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Lotus Europa Forums => Off Topic Subjects => Topic started by: literarymadness on Thursday,September 12, 2019, 05:45:26 PM
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Europas and music just seem to go together. Before I became a professor, I was a full-time musician. Just curious to see if anybody else plays a musical instrument. There's just enough room in the rear tub for a small Marshall combo and a Les Paul on the passenger seat. 8)
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Does playing the washboard count?
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Hey don't laugh; the washboard is actual instrument that is common in Cajun music. So BDA the answer is yes :beerchug:
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I used to live in New Orleans and know the real washboard players play a stainless steel ribbed breastplate sort of thing that hangs on their shoulders (although there are some who use an actual washboard) so I know where I stand in washboard player pecking order, but I'd be happy to contribute my scratching on a washboard if you all would have me! :)
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The most important thing is a washboard fits in the rear tub. ;) Geaux Tigers!
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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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I must thank the British for that Zydeco music. Love that Cagun music.
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Are you thanking the British for kicking the Acadians out of Canada so they ended up in Louisiana? In that case we should thank the Brit for Cajun food!
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Does playing the washboard count?
Only if you play a No. 198 National Washboard Co. Soap Saver, the Stradivarius of washboards. :P
I guess with a handle like Surfguitar I'd better count as a musician, just not a very good one. I'm mostly an appreciator of 1960's surf music with excessive reverb and tremolo. I named my boat Misirlou after the Dick Dale cover of a traditional Greek (some say Egyptian) folk song.
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Surf, you certainly know your washboards! Mine is a noname washboard. It was given to me by a friends who come over sometimes and he plays guitar and we sing on our screen porch and drink mint juleps. It was probably my singing that induced him to get me the washboard!
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I moved my grand piano this weekend. I have not played in a number of years, almost as long as it has been since I worked on a Lotus....
The true cost of house remodeling is high indeed. I would like to get back in to it, but alas the piano needs a restoration as badly as does my Europa.
I enjoy playing classical. Literary Madness, what sort of music do you play?
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Beautiful setting for your piano! I'd love to hear you play!
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Thanks BDA. If we had a time machine I would give a much better performance about 5 years ago. If they ever do another LOG in Texas I will host a concert at my house.
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BDAA: A little bit of washboard virtuosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu9l_4RnHGA
Chuck: Really no preferences. Pretty much played almost everything for a living one time or another. Love it all.
Here is a clip of me back in the '80s. I am the one on guitar with the white coat and Panama hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFnbYuHKqc
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BDAA: A little bit of washboard virtuosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu9l_4RnHGA
Well that is something to aspire to!
Chuck: Really no preferences. Pretty much played almost everything for a living one time or another. Love it all.
Here is a clip of me back in the '80s. I am the one on guitar with the white coat and Panama hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFnbYuHKqc
Wow! I had no idea we were in the presence of greatness and fame!! That's really cool! Did you leave the group to teach?
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I am not worthy. Wow! Think I will stick to rebuilding my Europa.
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Here's another one from the esteemed Prof. Madness. I challenge you NOT to have this song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ItEmCnP80
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BDA: When Gloria went solo, none of the original guys were kept on. So when the original band disbanded, I formed a blues band with another guitarist named Harvey Mandell who played with Canned Heat at Woodstock and was the intermittent guitarist for the Stones between Mick Taylor and Ron Wood. Then a few years later I was producing and recording in Germany for a couple of years. Then formed a local band that was quite popular regionally. All kinds of touring bands would sit in. Everyone from Blue Oyster Cult to Spirit. When I realized that music the scene was changing I went back to college and picked a couple of degrees. Only I could pick two careers that seem glamorous but don't pay well LOL. Of the three ex-wives I accumulated along the way didn't exactly help either LOL. It is a little sad that none of my college students would even know who any of those bands were. For fun I play on the weekends with a group of musicians who all formerly played with famous bands. One of the Vocalists (Ted Vernon) had his own classic car TV show called "South Beach Classics." The bass player was with the original O'jays and played backup for the Temptations, James Brown, and Sly. The drummer played with Jimmy Buffet and the Keyboard player played with too many bands to even mention. But live music is a lost art. Not many local venues even have live music anymore. :WTF: Sorry this was probably way too much information :confused:
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No, it's fascinating! It sounds like you've had a pretty colorful music career! I bet it was a lot of fun - maybe too fun (three x wives! ;-) ). I'm looking back and trying to remember any famous musicians I've known and I can't think of any. I went to high school with David Massengill who is a folk singer who once played with Joan Baez. I meet Berry Oakley's (Allman Brothers) New Orleans girlfriend (she was a high school kid and she had her mom's permission!). I also briefly knew a guy who good friends with the violinist for The Flock. That was a band in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s that cut two albums. The band petered out but Jerry Goodman (the violinist) went on to a fairly successful career including a stint with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra and did a movie score as well as some solo albums. I never met Goodman or Oakley though I did hear them play - Oakley many times). So it seems like you're the most famous musician with whom I've come in "direct" contact!
On the automotive front, I talked with Bobby Rahal before he was famous when I bought some parts from him for my Lola race car (I still have the canceled check!), I once met Harvey Templeton who designed and built his own Formula V and Formula Ford race cars. His Formula V cars were said to have revolutionize the class and at the time I met him, at least, his Formula Ford had the record for top speed at Daytona for a Formula Ford. I also met Amos Johnson who raced professionally and won his class in the Dayton 24 Hour five or six times. He and I both went to the same high school but at different times.
That HAS to be way more information than anybody here wanted to know. Now we all know who had the more interesting life!
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Hey anybody who drives a Europa (let alone a BDA), plays the washboard and lived in New Orleans, and knows the name of any member of The Flock is pretty damn interesting to me. I would say that we are Europa Brothers. :beerchug:
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