Here's something funny

[danarhea]

This is kinda funny. I did the bass tracks on a CD for the Smith and Hightower band years ago. The songs were bought by Roy Head, who recorded some of them on his Lean and Hungry CD. Instead of using a studio musician on the bass parts, they took my tracks from the original Smith and Hightower recordings and inserted them into the tracks for Roy Head's CD, and I ended up with bass credits on his CD.

So who else besides me can brag that they played for Roy Head but never met him? LOL.



Lean & Hungry - Roy Head | Credits | AllMusic

 

[ecofarm]

That's living after death.

 

[OldFatGuy]

So who else besides me can brag that they played for Roy Head but never met him? LOL.

Charlie Mingus, but he's long dead. Roy has used solo bass tracks recorded by Charlie, left over from Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. At least Roy is known for good taste. Would you be bragging if this had been done to you by



Forgive me. I couldn't help myself. You set yourself up for this. No offense intended. I've done worse.

:rofl:rofl:rofl:monkey

 

[danarhea]

Charlie Mingus, but he's long dead. Roy has used solo bass tracks recorded by Charlie, left over from Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. At least Roy is known for good taste. Would you be bragging if this had been done to you by



Forgive me. I couldn't help myself. You set yourself up for this. No offense intended. I've done worse.

:rofl:rofl:rofl:monkey

Actually, in the past, I've done worse too, which is why I am drug free today. LOL.

 

[OldFatGuy]

Actually, in the past, I've done worse too, which is why I am drug free today. LOL.

I couldn't blame drugs.

 

[danarhea]

I couldn't blame drugs.

If you enjoy playing, then keep playing. :wink:

 

[zyzygy]

If you enjoy playing, then keep playing. :wink:

I've played guitar and other stringed instruments for years but I'd never even touched a bass guitar but last year I started playing bass in a band and I love it.

 

[danarhea]

Hey, I just remembered something. I met Schweddy (His forum name was Vauge at that time) at a Ron Paul rally in Lake Jackson, Texas. He was a precinct Captain for Ron Paul in Dallas at that time. I gave him a copy of the rough cut of the Smith and Hightower recordings before we did the final takes, and damn, were they ever rough at that time. If he still has it, it might be worth something....... Like enough money to buy a cup of coffee. LOL.

Lindell Hightower's wife (Lindell was our lead guitar player) was Ron Paul's head nurse at the time I first joined the band. She used to tell me that, some farmers were so poor they offered to pay him in chickens, which he accepted. She is now the head nurse at Brazoria County Hospital.

I am the only surviving member of that band. They had 5 bass players before me, and they all died, 2 of them in very bizarre accidents. There used to be a joke that my joining the band was tantamount to signing my own death warrant, and the band actually held a mock funeral for me as a joke. Butch Smith, the lead singer, lead guitarist Lindell Hightower, the drummer (who had previously played for The Champs), and I, all chipped in on a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label with a price tag of almost 300 bucks. The last alive would get to drink it. I won the bet, but at the cost of losing some of my best friends. I drank it over a period of 3 days, crying most of the time.