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Date Posted: 04:27:14 03/28/00 Tue
Author: luxton
Author Host/IP: spider-we054.proxy.aol.com / 205.188.195.44
Subject: Re: SORRY, BURT.
In reply to: iHawk 's message, "SORRY, BURT." on 00:52:03 03/28/00 Tue

Hey hawk...no apologies necessary ever...you people on the board are my new fascination...can you imagine my surprise to find all this c space hooplah centered around me?
Hell I'm like a little kid with a brand new shiny bicycle the likes of which no other kid in town has...
I've read several of your posts and I am personally impressed with your knowledge and point of view on many things...I also like your Screen Name...LMAO...
Over the decades, I have really been a loner, for various reasons...I tend to be too existential to hang out with a lot of people, and rather than come off looking or sounding arrogant, I mostly choose to remain by myself...sometimes just "courting the muse" and sometimes just playing in my own head...also, over the past three or four years, I really HAVE speant a great deal of my time working alone here at the computer on my book...
Suddenly the years pass by and Cummings is a prick...hasn't really done anything other than remain solitary, but suddenlly he's a prick...there is a great deal of mis-information about me "OUT THERE"...
I have never tried to be ANYTHING other than an artist, trying to improve his skills...why else would someone do almost thirty albums...don't you think the fame and wealth aspects wear off sooner or later...?
Since I've stumbled into this wonderful group of you all here on this site on this board tallking about me, I am absolutely OVERWHELMED...
You have asked me many intelligent and interesting questions in the past few days and I hope my answers weren't boring or mundane..."WHAT COULD BE MORE PATHETIC THAN HAVING BORING DREAMS...?"
I'm sure that the "big guys" (Paul, Mick, Bowie, Allanis, Neil, etc. go to many chat rooms and talk with people who admire what they do...don't be too hard on poor old Mick...his life must be beyond comprehension...quite frankly, I have enough trouble being old BC, never mind that level of global insanity...I just want to go on for a while, no matter at what "level"...as I slowly begin to release some of my hundreds of cuts done here in my little studio at home, you'll see rapidly where the years have gone...I've got an incredible number of finished songs and half finished ideas and riffs and comedic things all on tape from home...
Perhaps some of these recordings will shed a little light on a person whom, it seems, many people are more than slightly interested in...I've always sort of hoped to be looked at as an "artist" and all these articulate and emotional postings are making me feel as though I've at least partly achieved my goal...I'm always happy to answer questions about what music I like and listen to...the more questions the better, because by answering some of them, perhaps I can turn some of you on to wonderful, life changing vocalists and cuts that perhaps you've never heard before...my tastes and my collection are both vast and immense, so never shy away from asking questions...if time and circumstance permits, I promise to answer EVERY ONE OF THEM...truly...
Thank you again for your interest...and if you're not too hip to Chet Baker, I suggest you get a cd called "It Could Happen To You" by Chet...most good record stores with a fair jazz section will carry this cd or can surely order it for you...I only discovered Chet Baker in 1992, and I looked at singing quite differently after hearing this guy...he was one in a jillion...a Hendrix of a different era and species, but no less unique...a singer who played trumpet or a trumpet player who sang...I guess we'll never really know...
I'm overwhelmed to be here typing to you and thrilled that so many people are reading my postings to others...I'd love to answer every damned one of them, but there are only so many hours in the day...
And it's now one thirty here in LA, so I'll wrap this up...
Once again may I simply thank you for being so interested...I feel blessed by all these goings on here at this site...imagine how all this looks through MY eyes...
Enough said for now...

Luck and Health

BC

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[> Re: SORRY, BURT. -- MF, 05:20:20 03/28/00 Tue [1] (spider-tk073.proxy.aol.com/152.163.206.208)

I for one have greatly enjoyed exploring the music of the Chet Bakers and Jelly Rolls that have influenced Burton's music and came to the conclusion that Burton first became known to us as a rocker mostly because that was the happening form of popular music at the time. I don't think there are too many pop musicians around who share or appreciate such eclectic tastes in their music.

> Burt, I must echo the sheepish apology of the earlier
> post, the one that begs your pardon for our being so,
> well, sucky. You must admit, a rock star dwelling
> among we the unwashed is a rarity in this world (Or as
> the Animals lyric goes: "It's a hard world to get a
> break in / All the good things have been taken...") I
> mean, Jagger wouldn't do it for all the KY in
> Greenwich Village. Just goes to show how very UNtrue
> the stories about you are - those that spoke of Burton
> Cummings as the rocker with the big head, the star
> mentality. I somehow knew those feud pieces were
> without base ... As said in the earlier post, please
> do not be scared off by our apparent lack of
> restraint, our seeming inability to let go of your
> leg. In time, we will indeed learn to TALK to you, if
> you plan on sticking around through the summer and
> beyond (hope so) ... Wow, so you really do loathe
> Declan MacManus, eh? True enough, he is a would-be
> intellect with nothing new to tell us. I unfortunately
> dig some of his early work (OLIVER'S ARMY, GET
> HAPPY!). Oh well, to each his own. His "blind nigger"
> comment was shitty, though. I read Costello's new
> biography and came across that shit. Brother Ray
> must've been one pissed jive-ass ... BTW, I was so
> happy to see you and ol' Rand connect at the
> MuchMoreMusic gig. It really was moving to see you
> guys embrace, sort of two old buddies who, while
> different types of people, will always really dig one
> another. That's the vibe, Burt. That's the good shit.
> That's the shit that gets us through ... Well, I'm
> off. Mornin comes early ... think I'll put on "Bang
> The Drum" by Rundgren tomorrow morning. It seems
> fitting ... later all, iHawk (PS---where's Laughing
> Paul been?)


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