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- laterent, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1
Check out this video: Studio: Joe Lee Wilson/Bruno Carr
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Music
Thank you for thanking me Nikki Carr!
I'm glad I could bring it to you after you searched so long. Your Dad was a good man and a great Jazz drummer!
Enjoy this intimate view of the drumming of studio drummer Bruno Carr (R.I.P.), sincerely,
Jon Hammond
*Visit Nikki's MySpace:
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Thank you Jon Hammond
Today a man named Jon Hammond sent me something via Myspace that I was totally not expecting. Yet it was something that I'd wanted since I was nine years old. A chance to see my father again.
I was raised sindle-handedly by my Mom and hadn't seen my famous jazz drummer dad sine I was nine. The whole story is in my blog.
Bottom line is my father passed away in 1993. I'd searched for him the best I could through the musician's union etc., for many years to no avail. When I'd heard news of his death I couldn't cry for the man I'd known and lost, but I cried hard for the man I'd never get to see again. I wanted some footage of him, to see him through adult eyes. I was told that it would be hard to find because he didn't like interviews, a studdering thing, according to his other daughter.
I'd been looking for videos of jazz festivals where he might have played, nothing.
So today I was touched to gut felt sobs to finally, after thirty years, see my father alive and well and doing what he did best...play those drums. Jon Hammond sent me a video of my father.
I cried as I watched and saw my face, my habit of sucking my lips and my sleepy eyes on the man that gave them to me. I cried because I looked for him for so long and never found him. I cried because I never got the chance to jam with him. My obsession with music is his doing ,his gift. He was supposed to play for me while I crooned something bluesy and mellow. We were supposed to tour together. I was supposed to sing with him and his friends on Sundays in the basement and once in a while make a special appearance at a gig.
I know that I will never be able to watch that video without crying for my dad and all that "shoulda" been, but I am grateful beyond words to recieve it. To play it over and over. To freeze it and stare at him. To love him for my life and hate him for my despair. Thank you Mr hammond. I don't know what made you reach out to me or how you knew that I needed that. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You don't know how much I wanted to see him at least once as an adult. This is the greatest gift I have ever recieved. I am forever in your debt.
Thank you Myspace for being the bridge over which came this exceptional gift.
Check out this video: Studio: Joe Lee Wilson/Bruno Carr
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