bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

My late friend, Earl Keese, who posted many photos and drone videos on UHH, was a retired musician.

Here is a note I got from him.

Hi Brian. Thank you for the music. One extreme to the other, but I loved both. The 'Shag' brought back memories. I spent my working life as a professional musician & the old original rock'n'roll is how I started. Jerry Lee was my idol & I spent countless hours practicing the piano until I could sound just like him. I even copied his singing style. I can laugh about it now, but I was being promoted as Australia's answer to Jerry Lee Lewis. I recorded two LPs (one rockabilly, one country) & then got 'volunteered' for Vietnam for a year. After Vietnam, I went to the States where I lived & worked for 10 years. I never sang again, but played piano & B3 Hammond for various artists, both on tour & in recording studios. My bread & butter was country music & I played keyboards for Waylon Jennings for several years & worked with Merle & Willie. Waylon, of course, was Buddy Holly's bass player.

I also had my own jazz quartet, & I was resident piano player with the jazz band on the 'Natchez' river boat for a year, back in the early seventies. The 'Natchez' used to (still does) run tourists between New Orleans & Natchez. I still have the original master tapes of my early recordings & have had them converted to digital files & digitally enhanced. Have a chuckle at piano pounding DOOK singing Jerry Lee & Buddy Holly with an Aussie accent, lol. Cheers, Earl.


I am attaching one of his songs."Dook's Blues"

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pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

I really enjoyed trading posts with Dook. I remember him taking one off those remote control toy trucks and attaching a GoPro to it and running it on a beach in Australia. He posted some great drone videos also.

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

That he did.

tramsey Loc: Texas

My kinda music I miss his posts

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Nice to see you, Brian!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Excellent piece.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I miss his emails.several every day.... I believe we were great friends who never actually met! I have all the music he sent to me before his untimely death....
Thanks for this Brian!

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Thank you.

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

My pleasure!

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

A great idea, Brian! He had great drone shots, but I did know about his history or musical background.

SX2002 Loc: Adelaide, South Australia

Being both Aussies we became great mates and Emailed each other pretty much every day...I still have one of his lenses. When he didn't Email one day I knew he had gone into hospital, in a big hurry. I contacted the hospitals in his area, around MaClean, NSW, but even though I found him the twits in the hospital refused to get my message to him. I even explained who I was and told them to check with Earl so he could tell them all was OK but they never did. I'm still very sad that I never got to say goodbye...
A couple of pics, he loved his van, he put a turbocharger on it and some of the stories were hilarious...

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dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

he used to make confectionary,,,,,,loved his lollies. the blasted cigarettes took his life, as they have many others! Thanks for the pictures!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks for that. I didn't know, but I recognize his avatar.