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| 2632.1 | Was The Kool-Aid Electric? | TECRUS::TECRUS::ROST | Limo driver for Ringo Starr | Wed Dec 02 1992 08:43 | 18 |
| We could use more stuff like that...seriously! If kids had a chance to
get exposed to a lot of music while growing up, they wouldn't be so
easy to sucker into the MTV sewer.
My two girls (5 and 7) have been bugging me to tape some of my CDs so
they can listen on their Fisher Price tape players. Their demands so
far:
Boozoo Chavis
Lucinda Williams
NRBQ
My 5 year old is also after me to buy her a bass to jam on. The seven
year old only wants a horse 8^) 8^)
Brian
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| 2632.2 | | MSDOA::BLAIR | I'm goin' to Disneyland | Wed Dec 02 1992 09:04 | 2 |
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Lucinda Williams is great - your kids have great taste, BTW!
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| 2632.3 | | DECWIN::KMCDONOUGH | Set Kids/Nosick | Wed Dec 02 1992 09:18 | 13 |
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About that horse your daughter wants.....it's a curse and much more
expensive than music!!!
I know, I married a horse lover. The horse lives in what used to be my
garage.
Music is much cheaper. And, even with smoky bars, your clothes still smell
better than with the horse. 8^)
Kevin
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| 2632.4 | I suppose it's better than being in gangs ;-) | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | db | Wed Dec 02 1992 10:56 | 13 |
| There's also a kid who shows up for EVERY SINGLE blues jam at Johnny
D's in Cambridge who plays blues pretty well. I think he's about 13
now.
When he first started showing up, I heard that you wanted to avoid
being on stage with him at all costs because he was awful and couldn't
play. Last time I was there you wanted to avoid being on stage with
him at all costs because he was an incredible ham, and "took over"
doing most of the solo's and leading the band.
I played with him once and he's pretty good now, but it's obvious that
this kid lives and breaths to be Stevie Ray Vaughan. It's obvious from
his playing, his clothes, his mannerism, everything.
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| 2632.5 | | MSDOA::BLAIR | I'm goin' to Disneyland | Wed Dec 02 1992 11:21 | 3 |
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I believe Derek Trucks has performed with Dylan - probably when
he was younger ;^). Too cool - I hate him!
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| 2632.6 | | DECWIN::KMCDONOUGH | Set Kids/Nosick | Wed Dec 02 1992 11:23 | 7 |
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See the music section in today's Globe. His name is Mike Welch and he's
13.
Kevin
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| 2632.7 | young sh*ts | GIDDAY::KNIGHTP | Bizzare gardening accident | Wed Dec 02 1992 19:03 | 4 |
| We got a kid over here Nathan something or other and he is pretty good
too. I think he is about 12 or so, he played at the Guitar Player 25
th anniversary concert.
P.K.
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| 2632.8 | Monster Mike, the tiny blues legend | CARTUN::BDONOVAN | | Thu Dec 03 1992 08:20 | 35 |
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That little kid, Mike Welch, was featured on the Channel 5 11 o'clock
news last night. Even Nat and Chet were [visibly] impressed.
As DB mentioned, his style is certainly SRV-informed. The interviewer
asked him what a white, thirteen-year old boy knows about the blues
and the very likeable youngster laughed, and said that Muddy Waters
once said all you to do to feel the blues is be alive.
Said Mike: "I don't think you have to picked cotton or have been drunk
on whiskey to play blues. After I've had a hard week, I like to
pour all of my emotions out on the weekend."
"Hard week doing what?" asked the interviewer, "taking a test?"
It was funny, sort of, and Mike kind of winced and laughed, but I
thought the interviewer really came across as a heavy. It looks
pretty bad when an adult is trying to trick up a kid, and looks worse
when the kid wins by staying calm and just being himself.
Mike used to be known as "Little Mikey" and says he now prefers
"Monster Mike." His parents attend all of his gigs and are very
supportive, however they apparently aren't going to let him sign
a record deal (supposedly already offered) until "he gets out of
college."
I thought Mike was a very decent player, interesting to listen to,
and in good command of the instrument. The fact that he is only
13 is pretty amazing. They showed some clips of him jamming with
Dan Akroyd and the band at the opening of Ackroyd's new blues club
in Cambridge, and Akroyed was smiling widely at the kids ability.
Here's hoping he doesn't get caught in the Jeff Healey trap.
Brian
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| 2632.9 | | WAGON::SAKELARIS | | Thu Dec 03 1992 10:08 | 19 |
| Yo Brian(meat),
What's the "Jeff Healy trap"?
I like and absolutly agree with the kid that you don't have to have
picked cotton or have been drunk on whiskey to play the blues. All you
need is to like it enough to practice and emulate the style.
I don't buy this "emotion" stuff about music either. Many times I've
grabbed a note and turned slightly toward the amp to get it to sustain,
but its never for any other reason than to get the note to sustain.
It's never been like my soul is cying or I have any desire to express
my inner feelings or any of that sensitivity crap.
Its like these damn "artists" who smear a canvas with paints. In my
eyes its smeared paint, but gauranteed someone else will call it great
art. I call it bullsh!t.
"sakman"
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| 2632.10 | Well, errrr, it's not _all_ crap. | SOLVIT::SNORAT::OLOUGHLIN | The fun begins at 80! | Thu Dec 03 1992 11:21 | 50 |
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It's not smeared canvas, it is art. The smeared painting, (more
often than not) is a representation closer to an emotion, than a
direct visual thang. (Of course there is junk out there, but there is
plenty of junk music also.)
Once I was checking out a Picaso. It looked something like an
upside down question mark, without the period. It was a single line
that, in an abstract form, was based on the top of a womans shoulders
down to her ass. The simple graceful curve of the line pretty much
emmulated the simple beauty of a naked woman. Some guy walks up and
says that he could do that. Sure. Picaso, in a sigle stroke, said what
a great writer would have taken a book to say, if not a lifetime.
Another time I was checking out a Motherwell, (I think, pretty sure.)
From ten - twenty feet, it looked like a black square on a white
canvas. That was it. (This thing cost three hundred thousand dollars.)
This pissed me off and I thought to myself that I could do that. Art
is only paint thrown at a canvas by someone who happens to be in Vogue
at the time. Junk.
I hung out there for another five minutes and then something hit.
I got closer to the painting and then I realized that the "color" was
black, but the painting was really in the "texture" of the strokes.
A while later I realized that it was, (in my eyes) a masterpiece. It
kinda makes me wonder if he, the painter, would hang out and laugh to
himself when people, like me, walk up and say it's junk, I can do
that, and walk away in a huff and know that they did not have a clue.
So there's good and bad. If you've only seen junk, that's all you
know, (so far) and your opinion is set. Don't shut it out. There may
be something out there that communicates well with you. And seeing it
will be worth the while. If you ever get the chance, check out
deKooning and Fairfield Porter. deKonning<sp> is of the smeared
painting type. **Very powerful stuff - really.
**This coming from a Budweiser, 4 wheel drive,
turn up the volume, bang head against the wall,
snowmobile at high speeds, type person.
Rick.
PS: Sorry, didn't mean to lecture. Was not meant to piss
anyone off - and Sac, don't jump on me, it wasn't directed
towards you. You just got me thinking about it - 's all.
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| 2632.11 | | TECRUS::TECRUS::ROST | I fret less these days | Thu Dec 03 1992 11:45 | 10 |
| Aw, c'mon, if music didn't display some emotion who'd listen to it?
The emotion might be no more than "let's get drunk and be someone
else awhile", but it's emotion all the same.
Heard Whitney Houston's latest? When she is singing "I Will Always
Love You", I feel nothing at all, but when Dolly Parton sings it, I
want to cry. Go figger.
Miles Mello
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| 2632.12 | | SOLVIT::SNORAT::OLOUGHLIN | The fun begins at 80! | Thu Dec 03 1992 11:58 | 19 |
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Yo, you missed it.
The point was directed towards what the smears represent.
Dat's all.
Walden P. Klunckington
PS: Where in the hell do you come up
with all these names? They're
great.
8^)
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| 2632.13 | | TECRUS::ROST | I fret less these days | Thu Dec 03 1992 12:05 | 19 |
| Re: .11, .12
Missed what? I was responding to .10...this is getting confusing.
Am I in the right bash note? 8^) 8^)
Names? I got a million of 'em....the last one might ring a bell if you
ever saw the movie "The Eiger Sanction".
Back to the subject (I think), funny how a kid who supposedly isn't
interested in a record deal until after college suddenly shows up not
only in the Globe but also on the tube...GP should be next. I should
find out who does his publicity...
Maybe Al Kooper can produce "Super Session II" with Trucks, Mike and that
shredder from the UK who's in the Steve Vai videos. Better than the
New Kids, anyway 8^) 8^)
Brian
(my real name, I think)
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| 2632.14 | Just FYI | NWACES::HICKERNELL | My place in history or yours? | Thu Dec 03 1992 12:32 | 6 |
| re: .12
Rick, Brian's our history-and-trivia expert. He knows more names than
Ma Bell.
Dave
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| 2632.15 | | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | db | Thu Dec 03 1992 15:16 | 4 |
| > We got a kid over here Nathan something or other and he is pretty
> good too.
I think it's Nathan Calveri or Calaveri. Not sure which.
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| 2632.16 | politics? | ROYALT::BUSENBARK | | Fri Dec 04 1992 06:52 | 11 |
| I believe the "Jeff Healey way" is in reference to the route Healey's
music took after the first release. He seemed to have all the right
words in interviews about playing blues,jazz etc.... his infinate
record collection as an influence and then came out with an ELO
sounding album......"Hell to Pay" seemed to take a very different
route musically and I'm sure even the next release is even more
along those lines.
Rick
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| 2632.17 | Failed expectations, I guess | CARTUN::BDONOVAN | | Fri Dec 04 1992 08:22 | 23 |
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Yes...what Rick said. The "Jeff Healy way" is the route
of commercialism.
Not to totally slag him...the pressures must be enormous at
that level to please the largest audience possible, and
it probably feels pretty good selling lots of product and
playing big houses.
However, the sound and the lyric content of the new single
sound like ZZ Top without the humor to me. Too bad. I thought
his reading of the George Harrison song was more inspired.
Still, what is a blues guy going doing mining pop songs anyway?
Is Healy blues and pop and rock and ballads? Because if he is
all of the above, then he's none of the above. If you know
what I mean.
I love the soundtrack from Roadhouse, btw, as decent a Healy album
as you can find.
Brian
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