Monroe- flatt radio interview [Archive]

56 Gibson Hoss

Mar-16-2008, 7:42pm

There was an "interview" of Monroe and Flatt recorded a number of years ago. It was hilarious. Can anybody direct me to a site with it? I understand it was done with the voices of Glen Duncan and Flatt's former bus driver.
Any more info on this? I have heard it once and ROFLMAO.

Scotti Adams

Mar-17-2008, 8:44am

I believe Bruce Harvie..aka..Spruce...origionally posted here..maybe he will chime in. I believe Ronny McCoury was the disc jockey/interviewer on this tape.

fiddler59

Mar-17-2008, 8:50am

Nah man the disk jockey was Jimmy Capps ...staff geetar player on the Opry

DB

Spruce

Mar-17-2008, 10:00am

I'm pretty sure it's Ronnie....
I keep forgetting to ask him about it...

It is one of the funniest bits of tape out there...
I'll see if i can find it and post it again...

Spruce

Mar-17-2008, 2:07pm

OK, everyone, make sure you swallow your beer and/or milk so you don't damage your screen and keyboard...

Here (http://www.radiofreeolga.com/RadioFreeOlga/Interview.html), by request, is the infamous interview with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt--together in the same room!.

This valuable audio document sheds light on that delicate relationship between these two great men like no other recording I have ever heard...

Enjoy!

mandopete

Mar-17-2008, 3:21pm

What no video?

I can just picture Lester on a Flying V!

Five Stars.

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56 Gibson Hoss

Mar-17-2008, 6:56pm

THAT IS SOOOOO FUNNY.........
Thanks for posting it for all us.

cooper4205

Mar-17-2008, 7:41pm

brilliant, Spruce!!!

"Did you give him a gold watch when he left?"

"No sir, and I didn't give him no chain either."

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Landgrass

Mar-18-2008, 11:13am

THAT is priceless!!! Thanks for digging it up again.

"Jimmy Martin don't believe in Christmas! He don't even have a chimney." http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Spruce

Mar-18-2008, 11:43am

What cracks me up is hearing "Bill" start to hiss every time he gets ticked off....

Apparently that was a well-known trait of his, and these guys just nail it...

"Jimmy Martin don't believe in Christmas! He don't even have a chimney."

It's "chimley". #
Just ask Mr. Bill.... # # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Brent Willis

Mar-18-2008, 12:13pm

Is it possible to get a copy of this interview.

Spruce

Mar-18-2008, 12:47pm

I think there's software for ripping stuff from postings like the one I stuck up...

Or, you can just take a mini plug>mini plug cable and do it that way, recording to Toast or the like...

I'm sure someone will know the right way to do it... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Brady Smith

Mar-18-2008, 1:59pm

I've got it...send me your email address if you want it.

mandopete

Mar-18-2008, 3:47pm

(Bill Monroe @ Nineteen and Thirty Nine..that oughta take care of it)
I'm not here to pitch, I'm here to play music

GVD

Mar-18-2008, 4:54pm

...I believe Ronny McCoury was the disc jockey/interviewer on this tape...

Nah man the disk jockey was Jimmy Capps ...staff geetar player on the Opry

I'm pretty sure it's Ronnie....
I keep forgetting to ask him about it...

If that's not Ronnie McCoury then he must have a twin I don't know about because that voice is a dead ringer for his.

Thanks for posting the link Spruce I love it!

GVD

GVD

Mar-18-2008, 5:00pm

Is it possible to get a copy of this interview.

I think there's software for ripping stuff from postings like the one I stuck up...

Or, you can just take a mini plug>mini plug cable and do it that way, recording to Toast or the like...

I'm sure someone will know the right way to do it...

It's a snap to rip it with Audacity. Just click on the input down arrow and change to "What you Hear". Click the
Record button and Stop button when you're done.

GVD

Fretbear

Mar-18-2008, 5:25pm

As Lester Flatt would say:
"Thank ye sow muche....."

jhbaylor

Mar-18-2008, 6:02pm

How old are you Mr. Monroe?
"I was born in 1911, you figger it up..."

56 Gibson Hoss

Mar-18-2008, 10:15pm

The first time I heard it, I thot it was for real, until they started talking dates and ages, and I figured it out that Lester had been dead for over 10 years and Flatt and Scruggs had separated a LONG time before the interview date.
One of the voices did sound like Mc Coury, and the "DJ" must have been the Opry guitar player.
My wife listened to it last night (not knowing the background of it) and she said "That Monroe guy is mean. I wish he wouldnt talk like that......" ROFLMAO

swampstomper

Mar-19-2008, 1:50am

DJ 1 ("country"): #Jimmy Capps (a long-time Nashville guitar session man)
DJ 2 ("pop"): Ronnie McCoury
WSM: Glen Duncan
Lester: I have no idea, a 'bus driver' was suggested above, but no name

I am dead certain about McCoury and Duncan. Glen Duncan does a nice Mon imitation on one of the Longview albums (outro to "Train that Carried my Girl from Town", AFAIR). I've never heard Jimmy Capps' voice, so can't say if it's him or not.

And "Lester's bus driver".... who is that?

The `interview' took place in 1992 according to the age calculation (1911 + 81, but `Lester' say he's 77, born in 1914); Lester died in 1979. #Ronnie was 25 or so (born 1967).

56 Gibson Hoss

Mar-19-2008, 3:38pm

I am told that Lester was done by "Stubby" who was his bus driver for years

f5loar

Mar-19-2008, 8:17pm

Lester was done by Charlie Vaughn. There is another similar recording with Lester Flatt being done by Keith Whitley and maybe Skaggs doing Monroe when they were younger in the Stanley band. I'd like to hear that one again. Lester talks to a DJ and there is more foul talk on it.

Steve Perry

Mar-19-2008, 9:04pm

Lester was done by Charlie Vaughn. #There is another similar recording with Lester Flatt being done by Keith Whitley and maybe Skaggs doing Monroe when they were younger in the Stanley band. I'd like to hear that one again. Lester talks to a DJ and there is more foul talk on it.
That's the one I was thinking about. #I started to say earlier that it was Whitley doing Lester but then remembered that Keith died in the early 80's.

Brady Smith

Mar-19-2008, 10:00pm

Who's doing Bill then?

f5loar

Mar-19-2008, 10:56pm

Glen Duncan is Monroe

Brady Smith

Mar-19-2008, 11:46pm

Ahhh...excellent thanks...it's a good'n for sure.

swampstomper

Mar-20-2008, 12:57am

Lester was done by Charlie Vaughn.
Pardon my ignorance, but who is Charlie Vaughn? I think he may be (have been?) an Opry staff musician, which would fit with Jimmy Capps being DJ#1.

Does anyone know the circumstances behind this interview?

Anyway, I played it for my wife, she was ROTFLHAO and I could not convince her it wasn't really Bill and Lester, until we got to the part about the Flying V.

sgarrity

Mar-20-2008, 7:48am

That right there is funny, I don't care who ya are! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

RB250

Mar-20-2008, 2:42pm

Gang,

I can't get enough of this interview.....even after listening to it 3 times, I'm about to bust a gut!!! I can still remember calling down to Beanblossom in the early 80's for info on his festival and having Bill himself answer the phone. You got alot of info out of old Bill when you told him how honored you were to be speaking with him.

But what we need now is a tape of Don Stiernberg doing his imitations of Jethro. They're worth the price of his seminars alone.

RB250

Jmoss

Mar-21-2008, 1:51am

I think if you right click and "save target as" on this
link you can download the mp3.
http://www.radiofreeolga.com/RadioFr....203.mp3 (http://www.radiofreeolga.com/RadioFreeOlga/Media/01%20Track%2001%203.mp3)

Jim Moss

Brady Smith

Mar-21-2008, 11:36am

Hey...that works too...I've been trying to email it to a couple of folks but I can't get it small enough to send.

MadMax

Apr-11-2008, 5:42am

This is great! Does anyone have the Whitley/Skaggs interview?

wglide

Apr-28-2008, 6:52pm

Hey everyone ,
I listened to this a while back and loved it but can no longer get it to come up.Have we been censored ?

MikeEdgerton

Apr-29-2008, 7:15am

Hey everyone ,
I listened to this a while back and loved it but can no longer get it to come up.Have we been censored ?
The website appears to be offline.