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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 27 Nov 02 - 07:23 PM Peter, Plastic poop beneath him?? Please give him more credit than that. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Jeri Date: 27 Nov 02 - 05:48 PM Peter, that was horrible. (applause) |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Peter T. Date: 27 Nov 02 - 05:41 PM It is a quaint little device, he used it on me one evening. I am ashamed to have to reveal that he also used plastic poop, which is really beneath him. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 27 Nov 02 - 03:03 PM Well, I was hoping to hear more about that Martin, but I wouldn't mind hearing report on the Fart machine. Great site Mick. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Jeri Date: 27 Nov 02 - 03:01 PM Rick, the fart machine story. (I know - you're just hoping this thread will vaporise, but I think you should clear the air on this.) |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Big Mick Date: 27 Nov 02 - 01:42 PM http://www.farts.com/ |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Jeri Date: 26 Nov 02 - 09:54 AM Steve, I think most folks got done talking about Rick Fielding at the Tranzac. It could have gone to "Tranzac" next, or "Rick Fielding." (It could have gone quite a few other places I'm not even going to speculate about.) So we got thread creep...or maybe it's thread peristalsis. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 26 Nov 02 - 09:49 AM I'm with Jeri, please elaborate. Man, this has literally become a BS thread. Oh yeah, I picked up Six Strings North Of The Border when I was there. There is some great stuff on it. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: JedMarum Date: 26 Nov 02 - 09:48 AM I wish I couldda been there, but it is a bit of a drive! |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Jeri Date: 26 Nov 02 - 09:38 AM Rick, tell the story of how you came to buy it!!! I heard it on the phone. Rick must've had it in 'squeaker' mode because I thought he was doing crow impressions. I doubt it comes off anywhere near as funny as it does in person. Personally, I'd love to hear the "INTERESTING results." You can leave names out... |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 26 Nov 02 - 09:15 AM Big Mick, I was on a golf trip with the boys a while ago. One of the guys had one. It has about six different sounds, squeakers, bangers, thunderers, toots. He used it everywhere. I can't believe how much we laughed. I don't know where he got it. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Big Mick Date: 26 Nov 02 - 08:07 AM WAIT.........WAIT.............This is a REMOTE CONTROLLED Mick |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 26 Nov 02 - 06:53 AM So I see Rick before 20 minutes before the show. I know a lot of people who would be battling nereves at that point. Rick says (with the same twinkle in his eye as a fifth grader with the same device would have) "have you seen my Fart machine"? The whole time scanning the room for victims. He then saw someone who he considered a worthy victim and was off almost running. The next I saw he was dropping it under a chair with is very best look of guilt. I was giggling like a schoolgirl and proud to be in on it. You know, as you get older you develop an appreciation for more subtle humour, but tnak God you never outgrow twelve year old humour. The Fart machine may be single greatest invention in history!! |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Rick Fielding Date: 25 Nov 02 - 10:23 PM Hmmmm, fundraising at the radio station tonight. Geez I wish I could drink.....'cause I need one! Oh, I HATE that beggin', even though it's for a good cause. Anyway.....don't use the artificial fingernails no mo'...simply too hard to do "thumb index" single string leads. I'm using "JF" custom picks....sent away for them last week. They cost a fortune, are manufactured by Jeff Neumann a Steel player, and use "old fashioned" steel in them. So far so good. My remote controlled "Fart machine".......well.....let's say I got some INTERESTING results and leave it at that. Cheers Rick |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 25 Nov 02 - 06:55 PM Oh yeah, and how was your new remote controlled machine? |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Nov 02 - 06:03 PM How goes it with the fingernails, Rick? - LH |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 25 Nov 02 - 02:31 PM Rick, Thanks for vouching for me. Your researchers did a hell of a job. I'm glad I wasn't there to see the Dobro incident. BTW, that was one fancy lookin' Martin you were pickin'. What is it? I suspect that I missed a chapter of GAS. The last time I saw you perform was at the Acoustic Harvest's "O Brother" night. That was the first performance with the Gibson that you had professing undying love for. What happened? Karen really liked the sound of the banjo that you opened the show with. Of course she is used to hearing me try Bluegrass on a tone ringed, resonator back banjo. You mentioned it was made locally, can you tell us a bit more about it? Perhaps a communal Mudcat Lear Jet or two is in order. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Nov 02 - 01:49 PM Marvelous prose, Peter! You should put out an anthology of this stuff. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Tinker Date: 25 Nov 02 - 01:39 PM Rick!!!!! That jet was supposed to be a surprise present... Now you went and done wrecked it. I'll have to find something else to send'em this year. And I thought I had my shopping all figured out. Jeeezzz! Tinker |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Rick Fielding Date: 25 Nov 02 - 12:26 PM Jeez, lemme tell ya, Steve Latimer is DEFINITELY real. He's a solid citizen with a job, beautiful new wife, and a penchant for Dylan and banjo. He's a former hockey player, and loves the colour Puce. In his spare time he designs apres-ski clothes, has been a volunteer candy-striper in the "Moron" Wing of the Jean Chretien Hospital for the criminally incontinent. IF he's chosen MIss World he'll do all he can to work for world peace and.......Oooooops! Sorry about that, I got confused! Yes, indeed. A fun night, nice crowd.....BUT.....a disaster happened as well. Near the end of the second show, my Dobro/mandolinist Frank Barth DROPPED his 1935 Regal Dobro while putting it on the stand and BUSTED THE NECK!! You could hear the collected intake of breath from the audience. Yup, the neck really DID look awful....sort of the musical equivalent of a skier breaking his leg and the bone showing through!! Shouldn't be hard to repair though. Dobros are mostly plywood and pretty hardy. Boy, Jeri and Mick.....when you guys get yer own Lear jets we can visit all the time. Cheers Rick |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Jeri Date: 25 Nov 02 - 08:50 AM I could have made it if I left at 9AM or so. Oh yeah, Mick...talk Grit out of a guitar. I have fantasies of him saying "Gosh Jeri, I like you so darned much I'm gonna make you your very own guitar made from the wood of the extinct and rare Antlantis cloud tree, inlaid with true-to-life images of mythical creatures crafted in snakeskin agate, fossilized dragon bone and coral from the Sea of Tranquility." It could happen... The fantasies of just going/being up there are a bit more realistic. Getting everyone else to show, maybe not. There are many places in the world entirely too far away from Toronto. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 25 Nov 02 - 07:25 AM Mick, I exist. Just barely, but I exist. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Big Mick Date: 24 Nov 02 - 11:21 PM I just got in from a gig in Detroit. You have no idea how I thought of shooting through the tunnel with my guitar in the back seat and heading for Toronto and the Tranzac. I am glad to hear it went well, for my friend. I don't know what I wanted to do most, listen to Rick play with that special mastery of his, or bask in the glow of our beloved Heather. Or maybe to sit and chat with Peter...or see Marion..........or stop and see Paul and Bev and see if I could get 'em to cook me a meal..........or chat with Glen about his songs........or try to talk Grit out of one of his guitars.........Shit..........I am going to bed. Hey Jeri and Jed.........are you feeling "homesick" too? Rick......without The Beef Brothers? It jest don't seem right. And had I done it, I could have finally discovered whether Steve Latimer is real or not............or seen Justa......Shit.........I am going to bed. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 24 Nov 02 - 10:30 PM Well, I'm just back from the Tranzac. Unfortunately I could only stay for the first set. Rick sure didn't disappoint. Not only is he a talented multi-instrumntalist, he has the ability to make his shows seem like a kitchen party, very informal & fun. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Peter T. Date: 24 Nov 02 - 02:46 PM Yep. yours, Peter |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 24 Nov 02 - 01:55 PM Peter T. I guess mine was the Reader's Digest version. LOL I hope to see you there tonight. For us Whitbyites, it's on Brunswick just south of Bloor, right? Steve |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Peter T. Date: 24 Nov 02 - 01:50 PM Around the hemisphere, the buzz begins. Carried first by the remnant leaves rustling the word, birds in chevron flight pick up the lilt, tilt and wheel back in their invisible tracks toward Toronto. Trains, in surreal motion, leap their tracks, hitch a ride on their own freight cars, and move in the gathering dusk toward Toronto. Ships at sea, some weeks away from their destinations, under flags of convenience, stow the flags, and make for Toronto harbour. Choruses of hummingbirds hover on street corners, oiling their doowops in anticipation; old bluesmen in broken down spaces slatted every which way against the sunlight, turn over in bed and smile where their gold teeth, now gracing the pawnbroker's desk drawer, used to be. Managers of downatheels hotels close and lock their doors with a Sunday sigh, reach into their pockets and bring out a ten, hand it to the hooker performing the essential task of holding up the front wall of the hotel, and go their way, heading for the Tranzac, their shoes picking up a step. Out of a thousand Presbyfundapiscopaleadventist churches, sweetly dressed old ladies tuck their Bibles away into their purses, and consider the blues. Taxi drivers, thinking of heading for home, pause, and over the sqwak box comes the word, Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight, and they smile, catch sight of themselves in the rearview, and head towards Brunswick in expectant swarms. The moon, just past full, considers breaking the laws of astronomy, and checking out, but reconsiders, and merely hopes to hear soft strains filtering up into the late night sky. For the word is out. Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight. |
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Subject: Rick Fielding at the Tranzac tonight From: Steve Latimer Date: 24 Nov 02 - 01:26 PM A reminder, Rick is playing Toronto's Tranzac Club tonight at 8:00 P.M. |
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