VINTAGE KEYBOARDS, ANYONE?

[kennyhowes]

I think I would lke the Electrichord. Magnum organ deluxe! Might be a bit much for them though.

[jingle_jangle]

Depends on who them is/are...

[wayang]

But for the sort of Eyetalian who knows a half-dozen Tarantella steps and makes basement grappa, ahhhhhh!

Well, on the subject of "you gotta be sh****n' me, Harold":


That Myron's a whiz, but he needs to lay off the 'crank'....and speaking of vintage, howzabout them lapels?

[wayang]

Hey, that reminds me...I'm workin' up a new comedy shtick that employs my very best Lawrence Welk impersonation....it's a verbatim delivery in Lawrence's voice of the legendary Buddy Rich on-the-bus-after-the-gig rant. It's freakin' hilarious...it's gonna take some practice to get all the way through it without losin' it...

"You boice tink y'can get up on da band stand wit' me an' blow clams? F*** you, yer off da bus!"

[kennyhowes]

Hey, that reminds me...I'm workin' up a new comedy shtick that employs my very best Lawrence Welk impersonation....it's a verbatim delivery in Lawrence's voice of the legendary Buddy Rich on-the-bus-after-the-gig rant. It's freakin' hilarious...it's gonna take some practice to get all the way through it without losin' it...

"You boice tink y'can get up on da band stand wit' me an' blow clams? F*** you, yer off da bus!"

HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

[jingle_jangle]

My father (accordionista) thinks that Myron Floren is God.

[wayang]

Having met neither Myron nor God, nor having ever seen them together, I'm in no position to argue with your father. In some respects, I think it would explain a lot of things...

[shamustwin]

A bassist I played with just out of High School was the son of one of the more familiar faces on that show. I can't recall his last name. His father had a head of full, wavy hair, sometimes sang, sometimes played an instrument. Said his dad was mean.
One of the first "famous" people I met. I looked at him and said "It's you!" He looked at me with disgust. I still get that to this day.

[jingle_jangle]

Having met neither Myron nor God, nor having ever seen them together, I'm in no position to argue with your father. In some respects, I think it would explain a lot of things...

If you ever met my father, OTOH, you'd understand everything.

A great guy, and a hell of an accordionist. Mostly polka and country...

[wayang]

Well then I wish I'd met him years ago...it would've saved me a lot of investigative work...

Hey Shamustwin, could your friend's dad be the guy in this vid? I know this thread's gettin' drifty, but I just can't resist puttin' this one up. On top of it being a hilarious artistic choice for Lawrence and the gang, there are a couple of brilliant comedic highpoints...check out Myron coughing in mid-introduction (must'a had one toke too many backstage)...and then, listen carefully at about 0:30 for the unknown, off-camera white boy stagger, caucasian-style, with his backbeat tambourine part...this baby is a laff-riot:



"Ah, t'ank yu', boice-n-girlce, dat wuz wun-nerful..."

[octagon]

I want one of these Emenee organs,a 200 or a 205

[aceonbass]

OMFG! A modern spiritual? Are you kiddin' me Larry? I'm playin' this for my wife later on this afternoon...right about 4:20.

[shamustwin]

Can't get youtube here at work, for some reason it's deemed evil by the Gov't. I'll check it later. Dale might have been his first or last name.

Man, my parents used to watch LW, and having only one TV in the house, so did we kids. My parents would take the opportunity to point out that this was good music, not that Beatle rock and roll stuff we listened to.

LW was on the front line of the generation gap round those parts.

Edit: OK after a little research, Dick Dale (not to be confused with Dick Dale) was and is my old buddy's dad.

[wayang]

Yeah, baby...I bowled a strike! His name is Dick Dale (no, not that Dick Dale, the other one), so it must be the guy! Too hilarious...gee, do you think he could really be that mean? I do...it's equally funny that Myron (and later, Lawrence) screws up and refers to him as 'Dale'...check out Dick's sideways 'take' at his name being bungled right before he starts singing...

I'm playin' this for my wife later on this afternoon...right about 4:20.

Glad you enjoyed it, Dane...and I'm sure your wife will, too. I'll be joining you "in spirit"...which means, taking the time difference into acount, I'll have to wait until, let's see...(working it out on my abacus)...right, 5:20 MST...

It'll be a long, tense, nerve-wracking 60 minutes, but I think I can do it...

[wayang]

Okay, "boice-n-girlce"...in the interest of clueing in anyone who hasn't heard this and might not have gotten the joke, here is the incredible Buddy Rich and his infamous post-gig 'pep talk' to his band 'on the bus'...and as you listen, try hearing the words delivered in Lawrence Welk's Nort' Da-kohh-ta accent:

(...and, in the interest of keeping this clip here for posterity without violating everything the Forum stands for, let me be deadly serious: if you're allergic to foul language and full-on, unbridled verbal hatred, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS!!! And it goes without saying, please make sure to remove all children and grandparents from the room before proceeding...)



...and might I add, "Have A Nice Day" ...