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Please fill me in on Boz Burrell

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ampegbass said:
The original bassist for the Bad Examples was Tom "Pickles" Piekarski. Tom was the bassist until his untimely death 5 years ago. Tom played an early ( '77,78 ? ) MusicMan. I subbed for Tom for a few shows with the Bad Examples and it's me that has the AEB-1. Other Ampeg users, Jah Wobble, the late Tom T-Bone Wolk with Hall and Oates, the late Larry Exum who played with blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson and Gary Ryan of Joan Jett's original Blackhearts
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Great to see Larry Exum named here.
 
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Afriendofboz said:
The only instrument of his I ever saw was a stick bass hanging on the wall. Can't tell you anything more about it, sorry.

I just remembered a dig he had at me once, knowing my choice of instrument he said "You know one phrase you'll never hear? Could the mandolin player please move his Ferrari."
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I'll bet Bill Monroe could have bought a Ferrari :D
 
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JimmyM said:
I'll bet Bill Monroe could have bought a Ferrari :D
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One of my passions is playing and listening to mandolin. This reminds me of a song about Bill Monroe by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. It’s called “Waiting at the gate”. As I recall Mr. Monroe would wait at his gate every Sunday morning for his ride to church since he wasn’t driving at the time. Sometimes a good friend that gives you a ride is worth much more than a Ferrari.
Cheers J.S.
 
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Boz Burrell also sang along with Roxy Music bassist Alan Spenner on the album Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent. I believe Boz also played on the album Rough Mix by Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend.
 
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I think Boz was the coolest guy in Bad Co.
I also love the '71- '72 era Crimson. The original live album "Earthbound" gave that line-up a bit of a bad reputation for long time as it had such a lousy sound but thankfully the numerous posthumous releases have corrected that. The recording made at Summit Studios in 1972 is especially great.
Boz did play a Jazz Bass through Hiwatt stack with Crimson and by '72 he had indeed a mudbucker equipped Jazz ala Doug Rauch.

About Free not being good writers...Well, for 18 and 20 year olds (Fraser and Rodgers) writing songs like "Don't Say You Love Me", "Fire And Water" (also covered by Wilson Pickett) and "Be My Friend" they did pretty well.
 
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el jeffe bass said:
One of my passions is playing and listening to mandolin. This reminds me of a song about Bill Monroe by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. It’s called “Waiting at the gate”. As I recall Mr. Monroe would wait at his gate every Sunday morning for his ride to church since he wasn’t driving at the time. Sometimes a good friend that gives you a ride is worth much more than a Ferrari.
Cheers J.S.
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Skaggs often tells the story that after his remake of Monroe's 'Country Boy' that became a big hit on the country chart, of course Mr. Monroe got quite the royalty check the first quarter after the record soared up the charts, and was stunned, and told Ricky all about the things he'd done around his house with those following checks. Never saw that kind of money in Bluegrass, despite his stature. He was, VERY pleasantly surprised ! !
 
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J Wilson said:
Skaggs often tells the story that after his remake of Monroe's 'Country Boy' that became a big hit on the country chart, of course Mr. Monroe got quite the royalty check the first quarter after the record soared up the charts, and was stunned, and told Ricky all about the things he'd done around his house with those following checks. Never saw that kind of money in Bluegrass, despite his stature. He was, VERY pleasantly surprised ! !
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What a great story about a couple of great people. Thanks for sharing that
 
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Michedelic said:
He had been a guitarist
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Okay, that makes more sense. The old canard of "Robert Fripp taught Boz Burrell to play bass parrot-style" always struck me as odd...like, why would Fripp even have the patience, much less the motivation, to teach a total newb how to play an instrument? But if Boz already knew his way around a guitar it seems far more plausible.
 
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IMMusicRulz said:
Boz Burrell also sang along with Roxy Music bassist Alan Spenner on the album Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent. I believe Boz also played on the album Rough Mix by Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend.
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He's only on two tracks on Rough Mix. 'Heart To Hang on To' and 'Till the Rivers All Run Dry'.

The album lists Pete and Ron as playing Bass as well as Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo and Ukulele
 
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Bob_Ross said:
Wow! I would listen to ^^^that.
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Yeah, it’s a sprawling work, and even though it’s headed up by keyboardist Keith Tippett, who was featured on the Crimson album Lizard(plus the insane piano stuff on the “Catfood” single), the horns that had come into prominence on the Soft Machine albums of the period are carrying the load, fronted by Tippett’s wife, Julie Driscoll, who used to sing with Brian Auger.
 
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