Hippy Birdbaths To His Bobness - 80 Years Young!

[Michael Leigh]

I knew I had made some Bob stamps many years ag0 and just found them in a bunch of stuff in the archive. Made back in 2001 for his 60th.  Spending the afternoon playing some of his songs on YouTube and on CD. Many happy returns of the day!

[Michael Leigh]

Sounds like you have your work cut out for you Bradford.  Always regret not taking more interest in the recorder lessons at school.  I was never very musically inclined, although I love music of all kinds.  Even a ukulele was too tricky - fingers tied in knots!

[Bradford]

Actually, it's Kalamazoo, Michigan which is where Gibson guitars are made.  When they decided to make a line of student electric guitars, the new line was dubbed "Kalamazoo" as to make.  I just visited with a musician friend in St. Louis last month.  We talked about those budget Kalamazoos which are now worth about 600 USD he informed me.  Unfortunately, I sold mine when I was in college as I did the very nice Baldwin Acrosonic piano I had been gifted when I started taking lessons in 1969.

Now I have a 1957 Hammond organ that was formerly in the chapel at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.  Another musician friend and I were chatting in his huge music room when I mentioned that you could replicate a classic church organ with just the electronic keyboards he had set up.  He got a serious look on his face, walked over to one corner and uncovered said organ stating that it was now mine.  They remodeled the chapel and replaced the old organ which he acquired for not even a song.

It needs some work, but I have an electronics friend who can help me.  One of the capacitors is missing and such.  I take it as a sign that I really should get back to making music.

[Michael Leigh]

Mr Bradford - wow - you should be pretty nifty on the old geetar by now then!  I always thought Kalamazoo was a town in Texas?  Or Arizona or soemwhere?

[Bradford]

Yes, Mr. Leigh, I was taking guitar lessons and playing a Kalamzoo (Gibson) electric in 1966 which seems so long ago now. 

[Michael Leigh]

Hello llya - now I'm feeling old - I watched that film when it first came out in the 60's!  Glad you liked the stamps.

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

Dear Michael, thank you for publishing the artist's stamps.

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

Dear Bradford, thanks for talking about this movie. I found it with Russian subtitles and am starting to watch. I am interested in the cultural situation of the first half of the sixties, this is the time of youth (even adolescence) of my parents.

[dustincecil]

And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone

[Michael Leigh]

Yes, great doc. I watched it recently too on DVD found at boot sale.

[Bradford]

I'm in the middle of watching "Don't Look Back", the 1965 documentary with him and Joan Baez and a host of other talents.  It takes you back smack, dab, in the middle of the 60s.