Playing and learning guitar: .. Classic jazz . Old pop tunes done in a jazzy style, viper tunes (from the '30s & '40s, what a nice period in so many ways). Menudo (the food), travel, the desert of Texas out by Terlingua, islands (and the east coast of Costa Rica), making Ciabbata bread toast for the love of my life* , and stuff like that. . . .................................... *her name is Meaux Jeaux .... pronounced moe-joe .................................... .................................... Check out the Myspace of The Kat's Meow and Kat Edmonson: Click on the pictures in "Smile's Friends Space" below Look for pictures of Meaux Jeaux. She wants to be my friend!
People who feel passionately about life and about music. People who are into peaceful anarchy. People into Austrian Economics. People into Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Reality and Mexican food (a bowl of menudo anyone??). ................................... I have met and I would like to meet: I've met and been friends with Herb Ellis. I've met and jammed with Howard Roberts and Tal Farlow. I've seen Joe Pass several times. I never got to see Wes Montgomery or Barney Kessell. Those are two of my guitar heroes along with Charlie Christian and Freddie Green. ...................................Of the Texas blues players I like T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ray Sharpe, Freddy King and Gate Mouth. And I've buddied around with Gate, Ray Sharpe, Mance Liscomb and Stevie Ray. I actually produced three albums on Ray Sharpe. I've seen Freddy King many times. ................................... Other great players from the Southwest are Bennie Garcia, Tom Wolfe (my teachers) and Oscar Moore.I'm rambling along about people I've met and I wish I had met.
Count Basie, The Benny Goodman Sextet with Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, most of the music of Sweets Edison, everything by my principal bands: The Kat's Meow with Kat Edmonson, The Jitterbug Vipers with Emily Gimble, The Slim Richey Dream Band with Maryann Price or Gaila Kenneally, stuff by my other bands, Western Swing*, Gatemouth Brown, T-Bone Walker, Freddie Green with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessell, ... and the list goes on and on!.......................................
*Claim to fame: I'm the last living lead guitarist on the Milton Brown boxed set. Wes Montgomery - Impressions
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fargo, Being There, The Third Man, Legends of the Fall (a movie with glaring weaknesses but I liked the story and Anthony Hopkins), & The Last Picture Show, Dr. Strange Love, and the list goes on!
I only watch television when I stay in motels. What a waste of time! I like to be on television, and I'll watch DVDs of TV shows sometimes but I wouldn't own a television (ugh!). Hey! I'm not criticizing you!! Hey, you like television? Copy this and paste it in your address bar, wait about 10 seconds and bingo!.................................... VIDEO ON WEB: http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=159837 Click on Play the video. ::: http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=159837. .................................... .................................... Write me if you like it. If you don't like it, write that on a piece of paper and put it in a corked bottle and throw it in the ocean. A radio show of The Kat's Meow is at: .................................... http://www.kut.org/site/PageServer?pagename=mus_eklektikosar chive ....................................Then click on: Slim Richey (July 11)I like radio.
I like biographies of jazz musicians and books on libertarian themes, free market environmentalism and economics, especially Austrian Economics." I Must Speak Out" by Carl Watner is a book I could read over and over. Rigoberto Stewart, Joseph Campbell, and J. Krishnamurti are favorite authors. I like fiction too. Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry. . I like sufi poetry (Hafiz) and my favorite poet is Wislawa Szymborska. Don't get me started. I'm not afraid of freedom and I'm sad that so many people are! I'm a thoughtful person and always on the prowl for new insights (psychology, philosophy, economics, art, music, you name it!)
Francie Meaux Jeaux (OMG! - the love of my life), all of my children and grand children, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessell, Herb Ellis, Kat Edmonson, Emily Gimble, Carl Watner, Rigoberto Stewart, Joseph Campbell, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston and the list will go on and on if I think long.