Is my old man any good? Or not so good?
J
>>>
>>>
>>>> My dad who is 54, played some guitar in some New York clubs when he was
>>>> younger and I never knew really. I knew he finger-picked a bit on an
>>>> acoustic, but had no idea he could play electric blues guitar. I shot
>>>> some videos of him playing his new guitar and uploaded them, but he
>>>> doesn't know yet! :o)
>>>>
>>>> Here's a link to the clips :-
>>>>
>>>> http://www.georgeblades.com/video.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well...'is he any good?!
>>>>
>>>> Curious!
>>>>
>>>> C.C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> He also played in New Jersey and all around the west coast. He's played
>>> with Clapton and Buddy Guy to name but two famous bluesmen. My
>>> step-brother and step-sister also did not know about his past, neither
>>> did his present-day wife. My mother knew though, but she never told me.
>>> He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and has played there also. Jeez, he's
>>> been around, I'll say that! So how come George Blades is not rich and
>>> famous then? Hmm, he should be I'd say.
>>>
>>> His url again..... www.georgeblades.com
>>>
>>> Well?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Boyd, thanks for your email...'in answer to your question, he plays a
>> Gibson ES-335 Tobaco Brown Sunburst guitar mostly and this is an original
>> and cost him around $10,000. He pays big money for his gear and 10
>> thousand dollars is peanuts to him, but he's not rich these days....'so
>> where's all the money gone then? You tell me!
>> You must've googled the wrong george blades btw as the link you sent me
>> was a UK link, not USA.
>> No, he's never been a boxer and no, he never payed an Epi LEs Paul.
>>
>> Cheers.
>> Jim.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Could you please post to the newsgroup rather than email me direct?
>
> Thanks.
>
> J
>
>
>
Ah, I see. You can read the NG posts, but you can't post? Is that right?
Okay, I guess you really have cause to email me then! It's fine by me man.
J
P.S. How are things in Canada these days Boyd?
:-)
JJ
"J" <ghndk...@hnsjghtndgt.com> wrote in message
news:3TBBj.247279$LD6....@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
Hey Boyd! At first I didn't understand what you were asking, but now I do.
Sorry for not explaining about the vids website. I put it up but it was only
supposed to be seen by his friends in New York originally, then I posted the
link to it in the NewsGroup. I can see how it 'could' be confusing, but I
wanted it to be "surprise" when his friends atarted to email him saying "I
didn't know you played like that" and stuff, but the thing is that not a
single person
emailed him to say a word about it. I know there is something strange about
it all, but he'd never have posted the vids himself, so I did it for him.
Someone suggested "something sinister" might be going on coz I never knew he
played all those years ago. How close they came to the truth, they will
never know! I don't hate my dad or even dislike him, but I never saw him
when I was a kid as he split from us for another woman when I was only in
junior school. He got married again and had what he calls his "second
family" and since he showed up again just a few years back, we are all
suppose to act like nothing ever happened. Well, something sure as hell
'did' happen. I now have a son of my own and he is getting all the attention
that I never got from my own dad. BTW, I am NOT jealous or angry in any way,
just a son who was dumped along the way. He's a weird guy my dad, but I
don't know his past at all. It has been hinted at to me by the odd friend of
his that he DID play in bands in New York a while back, but I can't find
anyone to give me the facts. He certainly wont. He says he's never had any
lessons in his life...'really?! I find that very hard to believe for a
start. He also refuses to talk about his past and laughs when I ask if he
played in any
bands. I am sure he did though. He once gave me an electric guitar and I
still have it, and old beat-up Les Paul which I play some chords on and pick
a bit, mostly country-rock stuff, but I'd loved to have had him around
to show me how to play differently. I love mynew half-bro and sis very much,
I mean it ain't their fault what he did. I have a younger sister of my own
and she won't even talk to him, so I guess I at least have made more of an
effort to talk to him.
Hey guys....'please do NOT email him any of this stuff I have posted here!
He is nice enough, but he does have another side to him, so keep this
strictly in the NG. Guess you all know his email address, but I am pretty
sure that nobody could be as heartless as to back-stab me. I hope I'm right.
Boyd, I know you meant well, but sometimes being a detective can lead you
into places where there is a lot more going on than you'd like to know
about. You're a cool guy, but lighten up a little, and NO, I don't blame you
for the confusion. I take all the blame for that one my friend.
Cheers.
C.C. (Jim).