D.Croman & Karen Ketchum, Gee Coffee House, mid-90’s&Dan’s street picks, 2000-ish, humorous ad-lib

[conclusion of three-video incident description & related synopsis/thoughts; then brief description of this video] Some cities encourage talent and it reflects on those places when the performers, whose careers were unhampered enough to then take on a national status, in turn show loyalty to their place of origin by investing in it in the form of productive businesses. Phonies like former Mayor Cleaver, who supported the unequal treatment between bar owners & free lance street players regarding rights to produce (even moderate) outdoor sound, yet conversely make seperate claims of being pro civil rights &of having an affinity for a mythical time in KC’s past. During the time in question, Tom Pendergrass ruled the city with a crooked iron fist. The resulting perceived-benefit to the art community, a spill over from un-policed prostitution & racketeering, is not the city’s finest hour. This is true even if artists like Charlie Parker got a propagandized career boost from it, & from a culture that glamorized heroin use along with other immorality. Not that Parker wasn’t good, but, the saturation of his music, thrust on the public, generated by activity in the heyday of ill-gotten gains, helped propel it to a level of public consciousness. Absent this, & the propagated legend attached from that era, it is difficult to say whether a would-be objective public finds it to stand out above countless other above-average recording artists. The current method of fascism used by KC is …
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