January 7, 2007

sister ray

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As I write this, I am lis­te­ning to “Sis­ter Ray” by the Vel­vet Under­ground.
Thank you, Dave Mac­ken­zie, for first tur­ning me on to this song, back during that magi­cal sum­mer of ours, back in 1984.

[Recent Con­ver­sa­tion:]

Friend: I don’t think you can truly unders­tand The Vel­vet Under­ground until you’ve lived in New York for at least a year.

Hugh: I’d say the same is true for Char­lie Par­ker.

Fun­nily enough, I first heard of Char­lie Par­ker, han­ging out with Dave in the now-defunct Edin­burgh Wine Bar in Hano­ver Street, back in 1985. While Dave was busy hit­ting on some girls, I got into a long con­ver­sa­tion with this old jazz enthu­siast, who enligh­te­ned me. I was on a real Cole­man Haw­kins kick at the time. The rest is his­tory etc.

3 Responses to “sister ray”

  1. free ps3 says:
    January 7, 2007 at 10:42 pm

    i just love your scetches the well cool

  2. Steven Buckley says:
    January 8, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    That car­toon is exce­llent as PC wall­pa­per! Thanks Hugh :-)

  3. Joe Silva says:
    February 5, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    Hugh, would love to use this image on mys­pace, but wan­ted to check with you first… would give you cre­dit and/or a link to your blog.