Chords for Les Paul on Buddy Rich 8/6/01

here, Buddy Rich.
And you know what, one night, just a second, because I got
something that I never told anybody out there, but Buddy called me up and asked
me to come down.
So I came down and when I got there, the guy, there's a guard on
the door, you know, he's in the dressing room and no one gets to Buddy.
So he says,
hold it, Junior, where the hell do you think you're going?
I says, well, I'm Les
Paul.
He says, big deal.
Where are you going?
You're not going in there.
So I
told him Buddy'd call me.
So I went in there and Buddy was sitting in the
dressing room.
This is like down here with the old bird man.
_ So he says, Les, I'm
quitting the drums.
_ _ And it was that night that he hung the drums up.
Said, I'm never
gonna play the drums again.
_ _ Well, I guess, you know, every guy calls his own shot.
I
says, well, what are you gonna do?
He says, I won't play the guitar. _ _ _ _
Can you believe
that?
I says, Buddy, if you play the guitar, I'll kill you.
_ _ _ Because I'm just
waiting for a guy to come in on the guitar like a drummer, right?
Like Buddy
Rich is going to play the guitar.
_ So anyway, here's what he decided to do.
He
says, I'm going to go do folk songs and I'm going to come out and sing.
And I'm
going to tap dance.
_ _ And I had, Mary and I had to go to New Mexico.
And I'm dialing
the radio because I want to hear what happens to Buddy opening night at the
Blue Angel.
And he left the bird land, _ quit playing the drums, _ went in and he
tap danced on the top of a great big _ drum.
So the stage was the skin of a drum.
And he's up there doing his stick and then he's going to play the guitar.
And
they announced that he folded that night. _
That's one night.
Were you there?
You act
like you were there.
Were you there?
Were you?
Get your ass up here.
I want to hear
it from you.
Come on.
It's a big step.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on up here.
Otherwise the people think I'm just BS and I'm not.
I'm not.
_ _ _ _ Yes, right.
About 60, 70 years.
There's the mic over there, you know.
Yeah, there you go.
There you go.
_ Very good.
And what happened?
Were you there?
I was there.
I gave him _ _ a Casio watch that day.
You did?
That's right.
Well, what's your name?
My name?
Yes, your name.
You got to talk in the goddamn mic.
Is it always over here?
Hey, I don't want a goddamn comedian.
I want a_ _
_ I have problems up here, you know.
_ Now stay over_
Bring the goddamn mic over
here, Irving.
Come on.
Now, I happen to be_
I thought I was the only guy in the world
that knew that Buddy Rich flipped out and dead died.
And then, hey, what did he do?
_ _ No.
After he folded, one night at the Blue Angel cost him 50,000 bucks to have
the choreography of him dancing on a drum and playing folk songs on a guitar.
I think he took up knitting.
_ No, no.
Seriously, you know what he did?
He went
back to the drums never to play anything else for the rest of his life until he
passed away.
_ And a few days before he passed away, he was over in New Jersey
and we were together.
Okay, I'm gonna give you a chance, you know.
Just don't get too good. _
And Buddy was on the road with his band and he was in Michigan somewhere and he
had a heart attack.
He'd had the same thing I had.
He had the bypasses and all
that stuff.
And, you know, they rushed him to the hospital _ _ _ and they said_
The doctor
leaned over and said, are you allergic to anything?
And he says, yeah, country music. _
_ _ _ _ What were you gonna say?
I was gonna say, no. _ _ _
That's it.
But you were there, huh?
I was there.
Yeah.
_ He was so fed up with the drums and jazz and the whole Nine Yards, he wanted
to become a_
He was gonna [G] do this kind of thing.
_ _ He [N] was gonna go that route, right?
With the country
music.
He really was. _
Well, now, thank you.
_ _ What's your name again?
Can I excuse that?
Yeah, you're excused.
What's your name?
Hey, Ron.
Ron?
R-O-N?
Yeah.
What do you do?
Actually, I build flight cases.
_ _ Flight cases?
For the guys that _ smoke? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That was that kind of high?
Or flight cases?
What is a flight case?
_ Oh, you mean those things?
Those things? _
_ You're kidding.
Well, get over in the goddamn mic.
Whenever you say Les Paul or Gibson, be in close on the mic.
_ _ The fine makers of Gibson.
Yes.
No kidding.
Are recommending our cases.
We build them for Lincoln Center and a bunch _ of_
You're kidding.
Dickie Betts and Storton use all our stuff.
_ _ _ Yeah. _
Dwayne Eddy, James Barton.
Lean in the mic.
Jeffrey Baxter.
We've got to be right in.
That's a cheap mic, so you have to get right in.
You do.
_ I'll be down.
Well, I know.
You know when you've really reached the high in your art, and this is what it is.
You make flight cases for guitars and stuff like that.
_ _ You get the endorsement of the Irving Fartzer Trio. _ _
Hello?
Can you hear me? _ _ _
What am I missing?
_ No, the thing. _
They and the Nosebleeds are the two groups that you want to get to endorse the fact that you make a good flight case.
You know, flight cases are really a bitch because they put a hook over here, they put a hook over there, and they're all different.
They made two alike.
We could get used to something. _ _ _
The idea is correct, isn't it?
Yes.
Well, I want to thank you for rushing up here and talking so much.
Thank you very much for inviting me.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's Ron Lutz's name with the flight cases.
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