Captain Leafheart
Aroused member (still)
Jerry Lee Lewis performed at a record store a block from where I work today. You buy his new cd ("Last Man Standing") and get a wristband to be let in for the performance. It's a "duets" cd, but has a very cool list of participants.
I found out his birthday is this Friday and I saw a lot of photos of him with a cigar so I brought one along in case I got close enough to him. Also brought along an old Sun 45 of "Whole Lot Of Shakin" to try to get autographed.
Anyway... he looked a little bit frail but... 40 years melted away when he got behind the piano. MAN! He still rocks. HARD! He played "Roll Over Beethoven", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Great Balls Of Fire", Whole Lot Of Shakin'", and 1 or 2 others.
He's quickly led out to an SUV and I work my way right up to his window and wave around my Sun 45, asking him to sign it. He makes a feeble attempt to open the window but doesn't, and indicates "Sorry."
Then I remember the cigar.
I whip it out and hold it up and say "Happy Birthday Killer."
BOOM! The window comes down and he gladly accepts the cigar. I hold out the record again and other folks start pushing cd's at him to sign and, smiling, he says to me "I can't sign all these autographs."
So I say "But you sure can play that piano."
The car window goes up, the car pulls away, and that's that!
Guess I'll go home, light up and listen to the new disc.
Oh yeah... the smoke I gave him was a RP Vintage '92 in a sealed glass tube from a box of 10 that I got from a CI deal months back.
I found out his birthday is this Friday and I saw a lot of photos of him with a cigar so I brought one along in case I got close enough to him. Also brought along an old Sun 45 of "Whole Lot Of Shakin" to try to get autographed.
Anyway... he looked a little bit frail but... 40 years melted away when he got behind the piano. MAN! He still rocks. HARD! He played "Roll Over Beethoven", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Great Balls Of Fire", Whole Lot Of Shakin'", and 1 or 2 others.
He's quickly led out to an SUV and I work my way right up to his window and wave around my Sun 45, asking him to sign it. He makes a feeble attempt to open the window but doesn't, and indicates "Sorry."
Then I remember the cigar.
I whip it out and hold it up and say "Happy Birthday Killer."
BOOM! The window comes down and he gladly accepts the cigar. I hold out the record again and other folks start pushing cd's at him to sign and, smiling, he says to me "I can't sign all these autographs."
So I say "But you sure can play that piano."
The car window goes up, the car pulls away, and that's that!
Guess I'll go home, light up and listen to the new disc.
Oh yeah... the smoke I gave him was a RP Vintage '92 in a sealed glass tube from a box of 10 that I got from a CI deal months back.
:thumbs: 
