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From: Scott Gold
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 08:34:29 +1000
Subject: a wreath laid at Bogart's doorstep (or, the day the music died)

well, my dear harp-l-er would-be bar-owners:

i went to the USA over the holidays,
and upon return, i was greatly saddened
to learn of the demise of Bogart's (and my gig).

new year's eve was the final hurrah
for a bar that supported the blues
on friday nites for a time. . . .

no more will i be able to stand on the stage
where the ceiling fans slice too near my head,
and in the inverted direction,
thereby bringing all the bar's cigarette smoke
into my chromatic reeds and more;

no more will i be able to revel
in good sense of the devoted fans who would scream out
for sam ba ti and black magic woman,
allowing for your correspondent to
take a sorely needed gin&tonic break;

no more will i be able to play solos to
gatemouth brown's pressure cooker
or walker's t-bone shuffle
or albert kinig's don't lose your cool
while eyeing the big screen at the other end of the bar,
showing horror movies subtitled in chinese;

no more.

the end of a mild era
is only now starting to sink in.

now, i take time away from my desparate
search for the next gig site
with a heart-felt thanks to all those
harp-l-ers who had the vision,
or at least the reckless je-ne-sais-quoi,
and were willing to make the investment,
to be able to walk proud in their snowy towns,
knowing that they were part-owners in a blues bar
in the western-pacific tropics.

i salute all of you!

in the meanwhile,
please place your pledged contribution
in a time deposit;
one day, i'll be coming to you again
to possibly purchase
the next bar my band drives out of business. . . .

- -sg (a sideman in Danny Perez and his Gigless Wonders)
tumon bay