Randy G. Blues
176 posts
Apr 09, 2010
9:25 AM
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A few weeks ago, at the local open mic blues jam, I was front man at the end of the first set. Was doing a Bo Diddly medley and the guitar player (also a harp player who does not like me) purposely screwed up the transition into second song, then missed the break as well. As soon as I stopped playing and singing he went back into the Diddly beat and said to me, "I forgot how to play the Bo Diddly thing for a minute."
This last week I started reading the "auto" biography of W.C. Fields compiled by his grandson from W.C.'s extensive archives from which he intended to write his memoirs. I was on Google looking for some info to fill in a couple of holes in the story as told in the book, and ended up on one of the many pages of W.C. quotations for which he is still quite well known. One of them made me think about that above-related incident, and is so harp and stage appropriate that I felt like sharing it here:
As the story goes, an intermediate delivered an oral invitation to him to play a round of golf with some movie bigwig (possibly a director) whom Bill hated. His reply was, "Tell Mr. _____ that when I want to play with a prick, I’ll play with my own."
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Honkin On Bobo
252 posts
Apr 09, 2010
9:30 AM
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Hey, it's deja vu..... all over again.
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oda
264 posts
Apr 09, 2010
9:35 AM
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There is a flaw in Mr. WC Field's logic. If he were to take the route of playing with his own, every-time, then he will end up all blind-like.
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Honkin On Bobo
253 posts
Apr 09, 2010
9:38 AM
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"There is a flaw in Mr. WC Field's logic. If he were to take the route of playing with his own, every-time, then he will end up all blind-like."
Yeah, but then he gets a cool blues name like "Blind Melon Chitlin"
;-)
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Randy G. Blues
177 posts
Apr 09, 2010
10:12 AM
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I am starting a solo act, and will stick with it until I need glasses.
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