Junior has flipped out over a single person smoking a cigarette in the crowd. I don't smoke, but sheesh, loosen up a little bit. I'm not talking about mass orgies and open illicit drug use, just a few beers and people smoking cigs is enough for him to go ballistic.
Junior has flipped out over a single person smoking a cigarette in the crowd. I don't smoke, but sheesh, loosen up a little bit. I'm not talking about mass orgies and open illicit drug use, just a few beers and people smoking cigs is enough for him to go ballistic.
Fantastic musician though
Bah. Rent "Reefer Madness" and watch it. It's a slide down a slipperly slope, first a cigarette, then a little toothpick joint, next thing you know you're shootin' heroin and cookin' meth in your kitchen sink!
So the kid's a straightedge. Everyone's entitled to their opinion!
My opinion: It sucks that so much of music is about people going out to get wasted. There's music and there's gettin' wasted, they're two different things. If the music doesn't do it for you perhaps you need to find somewhere else to drink. Just my $.02.
I'll respect his position, but you can't expect your audience to comply with your every wish. At one show of Junior's that I was at, it was an open festival kind of arrangement, where beer and tobacco were allowed and sold onsite, he threatened to walk off the stage when someone close up to the stage lit a cig. He lambasted that dude for about a minute. Whatever Junior. Shutup and play that guit-steel!!
dartanion wrote:I'll respect his position, but you can't expect your audience to comply with your every wish. At one show of Junior's that I was at, it was an open festival kind of arrangement, where beer and tobacco were allowed and sold onsite, he threatened to walk off the stage when someone close up to the stage lit a cig. He lambasted that dude for about a minute. Whatever Junior. Shutup and play that guit-steel!!
That's a just misunderstanding between an artist and his management. If one chooses to be tobacco and alcohol free and insists on only playing tobacco and alcohol free venues then it better be in your contract. Of course the only gigs you'll get would be playin' tent revivals! That audience is their own kind of crazy, on the one hand I respect their conviction, on the other hand I'd hate to see those folks on drugs! SCARY!!!
D.D. plays like he means it because he DOES mean it, every note of it. It's all his, too. How many other guys can play upside down lefty strung righty with those telephone poles he strings that thing with?
I think I know that blonde I started to chuckle about how hard it was for those guys to sway back and forth until I remembered playing on our local TV station at about age 15. I think I was more motionless than DD's bass player
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You take the Marshalls, I'll take the brunette in the front row.
I thought the guy with the Marshall always got the brunette in the front row?
Great clip, love Cropper. If you get a chance to check out the three DVD set of the complete Monterey Pop festival ($75 but worth every penny), this is pretty much the same lineup backing up Otis Redding, and it is a killer performance. Here's a low quality clip:
I wish I could chew gum, talk to the audience, sing, and play guitar like that all at the same time. I think his thumb is longer than all of my fingers.
The Last of the World's Great Human Beings
Seek immediate medical attention if you suddenly go either deaf or blind.
If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years time there would be a shortage of sand.
I started to chuckle about how hard it was for those guys to sway back and forth until I remembered playing on our local TV station at about age 15. I think I was more motionless than DD's bass player 
