Re: [Harp-L] Worst Gus incident ever

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

seems like a reasonable request...(koff)



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From: Barry Bean <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Jul 14, 2014 11:36 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Worst Gus incident ever


That's taking Gus to a whole new level!

BB

On 7/14/2014 10:32 AM, Richard Hunter wrote:
> I played a gig with Jackson, Wyoming-based rock heavies Derrik and the Dynamos 
on Saturday, July 12, and Phil Round, the accomplished guitarist/singer/songwriter 
(see http://philround.com) who played bass on this gig, told me the most 
hellacious Gus story I've ever heard.
>
> The well-known Jackson-based attorney Gerry Spence has a son who plays 
harmonica.  This son, who by the way is a fully-grown adult, not a kid, is 
well-known for playing his harp wherever he goes; I heard him playing once while 
standing in line at airport security in Jackson.  (No, I did not introduce 
myself.)  He's been mentioned to me several times by Jackson musicians 
(disapprovingly) as a guy who stands up and plays the harp from the audience 
when a band is performing.  In other words, he's Gus.
>
> What Phil told me is that not long ago, while Phil was playing a Sunday gig at 
the Stagecoach bar in Jackson (a gig he's played for almost 45 continuous 
years), Spence demanded--not asked, demanded--to sit in with the band.  When the 
band politely demurred, Spence and about a dozen of his friends laid themselves 
down on the dance floor in front of the band, making it impossible for anyone to 
dance, in an attempt to extort the band into submission.
>
> I think we can agree that this is World Record Gus behavior.
>
> Not to mention world-class weird.
>
> regards, Richard Hunter
>
> author, "Jazz Harp" (Oak Publications, NYC)
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