bcheary wrote:
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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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.