The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67038 Message #1119158
Posted By: Marion
19-Feb-04 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: Rick Fielding Release Party (Feb 16)
Subject: RE: Rick Fielding Release Party (Feb 16)
Sure thing.
Once last year I was over at the Fieldings - NOT for a guitar lesson, just visiting. I was chatting with Rick when the phone rang - it was a friend of his visiting Australia. While he was on the phone, I picked up a guitar and noodled with it - in the next room, with my back turned to him, and very very softly.
After a bit, I heard him say, "Hang on a minute," to his friend then he came over to me with a chord diagram that he had just written down and wanted me to try.
A few minutes later, and he again excused himself from the conversation because there was another guitar thing he needed to tell me.
I think it reveals a lot of about Rick's teaching instincts (compulsions?), that he would twice interrupt the call from Australia because what he wanted to tell me about the guitar just couldn't wait ten minutes...
Marion