LMG: is Light Machine Gun, of which Owens are one.
A flamm is a two stick hit, almost simultaneously, making a rough note, on a
drum.
Drumming took me into chemical warfare on myself. I have since stopped
drumming and drugging. Being an impressionable young poet-drummer is a
dangerous role!
Andrew
2008/10/30 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> O Andrew, so much visual and verbal felicity...
>
> (not that I know what LMG is short for.
> Owens, I guess, are more modern machine guns than Brens.
> Is flamming a slip for flaming?
> What became of the drumming?
>
> best from Max
>
> Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > "Hey, watch this."
> > We'd take out their legs first
> > in the LMG group, then
> > go for the body. Regular army
> > left us to their devices
> > on the range. They had
> > made me sergeant because
> > I could play drums. Logic
> > escapes. Here we were,
> > with our Owens, shooting off
> > at the mouth and
> > paradiddling the legs off
> > targets in the secondary dunes.
> >
> > *
> >
> > "Got a Lucky Strike?"
> > we sat at small desks
> > in Junior School,
> > flamming desktops,
> > using inkwells as ashtrays.
> > I drew some triplets
> > and bars of 6/8 to
> > look 'the real thing' should
> > our regular officer saunter down
> > to our practice room. I envied
> > my friend: his mother
> > a famous writer, his left hand
> > more flexible than mine.
> > He never wore his webbing
> > right and his boots had
> > last week's march on them.
> > Now sixty something, he falls
> > between pub
> > and shack, town drunk in
> > a fishing village, happy
> > on his lonesome.
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
> >
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