TRISTAN UND ISOLDE - PRELUDE AND LIEBESTOD

what the frying pan is a zip file?

i’m happy that they exist because all six ‘uncle’ books are now in my safekeeping (well, nearly, the last one is only 84% downloaded). and they can be in your cyber hands too, dear reader, should you care to visit my ‘uncle’ books thread at simonG.org

richard wagner had the hang of an orchestra. especially the brass section. but i never knew about wagner until i went to live in berlin in the late seventies.

jack hinderliter was an american and what we might now call a traveller although in those days he was more of what you might have called a hippy. i worked with him in the warehouse and enjoyed his laid-back company. a very nice fellow indeed until you got to talk to him: then it got scary.
i went to jack’s only once. he drank nothing but very strong coffee for a massive caffeine kick and played wagner really loud and did the conducting too. he loved his wagner, did jack.

the music of richard wagner got purloined by the nazis but much of it is not only powerful but beautiful. it wasn’t particularly beautiful for me in that flat in north berlin when mad jack was whizzed off his nut on caffeine and conducting for all he was worth but i came to appreciate it later.

they were funny days. hutters was there for a bit so he might tell you. especially about the comfyness of a hard wooden floor in a certain flat in, i think, kreuzberg.

anyway, i have wagner on and it brought back memories that i thought i might share with you. it was the nazis that were nazis; don’t blame richard wagner, just give him a listen. preferably without a speeded-up yank conducting all over the place.

sorry, just thought i’d drop that little note in.
h.