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alembic_doctor
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Post Number: 171
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 9:12 pm:   Edit Post

Working Late as usual. Apostrophe just cam up in rotation. Sheer Genius I tell you.
88persuader
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Post Number: 278
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 2:24 am:   Edit Post

I second that!!!
jet_powers
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Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 7:51 am:   Edit Post

I'll third that!
hb3
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Post Number: 209
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 1:40 pm:   Edit Post

That's a good one.
jbybj
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Post Number: 49
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 3:09 pm:   Edit Post

Anyone who can make such awesome use of marimba and violin in such raucus music, was very special indeed. Frank is gone, yet Eddie Money lives on..... It's just not right.
alembic_doctor
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Post Number: 173
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 3:17 pm:   Edit Post

Take out Eddie Money and Insert Michael Bolton
xlrogue6
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Post Number: 119
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 4:05 pm:   Edit Post

"Take out Eddie Money and Insert Michael Bolton"

Ummm--sounds embarassing and painful to me....but hey, you're the doctor!

(Message edited by xlrogue6 on February 07, 2007)
lbpesq
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Post Number: 2070
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 5:48 pm:   Edit Post

I've hung out with Michael Bolton's brother. He was pretty cool.

Bill, tgo
inthelows
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Post Number: 351
Registered: 11-2006
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 6:55 pm:   Edit Post

For six million bucks we can rebuild them both.
Cyborg Money Bolton, complete with marimba and violin. Apostrophy..or catastrophy you make the call!
Those who have kidnapped this thread have been sacked.
NLP
alembic_doctor
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Post Number: 174
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:32 pm:   Edit Post

No one is sacked. I started this thread. Besides Frank would definitely want it this way. For example: this post would be predicated by a key change to G# from groove in D that we were just playing. And the groove would change from 5/4 to 7/11.

Ain't this boogie a mess.

IT's easy to see. The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe*
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 95
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 1:17 am:   Edit Post

Who'd win a fight between Michael Bolton & Kenny G?
We all would, my friends, we all would.
My all-time favorite concert review was one sentence (after a 1/4 page on someone - I forget who) "Opening act was Eddie Money, a journeyman rocker whose music is so one-dimensional as to make Hughie Lewis seem intriguing."
Who you jivin' wit dat cosmik debris?

Peter
88persuader
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Post Number: 279
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:07 am:   Edit Post

Just one question ... why does it hurt when I pee? (Only Frank would write that!!;-)
fmm
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Post Number: 185
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 5:37 am:   Edit Post

Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?
flaxattack
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Post Number: 1370
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 6:37 am:   Edit Post

wow
bill hung out with michael bolton's brother!!!!!!
now that is huge....
lmao
lbpesq
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Post Number: 2074
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:30 am:   Edit Post

You think that's big? Bonnie Raitt's ass once backed into my elbow!!!! If you're nice I might give you an autograph. LOL

Bill, tgo
olieoliver
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Post Number: 1108
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:35 am:   Edit Post

Bill, your just trying to give them something to talk about.
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 98
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Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:40 am:   Edit Post

You touched Bonnie's ass!?!?!?
OK, now I am impressed! (And WAY jealous!)

Peter
fmm
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Post Number: 186
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:26 am:   Edit Post

I spilled soup on Leo Kottke once...
57basstra
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Post Number: 528
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 9:03 am:   Edit Post

Bleeeech. Avoid the Yellow snow. Perhaps a St. Alfonzo's pancake for breakfast .
Rub it!

I almost tripped Steve Martin when he was doing a stand up gig at Nashville's Exit/ In, circa. 1976
811952
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Post Number: 965
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 11:06 am:   Edit Post

I stood in line at the Hollywood DMV with Jay Leno in December of '84!

I'd have me a crop, and it'd be on top. That's why I'm movin' to Montana...
811952
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Post Number: 966
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 11:08 am:   Edit Post

Oh, and Charlie Daniels broke the toilet seat in our home when I was in junior high! He apparently was an uneasy rider....
alembic_doctor
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Post Number: 175
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:24 pm:   Edit Post

I ran into Elliot Gould in front of staples center in LA.

James Hetfield told me to F*** OFF when he stepped on my foot at a private party for Slash.

Charlie Daniels gave me a Monte Christo Cigar when I got him to autograph a zeta violin.
(none of the above stories are cosmic debris)

And I have a really awesome Jay Leno story about the time I mixed sound for him. But it's really long and I'll only tell it if you guys want.
811952
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Post Number: 968
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 4:27 pm:   Edit Post

Do tell...
olieoliver
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Post Number: 1113
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 5:19 pm:   Edit Post

I listen to Apostrophe this afternoon at work. As always, Zappa has got the best musicians man.

I never met Charlie Daniels but have seen him a couple of times, he really is a good player. I did play a show with Frenchie Burk a few years ago. That ol' fart could play too man. He was 20 years my senior and I had to work to keep up.
jbybj
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Post Number: 50
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:56 pm:   Edit Post

My fondest memory of my two years at UC Santa Cruz, 1978-80 was me and my lab partner, Peter Theiman, doing an acapella version of Titties and Beer, while waiting for something to percolate in lab. I was Frank, and he was the devil. This became a ritual, we would perform it every lab. Our lab mates were a bit mystified! Oh yeah, and I met my wife there too........
jet_powers
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Post Number: 313
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 7:00 am:   Edit Post

I once rode an elevator in an Atlanta hotel with John Mellencamp. I even let him drive it. As far as I could tell, he put his pants on one leg at a time just like the rest of us....

There's a bad pun in there somewhere!
alembic_doctor
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Post Number: 176
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 8:54 am:   Edit Post

OK. So about 9 years ago, I was hired to mix a gig at the Fairmont in San Jose. This was in the middle of the .COM thing and I was easily makin' $500-$2500 a night mixing audio for corporate shindigs. (man I miuss those days) (If I hadn't been so foolish then I could have two Alembics a month back then). I digress.

Anyway, this gig was a fundraiser, and Jay Leno was the Celebrity Auctioneer and entertainment for the night.

Anyway after dinner, he comes out and does about an hour of his schtick and it was great. Absolutely hilarious. I'd never seen his standup live. So this was a real trat to not only be there, but also manning the console.

So after he does the stand up routine, they decide to start the auction. The had some really high dollar items for auction, including a nice Harley, autopgraphed by Leno of course.

All of the items that were auctioned were donated or purchased by the large .Coms that were hosting the event.

Anyway, the auction started. The first three items really did not go for much money at all. I don't remember what they were. But I do remember that they were items were worth a few thousand dollars and only went for a few hundred dollars. I think everyone was waiting to bid on the Harley.

The fourth item up for bid was a Tennis Racket that Pete Sampras (spelling?) used in the US Open or Wimbledon(I think it was the US Open). Also, with the the racket, four tennis lessons with Pete's coach.

No sooner had Jay finished anouncing what the fourth item was, a very sharply dressed woman jumped out of her seat and grabbed the Beta 87 microphone that Jay was using. (it should be noted here, that Jay insited upon using a wired microphone so that there was no possibility of RF interference or dropout during his show and the auction) What happened next is a story that most sound engineers only hope they can put in there archive so that they can tell it on rare occasions such as this.

This lady had just taken a microphone away from Jay Leno, of all people, was a big muckety-muck at Siebold and she was trashed. Just absolutely drunk off her ass. Jay started trying to get the microphone from her and she started walking away with it. She was a little miffed that the first few items had been sold really low and she was gonna be pissed if this tennis racket didn't sell for more. So this drunk lady starts talking in front of 1000 of her piers. She starts telling us how she has had this damn raket in her trunk for three weeks and some had had damn well bid a lot of money on it because of what she had to do to get the racket. Then she tells us, again, that she's had this damn racket in her trunk for weeks.

By this this time almost everyone is on the floor laughing their asses off because a multi-millionare CEO is making a fool of herself in front of everyone. But wait there's more. During this time that she is talking in fluent drunkanese, Jay Leno is trying to get the mic from back from her. Everytime he reached for the mic, she would walk away from him. At one point, he asks her for the mic back and she says" No, you're not the boss of me". (at this point, tears are streaming down my face and I have to keep wiping my eyes just to clearly see the stage)

Here is where the wired microphone thing comes into play: After several attempts of getting the microphone back, Jay decides that he can turn this whole thing into something even funnier. There was a 100ft. XLR cable attached to the mic, so there was plenty of slack. This lady's ramblings were so damn funny that he decides to let her keep going. She continues to deride berate to other CEO's there for not bidding more money for this great charity. All the while, Jay is three feet behind her and he starts taking up the slack in the cable and fashions a noose out of it. This lady has no idea what's going on. (I think I was on floor holding my gut by this point.)

Jay starts to slip the noose over head. (Jay was going to make the best of this no matter what)She just keeps on spouting off and had no idea what was happening behind her. Now everyone is on the floor holding their guts, except for about 4 of her co-workers that decided to save her from further humiliating herself in public. They grabbed for her to get her out of there. But she just kept playfully running from them. They finally caught her and got her out of there.

It took about 5 minutes for everyone to regain their composure and continue with the auction.

But without a doubt, that is my most memorable show ever. Jay Leno was really good sport about the whole thing. He even acknowledged that the whole incident was probably one of the funniest shows he had ever done.

Unfortunately, there was no Audio or Video recording allowed per Jay's Contract. Only the memory remains and now this story has finally been written.

Thanks for letting me tell it.

Maybe we need to have a thread dedicated to Road Stories. I'd love to hear and tell more stories. I'd love to hear Susan or Ron tell a story.
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 101
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 10:36 am:   Edit Post

Too much, Doc - sort of the corporate equivalent of the ubiquitous drunk with the harmonica in the wrong key. A real shame about the lack of video. Thanks for sharing.

Peter

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