Roy
After listening to a few of Pee Wee's old recordings,I wanted to ask you a question.
Was that you playing steel on "Bonapartes Retreat"?,,,you know,
Met the girl I love in a town way down in Dixie, She was the cutest gal I ever did see.
so I took her in my arms and told her of her
many charms and danced all night while the fiddles played to Bonaparts Retreat? was that you?
I didnt want to post this in the buy & sell section where you have that Prototype 800,but
let me know,. I copied all those licks off the recording Do I sound a little like Redd Stewart or what?
Yeah, Jody, that was me on the old 3-neck Fender that Leo gave me for my endorsement. Here's a little history you may appreciate on how that record came about. We were playing 9 weeks at the Riverside Rancho in Glendale, California while there making a movie with Charles Starrett and Smiley Burnett. Redd Stewart wrote the lyrics to go with the melody of the old fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat." We worked up an arrangement during one of our rehersals at the Rancho. Pee Wee thought it was a good dance tune and figured it might make a good "B" side for one of our records in the future. He told us we would record it on the next session and he would let the band members split the royalties from that side of the record. We did record it on our next RCA session in Chicago. It hit the charts as soon as it was released; sold many times as many records as Pee Wee had anticipated. We never received a cent.
All the world was bright,as I held her on
that night,and I heard her say,please dont
ever go away,
So I held her in my arms and told her of her many charms,we danced as the "fiddle's played
to Bonapartes Retreat.
I knew it was a Fender Custom you were playing because it sounded so good.
But I dont think you play so good anyway edited I play better than you.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 12 December 2002 at 06:05 PM.]</p></FONT>
You like those old-codger stories, eh? Here's another true story about Bobby Koefer:
We did a comedy skit on one of our weekly Cleveland TV shows where we used a big silk turban with a huge fake ruby pinned to the front. After the show I stuck the turban in the back of my open-back Fender amp, where it stayed for several weeks or months. One day I decided to throw it out, and Bobby saw me. "Save that," he said, "I've got an idea for a practical joke." He then explained the joke, and he and I started pulling it every now and then when the circumstances were right. Bobby had dark hair and a slightly tan complection, so when he put the turban on he could have passed for an Easterner. When we had occasion to into an upper class restaurant, he would go in with the turban on. When the waiter or waitress brought the menu, I would read the menu items off to him in jibberish, as if in some foreign language. He would point to the menu and make loud unintelligible "foriegn language" remarks. We would go back and forth like that for a few minutes, attracting the attention of everyone in the restaurant. After we finished eating and started to pay the cashier, Bob would take a bunch of change and wadded bills from his pocket and hold them out to me. I would take a bill or coin from his hand, point to the check, and "explain" in that "unknown tounge" the amount and what he was paying for. We would usually argue a little for effect, to make sure we had everyone's attention. As we left, the cashier would usually say something like, "Hope you enjoyed your meal. Come back to see us." Bobby would look athe the cashier and, in a loud, heavy, southern drawl, say something like, "Thank ya, Maam. Shore is a nice place ya got here." We enjoyed musing about how the patrons all suddenly realized they had been had.
..another Koefer story. Bob Wills used to do a noon show at the old Trianon Ballroom in Oklahoma City and I used to make all of those shows that I could.
On one show, I had to go to the restroom and there was Bob Wills on a stool next to mine. In the conversation that occured between two strangers seated next to each other on bathroom stools, Bob asked "What do you think of my new steel player?".
I said, he knocks me out, what do you think? He was silent for a minute and then said...."he reminds me of a bear cub pawing at a pile of s---!. I don't know how one guy can get that much music from his thumb."! www.genejones.com
There's a reason they used an onion to make the Gibson... both stink and make people cry! <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 13 December 2002 at 02:39 PM.]</p></FONT>
You can always count on Jody(LOL)gottaloveim
Hey Jody,I can remember when the big bands were "in" Wills,Thompson,Penny,the first TV we had in the early 50s,they used to show video,s of Thompson with the twin steels and fiddles,man those were the days.
BF
Do I sound a little like Redd Stewart or what?
I can relate to that Roy.
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 13 December 2002 at 02:39 PM.]</p></FONT>
