10/14/2010 "Oh good grief, what do I have to do to get out of going through all this (crap*) twice? Or three times or more? - BD* (w/EL)

In response to Bill D's posts of 10/11- 6:41 PM, and 10/12- 10:16 PM

Damn the Slings & Arrows, Damn The Torpedos, Damn the Bullets and Damn the Cannon to the Right & Left of Me...STAY FOCUSED and think "Light Brigade", Gene and Charge, Charge, Charge!
(Um, maybe that is a bit too heavy for openers, Eh? Start again!)

Bill:

Beginning is tough, ending will be tougher...

For the record Bill, "slinging" alleged credentials around like "...I've attended 32 consecutive getaways", and "... I've been on THE (emphasis added) Committe several times", (um, which Committe was that Bill?), "and was a co-Chairman once", is decidedly NOT the way to impress someone (or their wife) unless you've done research into just whom it is that you think you're impressing!!!

So, in kind, and in context Bill:

Um, let's see- I could be wrong, but I don't recall your presence at the establishing of the Folk Music Club of George Washington University in 1961, nor at any of it's various official & unofficial functions from 1961-through 1964/5 as it transmorgrafied into the FSGW..nope I don't recall seeing you and the primordial party/ballad get-togethers at my good friend Dave Olive's Mothers House on Conn Ave, opposite the then bureau of standards, nope, don't think you were there, hmmm ya know I don't recall you ever being present when Stokely Carmichael (yep that Stokely) on many ocassions entertained us with his 5 to 10 minute skits featuring him as a "black, very Southern preacher-man of questionable moral terpatude (sp?), Sorta like Richard Pryor did as "Toodle-um" 25 years or so later. Nope, I don't think you were there either. The FSGW was founded in dangerous times, it provided the vehicle for musicly venting dissent against war
and more importantly proactively supportive of the civil rights movement centered in DC. Music and lyrics were composed hours before being sung on the "picket Lines" at Glen Echo Amusement Park, as well as at dozens of other locations. This organization was founded and hardened to the swinging of police Billy clubs, but I really don't recall seeing you at any of those events? I don't recall seeing you when my struck dumb parent's who thought that I was bringing a few friends over to sing folk songs, instead had over two hundred strangers, in their suburban home (a Doctors home) forone helluva good "ballad oriented" Hootenany. Nor at Mike Rivers, or was it Cogans houses in Northern, Va., I don't even recall seeing you at the VERY FIRST "Getaway" held at Andy Wallace's House, although it was actually more of an un-planned happening, you had to be there, but YOU weren't! You certainly never were present at my many sponsored music events in Mt Pleasant or in my crash pad in the Dupont Circle area, nope! I also don't ever recall seeing you at Chuck & Nan Purdue's, geez am I repeating myself?

Oh, by the way, I regularly did volunteer service at the Smithsonian Folk Festivals & served at the direction of Mary Cliff --- it was and is an honor to serve NOT A BADGE TO WEAR as part of your credentials.

I could go on and on...suffice it to say your self serving, unknowlegeable blatherings on this thread, and mean spirited attacks on my wife Sandra Koppel will NOT be tolerated by me...there are consequences associated with such unjustifiable behaviour, and I don't mean physical ones..... you now must live with yourself!

Good Luck
More to come
Gene R.

Well Bill, I guess