To Minnesota Fats

Dude, it was awesome!
I only have kind words for all the Cats, made my year that's for sure.
The friendships we made were the best part, even though I gotta admit when Brian sent a hello on stage out to Sam and myself, and then said to me that he knew who I WAS(!) blew my mind!
Just needed another Yankee drinking partner...........

Tommy Maguire wrote:

So tell me you wild Aussies! After all of those years of waiting (and the THOUSANDS of emails your countrymen sent me! lol!) were Stray Cats worth waiting for? Did you all have fun?

Haha I am guilty of this, pretty sure I first started emailing you the whole 'when will the stray cats tour Australia?' thing when I was about 14.. oh the days when I was young Then I started to religiously email all of the big promoters in Australia about bringing the cats here - I did this for a couple of years.. yeah, you can all thank me later

To answer your question - YES IT WAS BLOODY WORTH IT!

"Sherm" is a neighborhood pal who's in night college. When he said he wanted to do a paper on rocka-racism I told him to do some research and that posting here could perhaps give him an insight. He did have some bad experiences at a local rockabilly bar a couple of years ago and I guess that's where the idea came from. No worries, his heart is in the right place.

Anyway....everyone knows that rockabilly is a derivative of the blues so if you're a rockabilly racist, you'd have to be more stupid than the average "really rockabilly".

Glad to hear it Pete and Liana. No doubt. The last Cats' show that I saw (London 2008) was not only the best Stray Cats show I ever saw, it may very well have been the best show I've ever seen...period.

Tommy Maguire wrote:

Did you all have fun?

That'd be an understatement.

Uhh, that Minn Fats could have directly asked the question...

Enjay,
you're completely right, don't blame you ;-)

Tommy, glad to see you are still alive!!
BTW, how's the book writing going on???

Tommy Maguire wrote:

Anyway....everyone knows that rockabilly is a derivative of the blues so if you're a rockabilly racist, you'd have to be more stupid than the average "really rockabilly".

That's what I thought too.
So why even raise this question again whith this "Minnesota Fats!"

Jon, the book is nearly finished. Will you be coming to my book signings? I'd really like to meet you in person.

Tommy "Shakespeare" Maguire

Tommy Maguire wrote:

the book is nearly finished.

If there's ONE WORD in this book about my crying, you WILL be hearing from my lawyers!!!

Dry eyed,
Budge

Some names have been changed.

(((psssst! Hoodooers, Budgie's name in my book has been changed to Blobby.)))

Hey Tommy, so nice to hear from you again!
I think I can say that (almost) would enjoy it to see you hangin' around here more often. Just to know you're doing fine!

Paul

Yo Webby! How are ya chief? I have never been better. Life "on the other side" is friggin amazing. lol Thanks for the message. Hope all is well with you and your family.
-TM

Tommy Maguire wrote:

Some names have been changed.

(((psssst! Hoodooers, Budgie's name in my book has been changed to Blobby.)))

THAT'S IT!!! Consider yourself served.

"served" with a side dish of tears and whimpers. hahaha! that was a "line drive like lightening" LOL!!!

Budgie wrote:

Tommy Maguire wrote:

the book is nearly finished.

If there's ONE WORD in this book about my crying, you WILL be hearing from my lawyers!!!

Dry eyed,
Budge

We have a new Song for the Hoodoovoodoo Jam:

Budgies true story:

Cry, cry, cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Cry, cry, cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh

There is a story yeah
That I must tell
Of two lovers
That I bewail
Now they must cry, cry
Cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Their blues away
(Cry cry cry their blues away)

Her name was Blobby (alternative: Budge) yeah
His name was B
His love was Rockabilly
She's a wonderful girl
But they must cry, cry
Cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Their blues away
(Their blues away)

Love will make you happy
And love will make you cry
Love will make the tears fall
When your lover says goodbye

And then you'll cry, cry
Cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Your blues away
(Cry cry cry their blues away)

This story ends yeah
It was no lie
Names have been changed dear
To protect you and I

But we must cry, cry
Cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Our blues away
(Cry cry cry)
Mmm (whoa-uh our blues away)
We must cry
(Cry cry cry whoa-uh our blues away)



Nice to see ya Tommy =)
How's family?


Chris

Chris!
Do I have permission to quote your prolific (and delightful!) lyrics within the book?!

Hahahahaa!

How are ya man? Gotta say I've missed you buggers.

-TM

Of course you can, but then you'll have to come here and celebrate that with me by drinking good German beer
Then you could also promote your book in europe^^
Budgie can join in aswell so I can make it up to him.

My name is Chris, I'm just tryin' to be a better person

Guitarmaniac wrote:

We have a new Song for the Hoodoovoodoo Jam:

Budgies true story:

Cry, cry, cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Cry, cry, cry whoa-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Bahhhh... everyone knows that all good Rockabilly songs begin with "Wellllll...."

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....German beer! I'll be happy to have MANY with you any time, any place. Budge is welcome but he'd better leave his baseball glove at home. Just in case he has more "troubles".

Well if you ever come to Germany anywhere near Munich, don't hestitate to contact me and we'll have loads of them.

"Budgie's true story" isn't even Rockabilly, it's Doo-Wop, so it doesn't have to start with "weeeeeeeeeeel

Yeah, the Budge story starts with, "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh"

Tommy Maguire wrote:

Yeah, the Budge story starts with, "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh"

Ya still got it Tommy

Thanks Temp! All I can do is try!

Another Song for the HDVD Jam

I can’t eat...
I can’t sleep....
All I can do is try
All I can do is try.

Hey you guys!

Have any of you picked up that new 8 CD Eddie Cochran box set from Bear Family? I lost my mind and plunked down the money 2 weeks ago. The set is amazing of course and the book that comes with it is just insanely informative....but ya know what I found on there that I never knew existed?! Eddie playing guitar on a Johnny Burnette session! I thought I knew all the Eddie trivia out there, but I did NOT know that. So cool.

-TM