Spondylitis Association of America Forums General Discussion Off-Topic Forum your favorite obscure music

Okay, you can't drop a statement like, "Wilson Picket really is buried in his backyard", without telling us the story.

I'll check out both Tim and Chris.

Spenser23

On Tim's lastest CD he has written a song titled just that. Wilson Picket is Buried in My Backyard. The story stemmed from a walk Tim went for in the little cemetary by his house, in Louisville where Wilson is laid. He writes about life, his life and he's got some great songs. I met Tim here in Maine through his connection with Vaughan Meader of the First Family album fame. Tim has been coming to Maine each summer for some time, part vacation with some great gigs thrown in. When Tim came to Maine last summer he sent up the cd ahead of time so my daughter could play the trumpet parts for a couple of his gigs. She also wrote out saxaphone charts for a personal friend of Tim's who has been playing saxaphone for only a couple years. I love his music anyway, but I was ecstatic hearing my daughter as part of the band. ...jen

How wonderful. I remember Vaughn Meader well. I learned how to do a JFK impression by listening to the First Family record over and over and then practicing while riding my bicycle when doing my paper route I then started using my little three inch reel to reel tape recorder to make up skits and comedy routines.


Sadly, one of my other inspirations from that era passed away today. I was a George Carlin fan from the very beginning of his career. I used to mimic his routine about the radio station, WINO and Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weatherman. It was the beginning of my comedy appreciation and education. I got to see him up close when I was a page at NBC and I was in the studio for the very first Saturday Night Live back in 1975.


Spenser23

With your sharp sense of humor those must have been funny movies. That's just wicked neat - you must have see quite a bit working as a page. After Kennedy's assasination Lenny Bruce's comment was ..poor Vaughan Meader. Folks around here called him Abbot or Ab. I played cribbage with him from time to time. He liked to play piano, sing and sip his Mount Gay. In fact, one of the last times Abbot sang in public was in a show with Tim Krekel in Rockwood, where the Moose River joins Moosehead lake. We were all amazed at how powerfully he sang that night considering how ill he was. So sad to hear about George Carlin, too. I loved his line, ...cocaine, God's way of telling you you have too much money.

Let me know how you like Tim's music. Nice chatting. jen

PSS. Tim K played with Jimmy Buffet when he appeared on SNL in 78 or 79.