Can you name the hippest dude to ever stroll through our apple? Why it’s the hummin’ cat himself, Mr. Cab Calloway! This cat probably donned the dicty cogs even into the deep black and you know that he wasn’t drinkin’ no moo juice neither! My pops first turned me onto Cab Calloway and his hip orchestrations. He was a big Cab fan. In high school, I heard more of his sweet music on Dr. Demento’s radio show, and finally in the 80’s, Mr. Joe Jackson hepped me to some of his jive on his sweet “Jumpin’ Jive” lp.
Cab Calloway was sooo dang hip that he has his own dictionary of hipster slang. Go ahead “goggle” it….and it ain’t that bearded hipster high fivin’crap that is so prevalent these days. No coffee drinkin’, texting, Tweeting, tight jean wearing Jeff should ever go near this dictionary! None of today’s cats are hep enough!
Dig, a funny, true story involving Cab Calloway. I was at a jazz fest in Long Beach many, many years ago and had VIP backstage passes, needless to say, after much imbibing of free suds, I had to urinate profusely. So I am waiting at the porta-potty…and waiting…and waiting…finally I bang on the door and yell “Come on man, we all gotta go” or something to that effect. Well, lo and behold, much to my chagrin, the door opens and Cab Calloway strolls out and I do my best not to meet his gaze…thoroughly humiliated. So a catchphrase started amongst our friends that when we had to urinate profusely that we “had to p*ss like Cab Calloway!”…for you see there was also a racehorse by that same name so it all sort of ties in together…Folks, this is information you can’t buy on the internet!
So dig, as far as the art goes, we all know those fancy pants wine snobs that always pour small amounts of vino in their glasses and then sniff at the rims all the while swirling their liquids like a flushing toilet in the Western Hemisphere, I reckon in Australia, they swirl the opposite way. So I painted a woe looking, dizzy Cab, sort of hoping that the jive *ss peeps stop the hepness and just power down the grape without all the posing fanfare. I figured Cab is short for Cabernet. The swirling world is painted in muted metallics because I wanted to and also I like shiny things and you all should like shiny things too! So until next time because The Big Huerta is beat up this black and that’s the bible!