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Great Chuck Rainey Story!
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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- Dec 21, 2007
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Chuck is the man, and I love that story. Tommy was the *other* man!
Always loved reading Tommy's monthly article in Guitar Player about sessions.
Anyone here old enough to remember Tommy as a member of "Happy Kyne and the Mirth Makers" on "Fernwood Tonight"? Hilarious show, and Tommy's playing was always a treat...
I just barely remember that show. I did not watch it much.
i'm thinking that it's their humanity that makes them great. this cameo of chuck is all that and more, IMO, very cool...and sweet. and inspirational, coming from him.
I didn't either, when it was new, but became a fan later when it was in syndication. Some of the musical numbers were hilarious. It takes some talented musicians to intentionally play as a marginal band!
I think there are episodes on U-toob...
He did a show at a little tiny hole in the wall place outside of Nashville a while back. It was basically a dinner crowd. It was him with his bass on a stool with some other cat with a guitar that I don't remember his name. It was about 50/50 of him just basically playing bass with his buddy, and then telling stories. While I loved being in the same room hearing him play, I enjoyed the Chuck Rainey storytime more I think. Felt like a kid at bed time hearing old tales from grandpa.
From Fernwood, a delightful taste of Tommy Tedesco.
Watched Amazing Grace, the Aretha Franklin gospel concert film, again last night. The rhythm section was Chuck Rainey, Cornell Dupree and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. My goodness, you throw Aretha (and James Cleveland) playing piano and singing on top of that, even the atheists are going to the Promised Land.
I've actually had this happen to me once, not on bass, but I was playing baritone horn for a concert band recording and an old timer suggested this to me. Makes me feel better about it, for sure!
Exactly! A humbling story from such a great player! I wish I had two percent of his creativity. And Tommy Tedesco: As Chuck says, kindness is not something you see all the time in the recording studio. What a great guy.
Rainey has presented at a few of the bass clinic events people do around here. Always approachable and friendly, apart from being a master.
BTW @Bunk McNulty, I finally get your screen name. Just started watching the show after all this time.
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Oh, this is the cultural event to know about, when Tom Waits appeared on the show with Martin Mull and the other guy, notable Tom quotes being "I live at the corner of bedlam and squalor" and "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy".
