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Thread #54819   Message #850269
Posted By: JohnInKansas
19-Dec-02 - 08:02 AM
Thread Name: Taylor played a Granfalloon?
Subject: RE: Taylor played a Granfalloon?
Well... I thought maybe one of you guys would remember back then.

I tried the Google search too, and there seems to be some active cult-ish (Granfalloonish) stuff still out there - Kurt's always been pretty popular.

The album doesn't seem to have much else on it that would suggest that it was a "joke" listing, but that doesn't prove that it wasn't. I suppose, in that era, it was a word with a nice sound - and with an obscure meaning, so it could have been applied to almost any kind of noisemaker - or it could have the K.V. meaning of "a coherent but meaningless organization," or it could just be some other sort of "foma."

This came up as a result of a debate at a session last week over "that ain't the way James Taylor played it" - with the attendant debate over how much - if any - his way deserved any respect. SWMBO decided to pull out her old 33's and "prove something" to somebody - and ran across this credit.

If somebody knows something, maybe they'll give us an answer, but I've also got to get the Xmas decorations up and I can't find the bulb.

Thanks guys.

John

John