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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: More on Bobby...
Date: Monday, December 08, 2014
Time: 2:57:59 AM
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RE: RE: RE: More on Bobby...

A friend of mine is friends with Crispin Cioe, here is a bit he sent me from a email Crispin wrote him about Bobby:

Horns don't often get the respect they deserve in rock/pop/r&b, so many thanks for the nice tribute to Bobby Keys. We in the Uptown Horns -- myself, Arno Hecht, Bob Funk, and Larry Etkin (who replaced original trumpeter Hollywood Paul Litteral) -- toured with the Stones on their Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tours; we first met Bobby in late August, 1989, onstage at Nassau Coliseum, which the Stones were using a rehearsal room in advance of that tour. We bonded immediately, and for the next year and a half, he became a member of our horn section. . . and we remained friends going forward. Besides doing 115 Stones shows worldwide with Bobby, we did some recording session work during that period where we pulled him on the dates with us, including two songs on Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus, Hal Willner's tribute album to Charles Mingus (Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and longtime Stones backup vocalist Bernard Fowler also performed with us on that album).

> Bobby couldn't really read music, but any time we gave him notes to play in a section part, he would lock in with our sound instantly -- always in tune, on time, and with the right attitude. With the Stones, Bobby was like the ultimate garage-band sax player, which made sense to me, because the Stones were, especially in their early days, pretty much invented the form, as the ultimate and original r&b/blues-based garage band par excellence (and for a telling and heavily sourced look at their '60s incarnation, I recommend Paul Trynka's excellent new biography, ). But Bobby Keys was also a solid sender of an all-around ace soloist in his heyday, as evidenced on the records you mentioned, and on big, mainstream pop hits like "When I Need You", by Leo Sayer.

> On the road, I constantly badgered Bobby with questions about his growing up in Texas and playing in teenage groups with Buddy Holly, hanging out with rock sax god King Curtis, hard partying with Keith Moon and John Lennon, etc., and he invariably took the time to regale me with stories and inside details that I still treasure. And of course, I probably got into a little trouble here and there with Bobby, including one or two possible naughty bits . . . but I felt like I was walking alongside the real history of rock 'n roll hanging out with Bobby, so somehow it always seemed to make sense -- even when it was a walk on the wild side.

> He came up with more funny improvised one-liners and phraseology than any stand-up comedian I've ever known (except for maybe Richard Belzer).

> Once we were standing in a hotel lobby in Vienna, Austria, and a journalist walked up to Bobby and asked, "Mr. Keys, what are the Rolling Stones really like?". Without hesitation, Bobby turned to the guy and, in his unmistakable northwest Texas twang, drawled, "Buddy, those are some straight-up, carte-blanche m*ther-f*ckers!"

> We'll miss Bobby Keys.

> All the best,

> Crispin Cioe

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