The KIDD wrote:Hey Craig,
Yeah, PBS has been showin a few of those 50s' and 60s' bands here lately that Id kinda forgotten about...With todays technology (pitch correction, and other toys etc. 
) they're able to sound great...Les Paul was on a few months ago and at 91, he was jammin..Had a chick on upright bass that was 30 ...Maybe.. ....Just think boys,in 20 yrs , we'll be somewhat challenged to keep up with youngins...OBS will start to set in, so we MUST keep our chops up now and prepare.. 
I don't know if he still does it, but Les Paul was playing some club on certain nights, or maybe it was once a month, and you could go hear him play. I always wanted to do that. Talk about a legend. People will be playing "Les Paul's" long after he's gone.
btw...
Don't remember if I shared this on here before, but my wife's dad was in a band when he was 17 or 18, and his band actually opened for Jimi Hendrix at some big show with lots of names on the bill. When Hendrix heard them play, he came up and asked them "Mind if I jam with you guys?" And what was he going to say? No? He said yes, and then Hendrix asked "What's your first song of your set?" My wife's dad looked at the set list and choked, cause the first song was a Hendrix song "Foxy Lady" and he told him what it was, and said "But it's your song, you can sing it, and we'll just back you up." Hendrix said "Naw man, it's your set, you sing it, and I'll play along."
He told me that Hendrix proceeded to wail the f*ck out of that song, and jammed his ass off with them, while my wife's dad sang Foxy Lady.
Talk about a memory.
This is stuff he doesn't talk about, cause he's one of those man's man guys, that doesn't wear it on his sleeve. It was my wife that had to tell me the story first.
But what I didn't know, and she didn't even know, but we found out just the other day when he was staying with us, is that the band her dad played with, had broken up cause they all went their own way, different schools and such, but several members stayed together, and just changed the name of their band.
Know what the new band called themselves?
"Bread"
No sh*t dude!
Bread's first hit song was one that her dad's former band wrote together, but Bread changed the words of the song, so as to avoid any future conflict I guess.
Is that some history or what?
He tells me this stuff now, cause he has been to several of my band's gigs, and likes our stuff, and I know respects me as a fellow artist following the dream. He'll see us rehearse or play gigs, and I think it juices him up for the good old days.
But how pissed is he, that he didn't stay long enough to make it with Bread?
Wow!!!
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.... (gasp)...That would be like OZZY coverin Puppy Love by Donnie Osmond...Just kiddin NE.. 