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City: Champaign
State: Illinois
Country: US
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Friday, April 18, 2008 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music
The story behind "Juanitos Blues"

Funny Story..
Last week I was in the studio with Brian and Mort.
It was noon or so on friday. We all ended up sleeping at the studio.
I was half asleep on the couch when Brian said he was going to go out for a bit and grab some food. I said "ok" and he said "if by chance the internet tech comes by, let him in,
the internet has been extremely slow lately." I said "ok" and just layed there. Sure enough, 20 minutes or so there was a knock on the door, and I awoke form the couch to a 50 year old feller at the door. Regular looking Joe. I said "come in" and assumed he was the internet dude. So I show him where the computer/modem is and tell him that it has been running slow...etc. His 1st response was..."can you repeat that?" I figured he did not speak very good english, so I reiterated the story a 2nd time. Then he looked at me and said " uh... I don't know..." So I was like... "what the !@$ kinda repairman is this?" Then we both kinda just stared at each other.. very uncomfortable.
Must have been a good 3 to 5 minutes of just satring at each other...LUCKILY!!
Brian walked in shortly after and said "Ohhh Hey Juan!!" and I said "soo.. this isn't the repair dude?" and he was like .. NO! This is my friend Juan. He is from Spain. I invited him over a few days ago to check out the studio. Then we all looked and each other and laughed...boisterously...I said I was "sorry," and we all went into the control
room to continue mixing. Mort and I very trying to decifer a few tidbits of info about this guy. We asked him "what do you do for work out here?" His response was "I play guitar--I AM FREE!!" As he raised his arms to the sky.
Mort and I laughed without showing it.
Well.... after we reached a stopping point with the song we were working on, we asked him to play a song for us.
I mean.. anyone who is a 50 year old flamenco guitar player from Spain has just gotta have somethin to say..ya know? Needless to say, our interests were piqued.
So Brian put up a couple of room mics and Juan started to play. As soon as Brian started to play the piano, Mort and I looked at each other and; wthout words said..."IT'S ON!!" Mort went and got his sax and I went to the drum set and we recorded this improv jam.... 20 mins. 1 take.
What a great moment in time.
Annessa

 
That's a good story.
You make me laugh!
And that jam session turned out phenomenally! Extraordinary! Outstanding! Brian's piano, Mort's sax, Juan's flamenco guitar, and you on drums.
Wow!
 
Posted by Annessa on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 2:54 AM
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Crystal
crystal Askew-Gray

 
ha! that is too funny!
 
Posted by Crystal on Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 6:16 PM
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