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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: texastoolman Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:58 AM i think the fact that at heart they are so "ordinary"is the beauty of it it's the SUPER-STARS that try to separate themselves from us that make us think performers are somehow different we are given certain gifts to share with everyone else to not do so is a shame to wonder why we were given suchgifts is an exercise in egotism i really enjoy the different twists this thread has taken on |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: harpgirl Date: 23 Mar 01 - 10:00 AM ...I was in an experimental group therapy group as part of the NTL research in Psych 101 at the University of Michigan with Fred Labour. He was goofy then, too. He played bass in a Band called Honky Tonk Angels fronted by Lisa Silver, both late of Nashville. Lisa has had an interesting career as well! Freddie taught me to follow my joy! hg |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Jim Dixon Date: 23 Mar 01 - 01:18 PM Texastoolman: I don't think "superstars" necessarily WANT to separate themselves from the hoi polloi. I think the public forces them to. It comes with the territory. One of the nice things about folk music is that folk musicians almost never become superstars. (Bob Dylan is a special case.) No matter how much we folkies adore them, we are a small minority, and the rest of the world either ignores them or doesn't recognize them. Therefore, they never feel overloaded with attention. Can you imagine what it must be like to never be able to go to Target and look at a toaster without being besieged by adoring fans, just wanting to talk to you, touch you, and have you smile at them, so they can brag to their friends about it later? (Just like we are bragging now.) |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: mousethief Date: 23 Mar 01 - 01:27 PM I think "KISS" (the rock group) had the right idea. They could put on a show for thousands of screaming fans, and then wash off the make-up, put on a black shirt and a pair of jeans, and carry equipment out to the bus. Nobody would ever know it was one of the band. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 01 - 02:34 PM I have been told that Frank Warner was hauled to our home after a late-night performance in the Village in 1946 by my father, and that he (Warner) carried me around singing Hush Little Baby until I went back to sleep. I don't happen to remember the event, but I have to believe some kind of spark was passed. At the Newport Folk Festival of 1964(?) I got to ask Joanie and Bob to move a little to one side, as they were standing right in our line of sight to the stage, to which they graciously acceded. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: SINSULL Date: 23 Mar 01 - 02:47 PM Wow Amos. I was always impressed by you but now I am really impressed! Murray the K pushed me out of the way backstage at the Paramount and stepped on my toe. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,Karen in California Date: 23 Mar 01 - 02:49 PM Partied with Silly Wizard after one of their concerts (invited to the home where they were staying). My husband almost spilled a beer on the leather jacket belonging to one of Mary Black's brothers. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: SINSULL Date: 23 Mar 01 - 03:01 PM Just remembered: I flew from Sidney to California with Felix Cavalieri of the Rascals. He even offered me the use of his shower in LA. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Wesley S Date: 23 Mar 01 - 03:23 PM He's perhaps not a legend but I used to stay in George Winston's spare bedroom when I was visiting friends in Deland Florida. That's back when he used to play a Farfisa combo organ with a Leslie speaker. A very nice guy who still donates part of each nights concert proceeds to hunger related charities. We used to stay up until dawn playing records {remember them?}. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,kendall Date: 23 Mar 01 - 04:39 PM Those who have had an influence on me. 1 Gordon Bok. He taught me that you dont have to be well known to be appreciated. 2 The Patons. They surprised me by recording me.I Never thought I was special enough. 3. Tom Paxton. One of my heros. At a private party he asked me to sing a song. (Mooseturd Pie) a great boost for the ego. 4. Pete Seeger. A compliment from Pete made me record Lorena. 5.Utah Phillips went out of his way to tell me how much he liked what I did with Phoebe Snow. 6. Ramblin' Jack Elliott asked me to come and join him for an evening of music and BS. He liked my Taylor! (the guitar) I've been very lucky to meet many many more wonderful pickers such as Bob Zentz, Ed Trickett, Ann Muir, Ann Dodson, Cindy Kallet and singer Jean Redpath, and, I'm hoping to meet Rick Fielding and Seamus Kennedy. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: tiggerdooley Date: 23 Mar 01 - 04:47 PM My Dad once had a pint in Liverpool with George Melley, and he got me his autograph. I also went to Blur's aftershow party in Liverpool in 1997, but they're not really considered legends.... |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: SINSULL Date: 23 Mar 01 - 04:49 PM Brian Hyland ("Itsie Bitsie Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini") autographed my Keds! |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,Seth from China Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:28 PM At one time, Charles Brown was my neighbor in Oakland California. At this time (early 70's) he had not been" re-discovered ", he was just trying to make a living playing small clubs and doing some session work with the likes of Jimmy Witherspoon and Johnny Otis. A very kind, urbane and gracious man. We talked and visited a few times. He told me about the music business. I wish I had spent more time with him. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Don Firth Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:30 PM Following Bob (Deckman) Nelson's suggestion, probably second only to Walt Robertson, the singer who had the most influence on me was Rolf Cahn. One doesn't hear much about Rolf Cahn these days, but he had a powerful influence on a lot of folksingers back in the Fifties and Sixties. In the late Fifties there were several Reed College (Portland, Oregon) folksingers who often shuttled back and forth between Berkeley and Seattle. They spoke of folksingers in the Bay Area other than the Kingston Trio and the Gateway Singers – singers such as Billy Faier, Jo Mapes, Barbara Dane, and Rolf Cahn. There were a few Reedites in particular who played the guitar passably well, then made a trip to Berkeley, took a couple of lessons from Rolf Cahn, and returned to Seattle shortly thereafter with a remarkable improvement in their guitar playing. It seems that in addition to being a versatile singer of all kinds of folk songs, Cahn was an exceptional teacher as well. And he played some pretty mean Flamenco. He sounded like someone I would like to meet. And when Bob and I went to the Bay Area in 1959, we had a chance to get together with him for a half-dozen long gab-sessions and song-fests before he took off to Cambridge, Mass. In our first meeting, we were curious about the availability of singing jobs in the area. The question of competition for jobs came up. Cahn said he didn't know. When our eyebrows went up, he told us a parable: Competition? I never think about it. I once had a chance to hang out with the Mercedes team during the thousand mile Mexican Road Race. There were Jaguars, Porsches, Ferraris, Allards, Cunninghams, you name it, they were all there. During the strategy meetings, none of the other cars in the race were ever mentioned. All they talked about was getting the Mercedes from point A to point B in the fastest, safest possible manner. What the other cars did was up to them. Competition? Don't waste your time thinking about it. Just do the best you can. That really stuck with me. And another thing that really stuck with me was something Rolf wrote on the back of a record jacket: The most ticklish question still results from that awful word "Folk Music", which gives the erroneous impression that there is one body of music with one standard texture, dynamic, and history. Actually, the term today covers areas that are only connected in the subtlest terms of general feeling and experience. A United States cowboy song has less connection with a bloody Zulu tale than it has to "Western Pop" music; a lowdown blues fits less with Dutch South African melody than with George Gershwin. Most of us agree in feeling as to our general boundaries, but more and more we search for our own particular contributions as musicians within these variegated provinces. There doesn't seem to be much point in imitating – what, after all, is the point of doing Little Moses exactly like the Carter Family? Yet it seems vital to convey the massive, punching instrumentals and the tense driving, almost hypnotic voice of the Carter Family performances. One the one hand, there is the danger of becoming a musical stamp collector; on the other, the equal danger of leaving behind the language, texture, and rhythm that made the music worthy of our devotion in the first place. So we have arrived at a point where in each case we try to determine those elements which make a particular piece of music meaningful to us, and to build the performance through these elements. By continuing to learn everything possible of the art form – techniques, textures, rhythms, cultural implications and convention, we hope to mature constantly in our individual understanding and creativity in this music. At the time (and sometimes, I think, still), there seemed to be two approaches that most people followed: 1) Ethnic purity, in which one tried to sound as much as possible like the original source. I found this limiting because it left no room for creativity and growth. Not being "allowed" to put something of oneself into a song was just too constricting. Why bother? 2) What might be called "commercial," in which one catered to what one thought the general audience might want. It might be successful financially, but creatively one became "silly-putty" in the hands of the broadest public taste (and perhaps the less said about that, the better). And a third approach: as much as I admired Richard Dyer-Bennet and as much as I learned from him, I felt that adhering to a strictly classical style was as limiting as the previous two approaches. What Rolf Cahn wrote above put the whole thing into focus for me. The basic question is: "what is this song really about and how best can I express it?" Don Firth P. S. I just did a web search for Rolf Cahn and, sadly, discovered this website.
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: wdyat12 Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:42 PM I caught a flyaway fingerpick during one of Tom Rushes gigs at the Club 47 and gave it back to him. He didn't miss a beat or a note. Quite a performer. Pretty accurate metronome foot too. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Bert Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:47 PM Ah Kendal, let me tell you about Rick Fielding and Seamus Kennedy. Rick, he's a really nice guy. He's a little on the quiet side and a little bit 'bolshey'. He's very interesting to talk with and he's a good listener. Now that Seamus on the other hand, when you first meet him he treats you like an old friend and you'd swear you've know him for years. He'll pick you out in the audience and make you part of his act, whether you like it or not. Salt of the earth, the bloody pair ov 'em. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Bert Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:52 PM Oh yeah, and they're fair entertainers too. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Peter T. Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:02 PM I sat down last night in a Toronto pub beside the guy who plays the mountie in "Due South", Paul something or other. He was picking up his leading lady at the time, not that it mattered to all the women in the pub. For all other men in the place it was a "where did the lights go?" moment. The waitress would take his order, go back into the back room, shriek and giggle with all the other waitresses, and come back again. Often. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,tequilaron Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:03 PM What fun! I love a good pissin' contest. When I was but a lad I use to play at a coffee house in Pinellas Park, Fl called the Beaux Arts Coffee House and Gallery. One of the guys who just sort of hung around and listened and occassionally read some of his poetry was a young junior college student named Jim. I was not impressed. Jim later formed a little group called The Doors. Who knew? I grew up in Polk County, Florida and use to frequent a teen night club called the Derry Down in Winter Haven, FL. One night during the rock band's intermission the owner of the club had a special guest performer. An acoustic performer named Gram Parsons playing for a club full of teenagers who came to shake their ass. He held us spellbound. For many years I was a fan and friend of Florida humorist and musician Gamble Rogers. I have so many Gamble stories I surely can't share them here, but I guess the thing I remember most about Gamble was his professionalism, his wit, and his kindness. Gamble was a great human being who gave his life doing what Gamble always did-- trying to save another human being from drowning. Gamble use to say, "The Lord gives me grace, the devil gives me style. Ron. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Hawker Date: 23 Mar 01 - 08:51 PM NAME DROPPERS - All of you! |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: harpgirl Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:06 PM ...Bernie Leadon's brother Mark lives here in town. He is a finalist in the songwriting contest at Suwannee Springfest this weekend. Maybe he won!!!! He plays great banjo and he's cute too! hg |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: gnu Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:12 PM Yeah, but this thread gave some of us a chance to live again that moment of excitement and joy we felt when these meetings, however brief, happened. I really was thrilled when mine happened, even though it sounds childish in the light of day. gnu |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:30 PM Had a couple of good conversations with Buffy Sainte-Marie after concerts she did. A very nice and charming woman, she is...and very motivated. Chatted with Bruce Cockburn in Orillia one time. Chatted with Valdy another. Spent a weekend with Tina Turner in some big house by the seacoast...oh, that one was a dream... Dreamt I was Cher's partner once, too. The dream encompassed the events of about a week...shopping, eating meals, going to meetings, socializing...all very interesting...and not one X-rated scene in the whole thing...not even a kiss, as I recall. Go figure. I have no explanation for it at all, but it was still a very cool dream. I'd be happy to have it again. She was very smart, and fine company as well. - LH |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Ebbie Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:57 PM Back in the early 80s Chet Atkins and his band stayed several days at the motel I was running. The band members went out on the town but Chet stayed 'home'. I think he sometimes got lonesome, and his big cigar in hand he would wander over to the office to chit chat with me. Nice guy. What really impressed me about him is that when I'd go by his room in the course of the day I could hear him practicing the guitar. There's a reason he got so good! The day they left, Herman, his bass man, said, Don't you want a picture of Chet?? I'm not really the autograph type but I said, Sure. So, Chet posed, I shot a picture- and dropped the camera, which popped open on the ground. So I have a picture of Chet Atkins, and while he's recognizable in it, it's kind of dark and undefined. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: kendall Date: 23 Mar 01 - 10:30 PM We didn't drop those names..we were asked to put them down! |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Hawker Date: 24 Mar 01 - 07:34 AM Kendall, Do the words 'sense of humour' mean anything to you? It just tickled me to see so many big names in one thread!, couldn't resist! No offence meant!!!! Lucy |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: mkebenn Date: 24 Mar 01 - 08:29 AM Little Hawk, I envy your conversation with Buffy, a hero of mine. Mike |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Micca Date: 24 Mar 01 - 08:37 AM Since these seem to be mostly GOOD stories about legends, I am hesitating to include the story of how I threw (physically) Paul Simon out of a Folk Club, or how I punched Eric Clapton in the mouth.... |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: alison Date: 24 Mar 01 - 08:53 AM does being chatted up by Andy Irvine count? slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 24 Mar 01 - 09:02 AM Thanks, Don. Those wonderful folks we met in our travels will always be alive as long as we sing their songs and tell their stories. Immortal musings... |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: John Hardly Date: 24 Mar 01 - 09:02 AM I've taken guitar lessons with Joel Mabus. JH (who is leaving to avoid incoming lightning bolt) |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: John Hardly Date: 24 Mar 01 - 09:04 AM second half of above post was addressed to Bartholemew. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Jon Freeman Date: 24 Mar 01 - 09:11 AM I'm not sure I know what a legend is but I have never known anyone famous although I have spoken to a few well known folk performers - you do when youre involved with the running of a folk club - even small ones like Llanudno had the likes of Swarbrick, Carthy, etc in my time but that doesn't count. The encounters with known performers I have enjoyed the most are a mostly a little selfish but I had a great time sitting up with Damien Barber playing and singing till 6am and drinking his home made wine, I was flattered by Denny Bartley asking me to kick some life into an outdoor seession for him and Chris Sherbourne, I'll never forget Sully congratulating me on my playing (OK I was buying an instruement off him but..), I played a spontanious duet (Trumpet and Sailors hornpipes) in a pub in Conwy - turned out I was playing with Richard Durrant who at the time was also playing for Sky... Small things but as a run of the mill type folky, they have been big things for me. The person who helped me the most musically is not a known name even though she did win the All Ireland Championship on whistle. It was at a time when my confidence was very low and another musician was doing his best to destroy what remained of it. She and her partner saw what was going on and invited me back for a drink after the session. They talked aboout it, encouraged me to play with them... I owe them a lot. Jon |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,chris Date: 24 Mar 01 - 01:14 PM i gigged with Wayne Kramer in 1979 at Paychecks in Hamtramck, |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Spud Murphy Date: 24 Mar 01 - 04:18 PM I was going through Carmel during the Pro-Am Invitational some years back and swung around Seventeen Mile Drive for no particular reason except to gawk at the celebrities. About the time we were passing the clubhouse at Spy Glass I decided I had to use the facilities. While so involved I happened to take a sidelong glance at the gent standing next to me and realized I was pissing just one urinal away from the one then being put to similar use by Bing Crosby. I got so startled by the experience that I might have splashed on him a little. I probably did. Oh, well. Into each life some rain must fall. He finished and left while I was still puttin mine away. Spud |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,Indy lass Date: 24 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM I met Tish Hinojosa at a school meeting in Austin, TX. My two kids played with her two kids during the meeting in the auditorium lobby and we briefly spoke. Of course I told her I loved her music. In 1977 or 78 I took mandolin lessons from Joel Mabus in an East Lansing music store (I think it was Elderly Instruments first place.) A few years ago I took a Celtic College class in traditional music from Eileen McGann in Goderich, Ont. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: John Hardly Date: 24 Mar 01 - 05:29 PM Hey Indy lass, get thee over to Fountain Square tonight and meet up with another legend--Bryan Bowers! |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: wdyat12 Date: 25 Mar 01 - 04:40 PM Aaaa, Tish Hinojosa, So fine Indy lass. Wish I could meet her. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Mar 01 - 05:58 PM Yes, Tish is absolutely wonderful. - LH |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,kendall Date: 25 Mar 01 - 06:57 PM I cant believe I left out, Art Thieme, Tommy Makem Wilf Carter and Lenny Breau. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Deckman Date: 25 Mar 01 - 07:45 PM I'd like to contribute another name as a musical legand, and also man who had tremendous impact on me. His real name was Bill Higley. His public (radio) name was "Willy Waw Willy," and he moved down to Seattle from Anchorage, Alaska about 1949. I'll be amazed if anyone out there has heard of him, but if you have, please contact me. A "Willy Waw" is an Alaskan term for a strong blast of wind that comes out of nowhere ... kinda like a California "Santy Anna." Bill was a radio man, and he adopted that term "Willy Waw, to match his radio style.He started in radio back in the days of crystal sets and the Red and Blue networks ... these preceeded ABC and NBC. His early radio partner was Harry K. McKlintock, aka "Haywire Mac." He came into my life when I was 12, after marrying a family friend. He was an incredible performer. He played an old Sears Silvertone plywood guitar, new 4 chords and 34 songs. But he could entertain you for a half an hour with just one song, telling the story behind, beside and instead of, that one song.I used to get up early on Saturday mornings and help him open the radio station,KJR, In Seattle. He was full of cornball humor, and occasionally let me read weather forcasts and teletype news items on the air. I'm sure it wasn't quite leagal, but BOY, did I love it! Later on in my college years, I majored in radio broadcast and even had my own live folk music show when I was 19! (thanks to Bill for coaching me so well). For most of the Summers of my teeage years, I lived with Bill and his wonderful wife Verna. By now he was charter boat captain in Westport, Washington, and I worked with him as his bait boy. This was a Finnish community, and a baitboy was called a 'pooker.' During those Summers, he taught me guitar, ballads, singing, elecution, diction, style, presentation. Verna was a school librarian, so when I wasn't practising performance skills with Bill, Verna had me at the library researching folk songs ... what a wonderful time those Summers were. He was a 'killer' on diction. I well remember singing 32 verses of Mattie Groves, only to stumble on a word in the 33rd verse. He would stop me, by shouting, make me sing it again, from verse one! To this day, diction is a must with me ... remember children, spit out those final consonants and don't mumble. So, here's a tribute to a wonderful man, Bill Higley. He died in Westport Washington about 1962. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Spud Murphy Date: 25 Mar 01 - 09:10 PM Deckman: I got to Alaska in 1950, so I guess I missed Bill Higley in passing. I did, however know Harry McClintock, or rather, I saw him from time to time at KFRC studio in San Francisco and KFBK in Sacramento. My dad, known as Yankee Mac, was a sometimes competitor of 'Haywire Mac' McClintock in the 1929-32 years and I would sometimes get to go to the studio with him. McClintock 'belonged' to KFRC and my dad was the 'property' of KFBK, so to speak, but they were good friends in reality and occasionally filled for each other. That was just before studio policy changed so that the entertainers had to find their own sponsors. Before that, entertainers like McClintock and my Dad were paid directly by the studios. So here's one for Bill, and Happy Memories!! Spud |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Deckman Date: 25 Mar 01 - 10:45 PM To Spud: Thanks for your posting. Bill Higley nurtured me on "Haywire Mac" songs. Do you remember: "My Druthers, Ye Olde Ballad of Something or Other (parody of Abdull the Bullbull Ameer)? I think a lot about those old days of radio. That was real, it was live, it was NOT slick, nothing was canned, what you heard was exactly what happened, bloopers and all. Today's commercial radio is awful. So again, thanks for jumping in here. I suspect that we are of the same vintage. If you promise to take care of yourself, and post often, I'll do the same. CHEERS, Bob (deckman) Nelson. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Deckman Date: 26 Mar 01 - 12:05 AM Spud ... I HAVE to mention something else, following an earlier posting from you. In 1956, I rode in an elevator, in the Olympic hotel in Seattle, with Bing Crosby and Phil Harris. And, I also have shared urinals with some very famous people ... mostly men! CHEERS, Bob (deckman) Nelson |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,Mudcat upstairs (caution - long brag alert) Date: 26 Mar 01 - 09:47 AM On the flatpick list, we get to converse on a regular basis with some people who are musical legends to us, although most people, even most folkies, may not recognize them. About a month ago, Jack Lawrence, Doc Watson's touring partner/sideman/guide/roadie for the last 10-15 years, since Merle's death, and one of the most incredible pickers you're likely to hear, in his own right, posted to the list as follows: I kinda hate to do this, but it's for the best. I have for sale the Collings D-2H I've used since 1/93. Many of you have heard this guitar on Doc's cds as well as my own. It was my road guitar until I got the Merrill. It is Indian/Sitka. The top is one of the nicest I've ever seen. I hand picked this one from a half dozen hanging in the store. It has served me well and I hate to see it go, but I also hate to see it sitting around not being played. I have the Merrill and a Henderson Braz/Ad D and the Collings does not get the playing time it deserves. I'd like to see it go to someone who will love and use it. The price is $2100 shipped in the lower 48. It has a Mc Intyre PU and has a few "prestige marks" where Doc ran me into things when I lead him around. Over all it is in excellent condition. I'm beginning to break out in hives and the cold sweats, but I can't justify keeping such a fine guitar that doesn't get played. BTW, it is in an almost pristine original tweed case,as I used a Calton on the road.... Well, guess who had some gig money saved up, and where that instrument ended up! I still have to take it out and look at it every so often to make sure it's real. Collings have been described as "Martins on steroids." That about says it all, as to the sound. As I said on the list: I Am Not Worthy, and I Don't Care! Peter. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: tar_heel Date: 26 Mar 01 - 10:27 AM country music singer,GEORGE HAMILTON IV,was a high school buddy of mine...we grew up pickin and singing together....i taught him his first chords on the guitar,when i was 13 years old.... but lots of other legends in my life, too... one right now is a, MR.JOHNNY VIPPERMAN....johnny is way up in years now,still active and....he is the OLDEST LIVING MEMBER of the SONS OF THE PIONEERS!he was not one of the originals,but came along later...johnny lives in the mt.ary,n.c.area and i'm honored to call him,my friend! also in 1958,i was living and working in jacksonville,florida,and spent a few months picking and singing with a new kid on the block then...JOHNNY TILLOTSON... in recent years my musical intrest turned to the old-time traditional songs and legends...it was my honor to become friends with JOE and JANETTE CARTER,the son and daughter of the SARA AND AP CARTER!!and,since then i have met and become friends with so many legendary folks of old-time music,there is not enough room in here to list them all.... |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Wesley S Date: 26 Mar 01 - 10:36 AM Tequilaron - I spent many a night at the Beaux Arts Coffehouse during the late 60's and early 70's. Nice to hear from someone else that spent time there. We hope to hear from you again. |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: GUEST,kendall Date: 26 Mar 01 - 02:08 PM I'm envious..wish I had known "Haywire Mac" |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Bernard Date: 26 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM I've been sound man for Tom Paxton, Martin Carthy, Des O'Connor, Val Doonican (er... do I have to do this?!) |
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Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known From: Bernard Date: 26 Mar 01 - 02:33 PM Okay - I've done George Melly, The Dakotas (still touring with the original 60's line-up), Spike Milligan, Norman Wisdom (oops... slipping again!!) |
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