[Harp-L] Be the best you can be was: Burying Anyone / Was Burying Kids

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will bury anyone that steps on my stage. I don't care if you're a
kid or old woman.  If you step on my stage I will eat you alive and
then bury you.  I show no mercy and will have no remorse.  :-)

Whether or not that's actually true remains to be seen.  However that
is my general attitude when I'm playing. I challenge my bandmates to
always be the best player in the room.  People come out to see us and
I'll be damned if we can't show them the best players in town.

Now if a common bloke wants to sit in I will let him have the stage
to do what he wants.  If he requests that I support him I will do
that too.  If he shows his intention to cut heads then I will bury
him to no end. I've litterally made other harmonica players cry and
pout after they tried to challenge me.

I would never go to another man's show and get on his stage with the
intent to bury him.  And if he were to cut head with me, I will
usually back down and let him do his thing.  The crowd is there to
see him, not me and they are certainly not there to see me shred the
person they travel to see. Then again, if Rosco or Michael Peloquin
were playing I'd drive a hundred miles to makes 'em look silly
afterwhich I'd make them buy me a beer for my trouble. 

Movin' on with my "axe" in hand. :-)


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>---- Original Message ----
>From: party_man1@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Burying Anyone / Was Burying Kids
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:37:08 -0400 (EDT)
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>>Hurricane sez :
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>>Be careful what you wish for .....
>>
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>>Somewhere in the Mississippi Valley in the 90's I was touring
>playing and when my work was done in Chicago I set out to find a
>certain legend harp man , some one I respected and thought of as a
>real original sounding musician . He was from one of the biggest
>cities south of Chicago I found where this legend worked . I arrived
>at the " Club " in question to see a packed house with little
>standing room , but none the less I was not going to miss this guy's
>performance - - No Way - - . 
>>
>>- - Please don't anyone ask what his name is I won't tell anyway I
>still respect him - -
>>
>>Outside in the patio I waited till I saw a open spot at the rail and
>took my seat drink in hand right in front of the stage .
>>
>>There he was with a five piece band backing this man who was blowing
>some nice stuff , nothing fancy , but solid stuff  . At the break I
>offered to buy the band a drink and then was able to side up to " him
>" and talk  , mentioning to him how much I admired him and his
>playing and then said to him where I had played in Chicago and some
>of the people who were really cool who let me stand in with them .
>When the set was about to begin he said " sure " I will call you up .
>>
>>The respect I had for this man is what drove me to search him out
>knowing I might not be in this part of the country again so I was
>more than grateful as well as feeling pretty lucky to be on a stage
>with a man who played with all the Giants from T-Bone Walker to Muddy
>.
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>>I let it all out when I got the nod to go for it after " he " did
>his solo thang on several songs ( I played a set with him ) but not
>to much as we progressed and he in kind got a little more intense as
>we went from song to song .
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>>Bottom line :
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>>On the last song of the set and his last set at that I pulled out
>all my chops - - smokin man - - I did what I didn't or should have
>not done and I buried him deep , then deeper as the song went on .
>When I finished my last solo , he signaled the band to " Take It Home
>" , and - - Flashed a stink eyed look at me that made me wonder what
>I was in for because I knew full well he was ticked off when I threw
>down my stuff on stage and he saw the crowd go nutzoburger screaming
>and yelling as I played and they and the rest of the house rocked
>away as the song played on . I got super complements and then when I
>was able to break away from the folks who liked my stuff and the
>drinks they bought me I was accosted by the tenor sax man who had
>played with this legend for many years - - he insulted me , he was
>not at all nice and said I was a joke to think I was a " Blues man "
>. He had fire in his old drunken eyes . It was strange , one moment
>everything's cool and hip , the next thing 
>>I'm watching my back . I walked out to see my legendary Bluesman
>loading up with the rest of the band ( who were super cool ,
>respectful & friendly still . I thanked them  all for a great time on
>stage - - My legend - - he just looked as if I wasn't there , like I
>didn't exist . He had a long and sad look on his face as I saw him
>drive off , his sax man gave me the finger out the passenger's window
>as they disappeared into the wet night down the avenue .
>>
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>>So My Fellow Windbaggers :
>>
>>- - be careful what you wish for . Cause .....
>>
>>You just might get what you wished for . 
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>>To this day I feel bad that I hurt this man's feelings even if it
>was not my intent at all . 
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>>- - Please don't anyone ask what his name is I won't tell anyway I
>still respect him - -
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>>Sincerely :
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>>Hurricane Ramsn 
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>>Aka :
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>>Party_Man1@xxxxxxxxxx
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Chris Michalek

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