Every so often it is necessary to turn off the noise, step back, take a long breather, and put all things in proper perspective. If El Donaldo has done anything of value since his inauguration it is that he has shown the rest of the world, and some in America, what a red, white, and blue jackass looks like. For this I thank him, tenfold times over. The offshoot of this, at least for now anyway, is that this weblog is dropping out. Turning to things that will provide a positive healthful physical and mental environment, one that politics, the media, and the continual left-right struggle for total power only destroys. Be well. Perhaps someday, after El Donaldo and company have disappeared from the scene, we'll return. Until then: “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot
I have seen Rick "live" a couple time's back in the day (70's) in small as well as arena type venue's ... he was kick ass live! I actually been meaning to also do an induction on him for sure in my "RCJ Music/ Art's Hounour Roll Society". I myself played several Houston venues back in the 70's that folk's like him, Edgar & Johnny Winter and other's had billed at.
ReplyDeleteRanch Chimp, what instrument did you play? Guitar?
DeleteLes, wasn't that Rick Derringer on the Weird Al Yankovic spoof of "Beat It", "Eat It" - where he does the Eddie Van Halen solo part only to explode on the video from playing too fast? I think that it was.
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DeleteBut I do recall the day the music died.
Apology for the late response, and I only caught this cause I was visiting your newer posting's. I play "some" guitar as just a fill in rythem power chord thing. My main job was lead vocal work, and a specialty in Blues harp's, where I used effect's on them, some percussion's. Coverewd alot of heavy metal hard rock type cover's. I dont play anymore (band), but am in touch with several younger musician's, and at home I have a keyboard's set up where I work putting together piece's.
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