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Slim Richey's Interests
General
Playing and learning guitar: .. Classic jazz . Old pop tunes done in a jazzy style, viper tunes (from the '30s & '40s, what a nice period in so many ways). Menudo (the food), travel, the desert of Texas out by Terlingua, islands (and the east coast of Costa Rica), making Ciabbata bread toast for the love of my life* , and stuff like that. . . .................................<><><><><>...<><><> *her name is Meaux Jeaux .... pronounced moe-joe .................................<><><><><>...<><>
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Check out the Myspace of The Kat's Meow and Kat Edmonson:
Click on the pictures in "Smile's Friends Space" below
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Music
Count Basie, The Benny Goodman Sextet with Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, most of the music of Sweets Edison, everything by my principal bands: The Kat's Meow with Kat Edmonson, The Jitterbug Vipers with Emily Gimble, The Slim Richey Dream Band with Maryann Price or Gaila Kenneally, stuff by my other bands, Western Swing*, Gatemouth Brown, T-Bone Walker, Freddie Green with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessell, ... and the list goes on and on!.................................<><><><><>...<><><>...<><>
*Claim to fame: I'm the last living lead guitarist on the Milton Brown boxed set.
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The video below is of an ex-student and good friend, Clint Strong. The tune he plays here is “Miss Ann’s Tempo” by Grant Green. I don’t think he knows the name of it. When he was 10 years old I assigned him this tune, showed him the head and got him started on transcribing all of Grant’s solos from a cassette tape. In this clip he pays tribute to Grant by playing all of his solos note-for-note before blasting off into Clint-Strong-maga-licks. Check out his stuff on youtube. He teaches at Lamb Music in the Fort Worth area.
<><><><> Barney Kessell – one of my heroes.
<><> Just sitting in. Lost. Enthralled. JESSIE LEE MILLER "Happy Birthday Baby" for Johnny Cuviello, 2007
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Movies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fargo, Being There, The Third Man, Legends of the Fall (a movie with glaring weaknesses but I liked the story and Anthony Hopkins), & The Last Picture Show, Dr. Strange Love, and the list goes on!
Television
I only watch television when I stay in motels. What a waste of time! I like to be on television, and I'll watch DVDs of TV shows sometimes but I wouldn't own a television (ugh!). Hey! I'm not criticizing you!! Hey, you like television?
Copy this and paste it in your address bar, wait about 10 seconds and bingo!.................................<><><><><>...<><>
VIDEO ON WEB: http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=159837
Click on Play the video.
::: http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=159837.
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Write me if you like it. If you don't like it, write that on a piece of paper and put it in a corked bottle and throw it in the ocean. A radio show of The Kat's Meow is at:
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http://www.kut.org/site/PageServer?pagename=mus_eklektikosarchive
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Then click on: Slim Richey (July 11)
I like radio.
Books
I like biographies of jazz musicians and books on libertarian themes, free market environmentalism and economics, especially Austrian Economics." I Must Speak Out" by Carl Watner is a book I could read over and over. Rigoberto Stewart, Joseph Campbell, and J. Krishnamurti are favorite authors. I like fiction too. Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry. . I like sufi poetry (Hafiz) and my favorite poet is Wislawa Szymborska. Don't get me started. I'm not afraid of freedom and I'm sad that so many people are! I'm a thoughtful person and always on the prowl for new insights (psychology, philosophy, economics, art, music, you name it!)
Heroes
Francie Meaux Jeaux (OMG! - the love of my life), all of my children and grand children, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessell, Herb Ellis, Kat Edmonson, Emily Gimble, Carl Watner, Rigoberto Stewart, Joseph Campbell, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston and the list will go on and on if I think long. <><> <><>
Clint Strong – Burning “Oleo”!
Atlanta H S
Atlanta, TX
Graduated: 1956
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Postdoctoral
Major: Girls, Swing and Jazz Guitar
Minor: Chemistry and Physics at Oklahoma University
Clubs: Future Fs of America,Band, Football, Basketball, Girls Gym, Girls and 8 piece swing band..
Greek:
Psi Psi Phi
Ridge Runner/The Kat's Meow/Yo Gadjo/The Jitterbug Vipers Eternal Camp Peckerwood, Driftwood, Hill Country, Tejas, US Emperor of Swing!! Resident Guitar Guru! Music is my life, Meaux Jeaux is my life too!
Truth, Reality, Beauty! Top Three!
The SlimRichey Dream Band, The Slim Richey Experience Ranchos de los Peckerwood, Terlingua, Tejas, US Land Baron of Baren Lands Sawmill Canyon & Sawmill Mountain
The view is worth a million!!
Slim Richey in prowling for insights recommends reading every article at: voluntaryist (.com) Not taught in schools. No wonder! Truth threatens power!
About me: I play guitar like a moe-foe. My primary bands are The Kat's Meow ("Smile's Friends Space" below) with the love of my life, Meaux Jeaux ("Smile's Friends Space" below), on bass and my dear friend, Kat Edmonson ("Smile's Friends Space" below), on vocals (and sometimes with drums, piano and or horns!), The Jitterbug Vipers with Emily Gimble, In These Shoes with Gaila Kenneally ("Smile's Friends Space" below), The Maryann Price Trio and Yo Gadjo, a Gypsy Jazz band with Django Porter, Meaux Jeaux, Albanie Falletta and Katie Holmes. If you want to come say hello, check out :<><><><><===<><><><><><><><><>
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<><><> My other bands are Salt Lick and Seven Come Eleven. I've played with lots of heavies and produced their albums. It looks like The Kat's Meow is going to be a "heavy"! Rising to fame at this very moment! Fever, our version here, is we three (with drummer Bobby Natanson). And watch for Emily Gimble. Her star is rising! She sings and plays piano and is feaured with Jitterbug Vipers! (read my blog about The Jitterbug Vipers and the one about The Kat's Meow and about In These Shoes.)
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Definition for today: ...
Voluntaryism is the idea that human relations should be based on voluntary cooperation and natural law, to the exclusion of any political compulsion. I am a voluntarian. A journal is published based on this idea: The Voluntaryist. See also Voluntaryist.com or www.myspace.com/volutaryist
................................<><><><><>...<><> MORE on peaceful anarchy. Bet you never heard about this in school! See a short Web presentation on natural rights and self-ownership:................................<><><><><>...<><>
http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf ................................<><><><><>...<><>
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/voluntaryism................................<><><><><>...<><>
Try this address for a different look on voting, "our most precious right".
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http://www.sobran.com/columns/2004/041026.shtml
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JITTERBUG VIPERS MUSIC VIDEO ..
Who I'd like to meet: People who feel passionately about life and about music. People who are into peaceful anarchy. People into Austrian Economics. People into Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Reality and Mexican food (a bowl of menudo anyone??).
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I have met and I would like to meet: <><><><>
I've met and been friends with Herb Ellis. I've met and jammed with Howard Roberts and Tal Farlow. I've seen Joe Pass several times. I never got to see Wes Montgomery or Barney Kessell. Those are two of my guitar heroes along with Charlie Christian and Freddie Green.
................................<><><><><>...<><>Of the Texas blues players I like T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ray Sharpe, Freddy King and Gate Mouth. And I've buddied around with Gate, Ray Sharpe, Mance Liscomb and Stevie Ray. I actually produced three albums on Ray Sharpe. I've seen Freddy King many times.
................................<><><><><>...<><> Other great players from the Southwest are Bennie Garcia, Tom Wolfe (my teachers) and Oscar Moore.
I'm rambling along about people I've met and I wish I had met.
Hey Slim, I really enjoyed hearing you play at Z'Tejas! It was very inspiring. And you are a great teacher, thanks for the licks! Hope to see you soon.
Oh... such a great feeling to hear you!!!!Great band and the singer sings beautiful and plays fantastic the piano!!!I wish I could be there to come and listen to you!!!Thanks for the add...kisses Renata!!!
