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.
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
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.
Nah man the disk jockey was Jimmy Capps ...staff geetar player on the Opry
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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...
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OK, everyone, make sure you swallow your beer and/or milk so you don't damage your screen and keyboard...
Here, 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!
Last edited by Ted Eschliman; Jan-17-2013 at 9:16am. Reason: corrected link
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What no video?
I can just picture Lester on a Flying V!
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THAT IS SOOOOO FUNNY.........
Thanks for posting it for all us.
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
brilliant, Spruce!!!
"Did you give him a gold watch when he left?"
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THAT is priceless!!! Thanks for digging it up again.
"Jimmy Martin don't believe in Christmas! He don't even have a chimney."
She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
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.... # #
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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...
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I've got it...send me your email address if you want it.
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(Bill Monroe @ Nineteen and Thirty Nine..that oughta take care of it)
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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!
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GVD
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
GVD
As Lester Flatt would say:
"Thank ye sow muche....."
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
How old are you Mr. Monroe?
"I was born in 1911, you figger it up..."
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
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
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).
I am told that Lester was done by "Stubby" who was his bus driver for years
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
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.
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Who's doing Bill then?
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