Well, I've already met Felix Cavalieri for a lot less than $28,000. I'd love to meet James Taylor and maybe Steve Winwood or Carole King.

WTG Cass any pictures with Felix?.....meeting them is one thing but to have a 1 on 1 session is awesome!!

Favorite musician? ... too many to name, but I guess if I had to it would be Oscar Peterson ...
BUT,... Lydia and I spent the weekend before last in Newport RI to celebrate our 45th wedding ann'y ....After dinner, we stopped at a club to hear Mac Chrupcala's jazz group - EXCELLENT - piano, bass, drums, http://cdbaby.com/cd/chrupcalatrio2 and a male vocalist, in the style of Mel Torme ... http://cdbaby.com/cd/porcella3
After a while, a guy sits in on piano ... he is playing some 'way out' stuff as a 'warm up' and I ask the bartender if she knew who it was ... she answered it's Mike Renzi ... http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/credits/0,,484209,00.html
Mike was the piano player for Mel Torme for many years and has backed numerous top vocalists on their recordings ... After he played he sat and chatted with us a while ... nice guy, great night ...

I also met Dizzy Gillespie in Newport a few years ago ...

t.

T great story !....so I guess you would pay 28K to do a 1 on 1 with Oscar ?

$28,000? Knock off three zeroes and I'll take Diki. Knock off $27 more and I'll take Fran.



chas

Chas ...I would assume there is a Jazz Master your dying to meet with for an hour ?

I've been thinking about this all day...Who would I pay that kind of money to spend 30 minutes with?

This is the best I can do:

Pop/Rock-Billy Joel, Elton John, Phil Collins, James Taylor and Kerry Livgren

Country-Vince Gill, John Denver

Jazz/Big Band-George Gershwin, George Shearing, Branford Marsalis and Ralph Sharon

Any would be a treat to visit with...

I guess my eclectic taste in music is out of the bag now, eh?



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Bill in Dayton

It's an insane topic, for sure...

Got $28,000 in mad money? How about $28,000 of lessons with a top pro? How about a Roland Atelier or a Wersi Scala (so you can get abacus off your back )?

How about spending it on following your idol around on tour for six months (instead of a mere 30 min )?

Might as well ask:

Would you pay $28,000 for.... the sun to come up in the west?
Would you pay $28,000 for.... the last Mars Bar on planet Earth?
Would you pay $28,000 for.... a used chicken hat from Donny?
Would you pay $28,000 for.... an arranger forum without dumb questions...?

Come to think of it, that last one MIGHT be money sell spent

Bill these are all great choices, and we all have favorites.....BUT, we're talking ONE ALL TIME OBSESSED FAVORITE that would make you crap your pants to be with for a
1 on 1 hour together which will leave you with a memory the rest of your life !!!!!

Ps... remember dont think of it in your current financial status .....but instead as in the original video....if you had that kind of cash which most dont & wouldn't miss it at all it would be worth it for sure..life is too short to Dilly Dally

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 11-25-2008).]

Maybe the question ought to be...

If you were a famous star, would you REALLY charge some poor sap $28k just to hang out with you for thirty minutes?

And what kind of a pr*ck would that make you?

Personally, I think there's a special place in hell for folks that exploit their fame like that...