Subj : Re: Page's (& Lightfoot) To : Bill Riley From : Martin Ridgley Date : Sat Jul 15 2000 05:55 am -=> Bill Riley wrote to Martin Ridgley <=- **> Martin Ridgley wrote in a message to Bill Riley: MR> .... to the best of my recollection, I've never seen a Supro. MR> Are they still around? BR> Haven't been made since the early '60's or possibly even the '50's. BR> You might ask Gary, as an amp tech he may have run across a few. Well, I'm not exactly in the market for one. Just interested. BR> They were never popular until it got out the Page used them. You BR> could find one for $25 at garage sales. Now they command premium BR> prices, which pissed 'ol Led Wallet off. That figures. (But who's 'ol Led Wallet?) MR> As I said, I like some of Page's guitar playing. I just think MR> he's over-rated by a lot of people. BR> What can I say that I haven't before, Page goes for feel above BR> technicallity. He will leave a mistake in a recording if he BR> thinks the feeling was better in that take. He won't edit the BR> life out of it just to make sure there are no little mistakes BR> that causes techno crowd to shudder. Yeah, that's true and I admire him for that. Hey, I never said that I didn't like Page - I have several Zep albums in my collection - just that IMO, he's somewhat over-rated. Same with Mick Jagger, who Rich mentioned in another message, and who I think is *vastly* over-rated, but I still like some of the Stones work and have a bunch of their albums. BR> As for Lightfoot, here we'll just have to agree to disagree. BR> I've always thought him *vastly* overrated. Fair enough... Before we drop the subject completely though, I have to pass on a brief story that was related to me recently. As you may be aware, Lightfoot was a pretty serious alcoholic and was something of a recluse for a number of years. Some time during that period, this friend of mine was working back-stage at a gig for another folk-pop band. This band had recently met Gordo, had been partying with him, and they asked him if he would be interested in coming down to their upcoming show and doing one song at the end of the night, as a special treat for their fans. Somewhat to their surprise, Lightfoot agreed. On the appointed night, the band were halfway through their set, and Lightfoot had not yet shown up. My friend was watching from back-stage when Lightfoot suddenly appeared on the arms of two beautiful women. As they approached, my friend realized that Lightfoot was barely conscious and that the two women were in fact, carrying him. They managed to haul him to a spot back-stage, while one of the women went back out for his guitar, but the man was totally incoherent and literally reeking of booze. Someone had already let the band know he was there, and now my friend was desperately trying to signal them not to announce their special guest - that there was *no way* this man could even make it out onto the stage under his own steam, let alone perform! He went unheeded. As he was frantically waving, the group made the announcement that they had a special treat tonight. One of the women leaned over to Lightfoot and said, "Come on, Gord. You're on." To my friends' utter astonishment, Lightfoot shook his head, stood up, grabbed his guitar, and walked out onto the stage. He proceeded to perform his two allotted songs to perfection - his voice strong and assured, without any hint of a problem. When he was done, he walked off stage to huge applause, put his guitar down and promptly passed out! I just thought I'd pass that on. If nothing else you've really got to admire that sense of professionalism about the man. Martin ~~~~~~~~ ___ MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.36 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: The Eclectic Lab (1:153/831) .