Re: Magic Dick/Pierre Beauregard

[Charlie Sawyer <sawyer@xxxxxxx>]

In an interview on WGBH radio in Boston last fall Magic Dick gave an
account of his efforts at singing which went like this (paraphrased,
not quoted, from memory):

  Like most players early on in my playing career I tried to sing  but
  with miserable results so I (sort of) resigned myself to being an
  instrumentalist. After many years as a frustrated, latent vocalist I
  decided to learn to do it right.  So, I got a voice teacher and
  learned all those fundamentals.  I worked very hard at it and
  learned a lot.  Now I feel like I can get up there and do it.

This comes as a great disappointment to all of us would-be vocalist,
and what harp player doesn't want to sing?  Lot's of us have been
through this disillusionment and manage to keep our hopes alive by
thinking "some day I'll get a voice coach and learn to do it right."
The idea that if you ain't born with decent pipes, forget it, is a
bitter pill.

	--Charlie