You're pretty damn stupid to post this crap here.
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: : >>>> Subject: Is my old man any good? Or not so good?
: >>>>
: >>>>
: >>>>> My dad who is 54, played some guitar in some New York clubs when he
: >>>>> was
: >>>>> younger and I never knew really. I knew he finger-picked a bit on an
: >>>>> acoustic, but had no idea he could play electric blues guitar. I
shot
: >>>>> some videos of him playing his new guitar and uploaded them, but he
: >>>>> doesn't know yet!
)
: >>>>>
: >>>>> Here's a link to the clips :-
: >>>>>
: >>>>>
http://www.georgeblades.com/video.html
: >>>>>
: >>>>>
: >>>>> Well...'is he any good?!
: >>>>>
: >>>>> Curious!
: >>>>>
: >>>>> C.C.
: >>>>>
: >>>>>
: >>>>>
: >>>>
: >>>> He also played in New Jersey and all around the west coast. He's
played
: >>>> with Clapton and Buddy Guy to name but two famous bluesmen. My
: >>>> step-brother and step-sister also did not know about his past,
neither
: >>>> did his present-day wife. My mother knew though, but she never told
me.
: >>>> He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and has played there also. Jeez, he's
: >>>> been around, I'll say that! So how come George Blades is not rich and
: >>>> famous then? Hmm, he should be I'd say.
: >>>>
: >>>> His url again.....
www.georgeblades.com
: >>>>
: >>>> Well?
: >>>>
: >>>>
: >>>>
: >>>
: >>> Hi Boyd, thanks for your email...'in answer to your question, he plays
a
: >>> Gibson ES-335 Tobaco Brown Sunburst guitar mostly and this is an
: >>> original
: >>> and cost him around $10,000. He pays big money for his gear and 10
: >>> thousand dollars is peanuts to him, but he's not rich these
days....'so
: >>> where's all the money gone then? You tell me!
: >>> You must've googled the wrong george blades btw as the link you sent
me
: >>> was a UK link, not USA.
: >>> No, he's never been a boxer and no, he never payed an Epi LEs Paul.
: >>>
: >>> Cheers.
: >>> Jim.
: >>>
: >>>
: >>>
: >>>
: >>>
: >>>
: >>
: >> Could you please post to the newsgroup rather than email me direct?
: >>
: >> Thanks.
: >>
: >> J
: >>
: >>
: >>
: >
: > Ah, I see. You can read the NG posts, but you can't post? Is that right?
: > Okay, I guess you really have cause to email me then! It's fine by me
man.
: >
: > J
: >
: >
: > P.S. How are things in Canada these days Boyd?
: >
: >
: >
: >
: >
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: Hey Boyd! At first I didn't understand what you were asking, but now I do.
: Sorry for not explaining about the vids website. I put it up but it was
only
: supposed to be seen by his friends in New York originally, then I posted
the
: link to it in the NewsGroup. I can see how it 'could' be confusing, but I
: wanted it to be "surprise" when his friends atarted to email him saying "I
: didn't know you played like that" and stuff, but the thing is that not a
: single person
: emailed him to say a word about it. I know there is something strange
about
: it all, but he'd never have posted the vids himself, so I did it for him.
:
: Someone suggested "something sinister" might be going on coz I never knew
he
: played all those years ago. How close they came to the truth, they will
: never know! I don't hate my dad or even dislike him, but I never saw him
: when I was a kid as he split from us for another woman when I was only in
: junior school. He got married again and had what he calls his "second
: family" and since he showed up again just a few years back, we are all
: suppose to act like nothing ever happened. Well, something sure as hell
: 'did' happen. I now have a son of my own and he is getting all the
attention
: that I never got from my own dad. BTW, I am NOT jealous or angry in any
way,
: just a son who was dumped along the way. He's a weird guy my dad, but I
: don't know his past at all. It has been hinted at to me by the odd friend
of
: his that he DID play in bands in New York a while back, but I can't find
: anyone to give me the facts. He certainly wont. He says he's never had any
: lessons in his life...'really?! I find that very hard to believe for a
: start. He also refuses to talk about his past and laughs when I ask if he
: played in any
: bands. I am sure he did though. He once gave me an electric guitar and I
: still have it, and old beat-up Les Paul which I play some chords on and
pick
: a bit, mostly country-rock stuff, but I'd loved to have had him around
: to show me how to play differently. I love mynew half-bro and sis very
much,
: I mean it ain't their fault what he did. I have a younger sister of my own
: and she won't even talk to him, so I guess I at least have made more of an
: effort to talk to him.
:
: Hey guys....'please do NOT email him any of this stuff I have posted here!
: He is nice enough, but he does have another side to him, so keep this
: strictly in the NG. Guess you all know his email address, but I am pretty
: sure that nobody could be as heartless as to back-stab me. I hope I'm
right.
:
: Boyd, I know you meant well, but sometimes being a detective can lead you
: into places where there is a lot more going on than you'd like to know
: about. You're a cool guy, but lighten up a little, and NO, I don't blame
you
: for the confusion. I take all the blame for that one my friend.
:
: Cheers.
:
: C.C. (Jim).
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