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re Guy: great story on Bob Seager I am able to remember Roger Miller
posted by
muley12
on July 13, 2009 at 2:34 AM
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Roger Miller is spinning in his grave, 9,000 RPM!
Mikey,
Are you old enough to remember Roger Miller, when he was still alive? I liked his songs, even though he sang mostly country music. (A fate worse than DEAF!) One of my favorite of his songs was, "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd!" This might explain why I also liked Hoyt Axton, (The 'Jerimia was a Bullfrog' song, [Joy to the world?] & The Bol Weavel song) and I often like Jimmy Buffet songs, too. These guys all share or shared the same kind of sense of humor, one that I am pretty sure I remember inventing. I also forgave Willy Nelson for having chosen country and western music, because of his irreverent humor and his love of one combustible herb.
From 1958-1963, I attended school with Bob Seegar in Ann Arbor, Michigan and managed to steer his musical tastes toward rock & roll. Imagine how differently those other guys would have turned out, if only they had known me back then. After school, I used to run into Bob, when he was selling women's clothing at Jacobson's (I think the store was called Jacobson's, but this was a very long time ago) when I was filling their candy vending machines. Bob and I talked sometimes as he took his break, and at that time, he couldn't get more than one or two radio plays anywhere west of Chicago, and was wondering if he should just accept that it was probably never going to happen for him. This was just before "Ramblin Gamblin Man." the rest, as they say is history. Poor Bob went on to become a rock star, while I became a sage. I hope that he doesn't regret the way things turned out. Not everyone was cut out to be a starvin......I mean, a wildly successful sage.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on July 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
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Re: sam444: hi sam! the problem is we all think we can sing when drunk
posted by
muley12
on July 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM
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I am in that song, too! What a hoot! sam
posted by
sam444
on July 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM
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