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From: Roy
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Remote Name: 66.106.121.104
Date: 05-Sep-2002
Time: 02:00 PM
I waited until everyone had the chance to post on this subject...didn't want anyone to think that the other "Roy" had an internet connection. I believe it was in 1983, that things had slowed down a little for Roy and I had the chance to book him on a show I was doing in Fort Smith, Arkansas with Charlie Rich and Sam the Sham. The hall would hold about 2,300 and it was packed. Sam had the place rocking and Rich slowed things down, but there was a lot of hooping and hollaring, as we say in Texas, from the crowd until Roy took the stage. He opened with "Pretty Woman" and went right into "Crying"...from that point on nobody in that place sat down, and you could hear a pin drop. He played for over an hour and closed with "American Triolgy". I never heard him sing it before and I'm not sure he ever did again. Before the show we were talking and Mickey's name came up. Roy had the upmost respect for Mick and his music, telling me that he had recorded several of Mickey's songs...some, he said hadn't been released at that time. We both spoke of "Trilogy" and how ironic it was that it was the song that perhaps made Mick more money than anything he had written himself. I had some pictures of Mickey performing at a show I had promoted a few years before and I gave them to Roy that night. Maybe that was the reason that he closed the show that night the way that he did. I would give almost anything for a tape of that show and I know that a lot of you would like to have a copy also. The crowd stood and clapped for fifteen minutes, but Roy had left the building.
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