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#428299 - 01/30/17 09:20 AM
Re: MIC DROP
[Re: Bill Lewis]
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Registered: 01/02/04
Posts: 7305
Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
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Bill, I have a better Jerry Lee story. In 1961 I was playing a place in Lexington that hosted traveling groups...Jerry Lee, The McCoys, B.J. Thomas, etc....people on the way up or on the way down. Most played Saturday in Chicago and the following Friday in Atlanta. Lexington was the low budget stop-off. The group got a bed, food, LOTS of booze and committed to having the name player and a performance which was a loose association of house guys and band members.
At 15, I tried to hold things together on these Wednesday night "free for alls".
I was the only sober person. I taught players their parts and played whatever was left....bass, guitar, B-3, piano; even sometimes mandolin, banjo, etc.).
Lewis set the house piano on fire, using a can of lighter fluid. The piano was old, and easily extinguished with a large rag...in fact, I think the whole thing was planned.
What wasn't planned was a lady who was slid between her partners legs and part of fashionable dance. She howled like a banshee! She was on a part of the floor where she picked up massive slivers...I'm talking about 1/4"x 10" pieces of flooring in her ASS!! The EMT's were called and she was hauled away to the hospital.
Move forward about 20 years. I was at a really unique Italian restaurant in a Cave that had gone uncovered for many years. this place was HOT! The snooty little wife of the owner was, you guessed it.....SPLINTER GIRL!
She passed away from Alzheimer's a while ago. But every time I hear Jerry Lewis' name I laugh my ass off.
Russ (OUCH) Lay
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#428302 - 01/30/17 09:43 AM
Re: MIC DROP
[Re: captain Russ]
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Registered: 03/02/06
Posts: 7143
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Bill, I have a better Jerry Lee story. In 1961 I was playing a place in Lexington that hosted traveling groups...Jerry Lee, The McCoys, B.J. Thomas, etc....people on the way up or on the way down. Most played Saturday in Chicago and the following Friday in Atlanta. Lexington was the low budget stop-off. The group got a bed, food, LOTS of booze and committed to having the name player and a performance which was a loose association of house guys and band members.
At 15, I tried to hold things together on these Wednesday night "free for alls".
I was the only sober person. I taught players their parts and played whatever was left....bass, guitar, B-3, piano; even sometimes mandolin, banjo, etc.).
Lewis set the house piano on fire, using a can of lighter fluid. The piano was old, and easily extinguished with a large rag...in fact, I think the whole thing was planned.
What wasn't planned was a lady who was slid between her partners legs and part of fashionable dance. She howled like a banshee! She was on a part of the floor where she picked up massive slivers...I'm talking about 1/4"x 10" pieces of flooring in her ASS!! The EMT's were called and she was hauled away to the hospital.
Move forward about 20 years. I was at a really unique Italian restaurant in a Cave that had gone uncovered for many years. this place was HOT! The snooty little wife of the owner was, you guessed it.....SPLINTER GIRL!
She passed away from Alzheimer's a while ago. But every time I hear Jerry Lewis' name I laugh my ass off.
Russ (OUCH) Lay Great story Russ, if you ever decide to write a book with your lifes storie(s) i will be the first one to buy it...
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#428310 - 01/30/17 12:30 PM
Re: MIC DROP
[Re: Bill Lewis]
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Registered: 01/02/04
Posts: 7305
Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
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Yes, Bill, I played with all the traveling bands...B. J. Thomas, Lewis, The McCoys (Hang on Sloopy) and many others at this little club. I put it all together. At 15, I drove the bus, because no-one else was straight enough to do it. I had a license from Mississippi, where the age was 14.
All these guys traveled with a 6 channel Vocal Master, a tape Echoplex, a 6 wheel truck with a cover and a station wagon for the players. The truck was generally a Ford 350 with 150,000 miles on it.
R.
P.S. Jimmy Swaggert, Lewis' cousin was on several trips and played piano better than him (sober, I guess).
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#428315 - 01/30/17 03:47 PM
Re: MIC DROP
[Re: organgrinder]
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Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
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WAY back, my band opened a show at the Legion in Nowata, OK, for Jerry Lee. It was sponsored by a radio station in Tulsa and we played a lot for their blowouts. The place was packed, maybe a thousand people in a place designed for 500. Jerry Lee got halfway through the first song, stopped the band and proceeded to first break a leg off the stool then beat the piano to pieces with it, all the time cussing it for being out of tune.
The crowd boo-ed him as he left the stage, giving them the finger. They called us back up and we did three more hours and nobody left or demanded their money back. Heck, where else were they going to go in Nowata Oklahoma on a Saturday night? By the time we finished I'm sure Jerry was half way to Mississippi! No, we didn't get his money, but they did pay us quite a bit extra for saving the show!
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DonM
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Those that do this obviously don't have to shell out of their own pockets. It's just dumb, anyway.
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