LINDON "MR COOL" COLLARD

WHY WOULD I HAVE EARNED THAT NAME?

DESPERATE TO PRACTICE WITH WELL REHEARSED BANDS I ALWAYS HAD MY EQUIPMENT WITH ME READY TO GO AND I WOULD BE PRACTICED RIGHT UP USING CD's TO BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH ROCK, JAZZ, COUNTRY AND BLUES BANDS AND THEIR  SUBVARIANT GENRES.

IF YOU WROTE A NEW SONG OR A  NEW ALBUM I WOULD LIKELY BE ABLE TO ACCOMPANY YOU AND PERHAPS EVEN EXPAND YOUR SONG WITH FURTHER EXTEMPORIZATION AT ANY LOCATION WHERE LIVE MUSIC WAS PERFORMED WITHOUT EXCLUSION THROUGH CATEGORIZATION DISCRIMINATION. 

MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS LIKED THAT.

I WAS DEFAMED BECAUSE I REFUSED TO CONSIDER A MUSICIAN WHO RAN A BLUES COVER BAND TO BE A GREAT ARTIST. I THINK IN RETROSPECT THAT THE LOW GRADE COVER BANDS CLOGGED THE STAGES MAKING IT VERY HARD TO KEEP ORIGINAL MUSIC BANDS, THE ONLY REAL BANDS, EMPLOYED.

NEVERTHELESS I SAT IN WITH TONY'S BANDS A FEW TIMES. I JOINED HIM IN MY USUAL WRITING SESSIONS,TO PLAY THE NEW MUSIC OF SUE MEDLEY WHERE HE WAS A SIDEMAN, PERHAPS HIS MOST REAL AND VALUABLE ROLE AS A MUSICIAN. HE SAID THAT I HAD ORIGINATED MOST OF THE "RATCHES", THE SOARING ACCURATE EXPANSION OF THE SONG INTO AN EXPLOSIVE LEAD.