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How About Sir Mick Jagger?

OldFatGuy said:
I hate telling you this, you were really thinking of Elliot Gould.
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Maybe but how does Elliot Gould relate to an economist?
He could have pulled off playing an economics professor at some hippie dippy college years ago.
 
Cordelier said:
Don't get me wrong... nothing against them. More power to'em. I just don't want to see Sir Mick end up doing a Tom Petty. All good things come to an end. I'm a big UFO fan - they're doing their 50th Anniversary tour now and after that their original front man, Phil Mogg, is retiring. I don't blame him - their keyboardist since the 70's - Paul Raymond - just died of a heart attack in April.
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"He died with his boots on."

This past year, I was close to death, laying in a hospital bed. Had my wife bring me one my parlor guitars. With the bed sitting me up, I started picking. Within ten minutes I had an audience in my room, other patients, nurses, other staff and doctors. The chief resident entered my room to chastise me for not resting, but sat down and listened until he was called away. The next day, I played and sang "Don't fence me in" for the electro cardiologist who was treating me. He said with a straight face, "worst voice I ever heard, but your heart is beating in rhythm with the guitar." Good thing I wasn't playing a fast song.

Old musicians never die. They pick up the harp upstairs, unless they sold their soul to the devil. Then they play the blues on fiery mouth harps down below. :)

One young nurse asked if I was famous. My wife responded "He's infamous for being a PITA." She loves me.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
I can't even bring myself to think about Tom Petty yet, without getting very depressed.
I wish to God SOMEONE had reached out.
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I think Tom went out the way he wanted, satisfied he did another show.
 
OldFatGuy said:
"He died with his boots on."

This past year, I was close to death, laying in a hospital bed. Had my wife bring me one my parlor guitars. With the bed sitting me up, I started picking. Within ten minutes I had an audience in my room, other patients, nurses, other staff and doctors. The chief resident entered my room to chastise me for not resting, but sat down and listened until he was called away. The next day, I played and sang "Don't fence me in" for the electro cardiologist who was treating me. He said with a straight face, "worst voice I ever heard, but your heart is beating in rhythm with the guitar." Good thing I wasn't playing a fast song.

Old musicians never die. They pick up the harp upstairs, unless they sold their soul to the devil. Then they play the blues on fiery mouth harps down below. :)

One young nurse asked if I was famous. My wife responded "He's infamous for being a PITA." She loves me.
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I can get that.... although I could never get my fingers to take to the guitar. But I get passion - I think everyone ought to have something that keeps driving us on.

I'm a numbers guy myself... but my old man was the guitarist - he cut his teeth playing surfer music in the early 60's. Anyways, he ended up as a Disc Jockey so he used to MC a lot of concerts. Lots of stories there... but your post made me think of was the time he MC'd a Chet Atkins concert - anyways, he and Chet were jamming backstage after the show and Dad ends up playing "Walk Don't Run" by the Ventures... and I guess Chet must have been busy with other things in Nashville back in the 60's, because it was like he never heard it before.. so Dad teaches him how to play it. Then a couple of years later, he finds out his ol' buddy Chet is going to be on Austin City Limits, so he figured he'd tune in... and when they introduced Chet, in he walks playing "Walk Don't Run" *LOL*
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Maybe but how does Elliot Gould relate to an economist?
He could have pulled off playing an economics professor at some hippie dippy college years ago.
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Elliot, a member of Mensa, originally educated in economics, still occasionally writes articles for The Economist. His papers on artifices of synthetic economics well respected even tho no one understands what he says. :) Twice he played professors in really bad movies I've long forgotten, tho I vaguely remember buying a vinyl of one the sound tracks for the music. I think one of my sisters stole that album long ago. They both had the habit of "borrowing" what they wanted, and I'd never again see what they took. Fortunately they both have bad taste, and helped cull the collection of trash. Unfortunately, we don't get to choose our siblings in this life. :)
 
I'm an expert at playin' the radio and my CD player...youtube on my pc, too...:2razz:
 
Elvira said:
I'm an expert at playin' the radio and my CD player...youtube on my pc, too...:2razz:
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Without an audience, where would artists be? Sometimes I think my iPod is my best friend.
 
*LMAO* Carrying on from my last post... I went to see if I could find that clip of Chet Atkins on Austin City Limits... lo and behold it turns out that Chet Atkins actually recorded a version of "Walk Don't Run" back in 1956 (it was actually written by Johnny Smith back in 1954)! So now I'm finding out that guitarists are also notoriously full of crap. Dad went to his grave thinking he taught Atkins how to play it in 1990! I'm laughing my head off here now... Dad said he was always impressed at how quickly Atkins picked it up! Guess it goes to show... it's even harder than you think to teach an old pro new tricks!
 
Here's a video catching some of his struttin'...

 
What I find the most amazing about this group is they've all still got hair...:2razz:

 
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