Here's what Charlie Baty had to say about his explosive guitar on Kansas City Woman. He wrote this on April 18, 2019, posted on Facebook on a "throwback Thursday". RIP Charles Baty- you were one of a kind! I was asking Rick Estrin this last weekend if he remembered an early festival that we played in Australia - in Byron Bay to be exact - back in the early 90's. Unbeknownst to us, our performances ended up being taped and broadcast over the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) - even though we never signed any release forms or received one Australian penny - and the sets were broken down into short segments. A fan mailed the VHS tapes to me years ago in Australian VHS format and I had them converted to the U.S. standard. Eventually some of these showed up on KZitem. On this particular segment, Little Charlie and the Nightcats opened with Kansas City Woman. It wasn't the first song of the night because I'm already dripping wet. I had broken a string on the first or second tune and had only brought one guitar for the trip. Alex Schultz, from the Mighty Flyers, was kind enough to lend me his guitar as a second guitar. I had never played a Gibson ES330 before and sort of found my way around the guitar on this tune. By around 3 minutes 20 seconds in, the result was near pandemonium. The festival was held indoors at that time and the place was packed and hot as a greenhouse at high noon. I started doing country picking, then some sort of Indian dance, and eventually it resembled something out of the Chuck Berry playbook. You can tell by the looks on Rick's and Brad's faces that they weren't expecting any of this. It probably all ended up this way because for dinner we had feasted on bugs - the slang name for Australian fresh water lobster/crawfish. I'll never forget the look on Rod Piazza's face when we ordered bugs. He asked if he could please just have a hamburger, fries and a Bud (with a D). Here it is for Throwback Thursday - LCNC doing Kansas City Woman:
@stringrip
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks I didn't know he had borrowed the guitar. Surprised he says they didn't know it was being taped. They must have seen the cameramen on stage or that they didn't hear about it from other performers most of whom were interviewed as well as being recorded. Its strange that they or their management were not given release form. The ABC is free government broadcaster and not in position to pay performers in festivals like this.. But they got more exposure.
@barbarahoad1450
4 жыл бұрын
Saw them at the Bridge Hotel Rozelle one of the best gigs I’ve been to. RIP Charlie
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