{"id":5850,"date":"2009-05-26T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:09:05","slug":"storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5850","title":{"rendered":"Storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lovely and charming Mrs Cleek and I went to beautiful Beaufort, NC, this past weekend. On the first of our many stops at the wine bar, we met the man who, from the mid-70's through the mid-80's, owned the legendary NC music club, the Cat's Cradle. We started out arguing over who is a great guitar player and who isn't (I still say Eddie Van Halen is under<\/em>rated by people who dismiss him because of his pyrotechnics... anyway...); but we eventually got him into telling us stories about the various bands he'd booked over the years. For example, the only band he ever told not <\/em>to play because of their attitude: Red Hot Chili Peppers. And once, while waiting for the Replacements to come on, the manager saw some guy, drunk and passed-out, in the middle of the stage. When he sent somebody to get the guy out of the way so the band could start, they discovered the drunk guy was actually Paul Westerberg, the singer. And, he once declined to book R.E.M. because he couldn't give them a $500 guarantee. <\/p>\n

He also told us that he knew the person who did the bookings for the old Perry Como Show, and that that person had told him that the Beatles were booked to make their US TV debut on that show. They were going to do a skit where Perry Como, formerly a barber, was going to cut their hair. But that fell through and they ended up on Ed Sullivan, instead. I tried to verify this one with some quick Google-fu, but nothing came up.<\/p>\n

We told him he needed to put all this stuff in a book; I think he said he was working on something.<\/p>\n

Then, we met a nice old guy from Luxembourg. He told us all kinds of fun things about his country: the size, the climate, the language, the number of times it was overrun by the Germans in WWII, etc.. He thinks Americans are fat and have lousy coffee, but appreciates that the US kicked Germany out of his country. He was in Beaufort because all the different Beauforts in the world (there are like a dozen of them in France) sent people to Beaufort, NC for a convention of sorts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lovely and charming Mrs Cleek and I went to beautiful Beaufort, NC, this past weekend. On the first of our many stops at the wine bar, we met the man who, from the mid-70's through the mid-80's, owned the legendary NC music club, the Cat's Cradle. We started out arguing over who is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}