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Thread #76438   Message #1708478
Posted By: GUEST,Norm SIegel
01-Apr-06 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: Merlin Banjo (and the Chicago Folk Scene)
Subject: RE: Merlin Banjo (and the Chicago Folk Scene)
Professor Art---you have done it again! Presley, Page, Rosemary and Thieme, INDEED!!!! A classic Art Thieme groaner if I have ever heard one. Obviously, while your health my not be the great3est, your mind is sharp as ever!!! You must have been up for nights thinking that one up!!!

Love ya to pieces!!!

Norm

PS BTW, I did a stint on bass with Bob Gibson at the Belmont Quiet Knight in 1970. On one night, we had the Trib "gossip" columnists, John and Abra Anderson in the audience. They had a Penthouse Apartment on top of the Drake hotel, and they always looked "Mahvelous", even in jeans and sneakers. Bob recognized them from the stage and made them take a bow! I leaned over to Bob and said: "Even in jeans and sneakers, they STILL looked like they just stepped off of a wedding cake!" It was one of the few times I saw Bob break up uncontrolably during a performance!