| Author | Message | ||
| alembic_doctor
Intermediate Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 171 Registered: 8-2002 |
Working Late as usual. Apostrophe just cam up in rotation. Sheer Genius I tell you. | ||
| 88persuader
Advanced Member Username: 88persuader Post Number: 278 Registered: 5-2004 |
I second that!!! | ||
| jet_powers
Advanced Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 312 Registered: 2-2003 |
I'll third that! | ||
| hb3
Advanced Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 209 Registered: 2-2005 |
That's a good one. | ||
| jbybj
Junior Username: jbybj Post Number: 49 Registered: 6-2006 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 173 Registered: 8-2002 |
Take out Eddie Money and Insert Michael Bolton | ||
| xlrogue6
Intermediate Member Username: xlrogue6 Post Number: 119 Registered: 8-2002 |
"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
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2070 Registered: 7-2004 |
I've hung out with Michael Bolton's brother. He was pretty cool. Bill, tgo | ||
| inthelows
Advanced Member Username: inthelows Post Number: 351 Registered: 11-2006 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 174 Registered: 8-2002 |
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
Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 95 Registered: 10-2006 |
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
Advanced Member Username: 88persuader Post Number: 279 Registered: 5-2004 |
Just one question ... why does it hurt when I pee? (Only Frank would write that!!;-) | ||
| fmm
Intermediate Member Username: fmm Post Number: 185 Registered: 6-2002 |
Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho? | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1370 Registered: 4-2004 |
wow bill hung out with michael bolton's brother!!!!!! now that is huge.... lmao | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2074 Registered: 7-2004 |
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
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1108 Registered: 2-2006 |
Bill, your just trying to give them something to talk about. | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 98 Registered: 10-2006 |
You touched Bonnie's ass!?!?!? OK, now I am impressed! (And WAY jealous!) Peter | ||
| fmm
Intermediate Member Username: fmm Post Number: 186 Registered: 6-2002 |
I spilled soup on Leo Kottke once... | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 528 Registered: 4-2005 |
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
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 965 Registered: 10-2003 |
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
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 966 Registered: 10-2003 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 175 Registered: 8-2002 |
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
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 968 Registered: 10-2003 |
Do tell... | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1113 Registered: 2-2006 |
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
Junior Username: jbybj Post Number: 50 Registered: 6-2006 |
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
Advanced Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 313 Registered: 2-2003 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 176 Registered: 8-2002 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 101 Registered: 10-2006 |
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 |
