Martin Taylor contract rider
thomas
Thank you for inviting me to play for you. I have been a professional
musician since 1973 and have spent most of that time touring around the
world as a solo artist.
On the surface my job looks very glamorous, jetting around the globe and
playing to thousands of adoring fans. But the reality is that it is hard
work and very tiring having to deal with hectic travel schedules, crowded
airports, lost baggage and Eastern European hotels. Giving Japanese press
interviews while jet-lagged or hung-over are just some of the tortuous
ordeals that can pay a heavy toll on an artist, both physically and
mentally.
However you can help me enormously by taking care of a few small, yet I hope
not over-demanding, details. I would therefore like to request that the
following items be available in my dressing room on my arrival. I would also
like you to take a few minutes to read through other information on the
following pages, as these details are very important to me.
Thank you.
Martin Taylor Solo Guitarist
--------------------------------------------
RIDER
MY DRESSING ROOM REQUIREMENTS
1 Electric Fan
1 Large White Towel
1 Bottle of Italian Red Wine
1 Bottle of Still Mineral Water (Not French)
1 plate of Mixed Sandwiches
1 Banana
1 Apple
1 World Band short-wave radio tuned to BBC World Service
1 Racing Post or similar horse racing journal outside UK
1 Local Map
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EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS:
1 Electric Fan.
I am British and therefore not accustomed to temperatures over 38f.
1 Large White Towel.
This must be new, unused and white. I am a bit of a hygiene freak and like
to make sure the towel doesnąt have any dirt left on it from the last band.
1 Bottle of Italian Red Wine.
I have high blood pressure and need to keep my blood thin to avoid a heart
attack or stroke. I find Italian plonk to be the best precautionary
medicine. The wine also comes in handy as I suffer from stage fright and
need to get slightly plastered before going on stage to face my audience.
1 Bottle of Still Mineral Water.
This must not be French, for all the obvious reasons.
1 portable Radio
I enjoy the reassuring sounds of home and need the sound of an English voice
to calm my pre-show nerves, so I would like a World Band Radio tuned to the
BBC World Service to be playing on my arrival.
N.B. The Voice Of America is not an acceptable alternative as the
presenters' voices jangle my nerves, particularly when they mangle the
English language with made-up bullshit words like łNormalcy˛,
łHospitalization˛, and ł Self-describe-arotory-ization-al-ism˛. They also
know sod-all about world affairs.
1 plate of sandwiches
A Selection of Mixed Carnivorous Sandwiches plus 1 Banana and 1 Apple are
all the solid fuel I need to give an artistic performance. Please do not be
tempted to force upon me any local speciality foods. From my experience
local delicacies only taste great to local people who have had years to
acclimatise their tastebuds and build up a digestive system strong enough to
deal with such fare. All they do to us foreigners is make us shit our brains
out for the next three days.
Please DO NOT include Pretzels in the rider. There is absolutely no reason
for anyone to eat this disgusting, vile, nutritionless garbage, unless they
want to develop an enormous ass and appear on the Jerry Springer Show with
other fat-assed people.
1 up to date edition of THE RACING POST or similar outside of the UK.
My youngest son is a jockey and I need to keep in contact with my bookie as
I make more money as a gambler than I do as a jazz guitarist.
A Map Of The Local Area
Most days I have absolutely no idea where I am, so I would like a local map
covering a minimum 20 mile radius of my concert venue or hotel. In the UK
please supply a 1:50 000 1 inch to 1 mile, sheet measurement 705 mm by 838
mm First Series Ordnance Survey Map available from Ordnance Survey, Romsey
Road, Southampton, SO9 4DH. (Artist will supply own compass).
In the USA please supply a US Rand-McNally Road Atlas indicating all
McDonaldąs, Arbys, KFCąs, Wendyąs, Howard Johnsonąs, and other crap
eatinghouses to be avoided in the area.
In Bangladesh I would just like to know where my mini-bar is located in my
hotel room as I have absolutely no intention of going outside to have bricks
and bottles thrown at me just because Iąm white.
The following item is optional:
1 Life Size Photograph of the US Bassist Eddie Gomez
(3ą7˛ high to scale) to remind me how lucky I am to be working solo.
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PLEASE NOTE:
The following people should not be allowed backstage UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Heavily tattooed relatives of mine with earrings, that arrive in a white
Ford Transit Van towing a caravan with ladders on the roof, and go by the
names of Dwayne, Wayne, Shane, Darren and Dino.
Portly 60-year-old Englishmen who have never married, still live with their
elderly mother, carry old vinyl records in a plastic bag from a back street
specialist jazz record store, wear duffle coats, open-toed sandals with
thick red socks, and like to discuss early Mezz Mezzrow out-takes for hours
on end. These people are potentially dangerous and shouldnąt be encouraged
or left alone with small children.
Anyone under 30 with a ponytail, wearing a MegaDeth, Iron Maiden, Metallica
or Black Sabbath T-shirt and says łTotally awesome dude˛ to everything while
playing an invisible guitar.
Anyone over 30 with a ponytail, and wearing a Martin Taylor T-shirt circa
1993.
Anyone with a ponytail.
Australian women who wear their sunglasses on their heads and have voices
that go up at the end of every sentence, thus making it łŠsound like a
question?˛.
Overdressed Frenchmen who wear their coats over their shoulders without
putting their arms through the sleeves.
People who claim to have gone to school with me despite being 25 years
younger or older than me and coming from Estonia.
Total strangers who I have never met before but still insist they gave me my
first gig.
Female singers who only sing SUMMERTIME.
Male singers who can only sing LADY IS A TRAMP.
Excessively happy Americans carrying Bibles.
Depressed Welsh people.
Smart assed Cockneys.
Scotsmen who give you knuckle-crunching handshakes and talk at you with
their face one inch from yours, spitting slightly while doing so.
Eddie Gomez can only come backstage if he knocks on my door three times,
waits five minutes then fucks off.
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BUT the following people should be ENCOURAGED backstage:
Guitarists' widows who would like to give me their late husbandąs mint
condition 1942 DąAngelico New Yorker with original alligator case and valued
at $150,000.
Japanese people. They are very nice, respectful, clean, fun loving people
who buy my records by the truckload and like to give gifts to artists,
usually bottles of deceptively clear fluid containing near-toxic levels of
alcohol.
Any jazz critic who has consistently given me undeserved bad reviews and has
written personally offensive and untruthful things about me in the press, is
very welcome backstage to share a glass or two of wine with me until Dwayne,
Wayne, Shane, Darren and Dino show up to beat the crap out of him.
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NOTES FOR CAB AND LIMO DRIVERS
If you are sending a driver to pick me up at the airport, it will save
everybody time if I submit the following answers to the following questions
that I know from years of experience he will inevitably ask me. To save me
going through this tedious process every day of my life I enclose the full
set of questions and answers.
I would appreciate it if you could print out a copy of these answers and
give them to the driver in advance. This should save me having to speak to
him. Instead I will be pretending to be asleep in the back seat while
listening to the BBC World Service on large industrial-strength headphones.
The questions and answers vary slightly from country to country, so I
enclose a few typical examples. Should your country not be included here,
please contact my management, who will be happy to send you the relevant Q &
A for your country. Please clearly state your country, airport of arrival,
time of year, and whether the country happens to be hosting the World Cup or
any other boring sporting event at the time. Please note that any attempt
by the driver to engage me in a conversation about football or any other
kind of sport, apart from horse racing, will be met with total silence.
DRIVERS IN THE USA
Driver: Hey, where ya from, buddy?
Martin: England.
Driver: Wow, you speak pretty good English.
Martin: Yes. Amazing, isnąt it?
Driver: I just love your Benny Hill, he cracks me up, totally kills me,
man! I bet youąre a big fan too.
Martin: No, actually.
Driver: Ha! Ha! Ha! Your British humour just cracks me up. Ha! Ha! Ha!
How comes all you British guys are so funny?
Martin: Perhaps because we live in a country where the foodąs crap and it
rains all the time.
Driver: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Stop it! Stop it! Youąre killiną me here! Wait
Śtil I tell the guys down at the bowling alley tonightŠthe
foodąs crap and it..what was the other part?
Martin: It rains all the time.
Driver: Yeah, that's it. Ha! Ha! Ha! I see from the nametags on your
bags youąre a doctor, right? Dr Taylor? A doctor of medicine,
right?
Martin: No, Islamic Fundamentalism, Third World Guerilla Warfare, Cuban
Communism, and 21st Century Urban Terrorism. I graduated
at the University of Tripoli last September.
Driver: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Stop it youąre crackiną me up. Ha! Ha! Ha! I see
you got a guitar there Doc, what kind of guitar is it, six
string? 12 string? Electric? Acoustic?
Martin: I donąt know. All I know is, some guy I never met before called
Mohammed gave it to me at the JFK airport baggage claim. I have
no idea whatąs in it.
Driver: Uh-huh. (short pause) I bet they were celebrating in the streets
of England when the Yankees won the World Series this year?
Martin: (Total silence).
DRIVERS IN ENGLAND
Driver: Go on, give us a tune, mate! Go on!
Martin: Certainly not.
Driver: Oh go on! Tell me, straight up, are you any good?
Martin: No.
Driver: My bruvverąs boyąs fuckiną brilliant, could turn pro if Śe
wanted. You should Śear
Śim on that fuckiną Ślectric guitar of Śis, 'e can make it
fuckiną talk, Śe
can. Can you make it fuckiną talk? Can ya, can ya?
Martin: No.
Driver: What kind of music dąya play then? Rock? Country? Blues? Middle
of the road?
Martin: Jazz.
Driver: Argh! Fuck me bandy, I canąt stand jazz. No offence like, but
itąs just a fuckiną racket innit?
Martin: Yes.
Driver: Ever met anyone famous?
Martin: Yes, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. They were my uncles.
Driver: (after short silence) Did you watch the Arsenal play Spurs on
Saturday?
Martin: (Total Silence).
DRIVERS IN SCOTLAND
Driver: ŚEy pal, gią us a wee tune!
Martin: No.
Driver: Go on, gią us Ten Guitars! (Starts singing and dancing to
hopefully encourage me)
Martin: No.
Driver: Did ya no see the Rangers-Celtic game on Saturday?
Martin: No, Iąm Jewish and I canąt find a team to support in Glasgow.
Driver: (Total silence from driver, who thinks I must be gay).
DRIVERS IN HOLLAND
Driver: I think maybe you would like very much to vishit a shmoking café
for de
cannabish shigarettes, no? Den go on to a whorehoush for shum
shex wid our
big Dutch gurlsh?
Martin: No thanks.
Driver: But you are a guitarisht no?
Martin: No.
Driver: Den what is in de guitar caysh?
Martin: Canadian soft porn.
Driver: Argh! Dishgushting! Canadian shoft porn, it should be banned!
Martin: Yeah, you canąt see any action at all, itąs all censored out.
Driver: Shtop dish or I call de poleesh. I feel shick. Did you watch de
shocker on TV lasht night? It vosh Ajaksh againsht Inter Milan.
Martin: (Total silence).
DRIVERS IN ITALY
No Q&A necessary here as I never have time to speak in Italy, being too busy
soiling my pants in sheer terror in the back seat while the driver hurls us
along narrow roads and overhanging cliff-tops while telling me how many
women he shagged last night.
Driver: Hey, you watcha the footaballa lasta night? You-vay versus Napoli?
What wassa da score? I-a meese evrytheeng as I wassa beezy shagging.
Martin: (Total silence, teeth clenched).
DRIVERS IN AUSTRALIA
This is never a problem, since for some reason no driver in Australia speaks
any English and I do not speak Greek or Vietnamese.
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REQUESTS FOR TUNES
As a professional musician for nearly 30 years I have worked very hard on
building up a list of great tunes written by the finest composers in the
world. I have also learnt how to make up a varied and well balanced
programme by playing these tunes in a running order that is both interesting
and entertaining for the listener. Please therefor note that I do not play
any of the following tunes:
SUMMERTIME (with or without local female singer)
LADY IS A TRAMP (with or without local male singer)
TEN GUITARS
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
CAVATINA
Any songs by CHRIS de BURGH or RICHARD CLAYDERMAN.
Please do not screw up my gig by making me play any of these. I will however
be happy to play any composition by Andrew Lloyd Webber with a running time
not exceeding 1 min 15 sec on the condition that the person requesting it
wires 25 million dollars directly into my Swiss bank account. This will
(only partially) compensate for the emotional stress and loss of street-cred
I will suffer from playing such tripe.
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LATE-NIGHT JAMS
Please do not under any circumstances ask me to bring my guitar along to a
late-night jam session after my concert, as I do not enjoy backing the bar
owner's wife while she sings SUMMERTIME at 3 oąclock in the morning.
Thanks for your co-operation. I look forward to a great gig.
Dr Martin Taylor MBE
----------------------------------------------------
Gerry Scott-Moore
<tomb...@jhu.edu> wrote:
> LATE-NIGHT JAMS
>
> Please do not under any circumstances ask me to bring my guitar along to a
> late-night jam session after my concert, as I do not enjoy backing the bar
> owner's wife while she sings SUMMERTIME at 3 oąclock in the morning.
>
> Thanks for your co-operation. I look forward to a great gig.
>
>
> Dr Martin Taylor MBE
> ----------------------------------------------------
This is some funny stuff and mirrors well a certain kind of Brit
sensibility, charming as much as irritating, while witty througout.
Who really wrote it?
--
///--- Nazodesu no more.
Clyde Spillenger
my high opinion of Martin Taylor to that of another prima donna, but I
quickly recovered my balance and can only commend him for the twinkle
in his eye.
tomb...@jhu.edu (thomas) wrote in message news:<7d424f23.03052...@posting.google.com>...
> that go up at the end of every sentence, thus making it ł?sound like a
> ?til I tell the guys down at the bowling alley tonight?the
> foodąs crap and it..what was the other part?
> Martin: It rains all the time.
> Driver: Yeah, that's it. Ha! Ha! Ha! I see from the nametags on your
> bags youąre a doctor, right? Dr Taylor? A doctor of medicine,
> right?
> Martin: No, Islamic Fundamentalism, Third World Guerilla Warfare, Cuban
> Communism, and 21st Century Urban Terrorism. I graduated
> at the University of Tripoli last September.
> Driver: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Stop it youąre crackiną me up. Ha! Ha! Ha! I see
> you got a guitar there Doc, what kind of guitar is it, six
> string? 12 string? Electric? Acoustic?
> Martin: I donąt know. All I know is, some guy I never met before called
> Mohammed gave it to me at the JFK airport baggage claim. I have
> no idea whatąs in it.
> Driver: Uh-huh. (short pause) I bet they were celebrating in the streets
> of England when the Yankees won the World Series this year?
> Martin: (Total silence).
>
> DRIVERS IN ENGLAND
>
> Driver: Go on, give us a tune, mate! Go on!
> Martin: Certainly not.
> Driver: Oh go on! Tell me, straight up, are you any good?
> Martin: No.
> Driver: My bruvverąs boyąs fuckiną brilliant, could turn pro if ?e
> wanted. You should ?ear
> ?im on that fuckiną ?lectric guitar of ?is, 'e can make it
> fuckiną talk, ?e
> can. Can you make it fuckiną talk? Can ya, can ya?
> Martin: No.
> Driver: What kind of music dąya play then? Rock? Country? Blues? Middle
> of the road?
> Martin: Jazz.
> Driver: Argh! Fuck me bandy, I canąt stand jazz. No offence like, but
> itąs just a fuckiną racket innit?
> Martin: Yes.
> Driver: Ever met anyone famous?
> Martin: Yes, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. They were my uncles.
> Driver: (after short silence) Did you watch the Arsenal play Spurs on
> Saturday?
> Martin: (Total Silence).
>
> DRIVERS IN SCOTLAND
>
> Driver: ?Ey pal, gią us a wee tune!
Joe Finn
--
Visit me on the web. www.joefinn.net
"thomas" <tomb...@jhu.edu> wrote in message
news:7d424f23.03052...@posting.google.com...
> that go up at the end of every sentence, thus making it łSsound like a
> Otil I tell the guys down at the bowling alley tonightSthe
> foodąs crap and it..what was the other part?
> Martin: It rains all the time.
> Driver: Yeah, that's it. Ha! Ha! Ha! I see from the nametags on your
> bags youąre a doctor, right? Dr Taylor? A doctor of medicine,
> right?
> Martin: No, Islamic Fundamentalism, Third World Guerilla Warfare, Cuban
> Communism, and 21st Century Urban Terrorism. I graduated
> at the University of Tripoli last September.
> Driver: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Stop it youąre crackiną me up. Ha! Ha! Ha! I see
> you got a guitar there Doc, what kind of guitar is it, six
> string? 12 string? Electric? Acoustic?
> Martin: I donąt know. All I know is, some guy I never met before called
> Mohammed gave it to me at the JFK airport baggage claim. I have
> no idea whatąs in it.
> Driver: Uh-huh. (short pause) I bet they were celebrating in the streets
> of England when the Yankees won the World Series this year?
> Martin: (Total silence).
>
> DRIVERS IN ENGLAND
>
> Driver: Go on, give us a tune, mate! Go on!
> Martin: Certainly not.
> Driver: Oh go on! Tell me, straight up, are you any good?
> Martin: No.
> Driver: My bruvverąs boyąs fuckiną brilliant, could turn pro if Oe
> wanted. You should Oear
> Oim on that fuckiną Olectric guitar of Ois, 'e can make it
> fuckiną talk, Oe
> can. Can you make it fuckiną talk? Can ya, can ya?
> Martin: No.
> Driver: What kind of music dąya play then? Rock? Country? Blues? Middle
> of the road?
> Martin: Jazz.
> Driver: Argh! Fuck me bandy, I canąt stand jazz. No offence like, but
> itąs just a fuckiną racket innit?
> Martin: Yes.
> Driver: Ever met anyone famous?
> Martin: Yes, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. They were my uncles.
> Driver: (after short silence) Did you watch the Arsenal play Spurs on
> Saturday?
> Martin: (Total Silence).
>
> DRIVERS IN SCOTLAND
>
> Driver: OEy pal, gią us a wee tune!
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Nnajar828
I was doing my regular gig at the restaurant a few weeka ago and it was the
very end of the night. Some drunk yuppies were in there partying and this guy
comes up to me and says his girl is an "amazing singer, don't worry she doens't
need a mike, just let her sing summertime with [me]". I explained to him as
nicely as possible that I don't accompany amateur singers, at which yime my
bass palyer walked over and told me he doens't know how to play summertime and
who wrote it? That sent the guy walking.
Kevin Van Sant
message <7d424f23.03052...@posting.google.com> :
>The following item is optional:
>1 Life Size Photograph of the US Bassist Eddie Gomez
>(3¹7² high to scale) to remind me how lucky I am to be working solo.
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>PLEASE NOTE:
>
>The following people should not be allowed backstage UNDER ANY
>CIRCUMSTANCES:
>Eddie Gomez can only come backstage if he knocks on my door three times,
>waits five minutes then fucks off.
>
Anyone know what his beef is with Eddie Gomez?
_________________________________________
Kevin Van Sant
jazz guitar
http://www.kevinvansant.com
to buy my CDs, listen to sound clips, and get more info.
Alternate site for recent soundclips
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/kevinvansant_music.htm
Michael
website! He has pages (written by himself) under the assumed identity of
his dog who is always bitching about his owner making noise on "his agony
box". It had me crying from laughing so hard and gave me a new respect for
Martin.
Michael
Andy D.
Eddie Gomez? I've seen it referred to here a few times. Is there a
sound clip somewhere?
Andy D.
Gerry Scott-Moore
<kvan...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >Eddie Gomez can only come backstage if he knocks on my door three times,
> >waits five minutes then fucks off.
> >
>
> Anyone know what his beef is with Eddie Gomez?
The same beef he seems to have with much of the rest of life. Note his
perspective that whatever far-flung part of the world, Bengladesh or
Japan, he'd rather eat sandwiches. Doesn't sound like someone who can
appreciate Gomez, a man that I count as one of the five greatest jazz
bassists ever.
Just a guess; from listening to the music of Taylor, I think maybe
Gomez is a bit abstract for his tastes. Perhaps he thinks bassists are
root-fifthers who should stay put. Doesn't Taylor perform
non-improvisational arrangements?
Kevin Van Sant
<222...@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote in message
<270520030821328743%222...@adelphia.net.invalid> :
Why single out Gomez if that's all it was? It sounds personal to me,
that's why I wonder what went on.
Lazzerini
and there is a contracted fee. At the eleventh hour, before leaving the US,
Gomez demands more money. During the tour he is an egomaniacal pain in the
ass. He refuses to pay the witholding tax (something her majesty especially
charges foreign musicians) and Taylor is thus lumped with yet more extra
expense. Much unpleasantness takes place.
There is a tape recording of the subsequent 'phone call in which Taylor
recites this list of transgressions and tells Gomez to get to the airport
and fuck off back to America. It made me feel quite sad to hear it - mainly
because the conversation took place after the event, at the completion of
the tour, when Gomez had already been allowed to get away with all this
alleged unseemliness, making the limited exchange somehow pointlessly
pathetic. I mean, if only he'd told Gomez to "go forth and multiply" right
at the start of his pirate tricks, then it may have had some impact, and he
wouldn't feel the understandable need to keep on carping.
Ah well. Should have kicked him in the bollocks as soon as he got off the
plane.
Martin Taylor is a very decent and amusing human despite calling for
sandwiches, but perhaps too soft and civil to deal effectively with such a
mercenary on the bandstand.
In my experience he has no beef with the rest of his life at all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Scott-Moore" <222...@adelphia.net.invalid>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Martin Taylor contract rider
> In article <nqn6dvsrmufltohn5...@4ax.com>, Kevin Van Sant
> <kvan...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > >Eddie Gomez can only come backstage if he knocks on my door three
times,
> > >waits five minutes then fucks off.
> > >
> >
> > Anyone know what his beef is with Eddie Gomez?
>
> The same beef he seems to have with much of the rest of life. Note his
> perspective that whatever far-flung part of the world, Bengladesh or
> Japan, he'd rather eat sandwiches. Doesn't sound like someone who can
> appreciate Gomez, a man that I count as one of the five greatest jazz
> bassists ever.
>
> Just a guess; from listening to the music of Taylor, I think maybe
> Gomez is a bit abstract for his tastes. Perhaps he thinks bassists are
> root-fifthers who should stay put. Doesn't Taylor perform
> non-improvisational arrangements?
>
Mr.Will
think Taylor had every right to be mad at Gomez.
Of course if that doesn't fit the perspective of the viewer, please don't
let me ruin your illusions!
Mr.Will
"Gerry Scott-Moore" <222...@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote in message
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Gerry Scott-Moore
<mr....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I heard the soundclip between Taylor and Gomez, and providing its valid I
> think Taylor had every right to be mad at Gomez.
What did Gomez do to him in your estimation that gave him the all
important "very good reason" to bad-rap him publicly?
Gerry Scott-Moore
<la...@telus.net> wrote:
> There is a tape recording of the subsequent 'phone call in which Taylor
> recites this list of transgressions and tells Gomez to get to the airport
> and fuck off back to America. It made me feel quite sad to hear it - mainly
> because the conversation took place after the event, at the completion of
> the tour, when Gomez had already been allowed to get away with all this
> alleged unseemliness, making the limited exchange somehow pointlessly
> pathetic.
Bear in mind I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt with this
purported tape recording. It's not like Gomez is incapable of being a
pin. Nor Taylor, nor Miles or Picasso or my little brother. But I'm
not attempting any Conti-Defense either. It may all be as you say.
But if the matter was purely money, as it seems, why would he fire him
*after* all of this. He was paid for!
Tom Lippincott
>important "very good reason" to bad-rap him publicly?
>
>--
>///--- Nazodesu no more.
I've heard the tape as well, and tend to agree with Mr. Will. However, I've
seen no evidence that leads me to believe that Taylor purposefully began
circulating this tape/audio file. For all we know it could have been
clandestinely recorded by a third party ala the infamous Buddy Rich tapes.
At any rate, Taylor's beefs with Gomez were personal and business oriented. He
even mentions on the phone conversation that from a musical standpoint, he
thought the gigs were great.
Tom Lippincott
Guitarist, Composer, Teacher
audio samples, articles, CD's at:
http://www.tomlippincott.com
thomas
what is this song "Ten Guitars"? Is it a British thing? And
why does the Dutch cabdriver talk like Sean Connery?
"Lazzerini" <la...@telus.net> wrote in message news:<hHMAa.15$fs1....@news1.telusplanet.net>...
Greger Hoel
>why does the Dutch cabdriver talk like Sean Connery?
I think you need to hear dutch to appreciate it. Have Dick record and
upload some spoken words :P
Keith Freeman
(Dutch taxis must be the most expensive in the world!), and have to say (a)
the Dutch don't turn s's into sh's (they do occasionally mix up s and th -
the Dutch MC at a Jim Hall concert announced Jim was going to play "With A
Thong In My Heart", which Jim found highly amusing), and (b) the vast
majority of them do not conform to the stereotype portrayed, they're
underpaid, suit-wearing employees (taxi licences are far too expensive for
freelancers).
-Keith
Mr.Will
course that its genuine and Taylor is being truthful on it.
Lazz has already gone over most of it, like tax and money issues, but the
thing that gobsmacked me the most was that allegedly Gomez wouldn't carry
his own bass on tour, Taylor was very upset about that! "You get me to pay
your f***in tax, change your flight to business class, and I;ve got to carry
your f***in bass as well? You must be JOKING".
Mr.Will
"Gerry Scott-Moore" <222...@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote in message
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Jimmy Bruno
August and ask him. he's a funny guy and a great player
"Gerry Scott-Moore" <222...@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote in message
Gerry Scott-Moore
<mr....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Lazz has already gone over most of it, like tax and money issues, but the
> thing that gobsmacked me the most was that allegedly Gomez wouldn't carry
> his own bass on tour, Taylor was very upset about that! "You get me to pay
> your f***in tax, change your flight to business class, and I;ve got to carry
> your f***in bass as well? You must be JOKING".
Yeah, that is ridiculous. If you don't want to play a heavy
instrument, it's your choice. It wouldn't make me cry of Gomez lost a
200 year old instrument because he couldn't find a porter...
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MBR
> >
> > The same beef he seems to have with much of the rest of life. Note his
> > perspective that whatever far-flung part of the world, Bengladesh or
> > Japan, he'd rather eat sandwiches. Doesn't sound like someone who can
> > appreciate Gomez, a man that I count as one of the five greatest jazz
> > bassists ever.
> >
> > Just a guess; from listening to the music of Taylor, I think maybe
> > Gomez is a bit abstract for his tastes. Perhaps he thinks bassists are
> > root-fifthers who should stay put. Doesn't Taylor perform
> > non-improvisational arrangements?
Okay...that's it! I'm burning all my CDs featuring Martin Taylor and/or Eddie Gomez.
Max Leggett
Man, this must be usenet. Calling someone's musicianship into question
on the basis of his digestive system. By that reckoning Armstrong, who
couldn't have a shit without copious quantities of Kris Kris, was a
crappy musician. I can dig it. But I'm not burning any CDs! I'm going
to burn all those old sandwiches. That'll show 'em!!!
Joe Finn
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That's pretty good, Nate. But after the drunken yuppie left the club that
night he drove his BMW straight into the rear end of a parked police car and
mangled his right arm. When the officers came out of the doughnut shop to
investigate they found the yuppie standing on the sidewalk moaning, "My car,
my car!" When the cops suggested that he should be more concerned about his
arm, the yuppie looked down and howled, "My Rolex! My Rolex!"
BTW, what is the season, out-of-state license fee, and bag limit on yuppies
and dinks in the state of Florida? Just wondering. ........joe
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thomas
>
> By that reckoning Armstrong, who
> couldn't have a shit without copious quantities of Kris Kris, was a
> crappy musician.
Isn't that the whole point of taking Kris Kris?