Have You Ever Used A Stage Name?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

did u guys really write the ace cannon liner notes comparing him to charlie parker

[GregN]

some nights when the band members of the septet i played with outnumbered the people in the audience, we'd introduce ourselves as "Chuck Roast and his Prime Cuts, featuring the vocals of the lovely Clair Voyant."

just one of the many reasons i'm now a psychologist.

I once did an ad hoc gig under the name of Johnny Large and The Johnsons.

John Large is a drummer from the west side of Michigan and it is his real name. The rest of us however, weren't really Johnsons.

Well maybe we were...

When I was a student at Iowa I had a poet friend named George Lonesome. He loved it when his name was called alphabetically as Lonesome, George.

A poet at Iowa....named George Lonesome??? That is too cool. I bet he scored big time with the ladies in the writing program.

I once knew a kid with the last name David.

Guess what his first name was.

Yup, "David".

David David

That seems cruel. But it was the 60's.

[JSngry]

http://www.mcdavid.com/

[Chuck Nessa]

A poet at Iowa....named George Lonesome??? That is too cool. I bet he scored big time with the ladies in the writing program.

George was a black man and his beautiful partner was named Ekecta Twine. Real names as far as I know.

[GregN]

http://www.mcdavid.com/

lol

Which now makes me wonder if there is a Donald McDonald. I know there is a Ronald somewhere....

Donald McDonald

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

yea but why the fake name to write lp liner notes?

I thought that would be obvious. Liner notes tend not to criticize the performer--ergo, if one has reservations about the music on the record, one should decline the assignment. On the other hand, if one isn't exactly rolling in dough...

Remember, too, that most liner notes written 40-50 years ago were little more than shallow blurbs, often written by disc jockeys whose knowledge of jazz came mainly from reading silly notes written by other disc jockeys who, in turn.... well, you get the picture.

I dug out the sleeve notes to "Arriba! con Montego Joe" and gave them another read in the light of this thread. I must say, you did a damn good job on them, with a very detailed rundown of Joe's career and also decent mentions of Al Gibbons, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Robert Crowder, Leonard Goines, Milford Graves and Rudy Stevenson. Some pretty talented musicians in there. It was always particularly gratifying to know that, at the time of writing, Joe was backing a belly dancer at Chicago's Playoy Club. That's the sort of thing one REALLY needs to have in sleeve notes. I like this album, though not as much as "Wild and warm".

And I do like: "As always, the music speaks best for itself but there are certain pertinent facts concerning the individual tracks that might enhance your listening pleasure." (My emphasis) You can almost (now) hear the unwritten parenthetical clause "although they didn't enhance mine".

I don't have any Byrdie Green albums, despite the presence of Johnny "Hammond" Smith. Anyone like to quote bits of those at us?

MG

Edited September 13, 2006 by The Magnificent Goldberg

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

By the way, was "Francis Squibb" a real person or someone else's nom de plume?

MG