Re: [Harp-L] Bonfiglio, Buddy G and the sociology of the

[Shelly <shelly0112@xxxxxxxxx>]

I saw Jerry Lee well over 20 years ago and it was a disappointing and very
very short performance.  If you want some hot piano playing I'd suggest
catching Jason D. Williams.  Saw him perform a couple of months ago.
Awesome and way fun!  He has a new album out so is touring now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7-Aa1yAsU

Shelly


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The nickname is just because of what he did. He never murdered anyone.
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>   Sincerely,
>   Zack.
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> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:53 AM, martin oldsberg
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> > >I once saw Jerry Lee Lewis at Carnegie Hall....and he opened with a
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> > >Prelude in E minor (op.28 No.4) . The Killer playing Chopin!!! LOL The
> > >contrast was hilarious and the audience "got it". He gave it a good shot
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> > >had fun doing it. I think he's great, but he´s no Horowitz
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> > Steve caught Jerry Lee on a good night. He was a bit more rustic when I
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> > him. It was many a year ago now, but memory lives.
> >   Already after the opening act had finished you could see that his set
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> > off to an interesting start when two assistants carried the main
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> >   It was obvious that Mr Lewis had had a tipple, or 18, in his dressing
> > room before the show.
> >    He swayed precariously to and fro a bit, but after a while seemed
> > to become clear of his role in the evenings entertainment and started to
> > play, mumbling lyrics in a sluggish way.
> >   A few slow country tunes later you could sense some frustration in the
> > Swedish audience, many of whom had dressed up in their best ´50´s gear
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> > clearly expected this to be an evening when there was a whole lotta
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> > goin´ on with their rock ´n´roll hero. But not so. Nobody had informed
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> > that country is something of an anathema here, but probably that would
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> >   After a while, however, "The Killer" (did he get that name from killing
> > his wife?) started some more intense left hand jabbing on the keyboard
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> > was immediately rewarded with enthusiastic cheers from the audience.
> >   This died down and turned to discontented whistling when he took on the
> > next country song. The Killer, unperturbed, let this pass, soporifically
> > crooning about what had made Milwauke famous.
> >   Then another rocker. This time he got in to it, and after a while stood
> > up on shaky legs --there was gonna be some shakin´after all! -- and
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> > to bang his posterior down on the piano. Crowd loved it.
> >   Then he perceived the proximity of his rear end to the microphone and
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> > rectum and blew off a healthy fart. He chuckled a bit to himself and sat
> > down, almost missing the piano stool, finished the tune and then took up
> > another, even slower, country song, now longing for another place,
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> >   At this point you could see several in the audience giving one another
> > incredulous looks and quite a few appeared to share Mr Lewis´ longing.
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> > of the philistines even wrinkled their noses on this kind of
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> >   I, being a bit of a culture vulture with only a mild interest in
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> > rock solid bottom in the show biz world, must say I toyed with the idea
> > myself, but decided to stay on, mainly based on the "where do we go from
> > here?" premise. So I hung in there.
> >   All in all, his set was, if not sweet, short. He got help off the stage
> > as well.
> >   There were no encores.
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
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> www.zackpomerleau.com
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> Drummer, guitarist, pianist, vocalist, and harmonica player. Currently
> using
> a HarpGear 50 with LoneWolf harmonica pedals along with other various
> brands, a Warmoth Stratocaster with Lindy Fralin pickups, a Gibson Les Paul
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