From swbeach@worldchat.com Tue Nov 14 07:11:43 2006
Subject:Re: Leon Russell's Rig
Leon is definitely a weird bird. I have a DVD of him doing a gig with Edgar Winter at some club in Texas. He's sitting there with his Elvis sunglasses on, his entire rig is covered with a sheet or blanket, and they never show a closeup of Leon's hands. It's like watching a video of the guy on Weekend at Bernie's! LOL
Edgar blows his ass off.
Steve B.
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From: chuck
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Leon Russell's Rig
Oh yeah-How about Teddy Jack? That one came for the Gallaird Sartain TV show in Tulsa back in the 70's.
Gallaird is the fat guy who played the husband in Fried Green Tomatoes. He made up this name for Gary Busey-Teddy Jack Eddy. Gary played on one of Leon's albums, his credit was Teddy Jack Eddy and Leon named his boy after that.
He has another daughter and I forget her name but it's the same kind of black southern plantation idea.
All of Leon's wives have been black. The mother's of some of his kids are mixed.
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From: Simon Beck
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Leon Russell's Rig
"Sugaree"??? What kind of name is THAT??? Could be worse, I suppose - it could have been his son's name...
Simon
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From: chuck
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Leon Russell's Rig
Leon used to do a one man band show. He never really used drum tracks. Instead he had all of this "stuff" midi'ed together and he would fade it in and out using volume pedals. You can see them in the earlier picture.
He had a highhat sound he used a lot behind all of the other sounds he mixed together. I always thought it was kind of cheesey.
I believe these days Leon uses a full band. One of his daughters, Sugaree plays percussion and on occasion his son Teddy Jack plays drums. Teddy and Sugaree are really nice folks as is the rest of the band. Jackie is probably still playing bass as he has for many years.
Leon, otoh, is another story altogether.
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From: Brian Fuller
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: RE: [CWSG] Leon Russell's Rig
Does he play with a full band backing him up??? If so what was the
instrumentation?? Hell with all that gear he could do the one man band
thing.
_____
From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Bo
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 4:08 PM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CWSG] Leon Russell's Rig
OMG! .... I got to open a show for Leon Russell yesterday and I was
shocked at his rig. I made my band members promise to never bitch
about my Leslie and double keyboard setup ever again!
Check this out: http://www.BoRobert
sMusic.com/leonrussell.html
Bo Roberts
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