Met Sol Yaged at The Edison Hotel in 2012…..became good friends…… lots of eating at The Mid-Town Diner on 55th street just around the corner from where he lived. Sunday nights we would listen to Rich Conaty on WFUV……many times requesting tunes for Rich to play. Great Times!
Just an absolute piece of shit. And for what? Greatness? Very strange how people will give grace to an absolute tyrant just because he's exceptional at something as abstract as music. Greatness, for greatness sake- is not greatness, its narcissism.
This reminds me of the little troll yelling at the trumpet player….”You suck! I walked Bob Dylan on stage! I knew the Grateful Dead from 1966! I’m an NYU film school graduate….sucka!” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9E62iA6KCIQ.htmlsi=VIrUEO-Eu4q_C_YG
After all the band name was buddy rich, not 1920 and 22 year olds out of college. But he was absolutely correct to berate These musicians that we’re not doing their job like the professionals he had hired.
I want everyone who watches and listens to this video to hear the deliberate squash that takes place from the ASSHOLE sound man as he KILLs Sams mike just when he starts to sing.What an A-hole! This jerk sick jerk was in control of the sound in that room for far too many years screwing with the mic every chance he got.He should be in jail for the stunts he pulled!!
I was really up close at a Buddy Rich gig in a small venue one time when during his long and unbelievable drum solo, he rimmed high tom and he YELLED AT HIMSELF. He was playing at the blinding speed that only he had, moving all around the kit at the speed only he had. Out of thousands of strokes in a gig and he rimmed one tom that entire night (that I could detect) and he was barking at HIMSELF. The fact is Buddy held himself and everyone else around him to the highest standard. His temper was well known. Anybody who got offered to be in his band and took the gig was held to the same highest standard.
Sid, Carl, and Howie: three multi-talented geniuses of comedy and creativity. Thank you for the laughs, for the intelligent, good-hearted comedy that never gets old. May you all rest in peace.
I’ve only learned about Sam Butera recently. Clearly he is much older here….and his singing sounds a little off. But there are some extremely cool u tube videos of Sam singing and playing, notably on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was world class fantastic…as a player, ensemble horn section, and as a singer. Also some great cuts from albums that are on you tube. I only wish I had met him in person. A real world class live nightclub act performer with a great stage presence in the day.
This was such superior comedy in any era and I can only imagine how incredible it must have been to see this in your own living room on a RCA or Philco in the 50’s.
To this day, _still_ the very best big band/ensemble cover I’ve yet seen and heard, on this site. Encapsulates the careless, hedonistic optimism of the time in which the piece was composed, all while adding its own flair.
