[lit-ideas] Re: Geary and the Tin Pan Alley
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:01:30 -0700
On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
> Very perceptive of M. McEvoy, but wrong due to being wrong. Mine on dear
> Uncle Tony was not Irish nor even of European extraction so far as anyone
> knows. Most of the family holds to the belief that he was Abyssinian and
> wrote the music to Patti Smith's "Pissing In a River" from her album "Radio
> Ethiopia". This was two generations before Patti Smith came along of course,
> but I'm sure that JL remembers well the song if not the album. In fact, JL
> is probably more of an expert on my uncle than I am due to a long standing
> feud between the Abyssinian
> Gearys and the Adirondack Geeerees who were Iroquois and presumably occupied
> the Adirondacks in New York. There's a big dispute as to which group settled
> where first. But that's all old history -- but a noble history and one not
> to be dismissed summarily. It did produce me after all. It humbles me to
> realize how many people had to be born and die just to produce me. Thank
> you, Baby Jesus.
>
Classic.
David Ritchie,
An admirer from Hafar.
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