Comments on: Dick Dale and Will Ferrell. http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/ We are a small record label, publishing and production company, doing our best to be heard with all the other music out there. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:53:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: "BIG" MIKE SIMPSON http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/comment-page-1/#comment-242 "BIG" MIKE SIMPSON Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:11:52 +0000 http://munsongrecords.com/?p=928#comment-242 GREAT STORY, JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I HAD A CLUB IN WESTMINSTER CALLED J.B.'S INN CROWD. I WAS KNOWN AS BIG MIKE, LEE AND BARRY, AND BUTCH USED TO PLAY AS MY HOUSE BAND AND CALLED THEM SELFS UNNATURAL ACT, WHEN THEY WERN'T ON THE ROAD WITH BILL MEDELY WHO ALSO USE TO STOP IN NOW & THEN TO JAM AT THE LAST SET AND EVEN BOBBY WOULD STOP BY. THOSE WERE THE GREAT TIMES IN MY LIFE. LEE EVEN LIVED WITH ME AND MY GIRL FRIEND ( NOW MY WIFE OVER 40 YEARS) AT THE TIME IN OUR APT.IF YOU SEE ANY OF THEM PLEASE GIVE THEM MY E-MAIL AND I AM GOING TO TRY AND LOOK LEE UP IN DEC. WHEN WE COME TO CALIF FOR XMAS WITH OUR GRANDSONS AND DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW. HOPE HE IS STILL AT MCKENNAS IN L.B. THANKS AGAIN HARRY. GREAT STORY, JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I HAD A CLUB IN WESTMINSTER CALLED J.B.’S INN CROWD. I WAS KNOWN AS BIG MIKE, LEE AND BARRY, AND BUTCH USED TO PLAY AS MY HOUSE BAND AND CALLED THEM SELFS UNNATURAL ACT, WHEN THEY WERN’T ON THE ROAD WITH BILL MEDELY WHO ALSO USE TO STOP IN NOW & THEN TO JAM AT THE LAST SET AND EVEN BOBBY WOULD STOP BY. THOSE WERE THE GREAT TIMES IN MY LIFE. LEE EVEN LIVED WITH ME AND MY GIRL FRIEND ( NOW MY WIFE OVER 40 YEARS) AT THE TIME IN OUR APT.IF YOU SEE ANY OF THEM PLEASE GIVE THEM MY E-MAIL AND I AM GOING TO TRY AND LOOK LEE UP IN DEC. WHEN WE COME TO CALIF FOR XMAS WITH OUR GRANDSONS AND DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW. HOPE HE IS STILL AT MCKENNAS IN L.B. THANKS AGAIN HARRY.

]]> By: admin http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/comment-page-1/#comment-227 admin Thu, 12 May 2011 16:36:11 +0000 http://munsongrecords.com/?p=928#comment-227 Thanks Rick, I'll have to get down and see him. Haven't seen Lee since the mid 90s. Thanks Rick, I’ll have to get down and see him. Haven’t seen Lee since the mid 90s.

]]> By: rick ziegler http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/comment-page-1/#comment-226 rick ziegler Thu, 12 May 2011 03:09:43 +0000 http://munsongrecords.com/?p=928#comment-226 lee plays at mckennas every weekend in long beach marina great guy mike patterson lives in colorado lee plays at mckennas every weekend in long beach marina
great guy
mike patterson lives in colorado

]]> By: admin http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/comment-page-1/#comment-195 admin Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:02:20 +0000 http://munsongrecords.com/?p=928#comment-195 Thanks Harry, haven't seen Lee in years but we had some great times together. Thanks Harry, haven’t seen Lee in years but we had some great times together.

]]> By: Harry Gray http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Harry Gray Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:29:33 +0000 http://munsongrecords.com/?p=928#comment-194 Loved the little story on Lee. I worked with him with The Righteous Brothers. He's a great guy & has a fantastic family. Thanks for sharing with everyone. Loved the little story on Lee. I worked with him with The Righteous Brothers. He’s a great guy & has a fantastic family. Thanks for sharing with everyone.

]]> By: Fred Emerson http://www.munsongrecords.com/blogs/arts-musings/dick-dale-will-ferrell-sax/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Fred Emerson Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:31:46 +0000 http://munsongrecords.com/?p=928#comment-127 Those are great shots of Lee, et al. My best (or most vivid) memory of Lee was that shortly after he arrived and started playing with Dick, it was nearing the end of the year and another (ho hum) New Years Day Parade. (Hi Art!) I was playing bass with Dick, Art, Lee Drew and the others at (first the Rendezvous) Harmony Park, and Lee was not taking NO for an answer. He was a damn country boy from Cherry Point, and he was NOT going to miss the (In Person) thrill of a Rose Parade. So, midnight or so, after the gig, we headed up to Pasadena. By the time we arrived, it was dark, and particularly drunk out that night. By about 4:30-5:00 am, I was having trouble keeping track of Lee. I finally found him climbing onto a roof of a business which he had accessed from climbing up a telephone pole. He was going to have the best seat in the house. Remember, this is at just before dawn, people by the thousands are arriving, staking out their vantage points, and here is Lee, hanging off that roof, shouting, as loud as possible, "Hey EVERYBODY-WAKE UP! The parade is gonna start." "GET UP-the parade is comin'!" Luckily no one got irritated enough to physically accost Lee, or me, for coming to his aid, but it was close! But I gotta tell you it was HILARIOUS! I finally talked him down, and about three hours later, the excitement wore in, and he dropped off and slept through most of the parade. We finally found the car, and I dropped him off at his home. (An apt. in Hollywood-he wasn't going to live anywhere else now that he had made it to his 'launch-pad for success!) Lee's first BIG Southern California fantasy had happened for him. Too bad he missed about 3/4 of it. Those are great shots of Lee, et al. My best (or most vivid) memory of Lee was that shortly after he arrived and started playing with Dick, it was nearing the end of the year and another (ho hum) New Years Day Parade. (Hi Art!) I was playing bass with Dick, Art, Lee Drew and the others at (first the Rendezvous) Harmony Park, and Lee was not taking NO for an answer. He was a damn country boy from Cherry Point, and he was NOT going to miss the (In Person) thrill of a Rose Parade. So, midnight or so, after the gig, we headed up to Pasadena. By the time we arrived, it was dark, and particularly drunk out that night. By about 4:30-5:00 am, I was having trouble keeping track of Lee. I finally found him climbing onto a roof of a business which he had accessed from climbing up a telephone pole. He was going to have the best seat in the house. Remember, this is at just before dawn, people by the thousands are arriving, staking out their vantage points, and here is Lee, hanging off that roof, shouting, as loud as possible, “Hey EVERYBODY-WAKE UP! The parade is gonna start.” “GET UP-the parade is comin’!” Luckily no one got irritated enough to physically accost Lee, or me, for coming to his aid, but it was close! But I gotta tell you it was HILARIOUS! I finally talked him down, and about three hours later, the excitement wore in, and he dropped off and slept through most of the parade. We finally found the car, and I dropped him off at his home. (An apt. in Hollywood-he wasn’t going to live anywhere else now that he had made it to his ‘launch-pad for success!)

Lee’s first BIG Southern California fantasy had happened for him. Too bad he missed about 3/4 of it.

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