The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35666   Message #488327
Posted By: RangerSteve
20-Jun-01 - 07:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours?
Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours?
In addition to my last comments here: While performing in a coffee house in Brooklyn years ago a guy came in and started backing us up on the house piano. I later learned that it was Peter Schikele - PDQ Bach. He definately had a talent for old-time string band music. My harmonica playing was complemented by Leon Redbone, but not to my face. I was directing traffic once and held up traffic so Senator Bill Bradley could cross the street. I said "Good Evening" to him but he ignored me. Now he'll never get my vote. He was also in the audience at Albert Music Hall in Waretown NJ when my band was playing. He's so tall that he had to sit in an aisle seat with his legs in the aisle. I almost tripped on his feet in the dark. I also shook hands with Kaptain Kangaroo at a supermarket opening when I was 6 yrs. old.