Al Youngs page

[John Condon]

Hey Al, great page , I loved it. So after all those adventures you
have to tell us....what is the meaning of life? You know I would give
anything to drive a Charlies cab down Kalakauwa Ave one more time. I
think I see a 5! Gotta go, I am 10-8. (inside cabbie lingo)

[Alan Young]

Grasshopper,

     You moron, the cab driver term for fares on the road was "6's, not "5's".  A fine taxi driver you turned out to be.

     I've heard that Obama lived on Poki Street in Makiki when he was a kid, and on University Avenue with his grandparents when he went to Punahou.  Both areas that we knew well in our salad days.  Or plate lunch days.  Have you been back since I saw you in Kaneohe in the 80's?

     Life advice?  Well, sure.   As I refer to one of my favorite scriptures, St. Paul's letters to the Crustaceans, I see that he unequivocally states, "Never give a sucker an even…"  No, wait.  I'm sorry, I think I had the wrong book out.

     The only thing that I've been able to figure out is that when you tell life that you want to get cleaned up, watch out, because you're going to get put in the washer and dryer a couple of times and get pulverized.

     Good job on getting the web site started. 

Al

[John Condon]

Oh yeah...6's that's what they were...old brain not good. But 10-8
was right...remember Charlie Blue and the Mahoo's....ah waisted
youth. Remember my cab...508, CoCo's, Hotel street, Pearl harbor,
Huntsy working and getting robbed his first night...LOL, what a
blast!!!

As to being back yes I have been a few times, actually I was in Kauai
in March. Lets see I went back to Oahu for the FAA about 5 years ago
and visited Huntsy. He has a killer house overlooking Diamondhead and
a house on the beach in Haleiwa, 5 houses down from the
pipeline...incredible! Oahu was very depressing, just too much and
Waikiki was Tokyo. The North shore was still cool but the traffic was
a bear, still I would consider living there again. The air, the
water....still da kine!

I went to the big Island 2x and Maui once with various bands to play
corporate gigs. The big Island was O.K. and since I really didn't
know it, I had nothing to compare it to. Maui is a disaster. Lahaina
looks like it was torn down and rebuilt by Disney. They allowed
uncontrolled development but never upgraded the infrastructure
(roads). As a result the traffic is beyond description. The place is
nothing like the island I lived on...but what it.

This March my girlfriend and I went to Kauai. It is a as beautiful as
ever, still pretty much intact, I recommend it if you want to go back.

As for plate lunches, I am out the door to get one as we speak. There
is a great Hawaiian BBQ place in town that serves a killer kalua pig
with rice and that incredibly bad macaroni salad....Oh, broke da mout
bra!

On May 3, 10:26 am, "Alan Young" <alanyoun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Grasshopper,
>
>      You moron, the cab driver term for fares on the road was "6's, not
> "5's".  A fine taxi driver you turned out to be.
>
>      I've heard that Obama lived on Poki Street in Makiki when he was a kid,
> and on University Avenue with his grandparents when he went to Punahou.  Both
> areas that we knew well in our salad days.  Or plate lunch days.  Have you
> been back since I saw you in Kaneohe in the 80's?
>
>      Life advice?  Well, sure.   As I refer to one of my favorite
> scriptures, St. Paul's letters to the Crustaceans, I see that he
> unequivocally states, "Never give a sucker an even…"  No, wait.  I'm sorry,
> I think I had the wrong book out.
>
>      The only thing that I've been able to figure out is that when you tell
> life that you want to get cleaned up, watch out, because you're going to get
> put in the washer and dryer a couple of times and get pulverized.
>      Good job on getting the web site started.
> Al
>

> On 5/2/08, John Condon <dcknj...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hey Al, great page , I loved it.  So after all those adventures you
> > have to tell us....what is the meaning of life?  You know I would give
> > anything to drive a Charlies cab down Kalakauwa Ave one more time.  I

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[Larry Neff]

In like 88 or so, I went to a place called The Roxy on Kauai, in
Kapaa, saw a (Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino,
Scottish, Irish, German, Albanian, Samoan, Guamanian, AfroCuban,
PuertoRican and some other stuff) kid play with Buddy Miles (really)
and channel Jimi Hendrix like Jimi was on fucking fire inside this
kid's balls. I can't remember the kid's name. Fucking Jimi was in
there, man, no fucking shit.

[John Condon]

You saw Buddy Miles in 88? The year before I got Buddy Miles out of
friggin jail. I shit you not. I had a kick-ass funk band in S.F.
and
Buddy heard about us from prison. He needed to prove to the parole
board that he had a job waiting for him when he got out so he started
writing me like daily, sending me pictures to prove he was clean and
sober etc.. The most riduculous jail-house bullshit you can imagine.
All about how he wanted to join the band and that we would all go to
the top together, stuff like that. I kept pointing out "But Buddy, I
play drums in my band". He would not be detered and just kept
writing
back and saying that we would work it all out. Well we knew it was
bullshit but thought "what the heck, lets help this sap get out of
jail", I mean he was one of the greats, right? So we vouch for him
and he
shows up for like two gigs, the majority of which he spent doing blow
in the bathroom ... then I never saw him again. Must have been the
year before you saw him on Kauai....weird world indeed.

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[Larry Neff]

He was very competent when I saw him, definitely no ealier than 88.
He was promoting this kid who channeled Hendrix. Wish I had known you
all were there.....