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...After my first two years here, the enjoyment I received from playing football and golf became the main reason I stayed with it," Wynne said. "Practices became a drag and jocks became friends," he added...
...know what the sheriff's doing back there?" asks a range hand as he watches the lawman dress in drag. "He thinks he's Mary Poppins." In addition to listening to such finely honed dialogue, interested moviegoers can watch Andy Warhol's merry band of junkies, faggots, transvestites and nymphomaniacs disporting themselves in the master's newest effort, Lonesome Cowboys. The idea was a camped-up Romeo and Juliet out West. Unfortunately, things get sort of confused, as they have a way of doing with Andy, and the result is a series of dreary, druggy improvisational...
...Well, I didn't play with him until the 40's. But I started listenin' to Drag when I was only a little bitty fella.' He didn't play no bass, then. He played guitar and sang creole songs. He had a little group of 'bout three or four pieces. Had a fella slappin' a washboard" -- George made a washboard-slapping gesture--"and a fella on violin, and Drag. They would go all around to little picnics, and backyard parties, and wakes and weddin's. Wherever they could find food and liquor." He smiled...
...Never did get no money in them days. They would play for food and drinks. Drag was a carpenter in the day time." He paused. "Now all that liquor, that's what got Drag started drinkin'. Man, we used to drink anything," he laughed softly, and got sort of a devilish look in his eye. "Canned heat, hair tonic. I mean we drank some terrible stuff. I gave it up finally. Don't drink nothin' now. But you take Drag. Now, Drag say he can take all that stuff. Say he never been sick from it. That's true until...
...ranks of the old musicians are thinning out. Four musicians died last year. Slow Drag Pavageau died a week after George Lewis. Of the Lewis band that I heard in 1962, only two are still alive. Twenty or more have died since Preservation Hall opened. With each new death, it seems that the dirges played by the remaining old men are dirges for themselves. When they are gone--as they surely will be in ten years--the show will be over. There will be no one left to play at their funerals...