Scrapper Blackwell
Mr. Scrapper's Blues
Story time: back in 2001 my band the Dirtbombs made a trip to the Amoeba Records outpost in San Francisco. One of the higher-up employees there is a man named Tom Lynch, one of a long list of former bass players in the Dirtbombs.
Anyway, we were getting ready to roll out of the store and on to our next destination when Mick, the lead singer, hollers at me we gotta go in so many words. Tom overhears this and his mind is blown.
"Did you say 'lets go Scrapper?' As in, Scrapper Blackwell, the legendary blues singer from North Carolina?!?!?! Man, that is so cool, what a great reference. Your references are always so sick. What a cool band dynamic."
Mick clarifies "No. I said 'Let's go cracker.'"
So....post a comment here about something you misheard, that was better the way it was misheard. Post your comment by midnight central time May 1st. Best comment as discerned by me gets a copy of this Scrapper Blackwell LP. Can't go wrong.
I still tease my wife about a time we were watching Wheel of Fortune and the puzzle was a two word phrase with __zzle __zzle showing. (How did someone guess “z”?!) My wife shouts out (in complete seriousness) “rizzle dizzle”. The correct answer was, of course, razzle dazzle. But rizzle dizzle is so much better in the years SSD (since Snoop Dogg).
WARNING! Potty Mouth Language ahead.
It’s not so much that I heard it wrong than it is that my wife said it wrong. After a 1/4 century together we like to tease and joke at each other and one morning while driving into work together I had a string of jokes on a steady roll in her direction. Now her temperament is a combination of sweet and feisty but mostly she is just a nice easygoing woman so talking “tough” or trash talking is not really in her nature but bless her soul on this morning she gave it a try and after those string of jokes in her direction so early in the morning she turned to me and said: you better watch it buddy or I’m going to slap bitch you!! It was all I could do to keep the car driving straight from laughing so hard. Needless to say I still tease her about years later and we still laugh about it.
Aside from that thanks for another good pick Ben. Loved last weeks hip hop album and I love the blues so wether you send it or not I’ll be hunting it down…what a great album. First thing that stood out to me about it was….hey Eric Clapton must have been a fan because he opened his From The Cradle album with his cover of Blues Before Sunrise and additionally performed a fantastic cover version of Nobody Knows You Before Your Down And Out on his great MTV Unplugged album.
I “misheard”….. as in, couldn’t understand at all… the name of the new song JW debuted at the concert in KCMO on 4/4. I heard the part about “I’ve never played this song live before and may never play it live again,” but couldn’t make out the name of said song. I spent all of the next day trying to see if anyone else caught the name, and finally discovered it’s called “started what you cannot finish.” What an amazing moment in time. How did little ol’ Kansas City get so lucky?
Great story Ben!!
The one that I remember best was when a young lady came into my lab. I was leaning against the lab bench where the test tubes where being stored. This girl looked straight at me and asked if she could get into my drawers. I was shocked until she explained that she ran out of test tubes in her lab and wanted to grab some from my storage. We both laughed so hard after I recovered. I was still red-faced when she left to go back to her lab. That was 26 years ago, and we just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We still laugh about that chance meeting and misunderstanding.