Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 06:28 PM

Hey, Jim:

A line from one of my songs:

"The good old days are still to come, though the hard times are not over."

I believe that.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: GUEST,Jim Kucera
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 05:49 PM

'Member Art from No exit in Evanston. Best song was "Tennessee Stud". Those were the good days, but today ain't so bad either.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:30 PM

Jim, those videos are from back then, too. Art isn't able to perform these days due to MS.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: GUEST,Jim Kucera
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:06 PM

Remember Art from No Exit in Evanston. Best song was "Tennessee Stud" back then. He's lookin good & soundin good now.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 10:01 PM

My banjo was made by Bart Reiter. I've never played one I like as much.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 09:40 PM

what banjo are you guys playing ? Sounds great, an old gold tone maybe?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 03:39 PM

Fantastic!!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 03:14 PM

Jerry thats what makes this so great, it is like everyone watching is right there live. It is real and that is one reason it is so wonderful.

Now we gotta talk Kendall and Frank into getting me some video so we can have a permanent record of you guys out there for everyone to enjoy. You two really made a lot of people happy with this video. I thank you sincerely both of you

Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:59 PM

See why I ask for recording help all the time, my tin ear thought it was the 9 string for sure ...

Art telling jokes and playing


Gonna quit now, gotta work, takes a bit of time to parse these, I don't edit very well at all.

Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:48 PM

How fitting. A son I wrote about remembering and I forget a verse. :-) Only goes to show we all need to be humble.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:32 PM

by the last one is Jerry great "handful of songs"

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:31 PM

Jerry doing one of his originals

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:29 PM

Art doing Father dear Father

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 01:41 PM

Dan,

That D-76 Martin was back to being a 6-string guitar when we did that concert in 1989! I thought I'd said that!??

Thanks, again for doing this. (I do wish I could get a faster connection than dial-up! )

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 12:40 PM

Art
your modifications to that guitar was wonderful. I can't believe the sound you got out of that. It is like a 12 string on steriods - much richer on the bass I think. What a great idea ... and what courage it took to self modify a Martin like that. Sure glad you did, that was really cool

Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 01:10 AM

These videos are a real treat. Jerry and Art convey an atmosphere of fun in their performance, and it's just a joy to watch.
Dan, do you think you could number the titles of these videos somehow so we can watch them in order if we want?
At the end of Art's "Diamond Joe," Jerry says something about a Chevy, and now I want to hear the rest of the Chevy story - where is it?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 12:51 AM

oldude,
I just watched the whole DVD trying to see what guitar I was playing. I do think that is the same D-76 bicentennial Martin that I won in a raffle at the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago. So it cost me 3 dollars!! ($3.00)

Years later, around 1996, I was putting the gig bag with that guitar inside into the trunk of my car and I slammed the trunk lid on it. Getting home, I opened it up and found it looking like matchsticks. Superb guitar builder and repairman extraordinaire, JAN BURDA, in Michigan, put it back together beautifully. Our son, Chris, has it now!

Jan Burda, along with his then wife, Anne Hills, owned the music store where this concert took place--Hogeye Music in Evanston, Illinois.

Anne and Jan sold the store to great singer and picker, JIM CRAIG---who Larry Rand called probably the best singing voice ever to come out of the Chicago Folk Revival scene. Jim operates the fine store there on Central Street even as we speak. He is a prince of a guy.

Oh, Sorry, I digress!!

That is the nine-string guitar. But because my hands were going numb from MS, I had already gone back to six strings to make playing it easier. The last gig I did was at Cafe Carpe in Fort Atkinson , Wisconsin---June 6th, 1997. ---- There was a real chance I'd not be able to do that gig---so Jerry Rasmussen was there to take over--just in case.

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 10:00 PM

Well Art, it is all deserved, after 50+ years of performing all of you fine people getting some recondition from the outside world is a wonderful thing I think.

The problem with being in the fine arts, like music or photography or painting,   when one retires, they don't even get a gold watch or a cake. Well when you and Jerry warm the hearts of good people who still enjoy a performance 21 years ago, that is better than a watch.

And when Jerry gets the praises he has been getting for his book and music, that is better than a watch

And when you , Captain, Jacqui and Dan get that Grammy, Now that is the icing on the cake.

Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 07:28 PM

Mind when I opened the link and saw that clean shaven young bloke I thought he must be an imposter, till he opened his mouth.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 07:12 PM

And these days I am definitely overabundant!

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 01:30 PM

Happy makes happy. And no one touches you, Dan.

Jerry

We give from overabundance.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 11:53 AM

Jerry and Art
look how happy you made so many people. That is what life is about isn't it ... thanks guys

Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 09:41 AM

Bookmarked! I'm going to be coming back to those clips on a regular basis.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Genie
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 04:06 AM

I haven't watched all of them yet but the first two were great!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 12:44 AM

MORE!! MORE!!

(please)

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 12:11 AM

These are so precious. Incredible!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 08:09 PM

Jerry doing a song about traditional songs

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 07:11 PM

Art doing some on the river stuff

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 07:04 PM

The video is old enough, maybe you can get a grainy Award. :-)
Thanks so much for doing this. Sorry I missed your call.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:52 PM

Hey can I get a grannie award instead of grammy for mudcat video editing (hee hee)
and a pretty poor job of it I do also .. LOL but it is fun to try and slice these out

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:34 PM

art playing Diamond Joe

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:24 PM

What's the tuning on the 9-string guitar, Art? Is there a thread describing it? Oh yeah - here (click).
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:13 PM

Yeah, it is great fun to watch, Art. I think we could easily have played another couple of hours and not even realized it. As it was, I remember that we couldn't believe how much time had passed. Our nights together at the Cafe Carpe in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin were wonderful, but there never was and never will be another night like the one at Hog Eye. And yes, I remember that you were having a lot of trouble with your hands and didn't know what the cause was back then.

Great times.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:05 PM

How cool is that,   I got to see you play it ... Thanks Art
we all love you to ya know.

that show was exactly 10/20/89 when you guys did that.
I was a mere toddler LOL ...

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 05:59 PM

From what I can see, that is the 9-string guitar I made by altering a Martin D-76.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 05:29 PM

Hey Art,
was that your famous 9 string guitar?

dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 05:15 PM

Did anyone notice that I have no beard?? I had shaved for the first time in a few decades---didn't like what I saw in the mirror--so I grew it right back...

Art again...

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 05:11 PM

Dude,
Thanks for putting this up there. It's quite nice to see!

That was a fun night. Those several hours seemed like only 5 minutes. It's what Einstein meant by his theory of relativity I'm thinking.

Having only dial-up, it takes me forever to download a segment. But I do have the whole concert on a DVD that Jerry sent to me.

Say, what year was that? I mentioned on this video how my hands were going numb -- so it must be in the 1980s. And I kept rubbing my hands on my pants leg. So it was before I had 10 years of spinal/neck surgeries for the same symptoms that were finally diagnosed as MS in '97.

But Mudcat has given me some extra presence in the folk scene, and for that, Max and everyone, I'm truly appreciative!!!

Love to you all; and I mean that!

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 04:59 PM

they take me a bit to parse out alex but I will post them for sure
Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 03:51 PM

Simply great sessions!Find more, please!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 03:29 PM

Jerry, I had a car like that! An English Ford Cortina. I drove it all the way from Colorado to California and back that way. If I got in a real pickle, I could lift up the carpet between the seats, take the plate cover off the trannie, stick a long-handled screwdriver in the gears and pop it into reverse, so no pig pens were necessary.:-)

These are so wonderful. You are both so handsome, I'm surprised the women aren't swooning.:-)

Thanks, Dan!!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 03:07 PM

Priceless stuff!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: open mike
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 01:21 PM

oh, you must have heard me, Art....just as i post this you said that was written by Steve Goodman...as was another song--"talking backwards"

what was the spectre he lived with?

ah..living on the river...is the last part of that song available..?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: open mike
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 01:14 PM

who wrote that song if our life was on video tape?
nice to re-wind here back to the goodle days...

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: bankley
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 01:04 PM

cool... thanks Dan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 11:51 AM

Hey Art,
is that your famous 9 string guitar you are playing?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Mark Ross
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 11:17 AM

Watching you guys is wonderful!


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 10:56 AM

On guitar Jerry and Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 10:09 AM

Dang it, that was after life took me away from Chicago, or I would have been there. I lived in the north edge of Chicago when Anne Hills and Jan Burda owned Hogeye; my boss owned their store. I learned of Bill Staines and Peter Madcat Ruth from their concerts there. Some of the best itty-bitty concerts in the world. I got to see Art, and Anne and Jan, mainly at the No Exit. (I was living a block and a half away). We get to see Anne near home here at least every year or so; She's scheduled 20 minutes away, in Flint, in March.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: maeve
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 10:07 AM

I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing these wonderful clips. Thanks for posting them, Dan.

maeve

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Ron Davies
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 08:18 AM

Curses, this stuff is just too good. Now I'm really late for work.

Wow, what a concert. We are so damn lucky to be transported back there--even for a few minutes.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Will Fly
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 07:39 AM

Lovely stuff! Thanks for making it available for us all to see.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 07:07 AM

Thanks so much, olddude, Jerry and Art! What great music and song! To quote from the song by The Weavers, "Wasn't That a Time"!It certainly was!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:34 AM

fantastic - as Kat said, great to see Art & Jerry performing

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 06:17 AM

Who are these handsome and personable young people?

What a pleasure to see and hear them!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 01:10 AM

Gee, that Art Thieme is getting a lot of attention lately. Yesterday, he was described as having a "sexy earthiness," and today he's on television. He's starting to make the rest of us guys a bit jealous.

But hey, it really is great to see Art and Jerry on video, sexy earthiness and all.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 12:53 AM

These are great! Keep them coming!

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme and Jerry Rasmussen Video
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:52 PM

Jerry on the banjo

Subject: RE: ART THIEME AND JERRY RASMUSSEN VIDEO
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:45 PM

WOW!! Thanks so much to both of you. I can finally see Art perform and you, too, Jerry. How wonderful!!!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME AND JERRY RASMUSSEN VIDEO
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:43 PM

Here's Art on the banjo
art on banjo

Subject: RE: ART THIEME AND JERRY RASMUSSEN VIDEO
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:02 PM

Thanks, Dan:

We were so much younger then. We did this concert at Hog Eye Music near Chicago. Hog Eye music was/is (don't know if it's still there) small music store and the place was crammed to overflowing with people standing in the open doorway to the street. The concert started around eight in the evening and we didn't take a break, just alternating songs. Finally, someone said, "Hey, what time is it?" and we looked at our watches. It was almost eleven o'clock, and I don't think a single person had left.

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end. And in a way, they never have.

Jerry

Subject: RE: ART THIEME AND JERRY RASMUSSEN VIDEO
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 10:38 PM

another

Subject: RE: ART THIEME AND JERRY RASMUSSEN VIDEO
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 10:01 PM

dang, youtube cut me off ok, I will put another sorry Jerry
dang right in the middle of your song

Subject: ART THIEME AND JERRY RASMUSSEN VIDEO
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 09:57 PM

HOW COOL IS THIS I HAVE A 2 HOUR DVD OF ART AND JERRY TOGETHER PLAYING IN 1989 HERE IS A CLIP. GONNA PUT MORE ON

THANKS GUYS ... WOW TWO OF MY HEROS TOGETHER !!

ART AND JERRY