Thought for the Day - June 20

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: Mo the caller
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 05:47 AM

Guest, if you want to know start a thread with that name, so the right people open it.

Subject: Seville S109
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 12:29 AM

I have a Seville S109, do you have any information on it.
How much its worth, etc?

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: jeffp
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 04:10 PM

The wife and I just donated 2 guitars to the VH-1/Borders Books Save the Music campaign. We weren't using those particular instruments, so it was nice to get back the room they were taking up and maybe a great musician will get a start on one of them.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:29 AM

Yep, been there. Just sold a violin for $100 worth probably $1,000 to a young girl who needed an up grade. Have also given away instruments to those who needed them. And, Peter, while I am here, I ALWAYS read your thought for the day, even if I don't always respond to it. Please don't stop, they are wonderful.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: rangeroger
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 12:05 AM

I have hanging on my wall a cheap Seville mandolin.I bought it for 35 dollars from the son of a friend.
When I first met Jon he was only 12 years old, but was really beginning to get good on the mandolin.I played a duet with him at one of the San Diego Bluegrass club meetings and we blew everyone away.Mostly because of his mando skills.We did Blackberry Blossom which I fingerpicked on guitar because nobody told me I couldn't do that, and then we did Meadowlands, trading off the lead and building speed.
For his 13th birthday a group of friends got together and gave him a $600 Kentucky Mandolin.
He's in his 30s now and still playing music,albeit a stand-up bass,and his old mandolin hangs on my wall with his name,Jon DeLong,engraved in the pickguard. We still stay in touch through the internet.
rr

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 11:36 AM

And I assumed this would be something solstice-y... but this is lovely! Nice thought!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 10:57 AM

Yup, done it a number of times. T'is fun (and self-serving). Specially when it's a kid who gets the instrument.

LUV Bix

Rick

Subject: Thought for the Day - June 20
From: GUEST,Peter T.
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:20 AM

"Jazz Talking" is a collection of interviews/memoirs with jazz musicians by the late Max Jones of Melody Maker, the British music magazine. Just republished, it has extraordinary sessions with Billie Holliday, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, and many others. The most interesting one probably is with Jimmy McPartland, a legendary cornet player from Chicago, who regales the listener with tales from Chicago in the 20's, and how he and his pals (including the 13 year old Benny Goodman in short pants) learned the repertoire off of old 78's, etc. The story that struck me, however, was about his encounter with Bix Beiderbecke (an idol of mine, I confess). When you read the books, novels, or see the documentaries about Bix, you come away vaguely thinking that he was certainly complex, but also some kind of drunken mess. Jimmy tells how he was brought as a kid to New York to replace Bix in a band when Bix moved to Goldkette's. Jimmy was dirt poor, and had been given the $32.50 to get himself to New York, he had a battered cornet, and that was about it. Bix befriended him, and one day, took the kid to the music store, and bought him the best cornet in the place. When he was down on his luck, Bix gave him money -- that Jimmy repayed in the last days of Bix's life, when Bix needed it bad. In the midst of the mess of Bix's life, it is nice to have a story like that -- a musician buying another musician, a kid just starting out, an instrument. I am sure there are lots of other generous musician stories like that -- it is sure nice to have one that illuminates something about Bix.