Below is from November 05

I am glad I found it.

The details are essentially, that I met a woman and her husband who used to
be one of the dancers on the Buddy Dean show. "American Dreams" was a
combination of American Bandstand and The Buddy Dean show. The woman was
the granddaughter of the founder of the Hells Angels. I have that written
down somewhere too but can't seem to find it just this second.

Anyway, Baltimore native John Waters wrote was a fan of the Buddy Dean
show, and directed the musical "Hairspray" which is based on the Buddy Dean
show.

It's too funny he's made this movie version with John Travolta and
Christopher Walken, but I couldn't remember the connection.

(from Roanoke) Julie Hunsaker used to be Waters' casting director.
I'll have to see if she cast this one too.

Another tenuous but funny connection: Frank Zappa is a Baltimore native as
well. They've recently dedicated a street in his name. I used to love FZ
growing up. He was part of the San Fransciso hippy scene. But he never
became part of it. He was counter counter culture. One of his earliest
records "Freak OUt" has him and his band "The Mothers of Invention" dressed
like hippies, with all this psychedelic artwork around their heads. It's
obviously a spoof.

http://www.amazon.com/Freak-Frank-Zappa-Mothers-Invention/dp/B0000009RT

In the interest of carefulness at work, I offer this link to the lyrics of
one of the songs that made me fall in love with FZ as a young teenager. He
was very anti drug btw.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+zappa/who+needs+the+peace+corps_20057021.html

King Crimson,Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix are always associated
with acid rock too, tho not necessarily Frisco bands, they were all faves
on the underground stations

oh yeah and Annie Katamay in my grade school class, her brother was
Jefferson Airplanes sound man

Quicksilver Messenger Service, the band I mentioned yesterday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service

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Date: 27 Nov 2005 06:23:41 -0800
Local: Sun, Nov 27 2005 10:23 am
Subject: Re: International Stuff

Frank Kalder wrote:

looks like they are making tiny changes.

Sunday will be dedicated to recovery.

I spent Saturday in New York city,
Saw the Rockettes Christmas show followed by lunch at Sardis.
Then, inevitable shopping.
I did not buy anything, although i lovingly handled many pieces of
jewelry including a 15 karat green tourmaline that I wanted very badly
My companions did buy a great deal.
One bought a hat that looks like one that Sherlock Holmes or a duck
hunter might wear, with the flaps that come down to tie under the chin.

One thing that is a remarkably opular item thisyear -- a certain style
of scarf that I cannot describe better than it's a bunch of balls.
Sometimes with fingers at the end.

iI suspect the original design was fur, left over scraps.

The balls are sen in rows in a loose pattern, some more intricate than
others. They tend to be made of baric that mimics fur. You draw the
balls through the netting to tie the scarf, sometime with the fringe
that looks like fngers, but probably evolved from thick scrap pelts.

I can't find a picture of one right now.

The other fun part of the trip was the companionship.

Many of the peopel on the trip used to be dancers on a show from the
50's called the Buddy Dean Show.
The Buddy Dean Showwas shot in Baltimore and had the same concept as
American Bandstand emceed by Dick Clark.
There is quite good footage of Dick' Clakr's show shot in Philadelphia,
still preserved. Many famous singers premiered on those shows. Babby
Daren, Frankie Avalon and so on.
There was a show produced for US tv that fictionalized this show in the
retelling. I believe it was called something like American Dreams.

The Buddy Dean Show has only 9 minutes of footage remaining. The
producers decided to tape over the show to save costs. They destroyed
endless reels of historical footage of some now prominent singers and
some tape of really good historical archaeological significance.

The Buddy Dean show is now memorialized in the film Hairspray by John
Waters who himself is a native of Baltimore.

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