From: canort~ndiana.edu (Cathi Norton) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:54:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: No flies on Gus
Hey y'all...
Played a gig Saturday at Border's Bookstore (all hail the new, bookstore venues), and throughout the performance a very attentive fellow with long hair and stylish clothes seemed to hang on every word. He was so attentive - -- throughout the changing waves of listeners that a whole night in a bookstore brings -- that after the performance I went over to thank him.
He smiled; said he really enjoyed listening to good musicians and that he was a musician himself. Warily I said "Oh? And what do you play?" Well,....guitar and harmonica. "Gosh," I said..."you should have let me know at the last break and I would have asked you to come up." He said he couldn't improve upon anything I was doing. (Wow.)
So I said if he needed a backup singer sometime to give me a call. He whipped out a paper; I gave him a phone number. He tore off half and wrote his number, and signed it: "Gus."