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fezo · 07-25-2009, 12:58 PM

Janice! Long time no hear. Great to have you back!

Yeah, that Rodney at the Tin Angel was fantastic. He was promoting the Houston Kid at the time so that year sounds about right. Actually my wife was pregnant with Carrie at the time which makes it 2001. Rodney's daughter Carrie was at that show but that's not where we got the name. She looked exactly like a 13 year old Roseanne Cash.

I went up a few months back to see Rodney with an acoustic trio - Will Kimbrough and Jenny Scheinman along with the bass player du jour. Stunningly good. Will and Jenny are each very good on their own. Rather than an opening act Rodney gave them spots to do a song here and there in his set. Great stuff.

I read Confederacy of Dunces back when it came out - about 1980. I liked it a lot but knew a lot of folks who hated it. May have to try that again.

I've seen Mary Gauthier several times. Funny thing - the first time was a weekend up in Vermont. Fred Eaglesmith and a bunch of other folks doing a 3 day thing. The night before it starts I'm at an open mic in town and get chatting with this woman in the place and at one point I introduce myself and she introduces herself saying she's the opening act on Sunday! As it turned out we'd both signed up for this tour of the area on a patio boat in the Connecticut River. We ended up talking politics and all sorts of things for a couple of hours. Two years ago I got to introduce her at a picnic show up in Ontario.

Tuesday night I've got front and center seats for Bruce Hornsby. He puts on a fabulous live show. Highly recommended.

Hey, Pam -the 2002 incident.

That January I started getting hideous headaches. A sane person would have gone to the doctor but we're talking me.... I went maybe two weeks like this. Played a big gig in the middle of it. (BTW, while doing said gig all the endorphins kick in and no headache). Finally, 6 days after the gig, I come home from work and throw a warm wash cloth on there and it feels better so I go get my heating pad which would keep the heat going. The next thing I remember was waking up as if from a dream in the ER. I'd had a seizure.

As it turned out what happened (not diagnosed until 7 months later) is I have a mutated gene that causes an excess of a clotting factor. Something set that off, causing clots which led to ministrokes (yeah - that was the headache. I'd been working and playing and DRIVING with little strokes going on!). That's what caused the seizure.

I'm now on coumadin which counteracts that tendency to clot. Swell....

But I'm feeling better..... Well, sort of...

07-25-2009, 12:58 PM	#240
fezo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Manahawkin, NJ, 08050 Posts: 806	Re: Keep me in mind Janice! Long time no hear. Great to have you back! Yeah, that Rodney at the Tin Angel was fantastic. He was promoting the Houston Kid at the time so that year sounds about right. Actually my wife was pregnant with Carrie at the time which makes it 2001. Rodney's daughter Carrie was at that show but that's not where we got the name. She looked exactly like a 13 year old Roseanne Cash. I went up a few months back to see Rodney with an acoustic trio - Will Kimbrough and Jenny Scheinman along with the bass player du jour. Stunningly good. Will and Jenny are each very good on their own. Rather than an opening act Rodney gave them spots to do a song here and there in his set. Great stuff. I read Confederacy of Dunces back when it came out - about 1980. I liked it a lot but knew a lot of folks who hated it. May have to try that again. I've seen Mary Gauthier several times. Funny thing - the first time was a weekend up in Vermont. Fred Eaglesmith and a bunch of other folks doing a 3 day thing. The night before it starts I'm at an open mic in town and get chatting with this woman in the place and at one point I introduce myself and she introduces herself saying she's the opening act on Sunday! As it turned out we'd both signed up for this tour of the area on a patio boat in the Connecticut River. We ended up talking politics and all sorts of things for a couple of hours. Two years ago I got to introduce her at a picnic show up in Ontario. Tuesday night I've got front and center seats for Bruce Hornsby. He puts on a fabulous live show. Highly recommended. Hey, Pam -the 2002 incident. That January I started getting hideous headaches. A sane person would have gone to the doctor but we're talking me.... I went maybe two weeks like this. Played a big gig in the middle of it. (BTW, while doing said gig all the endorphins kick in and no headache). Finally, 6 days after the gig, I come home from work and throw a warm wash cloth on there and it feels better so I go get my heating pad which would keep the heat going. The next thing I remember was waking up as if from a dream in the ER. I'd had a seizure. As it turned out what happened (not diagnosed until 7 months later) is I have a mutated gene that causes an excess of a clotting factor. Something set that off, causing clots which led to ministrokes (yeah - that was the headache. I'd been working and playing and DRIVING with little strokes going on!). That's what caused the seizure. I'm now on coumadin which counteracts that tendency to clot. Swell.... But I'm feeling better..... Well, sort of...