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PICCARD COMIC MAGICIAN's Interests
General
MAGICK
"Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding into action."
Main interest included Creating Magic effects__Gag ideas_Performing my show and making a FRICKIN' LIVING!_and playing drums..Here I Is Playing on 2 numbers__ENJOY DIS'
...Scotty had 2 Minor Hits out when he recorded "Ain't no Big Thing" and "Cry With Me Baby".I released an Album many years ago__It went ZINC !__I think it sold about 3 copys!
~The Lost Highway Rolls On Forever~
A Grind Magic Show on the Wildwood N.J.Boardwalk over 5,000 Performances in 3 months The year was 1973.Left to right Myself (Not one gray hair on my head and all my hair)_Lynn (A/K MAYA)Tony (Dah'Gorilla) and Robert my light and Sound Techman.
Click The Book Above To Visit My Magic Shop__Offering a VERY exclusive and Limited Stock...
Music
I love Jazz, Blues and Funk---Just about anything played by good musician's who know their instrument
When I played Drum's for a living I worked with many Bands,
Scotty Todd, The Pearly Bryant Trio, Don Miller's WeeJuns and The Burt Massengale Orchestra just to name a few.
Most of the friend's you see in my friend's section
are real people I know...Some of them are people I hope to meet along the road. Some have passed away and their sites are maintained out of memory and respect to them.
~HERE ARE A FEW SONGS FOR YOU TO ENJOY~
Movies
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ME IN THE MOVIES???___I GO THERE ALL THE TIME...
NO I just did a movie
with Madonna__and in it we have this Great Sex Scene___But you have to watch QUICK__ as I didn't last too long.
The Piccard Family Coat Of Arms
Television
Don't Waste your time watching that CRAP!...Work on yourself and your dreams...
Books
I just finished my first BOOK!!!________Now I plan to Read another ONE...
No really?...Many of the Blogs you see here are from an E-Book I'm doing called THE ROAD LOG's.
It's an Auto-Bio and contains a lot of my Magic Ideas...
Slydini once told me"If you want to keep your magic a Secret
put it in a Book".
Did you know I use to be a “psychic”___But I gave it up when I realised it wasn't going be all That I had Predicted
It would be...
A FEW QUOTES:
"The man who succeeds has faced failure more times than success, but he never gave up."
~Tom Dean
“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the traces of the fact that you ever tried,and move on with your next project.” ~Piccard
A friend is someone you call to help you move. A REAL friend is someone you
call to help you move a body. ~Anthony "Dah'Button" Gambini
"HIV-AID's May very well be God's way of saying the Party is over!__But Hey...You can still wear a Party Hat!"...~Piccard
"If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." ~Marcus Aurelius
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
~ Michelangelo
...Life does not cease to be funny......When People Die... Any more than it ceases to be serious when people Laugh... (George Bernard Shaw)
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~With Old friends Gazzo and Patrick in Edinburgh, Scotland sitting in the cold waiting to Perform.
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Heroes
My Late Father, Because he put up with me and my Crazy Dreams for all those years and Didn't go Nut's and Kill me.
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Art as in life simplicity is the key to success and happiness within~~from the teachings of the Buddha
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 Brooklyn, New York – April 2, 1987)
I don't know the date of this footage__But here is a drum lesson for anyone paying attention...It's the solo he did during Channel One Suite...
I would be a lier if I said I wasn't a Huge fan__Besides being one of the Greatest ever to play the drum's, He made me laugh
with his often time acid humor__Once when he was about to under go surgery, the nurse ask him"ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO ANYTHING?" __Buddy replied "ONLY COUNTRY MUSIC".
I noticed today that a lot of drummers have what seems to be 8 Tom-Toms and 2 Bass drums, Why?...I guess because it looks great on stage to have all those toys...
But once Buddy was asked why he didn't have 2 bass drums like Louie Belson__Buddy answered back "Because
I can do everything he does on ONE!". I was Blessed to have seen him Perform Live 3 times in my life and It a was joy each time__to all of you who may have seen him live too__You know what I mean.
I hope you will take the time to watch this Great artist and also do a search on you-tube, because there are some great clips of him, including the last interview he did on The Parkinson Show in the U.K...R.I.P. Buddy you will always be in our hearts.
I was Born, Which Came as No surprise to my Mother, In 1948.I grew up very poor__If I hadn't been born a Boy I would not have had anything to play with.
I shined shoes at age 12 to buy my first set of Drum's. Played drum's while in the Army and hit the road with various R&B bands in 1970, By 1973 I stopped the music business to try my luck at
working Comedy-Magic.
Along this long and slow moving dream, I have been blessed with many teachers. At age 17, I was given 2 weeks of drum clinic's by Barrett Deems...He was Louie Armstrong's drummer and Louie once said of Barrett "The Man Can Make Coffee Nervous." There are 2 video's of Barrett one he is playing a Chair and the other he is Playing at
the age of 81 with Arvell Shaw, He played up and until 3 days
before he died at age 85 with all the power and speed of a young man...
There have been many teachers along the way.I've been in this SHOW BUSINESS Program in one form or another since I was a Child...I've been a DRUMMER, A Circus Clown, a Night Club Comic,Now for the past 21 years performing as a Comic-Magician in Europe. 40 years on the road and 30 country's later I'm Still at it...I'm now semi-retired and only tour 4 months out of each year...For the past 6 years I've been living in Thailand were I can relax and work on new ideas...
If my wealth were measured by the Number of Great Artist and Great Teacher's I've met along the way then I would have to be one of the RICHEST MEN WALKING THE PLANET TODAY.
You will see many of them in my slideshow (CLICK MY BIZ-CARD LOWER DOWN THE SCREEN TO SEE AND HEAR MY SLIDE-SHOW) and you can read about them if you take the time to read my BLOGS.
Yes__ It's True I'm still single__But I keep hopeing I will meet that one really special Woman__One that Hopefully will
NOT PRESS CHARGES!!!
A Little More About me___I know it's just me ___Me __ME!___isn't it!___ISN'T IT!!!
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice.
I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention.
I translate ethnic slurs for Albanian refugees.
I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
I woo women with my sensuous and godlike drum playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with ease, and I cook Thirty- Minute Brownies in twenty minutes.
I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in France,Norway and Scotland.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single- handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants.
I play bluegrass Tuba, and have been scouted by the best theaters in the world and I am the subject of numerous documentaries.
When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my backyard. I enjoy urban hang gliding.
On Wednesdays, I repair computers free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie.
Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail.
Last summer I toured Germany with a traveling centrifugal-force-Ginzoo Knife demonstration.
I am an excellent golfer,Except when I come to that little windmill.
Animals trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.
I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening.
I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket.
I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair.
While on vacation in Spain, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery,and got free buns and bread rolls for a month.
The laws of physics do not apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.
On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami.
Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down.
I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a Cheese Grater and a toaster oven.
I breed prizewinning clams.
I have won cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
I have performed open-heart surgery on myself using only a mirror and a small swiss army knife, and I have performed my magic show for Billy Joe Shaver and Willie Nelson and many other big name stars....
But I have not yet learned to juggle....Here are just a few of the Many great artist I've been blessed to have known.
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PLEASE LET THE VIDEO'S PLAY THRU ONCE THEN PLAY THEM AGAIN.
PLEASE NOTE:
I have about 14 Video's Posted ,but you will have to click
the VIDEO link under my MAIN Photo at the top left of this page to view them all...You will find some RARE footage of Slydini my friend and teacher there too.
Here's a Photo of my
Clown Teacher and Former Partner MARK TONY' ANTHONY
JUST CLICK THIS PHOTO OF TONY' TO VISIT Pat Cashin's Clown Alley SITE.
To learn more about many of the World's Greatest clowns..Mark Passed away in 1990, The World lost a Great Artist and I lost a dear friend.
Who I'd like to meet:
An HONEST??? DEPENDABLE??? AND For REAL MANAGER and or Booking Agent. __OHHHH___ TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.
Hi Piccard, Great to hear from you! I'm glad you're still alive and kickin'...when are you coming to Texas??? I get to see Willie July 2nd,can't wait. :)
