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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: lbpesq on July 06, 2020, 11:13:25 AM
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Charlie Daniels passed away today at 83 of a stroke. I had dismissed him as just another country guy until I saw him open for the Dead in San Jose in ‘79. The man could flat out play!
May The Four Winds Blow You Safely Home
Bill, tgo
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I tried to emulate him when I played the violin. Made my orchestra teacher furious.
VMG
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He was well-known in Nashville circles as an unscrupulously honest employer too. As evidenced by the band that seldom changed personnel. Not every single thing he did was my bag, but I always respected the success. RIP, Simple Man.
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Charlie Daniels, 1973 - "I takin' a trip out LA/Toolin' along in my Chevrolet/Toking on a number and digging on the radio"
Charlie Daniels, 1975 - "People say I'm no good/Crazy as a loon/'Cause I get high in the morning/Get drunk in the afternoon"
Charlie Daniels, 1989 - "If had my way with people selling dope/I'd take big tall tree and a short piece of rope/I'd hang 'em high and leave 'em swingin' 'til the sun went down"
I will say no more.....
Peter
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Saw him back in 78 at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ. Always had a great band. Always a great show. RIP.
Regards
Pete
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We loved him dearly. Good customer for as long as I can remember. Sooo many F-2Bs!
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Dylan was recording in NYC, when Nashville session ace Charlie McCoy got drafted into a session, and things went real good, real fast. Dylan made the usual inquiries, and was told 'that's the way they work down there, they're fast'.
Intrigued, Dylan would come to town to cut NASHVILLE SKYLINE with all the session aces of the day, like Grady Martin and so many others back then. And things went real good, real fast, and BD was very impressed. One day, there was a sudden 'can't make it' by one the hired guitarists, and Charlie got the call to sub. Drove down there like a madman, recorded the rest of the day. Afterwards, Dylan walks the room thanking the guys, and it comes up that Charlie was a sub. Dylan then realized Charlie wouldn't be back the next day, turns to the producer and tells him to cancel the no-show guy, 'I want Charlie back tomorrow'. He finished the project, and the other recordings Dylan would make in Nashville; he was the first of the 'outsiders' that came to town and began to put those players and studios on the map of the world.
CD would later remark that from that moment on, he was a 'made man', especially after that story went around town pretty quickly. Then he shows up in 'Urban Cowboy', a pretty good lick too. Member of the Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Hall of Famer, and married to Miss Hazel for over 50 years, an utter rarity in the Muzik Bidness.
A musician's musician (although he LOOKED better playing the fiddle than he sounded . . . ), and one of the great good guys in the business. He'll be missed.
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We loved him dearly. Good customer for as long as I can remember. Sooo many F-2Bs!
In the tone of Ed McMann, "I did not know that!"
Rest in Peace Charlie