> He's right about this.  I'll be looking forward to that live disc.  >Saw
them  twice, it was chillingly great both times.  I think the >writing was
on the wall when Suzie Cowsill and Russ Broussard >split, at about the same
time as  the Bangles got active.
>

I think you're right about that, Josh. I was lucky enough to see the
Drifters twice as well -- once at the Double Door in Charlotte, N.C., and
the North Star in Philly. They were amazingly tight each time.
Once the "Fleetwood Mac" effect set in and Vicki decamped for The Bangles,
it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that this incarnation of the band
was history. But I'd been holding out hope that earlier members might return
to the fold (as was the case at NoLa's JazzFest a year or two ago), and they
might become a viable operation again.
A live record would be most welcome as well.

john micek