Dan Mozell wrote:
>
> > Jack Campin wrote:
> >
> > > > More Skinner trivia: at his funeral, "Lochaber No More" was played
> > > > at his grave by G S Maclennan...
> >
> > > I've been puzzled about that ever since I read it. GS died later the
> > > same year, and had been too ill to work for years. I'd assumed he
> > > had cancer, but maybe not. What kind of terminal illness leaves
> > > somebody totally disabled but still able to get up and do a
> > > performance like that?
>
> I've certainly seen some really unhealthy musicians summon up the energy to put
> on a great show.
> Bluegrass legend Bill Monroe was known on more than one occassion to go from the
> hospital to the stage. Jazz Violinist Stephane Grappelli was very feeble the
> last time I saw him, but when he picked up that violin, he was young again. My
> late friend, fiddler extraordinaire Randy Howard, was performing and doing
> session work while dying of kidney cancer. Up to a few weeks before his death he
> was on stage, doing what he loved. And he still sounded great! The power of
> music and the desire to perform can do wonders.
>
> http://www.danmozell.com
>
Guitarist and singer Lester Flatt could barely stand up to the
microphone the last time I saw him, at a bluegrass festival in Colorado,
but he wouldn't break tradition and sit down. He died before the summer
concert season was over.
Bruce Olson
Old British Isles: popular and folk songs, tunes, and broadside
ballads at my website (no advs-spam, etc)-www.erols.com/olsonw or
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My Motto: Keep it up; muddling through always works. Learn from
the Masters by watching carefully with mouth shut; their know how
isn't in the language processor part of the brain, and your questions
are only distraction.
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