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October 21, 2013
My blog today has some special meaning to it. On Saturday, October 26 at the Miramar Theater here in Milwaukee, there is going to be a benefit for the Blue Lotus Farm and Retreat Center.
Fred Bliffert who is a longtime friend of mine, is putting together this charity event along with Jim Liban and the legendary Al Kooper.
Please come join us at the Miramar Theater at 8:30 to 11:30 for a great time with some awesome musicians.
Attached are photographs of Al Kooper when he played at Humpin Hanna's on December 29, 1972.
Fred Bliffert and Jim Liban are legends and Al Kooper has some great history with The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and of course Blood Sweat and Tears.
One of my favorite things about Al Kooper is that he plays french horn, organ and piano on "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones on the "Let It Bleed" album!
Please come join us and have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
October 14, 2013
Every year my wife and I take a vacation to Door County for a few days. We take our bicycles and ride around Peninsula State Park for a little break in life.
This year the colors were almost perfect and we had a great time.
Enjoy some photos of our trip and if you look hard in one of the pictures taken at the marina in Fish Creek you can see a school of fish. They are huge!! A fisherman at the dock said that they were salmon. Tried to catch one but they were not interested in me at all!
Have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
October 7, 2013
Digging through my files for a blog this week, I came across photos of "The Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis, at Summerfest on July, 19, 1972!
He got the nickname "The Killer", because of his wild and crazy piano playing shows! One of my photos here shows Jerry Lee climbing his piano! He did have a wild show that night I saw him at Summerfest.
These photos are old but well worth looking at. Doing my blog makes me digitize these old pictures and restore them.
Jerry Lee Lewis, is known for a lot of crazy things like marrying 8 times! One of those marriages was when he was 22, and it was to a minor who was 13 and his first cousin once removed!!
His start was in Louisiana, playing piano with Mickey Gilley and TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart!
Some of his shows included his sister, Linda Gail Lewis, who can be seen here in the photographs from Summerfest.
Enjoy these pictures of "The Killer", and have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
