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...Willie the Pimp" followed, and it allowed all of the musicians to demonstrate their worth. Ian Underwood and Don Preston were brilliant on keyboards, but much of the credit for holding the music together belongs to Aynsley Dunbar, the drummer. Never missing a beat (an extremely difficult task, given the complexity of Zappa's music), Dunbar was the second star, over-shadowed only by Zappa himself...
...answer lies in further examination, and one begins to see that Black John is at once street corner pimp, southern creole preacher and medicine show hustler. One who will use any means to achieve his ends. He is the Hootchie Coochie Man, the boastful con-artist who walks on guilded splinters and sees everything...
This one starts out by recounting the rapacious career of one Thomas Oliver, who was born in an Ohio River town in 1870. At 13 he left home, and by 17 he was prospering as a pickpocket, pimp and smuggler. After another ten years of wandering, he winds up down the river in New Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini...
...Pimp Squad. In retaliation two weeks ago, a judge in the city's criminal court took the unprecedented action of holding two alleged hookers without bail, explaining that "the midtown area was inundated with prostitution." The girls received some unexpected support: Women's Liberationists quickly picketed the courthouse, protesting female exploitation. But the resultant publicity could not have been better for Mayor John Lindsay, who was at the same time launching the city's ritual annual crackdown on the sidewalk sirens...
...with cameras to capture the girls in the act of soliciting. There were also efforts to discourage, through arrests, the live sex shows that complement the streetside spectacle, and some talk, mostly just that, of prosecuting "Johns," as the girls call their customers. Finally, the police established a special "pimp squad" to tackle the problem at one of its sources. Faced with harassment from all sides, the birds took flight...