― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)
MY TRUE BELA FLECK STORY:I worked with a guy at my college radio station who was a HUGE Bela Fleck. The Flecktones were coming to down, and this guy acted like Linus anticipating the Great Pumpkin. He got an interview booked, and for like a week, I had to listen to this music that sounded like a banjo being picked apart on some sheet metal.
The day finally came. Fleck was held hostage by this fanboy for at least an hour on the air. Finally, Fleck said he had to get away and go to the venue where he was performing. Fanboy didn't have a car, but oh, young Pleasant Plains did.
So Bela Fleck and I walked through the residence hall and laundry room to my car, Fleck shaking his head and grinning about the last hour taken from his life. We get in my car and I turn the ignition. Since I had been in the car by myself last, the radio was all cranked up. I quickly turned it off, and Fleck looked at me with sad eyes. "Do you mind if we turn that back on?"
I say that I don't mind and he turns the radio on. AND IT'S THAT DAMNED BANJO BEING PLUCKED ACROSS SHEET METAL MUSIC AGAIN. Poor Bela missed out on hearing his own song on the radio for nearly ten seconds.
So I can definitely see how he'd be a lotharious heartbreaker.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)
BELA SMASH
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
funny story. Yes, bela is very into thyself.
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)
― marissa fan, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― Blue Green Arrow, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)
― Magic Marissa, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― Magic Marissa, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)
― The architect of the anti-talent movement (Tweekers), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)
okay boring story over. i wish i had actually made a complete fool of myself (or him, depending, though that would've been much harder)
― lemin (lemin), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)
Send me an e-mail. I'd like to hear from you.
Aldo
― Aldo Cella, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)
Marissa is attractive, yet, she is not attractive.
― Plain Jane, Friday, 12 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby D (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)
― ryansf (ryansf), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
please get help
marissa
― MM Morris, Friday, 12 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)
― The Hoosier, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 12 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)
It's a wild world. *smiles*
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 12 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
You need it now.
And Bela has never posted here.
This is God's truth.
― MM Morris, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)
― who cares, Friday, 12 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)
― The Albatross, Friday, 12 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)
― marissa marchant-, Friday, 12 August 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)
― who cares, Friday, 12 August 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 12 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)
― marissa -marchant, Friday, 12 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)
http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10033000/10033935.jpg"I never drink - wine!"
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)