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The John Goobie Boogie Woogie

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As an old guy with nothing much to do other than wander the various overgrown pathways of memory… not so much overgrown as forgotten, I just came off a bit of a blues bender. Yup, I got Smokestack Lightening coming through the headphones right now! You know how it goes… a toke or two and a coupla shots with beer chasers, and before you know it, you’re… having a fucking nap! Be that as it may, I had a very pleasant afternoon with Clarence Gatemouth Brown and ZZ Top. No, they weren’t in the same music video, but they shoulda been. I was looking for some live footage of a ZZ track from the ’70s, and while I never found that exact tune, I got a shitload of related stuff that set aflame the memory banks. For about five or six years of my childhood I was forced to take piano lessons. I had zero desire, interest, or aptitude, but my mother, having come of age in a refugee camp in Denmark post WW2 where she was denied the opportunity for piano lessons, was determined to provide me with the opportunities she had missed. My piano teacher was a dude originally from Newfoundland (I think) who had a bronze bust of Ludwig v Beethoven in his studio along with two pianos, one for him and one for his unsuspecting victims. My half-hour a week piano lesson was an exercise in utter boredom. The highlight was reading the Punch magazines he had in the anteroom. I mean, John mighta hailed from Newfoundland, but Punch was high-brow Brit Lit. Anyway, as I worked my way through the various lesson books, we eventually came to one titled “Jigs, Reels, and Boogie Woogie.” I’d been practicing my first boogie lesson for a couple of weeks, and my teacher was getting a little pissy. He was shaking his head and muttering no, no… finally he cuts me off. Then he tears into a boogie tirade that woulda had ZZ struggling to keep up. Holy Jumpin’ Jehosaphat, as we used to say… John pretty much set the piano on fire! That John Goobie boogie woogie rocked out like nothing I’ve heard before or since! Too bad he limited himself to giving piano lessons to no-talent dorkshits like me… he coulda been a somebody!


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