The Project
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:00 amA slight revision of a previous post
Most of you have seen me post Paul Yandell quotes from time to time.
The Project is this. I'm shaping my "Archive" into something like a biography of Paul Yandell. In so doing it is also a chornicle of the Sideman... the faceless musicians who work for love and usually little money to make the music most of us grew up on. Paul was one of the lucky ones who eventually made a decent living (thanks to working with Chet and Jerry Reed) after a long hard slog at it.
The Archive is an extremely detailed look at guitaring as Paul saw it as he worked with those two giants taken as posts here on the Chetboard and written up much like the quotiing posts I've made in the past. I at least want to make it so it can be in Marie and Micah's posession.
It, of course, has a lot of detail about Things Chet
I really would like to see the finished product made available to students and people like us who are interested in the industry as it was from the late thirties to the present day. That, I don't know about. I'll eventually have to contact the Atkins Estate to get permission to somehow release or publish the data. That part of "authoring" I'mn unfamiliar with.
I have asked before and I'll ask again...
If you have any good Paul or Chet stories, or possibly even some musical "war stories" you think might be suitable for inclusion, please send them in. I'm not looking for a general "Paul was a good, kind, guy." statement. We know he was that. What I need are little stories that show and describe what he was like as a person. Advice he gave, funny or philisophical things he may have said.
Thanks in advance...
What I do with what I read....
If it looks like something I'd like to consider using I will take the anecdote, maybe rewite it a little, and send it back to the person who wrote it to me in a Private Message to see if they approve of my edit. As much as I can I try to keep the contributor's writing style intact. They have the option of being directly quoted or not credited... left as an anonymous contributor. I intend to keep an alphabetical list of contributors at the end of the thing.
The anecdote is then filed in my source materials to maybe (or maybe Not) be included in the final document.
The added benefit is that initially your story about Paul and his life and association with Chet and others will be shared with your fellow chetboarders.
Most of you have seen me post Paul Yandell quotes from time to time.
The Project is this. I'm shaping my "Archive" into something like a biography of Paul Yandell. In so doing it is also a chornicle of the Sideman... the faceless musicians who work for love and usually little money to make the music most of us grew up on. Paul was one of the lucky ones who eventually made a decent living (thanks to working with Chet and Jerry Reed) after a long hard slog at it.
The Archive is an extremely detailed look at guitaring as Paul saw it as he worked with those two giants taken as posts here on the Chetboard and written up much like the quotiing posts I've made in the past. I at least want to make it so it can be in Marie and Micah's posession.
It, of course, has a lot of detail about Things Chet
I really would like to see the finished product made available to students and people like us who are interested in the industry as it was from the late thirties to the present day. That, I don't know about. I'll eventually have to contact the Atkins Estate to get permission to somehow release or publish the data. That part of "authoring" I'mn unfamiliar with.
I have asked before and I'll ask again...
If you have any good Paul or Chet stories, or possibly even some musical "war stories" you think might be suitable for inclusion, please send them in. I'm not looking for a general "Paul was a good, kind, guy." statement. We know he was that. What I need are little stories that show and describe what he was like as a person. Advice he gave, funny or philisophical things he may have said.
Thanks in advance...
What I do with what I read....
If it looks like something I'd like to consider using I will take the anecdote, maybe rewite it a little, and send it back to the person who wrote it to me in a Private Message to see if they approve of my edit. As much as I can I try to keep the contributor's writing style intact. They have the option of being directly quoted or not credited... left as an anonymous contributor. I intend to keep an alphabetical list of contributors at the end of the thing.
The anecdote is then filed in my source materials to maybe (or maybe Not) be included in the final document.
The added benefit is that initially your story about Paul and his life and association with Chet and others will be shared with your fellow chetboarders.