The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107135   Message #2589505
Posted By: Stringsinger
15-Mar-09 - 03:22 PM
Thread Name: Frank Hamilton and my musical life.
Subject: RE: Frank Hamilton and my musical life.
Thank you Art. We have a mutual appreciation. I think your recordings are priceless.

That Concertdisc is long gone. Haven't a clue where it went. It might be my best solo recording so far.

Maybe I can change that in the future. Who knows?

Working with Erik was quite an experience. He was Mister polish-to-perfection and had
more of a pulse on the popular music then I ever did. I was always interested in jazz and
jamming. He said that my inclinations jarred him a little into being more spontaneous.
He was nervous, that night at Carnegie and this gave our duo a little more edge I think.

I think that nerves can either serve performers or inhibit them. The worst thing to me
is that performers are so calm and cool that they become complacent and uncaring about their audience. It's so important to me never to take an audience for granted.

Not that Erik did that. His antidote for nerves was to rehearse...rehearse..rehearse.
He added another dimension to the Weavers, I think. They did not like to rehearse that much. Especially Lee.

Frank