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This is your brain.
In the early seventies North Russel St. in Portland was a
neighborhood of empty stores, cheap rents, storefront
churches, and a couple of bars. The Swinging Anchor served
fifty cent pitchers, the White Eagle served hard liquor. Actors,
musicians, and artists rented a couple of houses next to the
freeway, to be close to the Storefront Theatre, a building now
occupied by the Widmer Brewery. As they walked by the
White Eagle, a hangout for the workers building the Fremont
bridge at the time, they would often hear the owner, one Tony
Ferroni, yelling at some hapless customer. Needless to say
they steered clear o f the Eagle for the most part. But, often
there comes a time when nothing will do but a stiff shot.
W ell, it came to pass that one night the cast and musicians
from the Storefront production of “Girl of the Golden West”
stopped in the Eagle after a rehearsal. Ferroni eyed the
instrument cases and asked what kind of music they played
They explained by playing hot jazz, jug band, & blues into the
wee hours of the morning. The following day Tony waylaid a
couple of the musicians, and went on an on about what fun
he’d had the night before, and how he wanted to have music
every night from then on, and they were going to be the house
band. Mr. Ferroni was from New York, he was big, people
thought he was in with the mob, so ‘no’ was not a word he
was familiar with. The musicians began calling themselves
the “Skinny-dip Skiffle Band”. Later they changed some
personnel and took the name The Fly By Nite Jass Band. The
band was a four piece, with Kenneth ‘Turtle” Van deMarr on
guitar, kazoo and vocals; John Ward on harmonica, jug, kazoo,
and vocals; John Dominigoni on washtub bass, kazoo, and
vocals; and Billy Hulls on washboard. They played hot jazz
from the twenties, Django Reinhart material, dance music.
They played every Tuesday night at the White Eagle for several
years. They attracted local musicians like Jack (the ghost)
Howell, who was the regular piano player at the Benson
Hotel’s London Grill, and the legendary Monti Ballou,
banjoist extraordinnaire, who would sit in or sometimes just
come to watch the show. It was something of a show. The
Jass Band would often come on stage wearing tuxes and tennis
shoes, or Hawaiian shirts, they all had shoulder length hair and
combined with the unusual instrumentation, snappy patter, and
high energy music it was always something to see. The
White Eagle became the place to drop by Tuesdays, and the
favorite spot of bartenders and waitresses, and musicians to
make it for last call. In those days Taverns had to close at One
AM but hard liquor bars could stay open until 2:30, and the
band played until two. Last sets at the White Eagle became
legendary. There was a line at the door at 1:30 AM. Someone
had to leave before someone else could go in, or more likely
Tony would throw someone out. Bands, singles, duos, lined
up to play in the old brick building, with its beautiful tile
floors covered in peanut shells, its back bar that came around
the horn, & its crazy owner. The Eagle became the home of
the Holy Modal Rounders when they moved from the east
coast, and their band bus was often parked out front, and served
as backstage. In those days there was a working open foundry
right next door to the Eagle, that would be pouring molten
metal all night, while folks in tuxes, fancy gowns, and long
haired hippies milled around outside the chain link fence. It
was quite a scene. lawyers and Bikers, Blacks and Whites,
Artists and Musicians, Working Men and ‘Working’ Women,
politicians and current celebrities dropped by, and some became
regulars.
The Fly By Nite Jass Band made an EP record and prompdy
broke up. The Rounders moved their bus to Euphoria, and the
scene moved on, but The White Eagle has continued providing
live music for over twenty five years, and holds a special place
in the hearts and minds of musicians and fans alike, and it
seems it always will
The McMenamins have purchased the White Eagle, and will
be bringing back The Fly By Nite Jass Band for the grand
opening on Halloween. It promises to be an interesting
evening
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This is your brain by
Michelangelo.
We were sitting in the bookstore when a customer
commented on the coffee cup we have that shows
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting. He related
that when he was studying for his medical degree he
was cramming for a test on the brain. After hours of
study he decided to give his eyes a rest and started
browsing through some books on art, when he came
upon the famous painting. “I started naming the
parts of the brain that 1 could see in the painting, and
realized that Michelangelo had painted God as the
human brain.” Cool, huh?
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BASEBALL
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