Enjoy Your 15 Minutes, Merle Hazard…
Sometimes we find out that we don’t really know people as well as we thought we did. Even people we know well can pull a punch that knocks us out. Such was the case when a good long-time friend and client laid me out on the floor laughing my arse off.
You see, he comes across as very straight and conservative, always serious
about his lifework of financial analysis and investments. Serious at least until he donned a rhinestone studded jacket and cowboy hat, grabbed his guitar, and cut a tune that was posted on YouTube and has received favorable press coverage by The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, Fox News, The Guardian (London), The Telegraph (London), and many finance industry web sites in the U.S. and abroad.
Enough of me yakking about it. Just go and see and listen to my friend Merle Hazard for yourownself.
And remember… next time you look at a neighbor or friend or close business associate, stop and think… do you really know them? Do they have an inner country singer just scratching to get out?
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Of course, now that I’ve seen the video, should I ever meet this person in the context that you know him from, I’ll have the same disorientation you did, but coming from the opposite direction. And–of course–should either of us ask your friend something like, “How could two such apparently-opposite personae co-exist inside the same person?” he’d say something like, “What’s the problem?”
It’s like he’s looking in the mirror; we’re all looking at photographs of him.
that was great. I have known quite a few people who cut their own albums; so it doesn’t surprise me at all to find those with hidden talents. Neat that YouTube makes this possible
That’s great!
I’ve put the video up on my blog. Hope that’s okay, Winston!
Hey this is wonderful. Do wonder what goes on in garden sheds and garages all over the globe.
Mine has a man and two cars in it, he who must not be disturbed while cleaning out the carburettors, not even for food. Though he also plays the piano.
This is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.