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my country music-related story

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...........with the pbs special going on right now, I thought I would tell my only country-music-related experience. even though I was born and raised in tupelo, miss.(same as elvis), he was 2 years older than I was, only memory I have of him was when I was in 5th grade, he was in 7th grade and we were in the same jr. high school building for 1 year before they moved to Memphis. when I was a sophomore in h. s. I got my first job as a carhop at carr-myers(no relation) dairy on hwy 45. I was sitting on my orange crate outside one night(whittling with my CAMILLUS) when this brand new purple Cadillac came tearing down the street at 30 miles an hour and turned in and screeched to a halt about 6 inches from my orange crate. I jumped up and ran to the drivers window and it slowly opened and there was jerry lee lewis!!.....totally plastered!!!...he looked up at me and said "son, can you make a thick chocolate milk shake"???...I said , you bet and I ran in and made it myself. when I got thru, you couldn't put a straw in it, they just crumpled up!!...I ran back out with it and he tried to stir it and the straw just folded up, and he looked up at me and said "son, that's a thick chocolate milkshake" and handed me a $20.00 bill and drove off in a cloud of dust!!...he was a favorite of mine till he got so messed up!!!.........
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Pretty cool story Tommy !
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Great story Tommy. ::nod:: ::nod:: ::handshake::
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Tommy,
Talking about Jerry Lee Lewis, Miss Joy really liked the way he could tear up a keyboard!
Goodness, gracious great balls of fire! ::tu::
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Good, good story, Tommy! 8) ::tu::

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Great story!
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treefarmer wrote:Tommy,
Talking about Jerry Lee Lewis, Miss Joy really liked the way he could tear up a keyboard!
Goodness, gracious great balls of fire! ::tu::
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.....he could definitely do that, but he sure messed his life up later on!!!............ ::td:: ..................
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carrmillus wrote:
treefarmer wrote:Tommy,
Talking about Jerry Lee Lewis, Miss Joy really liked the way he could tear up a keyboard!
Goodness, gracious great balls of fire! ::tu::
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.....he could definitely do that, but he sure messed his life up later on!!!............ ::td:: ..................
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Great story Tommy - thanks for sharing. When I was about 17, still in high school, I took a date to see "The Killer" . Great entertainer, just him with a grand piano - no backup band, no nothing. Played, sang and told stories for a couple of hours, had about a 30 minute intermission, came back and played about another hour.

He talked about being cousins with Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart, and about getting expelled from seminary - he said for playing "Jesus Loves Me" boogey-woogey style on the piano. Not sure if that's true or not but got a good laugh. Over the course of the performance he played that piano with his fingers, his elbows, his fists, his feet, and his butt. He danced on top of it, danced on the piano bench, and danced all over the stage, all while singing. Once in mid-song while singing and frantically pounding the keys on that piano, he jumped up from the bench he was seated on and somehow hitting the bench with the back of his knees, sent the bench flying across and all the way off the stage behind him. And never missed a note. I'm sure all well rehearsed but what a showman!

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This song by Fred Eaglesmith kinda says it all. ::tear::

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......anybody on here remember Mickey Newbury????.......I'm anxious to see if he is mentioned on the pbs special???............... ::shrug:: ....................
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carrmillus wrote:......anybody on here remember Mickey Newbury????.......I'm anxious to see if he is mentioned on the pbs special???............... ::shrug:: ....................
Tommy,
I heard Sam Allred of the Geezinslaws mention his name more than once. I have watched all the chapters of the Country Music show and I have not heard his name mentioned.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the show and look forward to the additional chapters.

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...he wrote a lot of good songs, and I thought he was a great singer!!!.... ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: ............
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carrmillus wrote:...he wrote a lot of good songs, and I thought he was a great singer!!!.... ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: ............
..I think the episodes are just now getting to the time period he was a part of!!............ ::tu:: .................
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..I'm also wondering if they will have anything about "lester(road hog) moran and the Cadillac cowboys"!!!!...... ::doh:: .....
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carrmillus wrote:..I'm also wondering if they will have anything about "lester(road hog) moran and the Cadillac cowboys"!!!!...... ::doh:: .....
Don't you just love those guys! :lol: 8)

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....it's amazing how many people never heard of them!!.......I have laughed at them so much over the years I think I have pulled a muscle somewhere!!!............ ::ds:: ....................
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My best encounter happened in October 1984.

I was a Navy Surface Warfare officer stationed at Kelly AFB, San Antonio for a shore duty tour. My unit sent me to Ft Sill in Lawton OK to research some data, etc. On the way back to SA, my flight from Oklahoma had a plane change in Dallas. I had to take the shuttle train from a terminal at one end of the airport to the terminal at the other side of the airport, nearly a 20 minute ride.

I was in Trop White Long - white shirt, white pants, i.e., summer travel uniform. I was the only person in the train car when this group of long haired scraggily looking guys crawled on, a couple carrying guitars. There were stickers all over the guitar cases for some group I had never heard of.

I asked "Is that y'all's band?"

"Yep."

"That's nice. What kind of music do y'all play?"

"Well, Some call it country and some call it bluegrass."

"Y'all doing any good?"

"I guess you could say we're doing OK. You haven't heard about us?"

"Nope, but then I just got through spending 19 months in Japan and 9 months deployed to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean on a carrier with a 2 months of schools between the duty stations. Where are y'all playing next?"

"We did a show here in Dallas Sunday, we have one Wednesday night in San Antonio, then ......" and gave me their schedule for the next 2 weeks.

"Damn, sounds like y'all are busy. My birthday is Wednesday, do you think there might still be any tickets available?"

"Well, it's supposed to be sold out but we can leave you a couple of passes at the "will call" window. What's your name?"

I gave them my name and one of my calling cards. When we got to the terminal, we ended up on the same plane, me back in the cattle call section and them in 1st class. They loaded before me and I spoke with them as I passed through...

"Hope y'all do well on y'all's tour." They all laughed and a bunch of people stared at me as if "How do YOU know THEM?"

Well, Wednesday rolled around and I went down to the Convention Center in SA. My girlfriend at the time asked me how did I get tickets to the show while I was in Oklahoma. When I told her I didn't have tickets, but I was supposed to get some passes at the "will call" window that a guy named "Randy" who was part of the band was supposed to leave for me.

She kinda rolled her eyes and said "Yeah, Right."

When I asked at the window, the girl asked me to repeat my name and spell it for her. She said "Just a minute." and made a phone call, then said "Just wait right there."

I'm getting the stink-eye from my girl while we're waiting. Instead of passes through the window, some big bouncer dude came out and said

"Please follow me, sir,"

He took us in through a side door and escorted us to the front and said "These are your seats. Enjoy the concert."

My girl is no longer giving me the stink-eye. :mrgreen: She said, "What did you do to get these?"

"Nothing. I just spoke to some guys on the airport train in Dallas that said they were with this band. I asked about their guitars and the stickers on them. From the conversation I had, they must be doing OK."

She looked at like I was crazy and asked me "You don't even know who they are?"

"Nope. They were scruffy looking, but they were polite and were curious about me being in the Navy, so we talked a bit and Randy said he'd leave some passes."

We had a good time, and I followed the band after that.

I pretty sure that concert contributed to my hearing loss while in on Active Duty.

Oh, yeah, The band - it was Alabama, in the middle of their 1984 52 stop tour. "If your gonna play in Texas (you gotta have a fiddle)" had recently been #1.

And yes, I really didn't have a clue who they were when I met them. And "Randy" turned out to be the lead singer, Randy Owen".
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......great story!!!!............. ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: ................
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That just confirms what I always thought. Musicians can be some of the nicest people. Of course, it helps a lot if you’re not trying to con them or make a big deal about sucking up to them. Treat ‘em like people and they’ll do the same for you.

I’m not exactly a big Country fan, at least of the current stuff. I do like classic country. One of my childhood best friend’s had a dad with a guitar playing buddy. I heard all the old stuff. Later on, my boyfriend got me into Johnny Cash and Johnny Horton as well as Red Sovine and a whole stack of truck songs. Thanks to my sister in law, I do “Jolene” at open mic and “Crazy” at karaoke. We sang Dolly and Patsy and Loretta around her kitchen table as often as we could!
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