Time to reminisce: 1. When we found Xroads, we probably all had the same reaction: "Wow, there are other seemingly sane people who still like the Trio and its music as much as I do!" 10. And let's not forget Ken, who made it all possible!
on 8/27/2024, 1:40 pm
2. Back then, Xroads was hopping. There'd always be several threads going with lively discussions, and we had a lot of posters active. You had to check the board a couple of times a day to keep up.
3. We had people who knew the guys back in the day and had wonderful stories to tell. Tony Lay and Gene Kelly are two that come to mind.
4. We had people who went back even farther with the Trio. Remember the "Girl in the Goldfish Bowl," who had worked at a nightclub in SF back in the Purple Onion/hungry i days? How about Tom Drake ("White Snows of Winter")?
5. Ken Bradshaw taught us a lot about Dave's days in Australia, something most of us knew nothing about.
6. Who can forget Pete Curry, who provided note-perfect tabs for many of the Trio's memorable banjo and guitar parts? What's most impressive is that Pete did it before we had the slow-down software that makes it a lot easier today. (Damn, we should have figured out a way to archive those tabs!).
7. There were some battles. Remember "Boulder Lout," who wrote an article mocking some of the people on this board? Despite that, I saw him as one of the few writers who actually understood the Trio and its place in musical history. His essay - "Mr. Guard and the Other Two" - is still a classic.
8. Jim Moran gave us so much information of the background of the songs. That's important because folk songs, after all, tell a story.
9. Shane, George and Bobby Haworth also posted occasionally and always had interesting points to make.
Well, that's it for now. It's just sad that Rick isn't here to share his memories. He would have loved that.
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