phorbesie Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 please pm me if you know if anyone has an extra to the show tonight in ottawa thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 A ticket has been secured for phorbesie. Thank-you, one and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 been listening to bill frisell here in belize. Further East and Further West. I wish the timing for Bill was better so I could see him too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Possibly the best Bill Frisell show I've seen (though my bias may have made me enjoy Frisell/Breit from '01 better).The three of them were so on all night. They were locked in one of those psychic nights imoprov guys reach once in a while. They were obviously having a ball. It was a very 'Gone Like A Train" kind of show, with a few covers (You Are My Sunshine, Masters Of War) thrown in. I was on the fence about this show and very glad I went.I spoke with Bill afterwards and he remembers the Breit show warmly. As an afterthought I asked him if Gary Larsen was a good guitarist (they are good friends and Larsen retired from Far Side to focus on jazz guitar full-time). He said Gary is a good player but that he lacks motivation to get anything done. I guess that killer day job he used to have might have something to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted June 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 that was an awesome show...one of my faves too. incredible. thanks for the ticket carstairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Gary Larson stopped the Far Side to play guitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Yup.He actually got into cartooning 'cuz he went to NYC for a gig that fell through and he had to make some money to get back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Yup.He actually got into cartooning 'cuz he went to NYC for a gig that fell through and he had to make some money to get back home.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larsontells a somewhat different story:According to Larson in his anthology, "The Prehistory of the Far Side", he was working in a music store when he realized that he hated his job and took two days off to reflect on his career. During that time, he drew six cartoons and submitted them to "Pacific Search" (now "Pacific Northwest Magazine"), a Seattle-based magazine. After contributing to another local Seattle paper, in 1979 Larson submitted his work to The Seattle Times. His work was published weekly under the title "Nature’s Way" (it was placed next to the "Junior Jumble").To supplement his income, Larson worked for the Humane Society. Larson soon decided he could increase his income from cartooning by selling his strip to another newspaper. Taking his vacation in San Francisco, Larson pitched his work to the San Francisco Chronicle. To Larson’s surprise, the Chronicle bought the strip and promoted it for syndication, renaming it "The Far Side". This all occurred a week before the Seattle Times dropped Nature’s Way.Gary Larson stopped the Far Side to play guitar?Fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson#The_Far_SideLarson chose to end the cartoon because he felt it was getting repetitive, and didn't want it to descend into what he called the "Graveyard of Mediocre Cartoons".Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 well, that was a good story for a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Once again, shows what wiki knows. Try looking it up on The Onion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 Bill Frisell did the music for a Far Side TV show, IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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