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I was looking for a specific review he wrote and found this compilation of his Fresh Air work. I like the one about the band, Eggs Over Easy. https://www.npr.org/people/2101617/ed-ward

I read that article when it originally came out. I still dig this part. STEVE FERRONE (drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who played at the 2004 ceremony) I had no idea that Prince was going to be there. Steve Winwood said, “Hey, Prince is over there.” And I said, “I guess he’s playing with us?” So I said to Winwood, “I’m going to go over and say hello to him.” I wandered across the stage and I went up to him and I said, “Hi, Prince, it’s nice to meet you — Steve Ferrone.” And he said, “Oh, I know who you are!” Maybe because I’d played on Chaka Khan’s “I Feel for You,” which is a song that he wrote. I went back over and I sat down behind the drum kit, and Winwood was like: “What’s he like? What’d he say?” Then I was sitting there, and I heard somebody playing a guitar riff from a song that I wrote with Average White Band. And I looked over and Prince was looking right at me and playing that song. And I thought, “Yeah, you actually do know who I am!”

Al, never pictured you as a Pearl Jam/Oasis guy.

Most from the early 80s...my college years with all my disposable income spent on beer, weed and music. Costello: My Aim Is True REM: Murmur Dire Straits: Self Titled The Cars: Self Titled Boston: Self Titled Van Halen: Self Titled Counting Crowes: Self Titled Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive (debatable if it was their debut, but I'm counting it) Wilco and Son Volt Marshall Crenshaw self titled Bruce Robison: I honestly put this in the same category as John Prine's first album that had "Hello In There", "Sam Stone" and "Angel from Montgomery". Bruce's original on Vireo had two number ones for other people (Angry All The Time-Tim McGraw/Faith Hill) and (Travellin' Soldier - Dixie Chicks) along with Leeann Womack's "Lonely Too" and Kelly Willis' "Not Forgotten You".

For one thing.....I don't think a lot of people realized how good of a guitar player Prince actually was. Mayer falls into the category of FIG JAM. Prince does not.

Ooooh...that's an idea. I know a guy who has worked with him as well. I may give that a try. It's also hard to me to comprehend that both Petty and Prince died from overdoses. Just breaks my heart.

I assumed when he fell back into the roadie, that dude clipped a cable onto the strap and when he threw the guitar up in the air, they just pulled it straight up, but I've watched this new cut and can't see any cabling. He looks like he does something with the strap just before he pushes him up, and he says something to him, but I'll be damned if I can see any kind of rigging/cabling.

Glad they were able to keep everything together. I really wish the 6666 and Waggoner would do what the King Ranch as done with marketing (Ford and their leather shop). I assume Tio was behind all of that and I think that was a brilliant move on his part.

Had something cool happen last night. Last night was on an aftercare meeting with my treatment center. The guy running the meeting is named Mac. He was a former patient at that same treatment center about 5 years ago. I had checked in on a Wednesday and that Monday I was still assigned to the medical unit and in a valium haze. I don't remember much about those 4-5 days. Hell, I even lost a complete day. But that Monday night, another dude and I wondered in to an 'aftercare' meeting. I later found out it was about 10 patients and 2 guys that I thought were counselors but later learned they were former patients who came back to campus a few times a week for meetings and to give back. I hadn't seen Mac in about 8 months. We just keep missing each other at these meetings. They have 5 a week. There are 30 people in last nights Zoom and Mac starts the meeting. "First I would like to have Hulla start off tonight. I first met him in this very meeting and if my memory serves correctly, he has a two year anniversary this coming Saturday." I still can't believe he even remembers me, much less remember the first time we met, but fuck me...how does he remember my sobriety date. After that first meeting, I would see Mac at Sunday Service an always try to get into his group for Aftercare and I would call him while I was in treatment just to get his ideas on situations. Just a cool, laid back guy who is also a friend of Richard Royer, who wrote "Breathing Underwater". Sorry for the rambling, but I was blown away.

Dammit...I missed Single Pickup Sunday. Will get it when it rolls around again.

Cool story and recut video of Prince on the George Harrison show. https://boingboing.net/2021/05/02/princes-epic-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-guitar-solo-has-a-new-directors-cut.html

This looks cool. Documentary on the history of guitar pedals. https://www.guitarworld.com/news/watch-reverbcoms-eagerly-anticipated-the-pedal-movie-now

FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC news, @Celery Man. So happy for you guys! Reminded me to post of story about my youngest visiting me at treatment but that can wait. She is such a beauty.

Motherfucker.... I blame you @Litig8r for my lost day. Not only Brian Setzer on guitar but Syd Straw on background vocals. Damn, I still love Syd Straw. She recently did a great project with Jimmer Podrasky from The Rave-Ups. Syd's first solo record is a show stopper.

And @WhatTheBuck. I bought that Wasserman album the day it came out. That Jennifer Warnes duet kills me every time I hear it. I need to pull that out and listen to it again. Thanks for the reminder. And speaking of her, Bruce Robison just did a FANTASTIC interview with Roscoe Beck about his work with Leonard Cohen and later with Jennifer on "Famous Blue Raincoat", still the best sounding album I've ever heard. He did it as part of his "The Next Waltz" project. If it isn't there, you can grab it from the patreon page. Trust me, it is work whatever you want to pay to listen to it.

I still giggle that she and Tom Waits were together for so long. That debut album is just fantastic. I need to pick up that book. I LOVE the groove of "Young Blood" from that album. Her 1984 album, Magazine, is one of my favorites. They sound, the layering, the depth, the writing, the performance.....ALL top notch. "Juke Box Fury" is a great example.

Fucking edit ran out. Parnell doesn't use a pick and Kurtz puts the slide on his pinkie. Still wish he has played that Strat. Good lord, I love that guitar. I was kissed by several angels and the devil.

Love the comments about people arguing who was on the tele. That is Rick Kurtz on that killer slide. That is Kurtz' white Strat on the stand but according to some credits, Lee Roy was on the same ACL show. I found a video with Parnell using the slide on his ring finger and in this clip, it is on his played it.

Hell, he's 80 years old. And a hard 80 years at that.

In Google Earth, search Estancia La Guitarra: This is a cool story. https://mymodernmet.com/argentinian-guitar-forest/

Updates/news is starting to come in. This is just fucking heartbreaking. https://www.ajc.com/news/police-working-to-identify-6-victims-of-deadly-i-85-van-crash/IG475HEC7VBN7C7FPPF6V4AH7M/ https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/family-fiery-van-crash-victims-cope-painful-loss/85-c76fcda8-ba2a-4e81-a95d-d8ed7c1a7c86

Here is Denny on the Flying V with Gary Clark, Jr. in 2013.

This is probably my favorite Delbert song. And Stephen fuckin' Bruton on guitar.

Who was your dad? PM me if you don't want that info out. Reason I ask is I was living in Birmingham in the late 80s and Rick Kurtz (one of my favorite guitarists in the world) toured with Delbert about half of the time. Rick didn't say it but another musician told me that Rick only toured half time with Delbert because no one could hang in for a full year with him so he had to have a team of musicians to make up his touring band. Delbert played one of the best sounding (and looking) Strats I've ever seen.

Even though this thread is 2 years old....this is probably my favorite. I first sought them out seeing Sting wearing on of their t-shirts. This song hooked me.