Post your asides here

[jimbogumbo]

No one should forget Red Green.

[Parasaurolophus]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

[marshwiggle]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

I was in the live audience for one of his shows.

[aside]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

I was in the live audience for one of his shows.

Probably more entertaining than the alternative.

[Parasaurolophus]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

I was in the live audience for one of his shows.

Oh, cool! I hope it was fun!

[aside]

As a fellow musician, I would not regret not having bought an accordion, but perhaps we march to different drummers.

[Anselm]

As a fellow musician, I would not regret not having bought an accordion, but perhaps we march to different drummers.

Elvis killed off the accordion industry.  I had one as a boy but never got proper lessons even though my father played one in a band.  They have been coming back due to popularity among Mexican-Americans.

[marshwiggle]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

I was in the live audience for one of his shows.

Oh, cool! I hope it was fun!

Yeah the audience are all in "Possum Lodge", and during the closing credits the camera pans over the lodge members and so you can almost make us out if you know where to look.
(If the show is still on some sort of streaming service; that would have been 30+ years ago.)

[jimbogumbo]

As a fellow musician, I would not regret not having bought an accordion, but perhaps we march to different drummers.

Elvis killed off the accordion industry.  I had one as a boy but never got proper lessons even though my father played one in a band.  They have been coming back due to popularity among Mexican-Americans.

Never were unpopular in certain areas:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1IPk5UmnHU

[mamselle]

Re: accordions: Not for all of us...

1) Jazz:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCM_dBeWQk

2) Orchestral:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKptyDDBKIg

3) Ethnic:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQ3dyGV0oI

All those were either starting or already well-known before, during and after Elvis.

I've met two in person.

M. 

[mahagonny]

And speaking of white achievement. A white musician, Gabor Szabo, forced his black piano player, Bobby Womack, to write a song they called 'Breezin'' which Szabo then performed, followed by weak record sales. But then George Benson, always with his ear to the ground, rerecorded it and had a smash hit. Dealing white colonialism another well deserved smackdown.

[apl68]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

I was in the live audience for one of his shows.

Oh, cool! I hope it was fun!

Yeah the audience are all in "Possum Lodge", and during the closing credits the camera pans over the lodge members and so you can almost make us out if you know where to look.
(If the show is still on some sort of streaming service; that would have been 30+ years ago.)

Did you get to see the Possum Van?  That's something rural Americans can identify with too.

[marshwiggle]

No one should forget Red Green.

He's very handy.

I was in the live audience for one of his shows.

Oh, cool! I hope it was fun!

Yeah the audience are all in "Possum Lodge", and during the closing credits the camera pans over the lodge members and so you can almost make us out if you know where to look.
(If the show is still on some sort of streaming service; that would have been 30+ years ago.)

Did you get to see the Possum Van?  That's something rural Americans can identify with too.

I don't think it was in the studio. I imagine the outdoor segments were filmed some other time without an audience.

[Katrina Gulliver]

Oh look, another thread that's a total dumpster fire. JFC

[mamselle]

I know, I give it three tries and then I give up.

Trial 3 just went down. So, I'm out.

Some folks just gotta...somepthin'...

M.