Friday, October 04, 2002

Johnny Viau Talks About Doug on The New Jazz Thing, September 26, 2002 Guitarist, band leader, and friend of Doug joined Vince Outlaw and The New Jazz Thing for the Doug Randall Memorial Wake on Thursday, September 26, 2002 and we've got it on MP3. The discussion, part 1 of which is published here, tried to focus on Dougs playing with Johnny and others, but also got into the question of why Doug was liked so much by those he came in contact with. The format of this is MP3 and the size is pretty hefty at around 7MB. If anyone has ideas for squishing the size of it and keeping the quality, please make suggestions at outlawv@aol.com or use the comment[] link below. Here's Johnny... (MP3, 7MB) 9:52:54 AM    comment [] Bob Hitzel Reports on the Doug Randall Memorial at The Belly Up Tavern Bob Hitzel, reports on the memorial at the Belly Up Tavern last Sunday, September 29, 2002... "His son Michael along with other family members was at the memorial at the Belly Up on Sunday and found out what Doug was all about. I don't know if you were there or not but it turned out to be a very inspirational day. Many of the top musicians in the city showed up and performed in Doug's honor. Dave Hodges of the Belly Up Tavern hosted the memorial and provided food and drinks for the estimated crowd of 300. Doug's family and friends celebrated Doug's legacy of music through the performance of Jimmy Woodard and the Swinging Kings, Sue Palmer, Mark Lessman, Johnny View, Robert Savery, Robin Henkel and many more. It was a very memorable occasion for all who attended and turned out to be a fitting remembrance of Doug. As Doug would have said "It's all about the music." Bob is working on some ways to make Doug's music available to friends and new listeners. Hopefully we'll be able to post some of it on-line and play some of it on the show. 9:22:16 AM    comment []

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