The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12608   Message #599906
Posted By: Art Thieme
28-Nov-01 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat / Sing Out Magazine
Subject: RE: Mudcat / Sing Out Magazine
Mark, I don't remember one for Ed B. Wasn't that one for Sing Out too...the one at the Quiet Knight with Pete? Ed Balchowsky was the caretaker of the Quiet Knight and he and Pete did a few songs together that night---pretty strange--Eddie couldn't hear Pete on the monitor. They did "Freiheit" and "Peat Bog Soldiers" from the International and Lincoln Brigades. Eddie on piano and Pete with his longneck. Hadn't ever played together before. Ed hitting discords on the piano with his stump. WFMT has tapes of that concert. I wasn't on that show I don't think but I was there. I know I've talked about Ed Balchowsky here I'm sure. [Folks, a forum search should find that probably. He was a vet of the Spanish Civil War. Lost an arm in a big battle on the Ebro River. Was a concert pianist before that. Got on morphine after getting it for pain then. He was a friend but... We were chasing the same lady around '65. I have a short docu-video about him---made after he died.]

Ah, nostalgia. ;-)

Art