From: Jim Mackey Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.music.progressive] Weirdest CD You Own? Date: 22 Feb 1998 15:27:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Weirdest CD You Own? From: "Ken Taylor" Newsgroups: rec.music.progressive Jim Harkins wrote ... > wrote: >>rcarlberg@aol.com (Rcarlberg) wrote: >> >>2) Aleister Crowley - "The Great Beast Speaks." Ole Uncle Al reads > >Didn't he die in the early 1900s? Like 1912 or so? How did he make a >recording if he died so long ago? No...he was around until 1948 (I think). There's a story about an encounter Charlie Parker had with him in 1943ish where AC advised him to swap from playing tenor to alto. They met a number of times after (both having raging herion addictions) and it's said AC convinced CP he "was the devil himself" during one of their drug addled meetings. CP believed him and his invitation to "sell his soul". A number of years later, CP retold this story to Charlie Daniels, who was present at one of CP's Southern Tours (Charlie Daniels is a nephew of Red Rodney who played trumpet with Parker at that time). Years later, Charlie Daniels penned the song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" as a tribute to Parker. Originally, the "Devil" was supposed to be a saxophone player, but this was later changed to fiddle to appease the A&R guys in Nashville (who thought they could never release an album that said ol' Satan played a sissy instrument like a saxophone). It wasn't until the early 1980's that the Stray Cats corrected this image problem with their song "Wild Saxophone" ;-)