One of the things that my friends and I considered was to start our own New Orleans style brass band. We had a name and everything - N.O. Talent Brass Band (tm). None of us knew how to play any brass instruments or even the drums, but we were going to be a gimmick band. Sort of. Our idea was to play brass band versions of TV show themes - Little House on the Prairie, Wild World of Sports (you know, the agony of defeat), Newheart, Bonanza, whatever it would take. Of course, this idea has never gotten off the ground. But still, it would be interesting to take those 60s, 70s and 80s songs and funk them up a bit. Maybe one day we will get it together.
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A few months ago I posted some notes on a couple of semi-recent books, one
of which was *Ages of American Capitalism *by Jonathan Levy. One of the
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