Ya Stud! Great pic, killer concert series... I'm jealous, though... Pepe Romero is here in Austin, TX Oct. 6... Tickets $55.
Last time I paid $55 for a performance... a happy ending was guaranteed...
A bit rich for my blood at this juncture... Reminds me of this story that I told elsewhere: Not quite the night when Segovia was in town and I had to make a choice:
A) Spend money to go see Don Andres or
B) Go work a show in Chalmette and do stage work for Thunderhead (featuring my friend and Jeff Healey's Slide Guitarist Pat Rush) and Johnny Winter and make money to support my brother and my home.
Never got to see the great man of the Classical Guitar play live and caught grief for it from my teacher. Loved the apartment on the Lakefront on St. Anthony street in NOLA!
$55! I went to see the quartet a couple years back. Standing in line to buy tickets at the door, a kindly woman asked if I was there alone; I was. Turns out she had two tickets in the front row and was seeking a solo attendee to take the other.
I never saw Segovia either, but I did see Bream. It's one of my favorite concert memories.
Funny you mention Johnny Winter. He was one of my childhood heroes (before I took up the classical guitar).
...And thank you both for your assessment of our little series and overly generous critique of a particularly bad cell phone photo!
My friends, guitarist Pat Rush and Harp Player Pat Ramsay, both played on one of my childhood heroes, Johnny Winter's Red, Hot and Blue album. Pat Rush taught me a LOT about slide guitar when I was a junior in High School and was a direct connection to Johnny Winter's playing. I got to meet Johnny that way. I wish it had been a more guitar friendly environment (backstage @ concert at the Palladium in NYC). Nevertheless, I learned a lot, made a buncha money with those skills and now, from time to time, I whip out my Classical fretboard National and quietly sing: "Well my momma she don' tol' me, papa don' tol' me too". (;-)
That's groovy. You are a fortunate man, whether you see Pepe or Andres or not. I've seen Johnny play several times. Never met him. One of my favorites has always been Nothin' but the Blues, especially the delta-y "TV Mama."
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Last time I paid $55 for a performance... a happy ending was guaranteed...
A bit rich for my blood at this juncture... Reminds me of this story that I told elsewhere: Not quite the night when Segovia was in town and I had to make a choice:
A) Spend money to go see Don Andres or
B) Go work a show in Chalmette and do stage work for Thunderhead (featuring my friend and Jeff Healey's Slide Guitarist Pat Rush) and Johnny Winter and make money to support my brother and my home.
Never got to see the great man of the Classical Guitar play live and caught grief for it from my teacher. Loved the apartment on the Lakefront on St. Anthony street in NOLA!
What an amusing memory... Thanx!
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I never saw Segovia either, but I did see Bream. It's one of my favorite concert memories.
Funny you mention Johnny Winter. He was one of my childhood heroes (before I took up the classical guitar).
...And thank you both for your assessment of our little series and overly generous critique of a particularly bad cell phone photo!
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My friends, guitarist Pat Rush and Harp Player Pat Ramsay, both played on one of my childhood heroes, Johnny Winter's Red, Hot and Blue album. Pat Rush taught me a LOT about slide guitar when I was a junior in High School and was a direct connection to Johnny Winter's playing. I got to meet Johnny that way. I wish it had been a more guitar friendly environment (backstage @ concert at the Palladium in NYC). Nevertheless, I learned a lot, made a buncha money with those skills and now, from time to time, I whip out my Classical fretboard National and quietly sing: "Well my momma she don' tol' me, papa don' tol' me too". (;-)
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