waltertore
2275 posts
May 24, 2012
9:42 AM
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Have you ever googled yourself? I had nothing to do at lunch today and was shocked at just how much stuff is out there. I got some good memories going through this list and was suprised to see I was amoung the first americans to play this club. Days gone by almost like - was I really that person and do that stuff?? Life goes by so quickly. It seems like last week I was traveling the world with my band and thinking those days would never end. They did end once I stopped hustling gigs 24/7. So when you feel like you aren't playing enough remember most who gig regularly hustle themselves around the clock for those few hours a night onstage :-) I remember it was a really cool club like most of the European clubs are. Heck you might find yourself on this list! Walter
Eidsvoll Rock & Blues Klubb
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on May 24, 2012 9:52 AM
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lor
133 posts
Jun 27, 2012
8:53 AM
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What are those numbers in the column on the right?
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Lmbrjak
104 posts
Jun 27, 2012
7:05 PM
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lor,I think the numbers are abbreviations for years. The club started in 1981 and the first band appeared twice in 1981 and once in 1991.
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The Gloth
656 posts
Jun 27, 2012
11:30 PM
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I don't see your name in the list. Were you with Evan Johns and his H-bombs ?
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waltertore
2372 posts
Jun 28, 2012
4:20 AM
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Yes the dates are on the right. I played the club twice. Once as Walter H.K. Tore and one as the Park Ave. Aces. I use to drive a 1963 Cadillac Park Ave model. It had 11 inches cut off the rear end and was advertised you could park it on Park Ave, in pre-war garages, and was easier for older people to park it. They only made about a thousand of them and sales went nowhere. People wanted bigger back then. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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thorvaldsen76
139 posts
Jun 28, 2012
10:04 AM
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Walter!
Man,I thought I was dreaming.. Checked the forum as I do everyday,and saw a post named Eidsvoll Rock & Blues Klubb!! That club is about an hours drive from my house! Have you played other places in Norway?
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lor
134 posts
Jun 28, 2012
12:35 PM
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Walter: would you be kind enough to mention any other clubs where you played in Europe? Your anecdotes are extremely interesting as well.
Thank you!
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waltertore
2373 posts
Jun 28, 2012
5:41 PM
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Hey Guys: I saw Evan Johns played there too. We are still close friends from our austin days. I played all over europe and scandinavia. I can't remember the names of most of the places because the spelling and pronunciations are so different than English. I do have a bunch of pictures and flyers though. Here is one from the ancience Belguiqe club and one from a france or southern belguim gig. Walter (having fun with his new toy- a scanner)
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 28, 2012 5:46 PM
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The Gloth
657 posts
Jun 29, 2012
12:29 AM
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"Les Caves de la Chapelle", I know that place, it's in Brussels as well in the "quartier des Marolles".
Of course I know "L'Ancienne Belgique", I saw more gigs there than I could count.
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lor
135 posts
Jun 29, 2012
8:34 AM
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walter, keep that scanner busy. Love the pics and stories!!!
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waltertore
2374 posts
Jun 29, 2012
9:21 AM
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the Goth: Thanks for that clarification. Those times were pre internet/video cameras and photos were not the norm either. I found the people in Europe/Scandinavia to be wonderfully refreshing compared to the USA. People kept their word with gigs, sent me photos in the mail, and generally were honest, nice people. Stateside the music buiz people were usually the opposite. The people that came out to clubs were great but having to get through the buisiness guys to get on those stages got old for me. Europe treated us like artists instead of drug addicts/bums.
lor: Will do. I have boxes of the stuff........... I wish I had more with the blues/rock legends I played with. People were taking pictures alot but I never was around long enough to see them developed :-)
Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 29, 2012 9:23 AM
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waltertore
2375 posts
Jun 29, 2012
9:49 AM
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I found some pictures with my band from the caves. I remember the place now. It was an old wine cellar in medival days and those pictures were with some from the brussels jazz club. That was a class place on the Grand Place. They had a doorman and the best soundsystem I ever have played on. Toots Theilman came by to listen when we played there. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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Steamrollin Stan
459 posts
Jun 29, 2012
10:51 AM
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Were you "sponto beating" here or doing cover songs?
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waltertore
2376 posts
Jun 29, 2012
11:08 AM
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All spontobeat. I have been doing spontobeat for almost 50 years now. I did a few years when I started out playing with bands where I tried, unsucessfully, to sing covers. They didn't hold my interest and I would go off on my own lyrics much to the upset of those bands. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 29, 2012 11:10 AM
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thorvaldsen76
140 posts
Jun 29, 2012
12:32 PM
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I really love this thread,Walter! I always enjoy your stories and to see pictures from your travels is a nice bonus :)
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waltertore
2379 posts
Jun 29, 2012
4:25 PM
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thanks thorvaldsen76! I wish I had more of scandinavia. I took a camera with me on one tour but not knowing a thing about film opened the back up while rewinding it and it all was overexposed. I played oslo- the ice house, trodhiem, and some other clubs in norway I can't remember the names of. Knut Rieserugd the famous norwieigen guitarist brought me out to play there. We had an old tour bus and remember going through the mountains and stopping for some wonderful porridge that the native people of norway made. I also remember eating samon in a toothpaste set up. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 29, 2012 4:26 PM
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thorvaldsen76
141 posts
Jul 01, 2012
9:49 AM
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That's right,Walter! We do have fish mixed with tomato in toothpaste set up :)
Knut Reiersrud is still going strong and is considered one of this countrys best guitarplayers. Right now he's touring with Mighty Sam McClain and they are playing for packed places!
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The Gloth
659 posts
Jul 02, 2012
1:17 AM
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I love those pictures from Brussels, keep'em coming !
What is that white stick you're holding ? Makes you look like a magician, lol !
No live music at "Les Caves" for a long time, even when I went there some 15 years ago it was techno party with DJs. It's called the "Barrio Café" now :
http://www.divaevents.be/barrio_cafe.htm
The Brussels Jazz Club doesn't exist anymore (not as a jazz club) ; but there's another live café on the Grand'Place (at nr 24) called "Les Brasseurs", a friend of mine plays there regularly.
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The Gloth
664 posts
Jul 03, 2012
4:32 AM
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While you lived in Brussels, you must have played at the "Graindorge", a famous blues & rock café in Ixelles, near Matongé (the african neighbourhood).
There was another american harp player who played there often in the 80's, and I think he lived in Brussels too : his stage name was Red Archibald. Maybe you met him back then ?
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waltertore
2387 posts
Jul 03, 2012
7:04 AM
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I think that poster is one I had of the gig that Toots signed. I lost it somewhere along the way. I knew Red well. I hung with him, Luther Tucker, TT Fingers and the other americans living in Brussels. Was that club near the brussels jazz club on the grand place? If so we hung there during the days and often played it at night. Red got into H and many of the others in that scene did as well. I backed off at that point. Red died a while back in CA. Too bad on those clubs closing. Do you remember Paul's Bierdrome? I have pictures with him somewhere. He was a character to the max! Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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The Gloth
665 posts
Jul 04, 2012
12:41 AM
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The Graindorge wasn't near the Grand Place, it was a little more uptown, not far from the Bierodrome actually, which was at Place Fernand Coq. Never been to the Bierodrome, but it's a legend for jazz & blues in Brussels, as well as its owner, Pol.
The bar near the Grand Place you remember could be the Blues Corner, there were blues gigs every night there. Another great place that closed down !
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