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My old stomping ground… oh the wonderful memories.
Commented: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 @ 12:14 pm
By: Myra
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I no longer live in Atlanta, but have wonderful memories of the Bistro. I married Big Frank who worked there. Tom and Sandy closed the club and my family and a few friends attended. Jimmy Buffet played for my wedding reception! I loved Silverman and Joni Mitchell!! Thanks for the memory.
Commented: Monday, April 8th, 2024 @ 12:27 pm
By: Jan Collins
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Thanks for the comments and thanks to Stan for the automatic notification when someone comments on one of my older articles. At 77 years old, I realize that I am probably far out of touch with the various local venues for aspiring entertainers, but I can’t help but wonder if there are still troubadours touring the country in small bars, VFW clubs, or Bowling Alley entertainment rooms. My time on the beer trail was full of such joints. It was a time when entertainers drove in cars, Greyhound, or trains, or parhaps with a guitar strapped over their shoulder and a thumb in the air from town to town honing their talent. Many never made it to stardom but a few like those mentioned in the comments did and we are all the better for it. As Stan said, Gordon created songs that will never be forgotten until we too pass. There are those who say, like the old blues singers, you can’t write a sad or inspirational song until you have lived a sad or inspirational life. I don’t know if that is true but thank God that these songs were written.
Thanks also to Andrea Hayward Nickerson for your parent’s participation in those days of yore. Atlanta is a city that doesn’t hold much to maintaining historical buildings. I have not been by the old Bistro site in years, but I do occasionally visit The Varsity -1928- which is not far from there. I will be sure to drive by and see what a atrocity has been built on that lot.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 6:55 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Thanks for sharing Andtea.
I guess we all feel a little older now that Gordon Lightfoot has passed, and not too long ago Jerry Jeff Walker, both wrote songs that will never be forgotten.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 1:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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My mom and dad Tom and Sandy Hayward owned The Bistro during these times. Unfortunately the people that bought the place from my dad burned it down for insurance money in 1974? I think. Many musicians got discovered there like Jimmy Buffet, Oliver, Gordon Lightfoot, etc. My dad had a recording studio upstairs.
Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 7:17 pm
By: Andtea Hayward Nickerson
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Enjoyed reading your article on Jerry Jeff. I worked part time at The Bistro in 1965 and 1967. Very sad to see the picture of the empty lot.
Commented: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 6:03 pm
By: Jim Duffy
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Since we are talking about music, I did find a little time to play yesterday softly during a political meeting (not government) with two county commissioner friends (both were just elected) at my place. I know this because now these two tabs were open on my laptop, and just wondered - "Where did they come from?".
I did not sing a lick, but just talked politics and played the chords with the tune in my head. One was - tabs.ultimate-guitar.com, which might suggest where my head was I guess I am not your usual county commissioner.
Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thanks for the video tip Bobby Tony. I will try it when I am fresh tomorrow after I get most of my endless chores done.
For now, however, that is what I need to know, which I don't know - the 6/8 roll rhythm. I try to mimic the rhythm, and then I just wind up with something that works with my voice. Even though I can move my hands fast enough and grab all the chords well enough, I need to get the that 6/8 roll down. Plus, I need a another guitar, although, I am quite fond of my little Yamaha with the fat neck. My next guitar will have to be a perfect fit, and of full, hearty quality, or, I am afraid I will reject it ... like the sad woman woman, who just is not quite as good as the one that got away. One more thing that is weir for me. I won't spend much time on any one song. I will work on a song, play it all the way through, then, I'll go get another one; quite often one that I have never done, and do it to some varying quality ... maybe learn a new chord or two in the process. And then I get so busy, I do not pick my guitar up for a week or more, and that is when I realize that my fingernails need clipping. So, I earnestly pick up my guitar, play some chords until if feels good, sounds good, and then two to three hours roll by, and I have worked on 6 or 7 songs and also put a little original melody together that sounds good, and then, "I thank the good Lord for my fingers". It is during one of those sessions where I will try stuff from The Band, to Tom Waits, to Johnny Cash, to Dire Straits /Mark Knopfler even, maybe Pink Floyd, James Taylor; the Beatles, Paul Simon, Van Morrison (try singing a Van the Man tune like "Caravan") ... it gets fun. I have been doing Bob Dylan songs lately ... but not much of the older Folky stuff. Mostly from 1965 forward, like "Just Like a Woman", "Shelter From the Storm" "Mighty Quinn", "All Along the Watchtower" ... the songs that made an impression on me. Not that "Blowing in the Wind" is not a cool song, but it gets boring real fast for me, however, I do like "Mister Tambourine Man" because it begs to be changed up a bit, and "Don't Think Twice" - I like that one because of the cool Lyrics - "Ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe; If you don't ... know by now".
Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I’ve simplified it for my old arthritic hands. C Em Am G7. The rest pretty much the same. Once you get the 6/8 Roll rhythm down it’s like an old 50s song. 123-4-56
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Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 7:24 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Get your guitar out and ty this version of Mr. Bojangles - tabs.ultimate-guitar.com
I still need to get a better strum / pick ratio. Often, I just pick and pull the notes out of the chords.
Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 6:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It never fails. When one of these Icon's pass, I do a deep dive on YouTube and find numerous songs that I never knew they made. That is particularly true with song writers. I stop buying albums and CD's years ago and as a result only knew the hits for some. I have often thought that the best songs were the B-Side of a single or lost in the 12 or so tracks on an album.
Since I am guilty of over analyzing everything, I don't doubt that GEMS will not appear until they pass should I still be alive when that occurs.
Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 3:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Thanks Bobby Tony for this elucidation on a piece of who Jerry Jeff Walker was, and what his music still means.
"Mr. Bojangles" is a national treasure, and one of the many reasons why I threw caution to the wind, and started learning to play a guitar 4 years ago. I always attempt to do the Jerry Jeff Walker version (because it is the best), with varying degrees of success - depending now on my mood - when I do this classic. I love the song, and I am thankful, because of Jerry Jeff's "lightning-in-a-bottle creativity, that I get a chance to play it from time to time.
Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 3:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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