this tells the Halloween story
October 30th, 2009 @ 17:54Posted by: By Email
Robert Plemmons and I played guitar together for years until he went wild and ran off and became a doctor. Jimmie and Jeff were the vocal stars of the rock and roll band we played in but Robert and I ran things. We picked the songs we liked, did the snappy arrangements and were in charge of playing the guitars way, way too loud.
We lost touch for 20 years but we saw each other on FaceBook and he came to Thursday Night Music Club to see everybody and then we, just he and I, went out for beers last Friday. Went to see Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges at the Broadway 50/50. Actually we first sat at Casbeers over a plate of
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Runnin’ numbers. Bring some bail money. It’s a homemade beer brew pub from the 1930′s so tables dealing out games of chance should fit right in. Maybe the hotel’s ghosts will come out and play. Check out this gorgeous 1960′s bingo machine we bought at the flea market. We won’t have full cards, we’re just going to pass out individual numbers – you’ll get a handwritten note with like B-7 and O-63 on them and those’ll be the tickets to turnin’ your luck around. We’ll bring a box of odd prizes – bring a white elephant prize if you have any stuff laying around. I’m thinkin’ we’ll let singers call numbers between their songs. Of course it’s not illegal as long as people aren’t paying to play. If people aren’t buying tickets then it’s a free contest and it’s kosher. It’s actually recording and releasing records that’s straight up home wrecking gambling.
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I shot video on every song. Some (not this one) with the best shaky zooms I could do from the distance I had to shoot from. In cameraman culture, zooms that are too long are called “Alfred Hitchcocks”. But when it’s one camera and you’re far away you either don’t
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I have always liked this song!
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. It meets my number one requirement of your being better off after hearing it than before. Although it was written in parables it is simple and understandable. It lets you realize that troubles are always complicated and solutions are always simple whether we want to hear them or not.
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