[Dixielandjazz] Re: Bob Kerr. Was: No dirge for England--not quite yet

[Bill Gunter]

Hi John Farrell,

Your mention of Bob Kerr's Whoopie Band brought back fond memories of the 
Edinburgh Festival. The first time I went there was to work with Mike Hart 
as a volunteer. I was publicity director of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee at 
the time and got to know Mike along the way. Anyway, I believe it was around 
1985 or so that the Whoopie guys played the Edinburgh affair.

You may have been with the band at the time. I recall that in the big jazz 
parade up Princes Street I rode on the same float with the Whoopie band with 
some cute flapper ladies and we danced on the moving float as we wound our 
way up to Haymarket Square.

I remember on bit of schtick Bob did. He jammed his mouthpiece into a small 
metal teapot and, using the lid as a wah-wah mute, played a very credible 
blues chorus.

It was a wonderful band  but I would hate to have to haul around  all of the 
props  Kerr used in putting on a performance. Incredible!  How did he manage 
that?

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "Love Edinburgh" Gunter
jazzboard@hotmail.com


>From: "John Ding" <roadie@btinternet.com>
>Reply-To: dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com
>To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Bob Kerr. Was: No dirge for England--not 
>quite yet
>Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:07:20 +0100
>
>
>From: "Bill Haesler"
>
>: However, you mentioned in reference to Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band:
>:  >.......of all our audiences Brit, German, Danish........<
>: OUR audiences. Were you a member of the band?
>
>Indeed I was. From Sept '84 until Oct '88 tho' there were a couple of
>spells when I ducked out to earn some real money. I don't recall doing any
>festerings at Lowestoft during my tenure but the Half Moon pub in Putney
>was the band's regular Wednesday night haunt when it was in the country.
>Which year/decade was it that you saw them ?
>
>Thanks for your well wishes. I got back from the Sand Bay festival on
>Monday evening and promptly went down with a 48 hr flu' bug. I am now
>like "death warmed up" as me dear ol' Gran used to say ..... so I must be
>getting better.
>
>Cheers,
>
>John,
>         Suffolk, England.
>                     ?
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