I woke up and remember having to go into my room to get some clothes or something out of my chest of drawers. I was very quiet, as I could hear Rev snoring and didn't want to wake him. Well, I got whatever it was and I was headed toward the door when I heard in a commanding voice,"Don't move or you're dead!". I turned around to see Rev with a .38 revolver in his hand pointed in my general direction, but sort of moving around so as to cover a wider target area. I remember screaming something to the effect of, "No--don't shoot." Rev replied, "One wrong move and you're dead." Well, then I started talking a mile a minute..."Rev, it's me, it's Barry, don't shoot Rev...I was only getting something from my chest of drawers..." Finally, Rev said, "Is that you, Barry?" The incident was soon over, and I had escaped with me life. I guess, from his perspective, it must have been kind of weird to be alone, blind, on the road 3,000 miles from home and rooming with a bunch of lunatic young musicians many years his junior. But to this day, the picture of Reverend Gary Davis that sticks in my mind the most is early in the morning, half-awake and blind as a bat, with a .38 in his hand pointed in my general direction. It was one of the most frightening moments of my life - Barry Melton
Tres cool! Just acquired a banjo guitar myself this week! I'm very excited and the neighbors are terrified. Now....where might I acquire your musical abilites please? I'm kinda in a hurry; if I payed extra could I receive them by weeks end?
Thanks, Gary
Back to your myspace page to listen to all the rest.
YES YOU CAN! Here's how: go to the closest liquor store and buy yourself a big ol' jug of the finest vodka you can find. Then buy yourself a copy of Rev. Gary Davis's record "The Guitar & Banjo of Reverend Gary Davis" and put the cut "Devil's Dream" on repeat. Pick up yer Guitar-jo , pour a glass of vodka, and play along till all the vodka is gone. WARNING! Do not try to do this in one day! Give yourself about two weeks. That's all there is to it! Good luck!
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
Just before I run to the liquor store for voooooodka I just wanted to say that sounds GREAT!!!
RJ
Sorry. While you were typing I took hold of all the vooooodka
Regarding Big Bill, I see no option, than to meet Mr O'Muck on some deserted (slightly sci-fi?) northern pole U.S. miltary base, for a duel with his Guitar-Banjo, and my hoplessy frozen Balalaika.
Frozen Balalaika huh? How about the San Antonio, Tx. arboretum Tovaritch? At least one Star Trek episode was filmed there. Its not exactly an arctic wasteland however. Anybody else ever been there? Quite erie. Right in the center of four military bases. six foot thick concrete walls everywhere and most of it underground. Seven withered plants. Gave me a funny feeling that it had "other" purposes. Hmmmm.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)