Re: [Harp-L] more hot butter

[michael harp <diachrome@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I forwarded all the list emails about Butter this weekend to Gabe
Butterfield. I think he will enjoy what you wrote. If anyone else has fond
memories post them and I will see that Gabe gets them.

BTW, Gabe speaks highly of his dad, not as the musician we read about but as
a good father. Gabe would like that story to be known. I think with the
start of the Paul Butterfield Fund and Society we will get to see the other
side of Paul as told my his son and perhaps family members. Too many times
the focus on genius' such as "Bird", Miles and Butter is about the demons in
their lives. The human side gets lost and becomes a small part of the story.

thanks
mike



on 8/28/04 9:27 PM, Mojoharpman@xxxxxxx at Mojoharpman@xxxxxxx wrote:

> had a chance to see butterfield several times here in the detroit area,
> starting in the early seventies up to the late eighties when he passed away. i
> think i'll have to vote for his horn band performance to be the most inspiring
> for 
> me. the band was extremly tight with david sanborn on sax and a hot motor
> city rythem section of george davidson on drums and rod hix holding down the
> bass. butter blew with severe intensity that night and i'll never forget it.
> he 
> was really on fire. it's funny looking back at that show, because at least
> half 
> the people there were walking around with their little marine band or blues
> harp. there must of been hundreds of them.  i have never seen anything like it
> since. anybody else remember being at that show. it was at the university of
> windsor in windsor ontario. i'm not sure of the year but it was sometime
> shortly 
> after the live album hit the streets. b
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