{"id":3830,"date":"2016-08-09T03:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T03:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2016-08-09T03:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T03:33:37","slug":"meadowlark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"Meadowlark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year Meadowlark Lemon died. He was the main man in the Harlem Globetrotters. They came to Winnipeg when I was nine, about as amazing as getting candy for going to school. What a class act.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNXdkmeKPL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Nobody told us that the Harlem Globetrotters had other pretend teams to maximize their touring income. So here they were in Winnipeg and\u00a0we all knew from serious Saturday morning TV that the main characters in this performance were Meadowlark and Curly &#8230;so after the show I had the good luck to see\u00a0the main guy from the game walking into the dressing room and I had my instamatic camera (with 110 film and a quad flashbulb) I yelled &#8220;Hey Meadowlark!&#8221; and took his picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel.jpg\" alt=\"Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel\" width=\"465\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel.jpg 2288w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kodak_Instamatic_155X_mit_Blitzwu\u0308rfel-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The picture that developed showed a\u00a0man looking at the camera with a shocked expression. I didn&#8217;t understand, I just yelled his name but now I know that wasn&#8217;t his name.\u00a0Years passed, I wondered if he took it as a racist yell by this little fool. Hope not. Hope I got it wrong, sometimes childhood impressions aren&#8217;t\u00a0necessarily correct.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1992 Eugene Chadbourne invited me to be part of a band performing in Germany. Amazing moment not least was that the other members\u00a0included \u00a0Jimmy Carl Black of the Mothers of Invention plus Ian Underwood, Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes and Jonathan Segall of Camper Van Beethoven. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/136440-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/136440-a.jpg\" alt=\"136440-a\" width=\"1000\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/136440-a.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/136440-a-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/136440-a-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/136440-a-624x610.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But super cool was hanging with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E36mrhSaXT4\">Ashwin Batish<\/a> who had a cult record on college radio called sitar power and who&#8217;s father was one of George Harrison&#8217;s sitar teachers in the 60s. When the tour ended I was waiting with Ashwin at the airport in Dusseldorf\u00a0 to board our flights home. I asked him if he had any George stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tumblr_ns7g5vG3YO1qiosrfo2_540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tumblr_ns7g5vG3YO1qiosrfo2_540.jpg\" alt=\"President Gerald Ford smiles as he talks with George Harrison, second from left, at the White House in Washington, Dec. 13, 1974. Jack Ford, 22, the president's son, second from right, invited Harrison to the White House for lunch. With them are keyboardist Billy Preston, far left, and sitar player Ravi Shankar, right. (AP Photo\/Charles Bennett)\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tumblr_ns7g5vG3YO1qiosrfo2_540.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tumblr_ns7g5vG3YO1qiosrfo2_540-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He told me George used to call often to talk with his father and sometimes when his father wasn&#8217;t home his\u00a0brother would pretend to be the father and give George sitar misdirections and little Ashwin on another receiver tried not to be heard giggling. This sounded too hilarious but a few years later it occurred to me George Harrison probably knew he was talking with kids, probably heard the giggles and maybe enjoyed being playful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/THpiiDVGn0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Meadowlark Lemon died. He was the main man in the Harlem Globetrotters. 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