Tonic, 6/30

[Jordan Hirsch <trombaedu...>]

on 6/25/02 2:18 PM, Robert Cohen at rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com wrote:

> Catch-up, continued:  Marianne Faithfull is Jewish??? (said Elliott Simon,
> as advised by his sister Carly?)
> 
>> From her entry in the ROLLING STONE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCK & ROLL:
> 
> "daughter of a London University lecturer in Renaissance studies and an
> Austrian baroness descended from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (from whose name
> 'masochism' is derived)[!!!--explains a lot?--but surely not a nice Jewish
> girl?].  She attended St. Joseph's Convent School in Reading until she was
> 17 [which also explains a lot, as it happens]."
> 
> So, nu ... what's with the Jewish?
> 
> And as far as Country Joe McDonald is concerned, RS advises that he was
> "named after Stalin by left-leaning parents", which would have its own, uh,
> masochistic logic, I suppose, if those parents were Jewish--but were they?
> "McDonald"?  Well, maybe his mother...?
> 
Just want to let you guys know that I will once again be playing at Tonic
this Sunday, June 30, at the klezmer Brunch with my Band The Kleztraphobix.

Jordan Hirsch 

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