[Dixielandjazz] Spreading the word.

Jerry Gordon jerrygordon at juno.com
Thu Dec 21 11:53:37 PST 2006


 I've got just the clarinet player to round out our troupe. Apparently,
some of our listmates would equate his playing with armpit farts, but
there are others who don't think he's that good.

Jerry

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:34:35 +0000 "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
writes:
> Ringwald wrote to Jerry Gordon (concerning a potential Gordon/Gunter 
> 
> concert):
> 
> >You & Gunter on washboards?  That would be such a powerful act that 
> I don't
> >think our Jazz fans could handle it.  We'd have cardiac arrests all 
> over 
> >the
> >place.
> 
> Especially among the washboard players!
> 
> Who could we get to back up such a show? Let's see, we'd probably 
> need some 
> accordian players along with the mandatory banjos. Pete Main could 
> bring his 
> sarousaphone and duck call. We mustn't forget the spoons and bones 
> players 
> along with the bilabial fricatation virtuosity of the Reynolds 
> Brothers and 
> Westy. Kazoos are certainly a must in any such aggregation! A 
> washtub bass 
> and a stumpfiddle would fit right in. Then, to top it all off, we'd 
> need 
> someone to make armpit farts.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Respectfully submitted,
> 
> Bill "knock, bang, beep beep, flick, boom chucky-yucky-yuck, whirr, 
> 
> tick-tick, boing, buzz, bong, ding-ding, rump-bump, rick-rack, 
> ring-a-ling-a-ling*" Gunter
> 
> * from Mason Williams



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