They label you blowhard…well then don’t be a wimpy one

Bo Legg · Posted 1 Nov 2013 4:27 pm

I just wonder if anyone feels the way I do about other musicians coming up to you and say things like “ I heard you use to play PSG with So in So (well know singer or band)” “So in So said you were the best Steel Player around” etc.

I’m sure that they don’t mean well and what they are saying is they believe “I told some folks I played with So in So” or I told them “ I think I’m the best steel player around” .

These folks somehow derive pleasure forcing and witnessing a humiliating denial.
So they have already made up their mind that I am a blowhard without ever considering that stories after they make the rounds of just a few people become extremely exaggerated and most time missing the original facts. What they say becomes what I said or at least what I think.

So here is an actual example.
A drummer from another band come up to the stage with his guitar pickin’ buddy and says to me “I heard you used to play with Gary Stewart”

So here is my answer “no it was Marty Stewart and yes I think I’m the best Steel Player around”

That caught him off guard and put a kink in the poor bastard’s try at a put down.

Even if I misjudged his motive no problem “who gives a crap what a drummer thinks anyway. Laughing

Edward Rhea · From: Medford Oklahoma, USA

I'm with you about drummers, Bo! Laughing

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Bud Angelotti · From: Larryville, NJ, USA

Nice!

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Stuart Legg · Posted 2 Nov 2013 11:03 am

The Crossfire Band hired Bo to play in a house gig five nites a week at the Blue Water Lounge T or C New Mexico. They hired Bo without an audition mainly because he had been playing in the Terry Bullard Band

A couple of weeks into the gig with Bo playing all the lead in this three piece band a guy walks right by Bo on the break and starts telling the drummer that he is Scooter Bullard and plays drums in his brother Terry’s Band.

So the leader of the band says to the guy “you know Bo over there don’t you” and the guy says no he didn’t know who Bo was.

The band leader/singer/bass walks over to Bo who was tuning up and says “you said you used to play in the Bullard Band”

Bo didn’t say a word and just got up and went to the bar and got his usual cup of coffee.

For about two sets things are starting to go down hill with the drummer and the band leader talking and looking at Bo.

Finally someone told them that the guy wasn’t Scooter Bullard and that he pulled the stunt about every bar he went to.

So on the break the band leader says to Bo “You should have told me that the guy wasn’t Scooter before I had to find it out from someone else”
Bo replied “Seemed obvious when didn‘t know who I was”

Folks seem to take the word of a total stranger at first.

Jack Bowman · From: Washington, USA

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