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Editorial
Now & Then
Careful readers will note that on page 8 there is an
ad for the Crystal Ballroom, telling of an upcoming
appearance by the Holy Modal Rounders. For those
unfamiliar with the band we might suggest you get
out more. These folks are Legends in their Own
Minds, to quote the title of one of their many albums,
and they are also legends of our times. Started as a
duo in the midst of the early Sixties folk music
revival, consisting of Peter Stampfel and Steve
Weber, they played the East Coast coffee house
circuit with Bob Dylan, Jim Kweskin's Jug Band,
Joan Baez, Ritchie Havens and many more. They
soon joined with Ed Sanders of the Fugs, and added
Robin Remailley on fiddle, David Reisch on bass,
Richard Tyler on piano, Teddy Deane on reeds, and
Roger North on drums. Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize
winning play write and famous actor, played drums
with them for a while, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter,
formerly with the Doobie Brothers, and now a
possible Congressional candidate on the Republican
ticket in California, played guitar for a period. They
appeared on Laugh In. They recorded songs like
"Euphoria", and "Do Ya Like Boobs A Lot"; they
played on the sound track of the movie Easy Rider;
they toured and had diesel bus races with the Merry
Pranksters and Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm and
generally offended the sensibilities of good decent
God fearin' Americans wherever they went. These
are the last of the tribe that caused the Sixties
revolution. The unrepentant real thing. Still playing
the music. We mention this gig not just because the
Crystal bought a pretty good sized ad, but because so
many readers of the Edge are part of a large extended
family that for years included the Rounders family.
We played together, and occasionally lived together,
and so this is a chance for, as the ad states, a family
reunion. So, if you are family, come, if you aren't,
come anyway, and find out what it feels like. Gary
Ewing will be doing his light show, the dance floor
will be undulating, and the music will be real. See
ya there.
Also in this issue we begin a saga at sea. Bob Rice,
a local acupuncturist and world traveler, is at it again.
He talked his way onto the reproduction of Capt.
Cook's Bark Endeavour, and will be sending
dispatches from Victoria, BC; Hawaii; Fiji; and New
Zealand. (See page 5.)
And one final note on this issue. On page six we
have printed a story that was e-mailed to the Edge
about a riot in London. We have seen no coverage
of this in any major media, and print it in hopes that
our reader worldwide will let us know if this story
was supressed elsewhere, and that if they have
anymore information they will contact us.
Anyway, this issue is so chock full o'stuff we had
to go to ten pages, and that means we are counting
our pennies again. So, if any our our faithful out
there have won the lottery, or inherited some serious
bucks from a distant relative, the Upper Left needs
some help again. The old Mac is on its last legs, and
your beloved editor has taken to cutting out pictures
of iMacs, and pasting them on his refrigerator. So
far the red one is his favorite.
and people to match. In the old days it was pretty much the
local musicians, jugglers and all doing a show for the folks
who had been working all day and couldn’t get out to see
them. Now it is arguably the greatest live variety show in the
world. Tom Noddy, The Bubble Man, you might have seen
him on television, he can blow cube shaped bubbles, has been
the MC for the last few years and begins the show with Fair
favorites like Faith Petrick, a talented woman in her late
seventies, early eighties, who writes songs for all ages, like
‘D on’t use the F-word to your Mother.” So many acts
perform at the Midnight show it would take a page just to list
them. It would also be silly because most people have never
heard of them, for example: do P.K. Dwyer & the Low Down
Payments, Jim Page, Mother Zosima, The Flaming
Heterosexuals, Reverend Chumleigh, ring any bells? Well,
some Fair Folks know them like they know their children,
lliere are also names that are familiar, like Ramblin Jack
Elliot and Ken Kesey, who tend to show up on occasion.
As the show proceeds the pit orchestra makes its entrance.
The Fighting Instruments of Karma, accompanied by jugglers,
fancy rope twirlers, giants on stilts, and a flutter of fairies,
having paraded around the whole Fair, march up to the stage
and with a great deal of silliness, take their place in the pit.
From then on it’s non-stop. Acts from all over the world
cause jaws to drop and hands to clap, and oh, my. Baby
Gramps will usually play the Palindrome song or Teddy Bears’
Picnic, the Fair’s unofficial theme song. Ardis the Spoonman
will display his passion for percussion and politics. The
Royal Fainillie du Caniveaux will do some outrageous parody
or some great original music, this year a clown from Germany
brought down hails of laughter with subtle sight gags. I could
go on and on, and the Midnight show certainly does, it ends in
the tiny hours of the morning. I haven’t seen the end for the
last five years, but I remember one year’s ending vividly. I
was playing with the Royal Famillie and that year they were
doing a parody of the Flying Karamozov Brothers, ‘The
Flying Brassiere’s Off Sisters”, and there was at the Fair that
year a Unicom. Well, anyway it was a white haired goat with
one horn coming straight out of the middle of its forehead, and
was owned by this white haired couple. I don’t know whose
idea it was, I have my suspicions, but come time for the big
Finale, I found myself on-stage in a half circle surrounding the
couple with the unicorn-goat, and like everyone else on stage I
was, with the exception on my washboard, stark naked. It was
amazing, the lights turned off, the Flying Karamozovs
juggling fire, musicians wailing away, a unicorn, very pagan.
Visually it was beautiful, sensual, exciting. The reality
though, of standing naked in front of thousands of people, a
lot of whom you know, and several whom you’ve been
intimate with, at two o’clock in the morning in fifty degree
weather with a cold brass washboard on your stomach with
cowbells in dangerous proximity to your most vulnerable body
parts, is an experience I never plan to repeat. You missed it.
But that is the truth of the Fair, no one has ever seen it all.
It’s a big elephant and we are the numberless blind.
The Oregon Country Fair has a beautiful web site at
www.ocf.org, so if you have no idea what I’m talking about,
that will help. Otherwise, next year is the 31st annual. See
ya at the Fair? But, if you want to see the Midnight show you
will have to earn your place, just like real life. Cool, huh?
(We have received e-mail, which we were given permission
to reprint, from Fair Folks who were worried about a story
about the Midnight Show. We do this not only in the interest
of ‘reasonable dialogue’ but to show non-fair folks the level of
passion and concern there is about the Fair. We hope this
story helps encourage more people to try to either start their
own fairs or join ours as part of the family, not just an
audience.)
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Dear Editer,
I seen your paper for the first time after my old lady
told me you printed a letter she wrote. In it she said I
use to work in the woods and that made me a know-
it-all. That ain't quite right. I can rig a flying
parbuckle or whistle for a running tightline or put an
eyepiece into steel cable, but that don't make me a
know-it-all. I am opinionated. That ain't no
disability, and Flora is the know-it-all anyways it
takes one to know one.
I read and reread the letters from the people about
where to move the grade school. I see a lot of
careful thought went into them letters, and Mister
Anderson is absolutely right, and that there Mister
Raskin makes just as much sense himself. To my
way of thinkin, the grade school along with maybe
the lumbar yard and Sage's auto mechanic for sure
ought to stay put, and the rest of Cannon Beach,
such as it is, should be packed up and hauled over to
the R.V. Park, so the people who live here and want
to savor this place could get their little town back.
Doing this would fix a number of problems, and
now that the City owns the R.V. Park anyhow, they
could hand over the whole shootin match to the
Chamber to run from there website. This would end
the ugliness and as they are experts, theirs could be
virginal tourism where its all fun on the run for the
very first time by e-mail. It is also a natural answer
to the north entrance question. It could be pinched
off altogether just by taking out the bridge and next
the pilgrims could come right on down and do their
business off both sides of the hiway at the R.V. Park
just like they do over in Seaside or Tillamook or just
about any other place where people have their heads
screwed on straight. The way to clear out strangers
from town is to put the tourist attractions on the
hiway. This seems as plain as hell to me. Why can't
the smart people at City Hall figure this one out long
ago?
Shorty Picksniff
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