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We always called him Bad Boy. He used to drive a milk truck.


pdfs of issues 31-40, with thanks to the original sharer

I'll tell you who really started out with me: Tina Turner. She was waiting tables, wore on her little short dress; she wanted to sing. I say, 'You can sing if you want'. She would jump up there and she'd sing and she'd always throw her leg over. Well, see that run a lot of customers away - if a man got a wife and Tina comes by and you watching her, and your wife say, 'I see you watching that woman with that short dress on', she's looking so hard and, if the woman don't say nothing, she watch her and then she watch her man and a man can't be still when she starts wiggling. His wife might say something, like, 'Get me another beer' and he don't hear, he's so busy watching. 'You can't hear me for watching that woman', you know, ‘I won't come here again.' I said, 'Tina, you drive my customers away.'

listened to this strange, seductive, angry, hate-filled bluegrass


"Listen kid," he went on, "that record is no good. In fact it is evil. It caused a lot of trouble while it was around. Women left their husbands. Husbands left their wives. Children ran away from home and were never seen again. There were sunspots on the moon. Revolutions started, massacres happened, suicides and alcoholism went sky - high, wars started, monsters were seen on the Edge, it was bad, kid. It was bad. Maybe it would be better for you if you didn't hear it again. I mean I just feel like I gotta tell ya that, kid. It's dangerous for anybody your age to get interested in things like that."