The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10800   Message #78894
Posted By: Rick Fielding
16-May-99 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: Stan Rogers
Subject: RE: Stan Rogers
Hi Paul. That was my plan all along. Give some wrong information, and maybe you'd be forced to come on board and correct it! Nah! I was just to lazy to look on the back of the album.
A bit of "correct" information however, might contain these few tidbits: under the alias "Curley Boy Stubbs", paul's fleet fingerpicking has graced many a recording project. Using an "AKA" is a time honoured tradition in our strange little musical world, as anyone who's pondered the actual identity of "Blind Boy Grunt" can attest. I believe the all-time "king" of pseudonyms must be John Lee Hooker, with Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, and Brownie McGhee close behind. Even yours truly adopted the sobriquet "Lance Boyle" a number of years ago while playing bass for a truly bizarre country duo. The female member wore a silver lamee micro skirt, sang country love songs to a large snake, played the coctail drum, and stripped between sets! Her husband dressed like Davy Crocket - with more fringe than you'd find at the Edinburgh festival, and did Johhny Cash impersonations. I ask you, would YOU have used your real name?
Paul's use of an alias appears to have been motivated by less desperate circumstances though. As a long time C.B.C. producer, he used "Curly Boy" to seperate the "hot guitar" entity from the "studio" one.