Re: (TV) Scenes

["J.Germaine" <jpg55@home.com>]

By the way anyone recall R/ LLoyd using a Travis Bean guitar in the late
seventies?

> From: Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:53:36 -0400
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Scenes
> 
> At 12:06 PM -0500 7/16/01, Ken Thompsen wrote:
>> Well, you sound better off than me.
> 
> OTOH, my best amp comes from San Antonio.  'Course, the company that
> made it went out of business in the '70s.
> 
>> Tell me, is Pittsburgh as really as
>> dusky and metallic (industrial) as it is portrayed?
> 
> You be the judge: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/weather/actioncams/
> 
> Interesting that you ask.  A few days ago was the 109th anniversary
> of the battle of the Homestead strike.  I can look out my back door
> and see the location across the river.  The mill came down some years
> ago, and there's a megastore shopping center there now.  (ObTV
> content: Richard Lloyd spent part of his childhood in Homestead.)
> 
> The city's cleaned up over the years. Not much manufacturing now, but
> there's still a manufacturing-mindset in many ways, mostly in a
> desire to bring in some big corporate sugar-daddy.  It's not going to
> happen.  Meanwhile, a lot of local things--startups, merchants,
> artists, musicians--are ignored.  At the civic level, at least.  But
> that's probably true in many places.   And it's fairly cheap to live
> here.
> 
>> Anyway, my question pertains not only to what music you guys are digging,
>> but theatre, poetry, etc..
> 
> There is a theatre scene here, although I'm not really a theatre
> person.  There are some very active people in poetry, also...  And a
> lot of openings.
> 
>> And maybe if I should just pack my bags and burn. Whatever you offer, I
>> appreciate all the answers...
> 
> Chicago has a hell of an impressive scene, actually... (We've lost a
> number of people to Chicago.)
> 
> -- 
> Maurice Rickard
> http://mauricerickard.com/
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