First Met Jimmy And Willie

[Guest FreeJimmy]

My Dear Mark

That's a great idea about selling Jimmy's records, Why didn't

I think of that. And you still are No. 1.

So your Dad really worked with Beatles. That's "swell"

So maybe you really can get Paul to shoot us some cash.

I don't know if you like this sort of thing, but I'm

gonna attach several mp3s, of Jimmy and Willie the

night I first met them in 1972.

I was recording that night on an old Sony hand held.

So don't be gett'n your hopes up. It was at a dive

in Florida, where I was playing with a band called

Midnight Express. We played till 6 in the morning,

so other musicians would come in and see us when

they got off. The Greshams, came in to see the drummer

Scipp McKinney, and he called them up, Ben there brother

tried playing guitar awhile, but due to an injury had to quit,

Willie also had a bandage all the way around his hand, and

I got down when they came up, and thougt, these ol

boys ain't gonna do nothing, they cooked along, till

Scipp said the words that changed my life. I went on to

play on a few good records.

There was no guitar player that night, after Ben so,

so that's Jimmy trying to do what he could.

And the Band Struggling along, but their

genius comes through.

Besides me, you're the only other person in the world who

has these. You can pass them around if you want I mentioned before

that Willie's main lick, was as a tenor sax player, he was up there

with Coltrane. Let some of your jazz, funk, if you have any hear

them. There is only, one little piece of Jimmy Singing, you can

tell his voice has a few more miles on it. That's Kilometers, I was a 21 year old

sax player then, and my life changed for the good the

night I met the Gresham's.

and NO, you ain't no ass or ars, but as I type this

"Angels are flying out me arsehole, along with 2 root beer Fizzies"

No Wonder we're gett'n the shit kicked out of in Iraq.

"The British request a Cup of Tea" and the Americans

send a 34 Howitzer Blitz on their encampment.

If you know any British soldiers over there.

Tell Them, under no Circumstances ask for the

"Full Cleveland".

Tell Simon he has to write a report on that also.

I will locate mp3's on disk, and "bolt" them to you,

within the next few minutes. I need to go and

Shoot out the screen of the Tele,,, Like Elvis used to Do.

fj

Edited September 6, 2005 by FreeJimmy

[Guest FreeJimmy]

Wait a minute.

How bout we have a contest the first one of you

who puts 1 dollar in Jimmy's PayPal, gets

the first sounds I ever heard flying out of a Tenor Sax, that Willie

was on the other end of.

I have a music degree, and up until I heard this I thought

I was good. All that changed, when Willie

Gresham, starting warming up his horn, and then the band

with Jimmy on Guitar, went into that old Southern

Standard "Summer Time". Dive Bar in 1972, I went back and read

the origina casette.

So the first one that will send a buck PayPal

freejimmy@saleomatic.com

I will fire the mp3 to Mark. and he can relay, it.

See Mark is our guy, we, as Jimmy told me this line. "We've

Liberated Him in the Name of the People".

I've taken way to much time off work, and my ol lady, is ____off

because she never met these guys, and just thinks I waisting my

time on a hopeless cause.. I already spent -$470,, of my own

money and five years of research to finally figure out what actually went

down.

So this ain't Charity. 1 Dollar to PayPal, freejimmy@saleomatic.com