley bone casserole, pulley bone gumbo... you get the picture & after the meal we all get to make a wish & pull the pulley bone! (the short end always won in my family. I was shocked like somebody told me the Easter Bunny didn't exist when I found out some families let the big bone win) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g905u5yx1XE

2010-10-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

Hey Mittuh Dumpstaphunk, Talkin' 'bout livin' in A WORLD GONE MAD... Check out the deputy's notation on the stupid ass judge's STAY OF A WRIT OF POSSESSION the SAME stupid ass district judge ordered less than 24 hours after the same *sshole DEMOCRAT district judge issued the damn thing. I got the stay of execution over the phone so I had to go back to this nest of KAULTON thugs & give them their new keys & install their new locks while listening to "hey, mo' fo', put my locks back on my doughZZZZ!" Go ahead & throw your 5th Amendment in THE GARBAGE CAN! WE LIVIN' IN A WORLD GONE MAD!

2010-10-15T01:28:00.000-07:00

THIS IS SO DAMN SAD. Colonel Reb is DEAD! Now we gotta go out & play the REBEL BLACK BEARS for the first time tomorrow. I ain't worried because I hear that Ole Miss (an obvious reference to COLONEL REB'S MEAN OLD HATEFUL ORNERY WIFE WHO WHIPPED HER SLAVES BLOODY WHEN COLONEL REB WAS DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS GAMBLING AWAY HER COTTON MONEY) got a quarterback who's HOOKED ON QUACK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVhIbiIBC0

2010-10-15T00:51:00.000-07:00

Jann S. Wenner's ROLLING STONE LEFT WING KOOK ATTACK DOG, Matt Taibbi, writes in his current article entitled TEA & CRACKERS that the Tea Party is "full of sh*t."
He opens his article with a story about how he encountered a property appraiser after a Palin speech & he writes that he said to the PROPERTY APPRAISER ,"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor." NOTE TO MATT: The poor man didn't say he was a "tax assessor". HE SAID HE WAS A "PROPERTY APPRAISER", YOU PARTLOW MORON & I'm sure you've been picking up checks "lately" for claiming to be a "journalist." Hate to get personal, Matt, but have you had a laxative lately? You gettin' a little brown in the eyeballs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zydAs5bRW1U

2010-10-15T00:18:00.000-07:00

All you Tuscaloosa cats need to look at today's schedule and try to find some time this afternoon around 5:30. That's when Grayson Capps & Shannon McNally will be performing @ Mort Jordan & Mary Nelson's OZ MUSIC in Parkview Center behind Hardin's Bakery.
Pretty sure Mortimer Jordan High School is named after Mort's Grandpa &
the '53 Corolla was dedicated to his Daddy.
http://www.myspace.com/shannonmcnally

2010-10-14T01:15:00.000-07:00

Randy Lewis died on stage @ The Hog's Breathe
http://www.java-monkey.com/remember-mose.htm

2010-10-14T00:43:00.000-07:00

Don't even think it!
This image has absolutely NOTHING to do with ANYTHING CONNECTED TO ME!
Tammi from Munford is simply displaying the guitar pick ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION'S DAVID ANDERSON tossed her during the show in Talladega @ The Ritz Theater last Saturday night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYGxvyMvD4M

2010-10-13T22:45:00.001-07:00

Getting familiar with all the great New Orleans music I'm gonna hear Friday night in the BAMA THEATER @ THE SOUTHBOUND SHOWDOWN HOMECOMING PARTY featuring Ivan Neville's Dumpstafunk, The Stanton Moore Trio w/ Anders Osborne, Grayson Capps and Shannon McNally. Guess I'll miss the Homecoming Bon Fire on the Quad but Old T-Town's gonna rock this weekend!
http://www.wellthatscool.com/drupal/showdown

http://www.myspace.com/dumpstaphunk

http://www.myspace.com/stantonmoore

http://www.myspace.com/andersosbornenola

http://www.myspace.com/graysoncapps

http://www.myspace.com/shannonmcnally

2010-10-12T17:24:00.000-07:00

Show hope that our chainsaws are sharp because I gotta bad feeling I'm gonna need one in the morning. The limbs are falling in T-town tonight. Just pray none of my tenants get a f*art mashed out of 'em by one. Maybe I'm dead wrong. I hope so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sMSSm0x2A&feature=related

2010-10-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

Po' ole flicktified NORTHERN SOUL fans love 'em some WILBUR but they don't know HE LIGHT SKINNED! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwq-S2vTPM4

2010-10-08T20:22:00.000-07:00

NORTHERN SOUL is a form of soul music associated with Newcastle, Manchester, Lancaster & Liverpool north of London. Now it's also popular in Australia & New Zealand. Otis Redding, Sam & Dave & James Brown were a little too rough for these cats. Their taste was summed up in one record: SUGAR PIE, HONEY BUNCH by the 4 TOPS. Anywayzzzzzzzzzzz... When they want an
R & B 45, they will pay thousands! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bksUSPB4c&feature=related

2010-10-08T16:00:00.000-07:00

Message me if you're attending the two Atlanta Rhythm Section shows tomorrow night @ Talladega's Ritz Theater or if you have any inside info. I have no idea where I'll be staying. Probably just follow the smell of curry powder to the Patel Motel or the Hindu Inn. I've never spent any time in Talladega so I'm looking forward to being surprised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZWwOGrl-g

2010-10-08T01:44:00.000-07:00

THIS IS STRONGER THAN "you know what." Tanton has posted the recording of THE LETTER from THE DOWNTOWN DOTHAN'S SONGWRITERS ROUNDTABLE.
Folksizzzzzzzzzzzzzz, we started A NEW DOTHAN TRADITION!
MUCHAS, TERRY!!!!
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769187&ref=nf

2010-10-08T01:05:00.000-07:00

I checked out Tambor on Wikipedia. Not only was Tambor a submarine. IT WAS AN ENTIRE CLASS OF SUBMARINES. So when you are at the museum look for TAMBOR, THRESHER, TRITON, TROUT & TUNA. There were also six similar Tambor Class subs called "Gato Class".
A SUB LIKE YOUR DADDY SERVED ON STILL EXISTS & IT'S PERFECTLY PRESERVED.Unfortunately it's underneath 7000 ft. of water off the coast of California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tuna_%28SS-203%29

2010-10-07T16:55:00.000-07:00

Thursday, February 25, 2010

GOOD NEWS COLUMN P.O. BOX 1968 DOTHAN, ALABAMA 36302
Going through my Mama's stuff I found a clipping from THE DOTHAN PROGRESS that had 10 of the 12 principles of THE OPTIMIST'S CREED.
That's where it started & who knows where it's goin'.

The newspaper clipping my Mother left me was a portion of THE OPTIMIST'S CREED first published in 1912 by Christian D. Larson

image courtesy of our buddy Ernie
Christian Larson 1912
http://manifestlaboratory.blogspot.com/2009/09/optimist-creed-by-christian-larson.html

I came up with my own version before I ever saw the above.
It's almost identical!
I just had to substitute the "you" for an "I".
In my family we now have 4 prayers.
They don't come in any order but the first three were always THE 23rd PSALM, THE LORD'S PRAYER & THE ENTIRE AA VERSION OF THE SERENITY PRAYER.

I'm calling this THE 4th PRAYER

I PROMISE MYSELF!

#1~ To be so strong that nothing can disturb MY peace of mind.

#2~ To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

#3~ To make all MY friends feel that there is something in them.

#4~ To look at the sunny side of everything and make MY optimism come true.

#5~ To think of the BEST; to work only for the BEST; and expect only the BEST.

#6~ To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about MY own.

#7~ To forget the mistakes of the past, and press on to greater achievements for the future.

#8~ TO WEAR A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE AT ALL TIMES AND GIVE EVERY CREATURE I MEET A SMILE.

#9~ To give so much time to the improvement of MYSELF that I have no time to criticize others.

#10~ To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

#11~ To think well of MYSELF and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.

#12~ To live in the faith that the whole world is on MY side, so long as I am true to the BEST that is in me.

Jut, Ms. Thomley & MY MAMA!

Notice how the idiots misspelled Dr. Mazyck's name

MOMMIE

The Moody Hospital Alumni Association Meeting in the Houston Hotel

Medical Chain Long, Unbroken In Mazyck's Family
by Nat C. Faulk
Eagle Editor(Ret.)
from THE DOTHAN EAGLE, Wed., July 9, 1975

Dr. Earle Farley Mazyck has returned home to practice medicine after 12 years of college, internship, and thereby hangs a tale that echoes local history with accent on continuity.

A native of Dothan, Dr. Mazyck is the son of a doctor, the grandson of a doctor and the great grandson of a doctor, all of whom have practiced in Dothan. The ancestral span covers almost a century. There may be similarities in professional linage elsewhere, but not in Dothan.

The fourth generation of the Moody line to practice here, Dr. Mazyck (Dothan High Class of 1963) is son of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Mazyck, 2000 W. Main Street. The elder Dr. Mazyck's paternal and maternal grandfathers were also doctors and Mrs. Mazyck is the former Miss Marjorie Moody, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. E.F. Moody of Dothan. And Dr. Moody was the son of Dr. Fleming Isaac Moody, one of Dothan's first physicians and a pioneer citizen in other respects.(ed. note: Dr. Fleming Moody and his wife died the first week of May 1900. Back in '68, Richard Burke, who was tallest, replaced the stone flame on top of their obelisk in the City Cemetery. The flame was on top of a vase with a drape carved around it pinned with an opium poppy & a rose. Off the top of my head- here's the inscription on the obelisk.

OUR MOTHER AND FATHER ARE NO MORE
THEY ARE WANDERING HAND IN HAND
OVER IN THE SPIRIT LAND
HERE THEY REST
SIDE BY SIDE
EVEN DEATH ITSELF
COULD NOT DIVIDE.)

The medical saga began with the birth of Fleming Isaac Moody in Appling County, Georgia in 1856. After moving his family to Dixie, Ga. (Brooks County), he attended school in Liberty County and then entered the University of Georgia. Subsequently he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland in 1876. He first located at Gordon, in Alabama, and then moved to Abbeville. From there he moved to Columbia and then to Dothan when it was still a part of Henry County. Dr. and Mrs. Moody died within two weeks of each other in 1900.

Earle Farley Moody was born on the Moody plantation at Saffold, Ga., along the Chattahoochee River in 1880, and came to Alabama with his parents. He was graduated in 1903 at Tulane University and began an illustrious career as a physician and surgeon in Dothan. He founded the Moody Hospital at 311 N. Alice Street and operated the institution until his death in 1952.

The senior Dr. Mazyck was born in Yazoo City, Miss., and moved to Darlington, S.C., where he was reared. He completed medical school at the University of Virginia in 1931 and began practice in Birmingham in 1934. Moving to Dothan in 1935, he became a partner of Dr. Moody in 1938. Acquiring Moody Hospital in 1953, he liquidated the facility in 1965 and continued a private practice.

Earle Farley Mazyck was graduated at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1967 and completed the University of Virginia Medical School in 1971. He then interned medicine at the University of South Carolina at Charleston, S.C., the same educational institution where his great grandfather, Dr. Edmund Mazyck, once taught medicine.

The latest Dr. Mazyck is associated with Dr. James A. Robeson and Dr. W. F. Drewry in the practice of internal medicine.

Incidentally, any family reunion attended by Dr. Mazyck might well be a medical convention of sorts. His wife, the former Joan Whitney of Taftsville, Vermont is a registered nurse, and his brother, Dr. Arthur Mazyck, a Montgomery radiologist, is married to the former Miss Elizabeth Maxwell of Northport, Ala. a practicing pediatrician.

Dr. and Mrs. Mazyck are the parents of a daughter, Kathryn Augusta, nine months old. They have purchased a home at 502 N. Cherokee Avenue.

One more thing- not only did Dr. Mazyck's great grandfather, Dr. Edmund Mazyck, become a doctor after serving in the Confederate Army, so did yet another great grandfather, Dr. N. W. McKie of Canton,Miss.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

www.mycivilwar.com/battles/650402b.htm

I am amazed @ the valor of Gen. Forrest's personal brigade's last calvary charge of the Civil War which occurred at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on 4/1/1865 @ Ebenezer Church on Bogler's Creek, 20 mi. N. of Selma. Forrest's 200 cavalrymen, each armed with 2 Navy Colts, a Spencer repeating rifle & a saber/bowie knife put their reins in their teeth and charged the 17th Indiana.

Monday, March 08, 2010

This old mansion sits catty cornered from our block. It was one of the first big houses to be built in Tuscaloosa after The Civil War. It was constructed in 1901 so it took a long time for anyone to accumulate wealth after the devastation of 1865. The Maxwells probably made a mint during the construction of Locks #1, #2 and #3 during the 1890s. Today you can see this old house from our office's back yard and it's just been repainted.

A wonderful response from Whitney:

When I was in college I worked at the Tuscaloosa Credit Bureau across 27th. Ave. from this house, and I would usually park on the street beside it. Mrs. Jennie Maxwell Richardson lived in it, and she would often be out working in the yard, and loved to talk.

She was a 1910 graduate of the University, and said that she walked or rode the trolley to campus. Said there was a bridge across a gully on U. Blvd. at the time, possibly on the other side of Pinehurst. That gully was filled S. of the blvd. and Audubon Pl. was built on it.

She told me that she christened one of the locks with a bottle of champagne when she was 6, which would have been about 1898. She had a life-sized oil portrait of her 5 beautiful daughters in the foyer of the house.

I suspect she is the young women in the rocker on the left. Would one of those boys be Fred Maxwell, the engineer?

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Hey y'all~

Another exciting week has come & gone in West Alabama! Just got the news that Frank Tanton has released a new CD called "BLUES YOU CAN USE". You can get it now @ CD Baby http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/TanTon
For some samples of Frank's sound, check out his myspace page & listen up! http://www.myspace.com/thebopcats

I've received a lot of phone calls and emails from family & friends who are concerned about my son, Christopher. He's going through the toughest time in his life right now and he's finding out that this old world don't slow down for nobody. He's staying strong, staying busy and he's enjoyed catching lots of fish all winter long. We appreciate your concern and your prayers as our family begins this new chapter.

Christopher's been getting out in this cold & catching BIG yellow cat out of the Black Warrior this winter.

This is unbelievable! Lee found this original Chuck Bryan watercolor painting at a yard sale yesterday. As far as I know there are only two of these on THE FACE OF THE EARTH & I now own both of them!

You can sit on the deck behind our office and see this old church one block to the east. I love hearing the bells on Sunday morning.

This old mansion sits catty cornered from our block. It was one of the first big houses to be built in Tuscaloosa after The Civil War. It was constructed in 1901 so it took a long time for anyone to accumulate wealth after the devastation of 1865. The Maxwells probably made a mint during the construction of Locks #1, #2 and #3 during the 1890s. Today you can see this old house from our office's back yard and it's just been repainted.

We're at 2609 University Boulevard. On this old 1911 postcard, you can see the 27th Avenue sign on the 6th Street corner. That's the next block over from us.

Two blocks away from me. This is the old courthouse with the old 1st Baptist across the street.

ST.JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, MONTGOMERY, where Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and his family worshiped during their residence in Montgomery. President Davis' pew, No. 115, is the only old pew preserved from the original construction in 1855. http://www.stjohnsmontgomery.org/tour/nbr04.html
Reverend Edgar Gardner Murphy was the minister here from 1898 until 1901. Murphy would go on to pioneer reforms to combat the evils of racial discrimination and child labor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Gardner_Murphy

This postcard is probably from the early 1940s when The Speer Family Singers shared the WSFA microphone with a young Hank Williams. Williams occasionally lost his job at the station for coming in drunk.

My how times change! You damn sho' can't say the following about "DEAR LANIER" in Twenty-Ten.
from the back of the postcard:
"Sidney Lanier High School, costing nearly two million dollars, is the Capstone of Montgomery's School System. It is Montgomery's proud distinction to enjoy the lowest rate of illiteracy of any Southern City and the best school system in America."

The Tallassee Falls before the building of Thurlow Dam in 1930. I found this description of the rapids in an Alabama Historical Quarterly Lee found at a yard sale yesterday.
Benjamin Hawkins, December 1796~ "Halfbreed Billy.(ed. note: no one knows why Hawkins wrote this name) I this day paid a visit to the old men at the town house and partook with them of the black drink. I then visited the falls and lands adjoining the town. The falls are at two and a half miles above town house, the river here is after tumbling over a bed of rock for half a mile, formed into 2 narrow channels, one 30 the other 15 feet. The fall is 30 feet in 50 yards, the first part nearly 20 feet in less than 10, fish are here obstructed in their passage up the river.
The rock is a light gray, very much broken and divided, in square blocks of various sizes, fine for building, the best I think I ever saw."

The scenes of The Giant's Cave in the movie "Big Fish" were filmed on the river rocks about a mile below the falls.

Danny Miller, guitarist for Roswell,Georgia band MEN IN BLUES,shared a few more of his stories with us.You can hear Danny rocking out on his myspace site www.myspace.com/meninbluesband

image courtesy of www.myspace.com/meninbluesband

MISTY WATERS by Danny Miller
Between 1960 and 1970, Misty Waters Country Club on Candler Road in Decatur, Georgia
was an important entertainment center for Sixties era teenagers in the Atlanta area. Our
subdivision bordered it, so it was a way of life in our neighborhood. I had many fun filled days and nights there. It was owned and operated by Pop and Johnny Childs, and their family.

The Misty Waters complex offered something for everyone, and consisted of a man-made lake partially surrounded by a white sand beach, an Olympic size swimming pool, a concession area, a skating rink, and a golf course. Family owned, water recreation parks were common in the 1960s. There was Lake Spivey, Joy Lake, Sun Valley Beach, Clifton Springs, Glenwood Springs, Venetian Country Club, etc. I loved to swim, and personally spent time in every one of them. Being a Pisces, I'm naturally attracted to any body of water. In those days, many of us on the East Coast were fascinated with the magical California, Florida, and Hawaii beach/surf lifestyle. Beaches and the ocean were the "in" thing, and the locations around Atlanta offered us a little bit of that paradise right in our own neighborhood. The beach at Misty Waters was a short walk from my house. Hot fun in the summertime. People from all over Atlanta went there, and I made many good friends.

In the daytime, I would swim and sunbathe at the beach and pool, and hang out around the
jukebox and socialize with the many lovely young ladies there. The lake featured a diving
platform with 3 levels. I loved to dive and always dove off the highest one. The pool featured both low and high diving boards. I watched some amazing divers. There were gymnastic bars nearby and the local gymnasts would dazzle us with their feats. The concession area served a drink called the Misty Waters Special. It was Coke, Sprite, Grape, Orange, and Ginger Ale all mixed together in an icy cup. It was delicious. I spent a lot of time at the lake, pool, and concession area, but I never skated or played golf.

On Tuesday and Saturday nights, local rock and roll radio
station WQXI,would sponsor dances in the skating rink. The dances drew large crowds and were
hosted by disc jockeys Pat Hughes, Red Jones, Tony The Tiger Taylor, and/or Paul Drew (The
Baldheaded Beatle). Live music was king in those days and they brought in the very finest bands.
There was a great music scene happening in Atlanta in those days. It was the segregated south
in those days and Misty Waters was white only, but the most popular style of music was always
soul music. Go figure. I saw Ronnie Milsap, Sam The Sham, Joe South, Travis Wammack, Wayne Laquadice and The Kommotions, The Tikis, Billy and The King Bees, The Bushmen, The Roemans, The Englishmen, The James Gang, The Apollos, and others, as well as the greatest band I have
ever seen in my life, still to this day-The Candymen. The natural acoustics of that skating rink produced a fabulous musical sound. It was one of the best rooms I ever played in. It was
especially good for guitar players. It didn't matter what kind of guitar or amplifier you were using, everyone sounded basically the same, but it was a very desirable sound. You wished you could sound that good everywhere. Unlike many venues where the acoustics work against the
performers, the sound of Misty Waters enhanced and improved the overall sound of the music. It was a rectangle with a low ceiling and the stage was set back into the wall. It was a perfect
situation-great bands in a near perfect venue. My period of attendance there was 1964-69, and
I played there in 1967-.68. It was a learning experience as well as the scene of a lot of good
times. In 1967, my band opened the show there for British Invasion stars Peter & Gordon. That was exciting. It was a learning environment for guitar players, and I soaked up the music played there like a sponge.

There was no alcohol or drugs, and I never had any hassles with anyone.

For an aspiring teenage guitarist with raging hormones, who loved days at the beach and loud, live music at night, Misty Waters was THE PLACE.I could do all the things I loved in one location near my home. It was a special time, at a special place, with special people.

January 5, 2001
THE HUT by Danny Miller
It has been 30 years since I last visited The Hut. It no longer exists, so I feel
compelled to write a tribute, while I can still remember, to a place that provided us a
lot of good times many years ago. It is commonly believed, by our circle of friends, that
we were the luckiest teenagers in the Atlanta area in the 1960s. I tend to agree. It was
a special time with special people. Music was the center of attention in those days, and
everyone was tuned in. Our side of town was particularly musical and we had Misty
Waters, Glenwood Springs, Clifton Springs, Lake Spivey, and the infamous Hut.

The Hut existed from 1966-71 and was located in the woods, by a lake, on private property owned by Barry Gladden's Grandmother on Panthersville Road in south DeKalb county. It was
basically a humble 3 room shed, next to an open pavilion with a fireplace out in the
woods. Some might refer to it as a clubhouse, sanctuary, escape, or retreat, but we just
called it The Hut. The perfect location for the 18-23 year old college crowd at night. I
don't think we realized how lucky we were at the time. Barry Gladden was our host. That
funky little shed in the woods provided many good times for many people. It was quite
secluded and was our version of "Animal House". It was a lovable place and an example
of getting the most from the least. It was an informal, unofficial fraternity of old
friends, male and female, from DeKalb County, and entrance was by invitation only. I
don't remember anyone being turned away, and many lifetime friendships and more than
a few romances began there. Companionship was never hard to find in those days. The
Hut was Party Central. There was no initiation ritual or dues to pay. Just come and enjoy
yourself, and remember-"Whatever happens at the Hut, stays at the Hut." We were big
on privacy and discretion. Everyone who went there loved it. Our theme song was "Let
It All Hang Out."
While other local teenagers had to rent a party place, we had one for
free. If I didn't have a gig or a date on a Friday or Saturday night, I would organize a
psychedelic jam with my musician friends, and we would set up under the pavilion and
play until we got tired. Some great music was made there. Parties were frequent, often
both nights every weekend. We would usually decide on Friday morning if we were going
to have a party that night and begin spreading the word. It never took long. People would
start arriving after sundown, and it was common to have a hundred people or more. It
was loose and free and was a BYOB situation. If someone overindulged, they could
spend the night. There was never any trouble. The police never came. Everything was
cool. The Hut wasn't always about partying. Often, I would stop by during the week to
just hang out and talk or watch television. Our favorite shows were "Laugh In," "Gomer
Pyle," and "I Spy."

One thing I really miss about the 1960s is the long, deep
conversations we used to have about the events of the day. We would sit around for
hours and talk and solve all the world's problems. It was back in the day when we were
college students and knew everything. It was intellectual and fun. I'm glad that we had
The Hut and it's memories exist forever for those of us who were there.

July 19, 1986
A MOST UNUSUAL MUSICIAN by Danny Miller
I have met countless musicians in my lifetime, but the most unusual of them all was
harmonica player I met in a club on Ponce De Leon in Atlanta in 1982. A guy came up to the
bandstand and asked me if his friend could sit in and play harmonica with us. I told him it was fine and his friend stepped onstage with us. We began playing a blues tune and I signaled him to take a solo. I was unprepared for what I saw. He was a good player and it was a great solo. However, he played the harmonica with his throat instead of his mouth. He had a small tube sticking out of his throat from a tracheotomy operation years ago. It's how he breathed. He simply placed the harmonica over the tube in his throat and played flawlessly. I was amazed. His name was Richard and he was great. I have never seen him again.

THE TOUPEE by Danny Miller
We were playing a dance one night and the air conditioning in the place went out and it
soon became pretty hot in the room. The people didn't seem to notice or care. They just kept on
dancing and having a good time. It's a party, and a little sweat never hurt anyone. There was one
gentleman, wearing a cheap toupee, who was dancing enthusiastically and sweating heavily. He
was pretty drunk but he was having a ball. Obviously, he didn't have his toupee securely attached, and as his scalp sweated, the toupee began to slowly slide backwards on his head. The more he sweated, the more it scooted. Soon it was dangling from the back of his head and he never noticed. People were pointing and laughing. Finally, his drunk wife noticed it and told him about it. He reached to fix it and it fell onto the dance floor. By then, everyone had noticed. He scooped it up and ran outside with his wife staggering behind him. W edidn't see them anymore that night.

REDNECK HONKY TONK BATHROOMS by Danny Miller
I have played many redneck honky tonks in my sophisticated musical career, and have
noticed that those kind of places usually have the funkiest bathrooms anywhere. They are often
filthy, smelly, and in poor repair with plumbing leaks and overflowing fixtures. I guess it gives it
a certain earthy ambiance. Club owners never seem concerned about them. They will spend
money on everything but their restrooms. I have only been in the men's bathrooms and I hope the women's are better. I played one club where they laid 2 X 4 boards across the always flooded
floor. You had to balance yourself on these makeshift, urine soaked "bridges" to get to the urinal
which was a large communal trough. If you slipped off, as many did, you would get your feet wet.
The danger with communal troughs in crowded restrooms is when men drink a lot of beer, they
often have "the splits." As they are standing there doing their business among other men, half
their stream goes into the trough and the other half on the man beside you. It has happened to
me. There were no doors on the stalls. When you sat down to do your business, everyone could
see you. There was no privacy. I guess that adds to the "we are family" atmosphere. Drunks love
to throw up in the restroom. I walked in one night and saw a man sitting passed out on a toilet
with his head down and his elbows on his knees. Someone threw up on the back of his neck, and
he was so drunk he didn't even notice It. Another time, I was standing at a urinal and an old man
next to me started throwing up in the urinal. The threw up his false teeth and they clanked around in the yellow water. He retrieved them, rinsed them off by flushing the urinal, popped them back into his mouth and smiled at everyone. You just can't buy entertainment like that.

May 4, 1988
MAMA SAID TO GET HER A T-SHIRT by Danny Miller
In addition to featuring live music, many night clubs also feature wet t-shirt contests
to attract business on slow nights. It certainly works and attracts many unique individuals. Often, we band members are commissioned to judge the contest. All we ever wanted to do was play and sing for the folks, but I always comply with their wishes and give them more than they are paying me for. It's just one of the many services that we working musicians offer to the club owners of the world, and it's fun. Anything to keep them happy. It always makes me feel like a game showhost. For those of you out there who have lived sheltered life and have never seen a wet t-shirt contest in person, here is the sequence of events.

The willing female participants sign up when they arrive at the club. When the big moment arrives, they are given a wet, tight fitting t-shirt to wear for the contest. Then, they go into the ladies room and remove their blouses and bras and put on the wet t-shirts. Then they stand in front of the stage for all of the patrons to see. It gets pretty intense as the girls begin to line up. One by one, as I call their name form the sign up list, they step forward and strut and shake their boobs for the crowd. It drives the men wild. The winner is chosen based on audience applause. It is applause only, and no yelling or screaming is
permitted. The winner is the girl who gets the most applause and the prize is usually $100 or
more. Not bad money for a little booby shaking. The contestants come in all sizes, shapes, ages,
and levels of intoxication. Some are quite lovely and some are not. In fact, some are downright
ugly as well as very drunk, but they are the most fun because they try harder. It's a hoot.

Once, we were playing at this funky club that had a wet t-shirt contest every Thursday night. It drew a large crowd, and I believe every fat girl in the county came there to participate. Sometimes there were some real "dolls," but usually it was "pork city." Lot's of overweight females. One night 3 fat sisters and their fat mama came in. The sisters, all seasoned wet t-shirt veterans, were there to participate in the contest. Mama was there to observe and to offer moral support to her girls, and possibly enter the contest herself. It all depended upon how much alcohol she consumed. Midnight arrived and it was finally time for the contest to begin. Wet t-shirts were handed out from a bucket of water, and the eager contestants ran into the ladies room to change into them. The excitement was building in the place. There was electricity in the air. The sisters had their shirts but Mama hadn't made up her mind yet. She followed her girls into the bathroom to make her final decision. As 2 of the sisters walked out of the bathroom toward the stage, the remaining one stuck her head out the door and yelled, "Mama said to get her a t-shlrt." Hallelujah, Mama had made up her mind. They quickly obliged, and soon all the fabulous contestants were lined up in front of the bandstand for everyone to admire. The thin, wet shirts under the stage lights displayed all of their virtues. I was standing on the stage behind them. I felt like the quarterback behind the offensive line of the Chicago Bears. There were some large ladies in front of me. One by one, they stepped forward, strutted their stuff and shook their boobs for the wildly cheeringcrowd. They really put on a show. Mama and her girls were pitiful but enthusiastic. One of the sisters turned around to me, pulled up her t-shirt exposing her massive breasts for my approval, and smiled at me with a mouth full of rotten teeth. It was a Kodak moment. I guess she was trying to win my vote. It didn't work because I'm a judge of integrity, and anyway, stretch marks really don't tum me on. I don't remember who won the contest, but it wasn't Mama or her daughters.
They were disappointed but said that they would be back next week to try again. I think Mama
liked all the attention. They were good sports and a reminder that the family that plays together
stays together. I think I'll add game show host to my resume.