May 9, 2013

It was my intention to lead up to this gently, but it's now demanding
of posting right now.

I have to admit,however, that I've held back from posting these terrible stories out of worry & concern about the real/potential negative impact that they might have on my upcoming releases (Fahey and Firk multi CD & DVD memorial anthologies)... but Duck (my new hero), has made it much easier now for me when added to the atrocious and personal, heinous attacks leveled upon me from every quarter, including with emphasis the fact that it was MY post on the obit site which was chosen to be the very first post to be bumped over here with attendant un-deserved commentary, which cut me to the bone. Finally, thank you Duck for reminding me about my so-called roots, and my (original) philosophy, to say embarrassed is to let me off way too easily/lightly for a Label, the ONLY Label that was willing to Release Patrick Sky's "Songs That Made America Famous.

So, for those of you that felt the need, for whatever reason, to attack me personally, assuming that I was just out to get Brozman, or that my motives were even more venal, because I'm obviously... "out to win friends and influence your uncle" to misquote the sage.....the following story is for each and every one of you on this thread that have ABSOLUTELY no personal interface whatsoever with actionable pedofilia, right up front and personal in your own family. Unless you qualify with personal experience, won't you please back off long enough to learn something, assuming that's even possible for you dolts to possibly learn & digest anything other then what you want to hear.

Story:

Once upon a time there was a girl called Carol, my sister (now deceased) who attended and graduated cum laude from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.....in this same period of time there was a young man (a musician) by the name of Michael A Stewart, initials backwards SAM, thus Backwards Sam (where the Firk part came from I;m not at liberty to divulge- sworn to secrecy)....Michael had been attending College in Oregon, possibly Reed College (or perhaps Goddard), whichever one was located in Oregon, which interestingly enough was also attended by Ry Cooder, you can't make this shit up, btw- Firk did not graduate from Reed, but in his final semester he & Ry were dorm room-mates (best guess circa 1967/8/9). As an interesting side note Mike told that Ry has a "glass eye" and also that Ry was blown away by Firk's Country Blues picking style...you can't make this up kids, but I digress again--- there came a time that Firk returned to DC from Oregon, and he and my Sister became lovers, I let my sister know that I opposed the upcoming marriage
but who the Fu*k was I to interfere with true love? (What a jerk I was at age 28 or so! LOL)
Not very long thereafter, they married, borrowed money from my folks and bought a country style house in Mount Airy, MD.
Things wound their course and the marrieds settled in, Firk running his 78 auctions, again financed by my folks loans, and Sister Carol commuting every day to the middle school where she was a fukll time teacher.l....
Meanwhile, during this period of time, Firk at least twice a week came over to my parents house wherein was the Adelphi Recording studio (more on this later) suffice it to say Firk was notn only an Adelphi Recording Artist, but he was also employed by Adelphi at least two days a week, to analyze and grade the hundreds of hours of blues recordings from our
"family" blues expedition of 1969, which was evventually released, qat first on lp, and later as the basis of the Adelphi Blues Vault Series........
I'm going to break here lest this gets too long to post...
be right back up...
Gene