Martin Mull a guitarist
E.G
of mine
has some videos of "Fernwood Tonight" and I watched him play a nice
chord solo.
He also is quite an accomplished Country player as well.
Eric
Bill Casady
for Carson. I remember being pleasantly surprised.
-Bill C
Kent Burnside
("Pro's Reply," I think it was called) back in the late 70s. Among other
things, he discussed how much he loved his L-5s.
----------
In article <38EBC2B6...@concentric.net>, "E.G"
Doug Allen
show that night and they played together. Just before the tune started,
MM said to BB, "take it easy on me, I'm a virgin". BB laughed, of
course. They traded fours during the tune and MM was, as expected,
overwhelmed by the master.
George Goble, the comedian, played guitar occasionally during his act.
Gibson even built a model named after him, a red thinline L-5 (?).
One of the guys in Cheech & Chong (sp?) played an ES-175 during their
routine.
E.G
write some funny tunes, and also wrote new arrangements that were hilarious
like:
"2001 Polka"
"Dueling Tubas" etc
Eric
E.G
song about how even though he makes the "girls melt", he's not that
talented,it's just licks off of records that he learned.
I don't know about you guys,but I enjoy when any Jazz musician jokes around
or does some corny tune, it's refreshing.Lenny Breau did that live, he's sing
some old Cowboy song and get the audience laughing.
Thanks for your responses.
Eric
Joe Jordan
part of his solo comedy act. I remember seeing him sitting in a big
chair playing a red ES-335 and singing funny songs as part of his
comedy routine. In fact, one has always stuck with me. The words to
the first verse went something like this:
The name is Mull
It rhymes with Tull,
but there the resemblance ends
these here strings are medium gauge,
theirs are the kind that bends...
This was sung over a pretty nice progression with sort of a jazz-swing
fell. Pretty hideous stuff, but it worked for him.
He did play some occaisonal more-serious stuff, just to show that he
could. I think he always played the same red 335.
Kind of like Steve Martin and his banjo (you did know that Steve is a
killer banjo player, didn't you?)
Later...Joe
juvenal
Bill Casady wrote...
> I saw him do the theme from "A Man & A Woman" once when he was guest
hosting
> for Carson. I remember being pleasantly surprised.
I can remember hearing that he used to play out while he was a student at
RISD.
juvenal
Bob Valentine
Joe Jordan <jjo...@bluehome.net> wrote:
>Way back when (ca. 1978?), before he got into acting, it was a key
>part of his solo comedy act.
He also used a dildo for a bottleneck slide at that time. Thanks for
reminding me of Fernwood Tonight and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"...
Bob Valentine
Tiny Tubes
Mull. He can flat tear it up. Anybody ever hear his album Sax and Violins?
"I look at your mother, and I can see in a minute, there's nothin' in it for
me.
She's got an image that spits and your her spittin image sherie ."
And yep Tommy Chong played jazz back in the fifties and early 60's before
the pot jokes.
MM had that schtick where he used a baby bottle for a slide, and played the
"Erie Delta Blues" Erie as in Lake Erie.....Not quite as bluesy I guess as
the Mississippi Delta.
TT
Bob Valentine <bv...@iil.intel.com> wrote in message
news:8chbe1$h...@news.or.intel.com...
NuBossa
>the Mississippi Delta.
And didn't he have a song called "White Man's Blues" that went something like:
Woke up this morning
Both the cars were gone
I threw my drink across the lawn.
He also used a phrase I'll never forget: "Lord Mommy".
Tom
Tom Walls
It's gonna change us, Honey, sexually.
From now on we'll just be once-a-weekers.
It's gonna change us, Honey, even musically,
Buy our records through the mail, get a pair of lousy speakers.
--
Tom Walls
the guy at the Temple of Zeus
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/zeus/
Lincoln
Lincoln
Thomas F Brown
Bob Valentine <bv...@iil.intel.com> wrote:
>
>He also used a dildo for a bottleneck slide at that time.
And vice versa.
Thomas F Brown
Tiny Tubes <dbo...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>And yep Tommy Chong played jazz back in the fifties and early 60's before
>the pot jokes.
Chong had an R&B band. They had a major label deal and a chart hit
in the late 60s, although I've forgotten the details, names, etc.
Must have been the contact high.
Stephen G. Carl
the Carpenters were his biggest musical influence... he has hair of
spun gold and she not only sings, but plays drums at the same
time (something he knows took weeks of work). Other great
tunes on that recording: "2001 Polka", "Dueling Tubas", "How
Can I Help But Miss a Girl Her Size". That was some funny
stuff. Has it ever been reissued on CD?
E.G <Hans...@concentric.net> wrote in message
news:38EC0BE1...@concentric.net...
> He has this song: "Licks Off Of Records", with a country beat, he sings a
> song about how even though he makes the "girls melt", he's not that
> talented,it's just licks off of records that he learned.
>
> I don't know about you guys,but I enjoy when any Jazz musician jokes
around
> or does some corny tune, it's refreshing.Lenny Breau did that live, he's
sing
> some old Cowboy song and get the audience laughing.
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> Eric
>
> Kent Burnside wrote:
>
> > Mull was even featured in one of <Guitar Player> magazine short profiles
> > ("Pro's Reply," I think it was called) back in the late 70s. Among
other
> > things, he discussed how much he loved his L-5s.
> >
> > ----------
> > In article <38EBC2B6...@concentric.net>, "E.G"
> > <Hans...@concentric.net> wrote:
> >
E.G
Eric
E.G
Eric
Tiny Tubes
> Both the cars were gone
> I threw my drink across the lawn.
I thought Robert Kline did that.
TT
NuBossa <nub...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000406113457...@ng-bk1.aol.com...
ros...@inet.net
<dbo...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Woke up this morning
> > Both the cars were gone
> > I threw my drink across the lawn.
>
> I thought Robert Kline did that.
I always liked Robert Kline's "I can't stop my leg"
Frank
--
http://mp3.com/bzb (hear my band)
http://home.conectiv.net/~rosebud/frank
Jeff Baldwin
about Martin and Tommy T
sitting around riffing, to entertain themselves. Martin, he says, is a
skilled jazz guitar player
.....and the only bottle neck plastic ukelele player ( under the alias of
Blind Lemon Pledge,
the middle class blueman) that I've heard.....he nailed the delta sound on
such a toy
Mulling It Over is a remastered CD of his stuff...including Normal and
Ukelele Blues...
JEff Baldwin
Steven Husting
City Limits, before he started acting on Mary Hartman. It was a long
time ago, but I remember laughing until it hurt. I believe it was called
"Martin Mull Live in your Living Room," which as I recall was the
title of one of his records.
The Pro's Reply was good too. He said (again from memory) that
his father "didn't have enough rhythm to masturbate" and his
mother "couldn't carry a tune in a Bekins truck."
I saw him play guitar on TV a number of times. The comparison
with Steve Martin was a good one -- a good musician who at some point
did other things. Steve Martin did a nice turn as a jazz guitarist in
"All of Me,"
too. Played an ES-175.
"E.G" wrote:
> This is an odd topic,but have any of you ever heard him play? a freind
> of mine
> has some videos of "Fernwood Tonight" and I watched him play a nice
> chord solo.
> He also is quite an accomplished Country player as well.
>
> Eric
--
-------------------------------------------------------------
Steven Husting s...@pinck.ch
Senior Consultant
Pinck Softech AG, Switzerland, http://www.pinck.ch/
- Certified Hewlett-Packard OpenView Partner - http://www.hp.com/openview/
- Oracle Certified Solution Partner - http://alliance.oracle.com/
- ApplixEnterprise Competence Center - http://www.applix.com/
- Baltimore PKI Security Environments - http://www.baltimore.com/
- Member of the Open Group - http://www.opengroup.org/