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Victor wrote:Creepily ironic, Trent. That’s exactly the advice I gave David:
Nice spread, though. Where’s the basketball court?I was wondering the same thing? 😆 Where are the hoops? 😆
Maybe I am actually a stalker and didn’t know it!? 😆 😆 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAOK, it’s probably time to settle this one! 😆
What did I do? I was very confused!
I was very shocked! 😯 I was very surprised! 😮I had to ask myself, “What would a true Road Scholar do?”
There was so many thoughts that entered my brain! So very many emotions that I felt!
Then it hit me, “What would you want if you were Bruce?”
The answer was very clear!
“Let the man read his Sunday paper!”
I walked out into the parking lot and called Vic.
As Vic’s cell faded into the mountains, I understood Vic (one of our Global moderators) to advise me that I had done the wrong thing.I drove to Guilford College and watched as Bruce’s sound crew was setting up in this beautiful auditorium, which had to be their old Chapel and wondered, “Did I do the right thing?”
Then it hit me again, “Let the man read his Sunday paper!?
So I did!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAPS What do you think Vic advised me to do?
: Did I do the right thing? : Obviously, I didn’t live up to being a “stalker”!Miss Virginia Former wrote:It’s not the quantity………it’s the quality.Come on MVF! We gotta know!
What is your “quality”? 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAVictor wrote:Not enough!Come on Vic! We want to know!
Is it 23?
Am I close? As a “Global moderator”, it’s your “fiduciary duty” to let us know! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAAmy wrote:Hi David…reading the Leon thread with interest, having been a big fan back in the day and loving when Bruce busts him out. Please, please, please tell the Leon story. Is that enough begging?I just don’t know. 😆 At least Treah (Jackie) would have said, “Please, please with sugar on top.” 😆 Even that earned her some “extra credit” on another post, but just not enough to qualify for actual “begging”. Therefore, I’m struggling to see where three “pleases” can qualify also. 😆
I need some more begging! 😆 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAMiss Virginia Former wrote:….now, what was the question????? Oh, yeah, what should David have done????? He should have gotten down on his knees, crawled over to Bruce, kissed his feet, and AGAIN asked forgiveness for the Greenville, SC show!!!!!! At least, if I had been there, holding the leash, that’s what he would have done!!!!MVF, I like it soooo much when you do the whips and chain thang! 😆
I want more!!: 😆 Give me some more!! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAMiss Virginia Former wrote:Hey, boys,
The sheriff’s back in town.And don’t you forget it!! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAbabytweety2yo wrote:I myself am 33 and been listening to Bruce for 21 years…since I was 12yrs old.
Well hope this is the start of a new fun topic.You’re kidding!! 😆
You don’t look a day over 18! 😆
I’m the same age as Bruce! Been a fan since 1986!
You were in diapers then! 😆Over 20 years of being a Brucehead! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAtreah wrote:Here’s a list of songs I think fits this description:
Candy Mountain Run (style of singing)Whoaaaaaaa! 😆
Did someone say Candy Mountain Run!!
Now we’re getting somewhere!
What does Candy Mountain Run and Camp Meeting have in common??
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAtreah wrote:Speaking of singing style, Bruce pays tribute to Leon Russell’s singing style throughout the A Night On The Town album. Am I correct or is this statement only wishful thinking?No doubt about it! 😆
Finally, I see a light come on! 💡 💡 💡 💡 💡
I have a Leon story for you if you are interested! But, I need to hear some begging! 😆
This is a great story!
You don’t want to miss this one! David Day
Lake Lanie, GAdaverich wrote:you could be hammering her brain with sonic torture when playing that one key again and again.That’s halarious! 😆
Should I use Spider Fingers as doggie discipline?
(For all you animal lovers, I’m just kidding! 😆 )
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAHere’s another question for you “two hand independence” guys and gals.
Whenever I attempt “Spider Fingers”, my dog (an Old English Sheep Dog), runs upstairs and hides. 😆 Can’t get away fast enough! 😆
Whenever I attempt “Circus on the Moon”, she is contempt to just lay on the couch and listen.
What is it with “Spider Fingers” that makes her run and hide? 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAPS I can’t play either one of them so they both are equally bad! 😆
treah wrote:Bruce often shows some of his “pop” influences-Leon and Elton-when playing,so it makes sense that the Steely Dan influence would apeear on the jazz album.I can’t help but think on the Intersections DVD “The Mighty Quinn” (with Skunk Baxter), Bruce is giving us his Leon impersonation.
What do you think? What other songs sounds like Leon Russell?
David Day
Lake Lanier, GADavid Day wrote:Jazz purists can have constipation of the brain! 😆Excuse my French! 😆
I normally don’t talk that way! At least I didn’t get the infamous “banning stick” (yet) from the “Global moderators”! 😆
But, it does express how I feel about your challenge (and the subject)! 😆
Jazz purists have it all clogged up upstairs! They are quick to tell you how it should be played. Like I said before, jazz is music that someone chooses to play. Jazz purists are somone that chooses to tell you how it should be played! 😆
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAPS How’s that for a “come back”?
rdiakun wrote:PS David, here’s your challenge du jour… try to come up with a socially acceptable ending for a sentence that starts with “Jazz purists can…..”Jazz purists can have constipation of the brain! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier,GAtreah wrote:OK David,I give up! I’ve listened to the CD,poured over the liner notes and wracked my brain for obscure bits of Bruce trivia,but I can’t find the answer! Put me out of my misery, please! 😆This deserves some attention. Give me a good grade if you will! 😆
Long, long time ago. Way back when. I read several articles where Bruce said that he had been influenced by Steely Dan. Steely Dan being jazz/pop was in a class by themself. Very creative for their time.
Since Bruce majored in jazz, it was just a matter of time that he came out with a jazz record. Some of the songs on Camp Meeting definitely have a Steely Dan feel to them. Camp Meeting itself being one of them.
Did Steely Dan help influece Bruce to major in jazz that inevitably led Bruce to do Camp Meeting?
meganm wrote:Don’t put me in either camp, David! I love the new jazz CD and the bluegrass CD equally…I just believe that the musicianship and improvisatory nature of both kinds of music are equally wonderful!! My thing? It’s ALL good, because it’s ALL Bruce…He obviously doesn’t take sides, why would I?? It’s music. There ARE no sides….Megan, sweet Candy Mountain Run! 😆
I didn’t put you in either camp at all!
I think it’s great that there are “two camps” forming!
It just means some great music and some great debate in the works!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GASi, thanks for the “Daily Dose”!
I know it’s a conspiracy!
Just trying to incite me!(?) I get easily excited these days!
(Must have been the brown acid. 😆 gdwoman should have warned me earlier! 😆 )
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAgdwoman wrote:I was at the gig as well – what a great performance! Bruce was really in top form – having a clearly wonderful time. I’m sure that this group is such a breath of fresh air for him, in the midst of the gigs with Skaggs. I know those have gotten kind of old for me, and I’ve only seen a few of them. I can’t imagine Bruce having to play to/with the same schtick every show…..Victor wrote:Elyce, I love you — you’re a special ed teacher, so you’re a giving person — and judging by your Pen Pic, you’ve survived a broken neck(!) But I have to place myself in the position of Defender of Ricky Skaggs again. I feel it’s unfair to categorize the Skaggs/Thunder shows as “the same schtick every time,” and I sincerely doubt Bruce thinks so, or else he wouldn’t have scheduled so many of those gigs. Bluegrass is as improvisational as jazz any day of the week, and Skagg’s band is a top-notch group of musicians.
Just because it doesn’t suit your tastes is no need to diminish its artistry. I wouldn’t do that with the jazz stuff.
That is all. :)Vicmeganm wrote:Well said, and it couldn’t be more true. Thanks Victor!Yikes! 😆 Looks like some “tension” within the Bruce Nation!
What would a true Road Scholar do? Especially between the ranks of other “Road Scholars”. Conflict between some Road Scholars?
No way! But, just maybe there is a way to have some “reconciliation” between the ranks. On one hand there is “Camp Meeting” the new jazz CD. On the other hand, there is the Ricky Skaggs bluesgrass thang!(Another southern expression!)
It was bound to happen! The Bruce Heads divided into two camps!
Sounds like some good debate material!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAgdwoman wrote:Rich has the right idea. Enjoy a long, tall, cool glass of Kool_Aid….
…but stay away from the brown acid.Now you tell me! Must be why I have the “brain damage”! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GArdiakun wrote:The only request I have is that none of you guys out there say that you’d make the necessary wardrobe adjustments such that you do a “trouser elephant” and whistle Dixie as you walk by.Now’s that hilarious! 😆
I’m glad you finally woke up and stepped up to the plate!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GArdiakun wrote:The one thing about what liner notes I saw was this reference to some web site (bruuuce.com, I believe) and the subsequent thanking of some mysterious figure named Si Twining. Who is this man? Is he some newfangled jazz impressario who seeks to use his superpowers for good (and not evil, as is the comic-book hero credo) to promote this music and bring it out of the dark, dirty basements and bring on the dawn of a new day with this music as its’ centerpiece? I guess we’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. Who knows? He might be the guy in the shadows at those depraved rock concerts who selects which girls get with the band, which get with the sound crew, and which end up being ritually defiled by the roadies or the bus driver.That’s what I’m talking about!
It’s all over the place! You like Bruce at shows because he is all over the place! You never know what is coming next!
That’s what’s jazz is all about! It’s all over the place! Camp Meeting does that well! Bruce is all over the place and that is what you like with Bruce!
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GArdiakun wrote:I would’ve tried to be as nonchalant as possible, and walked like I was gonna go right by him. When I got to where he was, I would’ve acted like I had no idea who he was, tipped my head at him, and said “Yo, man… How ’bout them Mets?”“Could I interest you in a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers?” – F. ZappaI still need some more begging! What would you have done LolaPulsa, Sunflower(Kat) and gdwoman?
I want to know!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GArdiakun wrote:David Day wrote:Common Rich! What would you have done?
Oh, the pressure……
Common Rich“Could I interest you in a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers?” – F. ZappaSorry about that! That was a “Freudian slip”! (Speaking of which, you owe me a dream interpretation! 😆 )
I was trying to give you was a “southern slag” thing. In other words, “Come on Rich”! Instead, I gave you a Patois thing. In Patois, that would be “Common Mon!”
(Come on man!)Sorry about that! Please don’t take that as an insult! It was my attempt to get you fired up and respond. That it did!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GA
I was very shocked! 😯 I was very surprised! 😮
