re: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Good Old Days of SPAH

[Buddha <groovygypsy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crazy Harmonica players, blistering younglings who think they can play
and near WWE style fights.

Ah yes.... Larry is correct, there truly is nothing like the golden era of SPAH.

Thanks for the info in Brody Boaster -
http://www.myspace.com/brodybusterband  geez, if you ask me he looks
like Bret Favre holding a microphone.
Interesting, like he's caught in a time vortex and continues to live
as if it were still 1994. There ain't nothing like embracing your past
but there comes a time we all need to move forward unless you wanted
to be labeled as nostalgic and um.... a little nuts.

This is a what have you done for me today world. Living in the past
will only cause pain which may be fine for some but think it's
healthiest to live now unless you're playing the classic tune
Yesterday. I however am a visionary so I will continue to work on the
delightful jazz tune Memories of Tomorrow.


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On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:

    Actually, Buzz and I never got within 20 feet of the stage. I
think Welton saw us coming and decided that discretion was the better
part of being a total jerk and vamoosed


I was approached by Norm Dobson and asked if I would keep an eye on
Mr. Welton because they (spah) were afraid that he hadn't been taking
his medicine and had already almost gotten into altercations with Pete
Pedersen and Jerry Murad. Now Paul Metris has an artificial leg and
can't run, so I said I would do it. Also, I was only 50 and still in
good shape.

At the Peabody Hotel, on the night in question, the wife and I were
sitting at the table closest to the side stage access door and after
playing what ('I' thought) a really nice set, Mr. Welton started to
cap and rag on the organization and various stars. Some older player
(Lou Delin?) from the audience yelled at him to "Aw shut up and play.
no one want's to hear your B******t."

Mr Welton picked up the mike stand as if he was going to throw it down
into the audience. A couple people jumped up, he dropped the stand and
exited stage right and I caught him as he was descending the backstage
stairs. I ushered him to the dressing room where his girlfriend was
already waiting. He changed, Bob calmed him down and handed him his
check. I walked the two of them down the back service stairs and a
block down to Beale, and left them at the Rum Boogie Cafe.

    (I didn't know about the Leone connection, though later that night
on Beale Street we heard tales of a madman trying to crash all the
stages and insisting he was the best harmonica player in the world).


Not me, I am the best harmonica player in the 3400 block of Aladdin
Av., Punta Gorda Fla.

    A few months later Kim Field told me that Welton claimed to be
studying the video of the incident (though SPAH never officially
released any video from that evening, despite a mindblowing duet
between Don Les and Uwe Penzoldt, the 11-year old German kid who was
channeling Don in a telepathic musical seance) so that he could figure
out who those guys were and deliver them a suitable comeuppance. Ahhh,
happy days . . .

    --- On Wed, 8/6/08, Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
    On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Buddha wrote:
    > but things got better as the
    > years progressed. I think Memphis was one of the best conventions and
    > I think that was the tipping point for the "blues players" to
    finally
    > be accepted. Danny Walton was there that year and went crazy during
    > his set. Winslow and Buzz were the ones that kicked him off the stage
    > and I think that's we cemented our approval.

    I was acting master at arms because Paul Metris doesn't move too
    fast, and I made sure Welton stayed in his dressing room and then
    left the building. I had to miss Charley Musselwhite. Then I walked
    Mr Danny Welton and his girl friend down to Beale St. and turned them
    loose.


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