Comments on: Pure Country honky tonk concert and book http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 16:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357638 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357638 Damn, #5 stole my comment. Yes, he looks like Jim Carrey from Me, Myself, and Irene. see: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm243898624/tt0183505 And: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm193566976/tt0183505 Damn, #5 stole my comment.
Yes, he looks like Jim Carrey from Me, Myself, and Irene.

see: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm243898624/tt0183505
And: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm193566976/tt0183505

]]> By: redteam http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357392 redteam Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357392 Thanks for letting us know in advance. That place is up the street from me and I missed it. Thanks for letting us know in advance. That place is up the street from me and I missed it.

]]> By: Mookerchief http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357458 Mookerchief Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357458 What is the BBC's economics correspondent Evan Davis doing on the front of this album cover? The resemblance is uncanny: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/21/bbc.radio?gusrc=rss&feed=media What is the BBC’s economics correspondent Evan Davis doing on the front of this album cover? The resemblance is uncanny:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/21/bbc.radio?gusrc=rss&feed=media

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357217 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357217 What? No Tom Armstrong at that there Honkytonk concert? What? No Tom Armstrong at that there Honkytonk concert?

]]> By: FantomBeats http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357532 FantomBeats Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357532 Is it just me or does he look like Jim Carrey? Is it just me or does he look like Jim Carrey?

]]> By: ghostpoint http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-358333 ghostpoint Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-358333 I am surprised to see these photos as Leon worked these venues as a sound-man and taped from the board. These tapes have become legendary as they display a side of country music legends that is largely unknown (or so I am told) as people such as Johnny Cash and George Jones had a rough-edged live sound they displayed in these parks distinctly different than the way Nashville recorded and promoted them. My story is that as a record collecting teen in Maryland I would drive to the better record stores in Suburban D.C. such as Joe's Record Paradise. One day when I was in there Joe was wide-eyed about a find he had made: on a call to look over records at an old-timers house he absently noticed a stack of reel to reels and asked about them. "Oh I used to work the boards at country music concerts in Western Maryland and taped whenever I could" was about what the guy told him. That guy was Leon. Last I checked in was a few years ago after Joe had moved his store to Baltimore and had Leon fixing stereos and equipment for resale. I asked about the tapes and was assured that they were negotiating with major labels but pushing for someone like Smithsonian to go for the full prestige giganto box-set release with hope for Emmies and so forth. I'm sure it will happen but why the wait? Surprised to see the photos but it makes perfect sense. BTW there was off in the woods near where I grew up in Annapolis Md. the ruins of a "chitlin circuit" venue where the other side of music in those days, James Brown, Chuck Berry and so on played, Carrs Beach it was called. I am surprised to see these photos as Leon worked these venues as a sound-man and taped from the board. These tapes have become legendary as they display a side of country music legends that is largely unknown (or so I am told) as people such as Johnny Cash and George Jones had a rough-edged live sound they displayed in these parks distinctly different than the way Nashville recorded and promoted them.
My story is that as a record collecting teen in Maryland I would drive to the better record stores in Suburban D.C. such as Joe’s Record Paradise. One day when I was in there Joe was wide-eyed about a find he had made: on a call to look over records at an old-timers house he absently noticed a stack of reel to reels and asked about them. “Oh I used to work the boards at country music concerts in Western Maryland and taped whenever I could” was about what the guy told him. That guy was Leon. Last I checked in was a few years ago after Joe had moved his store to Baltimore and had Leon fixing stereos and equipment for resale. I asked about the tapes and was assured that they were negotiating with major labels but pushing for someone like Smithsonian to go for the full prestige giganto box-set release with hope for Emmies and so forth. I’m sure it will happen but why the wait? Surprised to see the photos but it makes perfect sense. BTW there was off in the woods near where I grew up in Annapolis Md. the ruins of a “chitlin circuit” venue where the other side of music in those days, James Brown, Chuck Berry and so on played, Carrs Beach it was called.

]]> By: Jack http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357312 Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357312 This sounds great! And a perfect example of how one passionate fan can make a difference and preserve something special. This sounds great! And a perfect example of how one passionate fan can make a difference and preserve something special.

]]> By: ghostpoint http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-358367 ghostpoint Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-358367 I may have constructed in my memory that Leon worked the boards when in fact he was just a fan (with sound engineer skills) with a tape-recorder at a time when there was no proscriptive attitude to fan recording because it was such a rarity. I do remember some conversation about how Leon would set his mics up on stage or maybe at the board with no one objecting because, well, they were all gentlemen or whatever. Anyway, NPR does a nice rundown of the story here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1280910 It has some recordings but the story is from 2003. Where is the music? I may have constructed in my memory that Leon worked the boards when in fact he was just a fan (with sound engineer skills) with a tape-recorder at a time when there was no proscriptive attitude to fan recording because it was such a rarity. I do remember some conversation about how Leon would set his mics up on stage or maybe at the board with no one objecting because, well, they were all gentlemen or whatever. Anyway, NPR does a nice rundown of the story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1280910

It has some recordings but the story is from 2003. Where is the music?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/15/pure-country-honky-t.html#comment-357859 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-357859 Goodness me, it's Gary Rhodes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Rhodes Goodness me, it’s Gary Rhodes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Rhodes

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