The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 98, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2003 Page: 3 of 28
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FRiDajr, December 5, 2003
The BOERNE Star
PAGE 3A
Loss of uncompromising
artist hard hit for locals
Who needs china when
there’s chainsaws to give
Saturday last found me tak-
ing one of my picks of the
week and traveling over to
BOERNE LIGHTS
Bracken to catch Thomas 7
Michael Riley’s show at The (AT2M
Hanging Tree Saloon. A.
Thomas told me then that e.uesy
Greg Gorman, whose work I e
have reviewed in this column, \
was hospitalized in Freder- ---------------
icksburg after having suffered a stroke.
Sunday evening I received a call to come to
Stonewall to a wake. Greg passed away Satur-
day night in the hospital from massive cerebral
hemorrhage.
Greg had just started becoming recognized
for his talent and it seemed that at long last he
would achieve, if not stardom, the recognition
that his immense talent deserved.
Life is such a frail thing faithful readers and
no one knows whether today will lead to a to-
morrow. In just a few short weeks the Texas
Music
Community has suffered two great losses. I
can’t help but be saddened by them both.
I found myself thinking of how Greg had ef-
fected me and how I could best sum up Greg in
words.
Uncompromising, that’s what Greg was, he
was uncompromising. He knew just what he
wanted from his art and he knew just how he
wished to go about achieving his goals. Now
mind you he may not have been easy to work
with on occasion and he didn’t really do just
what you might wish him to do from an A&R
standpoint.
You see, Greg was uncompromising. He did-
n’t want to be a star. He wanted only to be a
song writer.
Oh, he wanted to be recognized, at least by
his peers, but he really didn’t want or need a
bunch of fans, he just wanted to be accepted for
that which he certainly was, a very gifted man
with a mission to write songs for a living.
Greg was beginning to garner that recogni-
tion and had caught the eye of several artists
and in particular one wise old sage of a man-
agement guru by the name of Sam Lowery.
Sam had been most everywhere and had done
most all that one could do in the music business
and had retired. He had decided that he really
didn’t want to bother with raising up another
star.
Sam wanted to finish building his house and
spend time with his lovely wife and his faithful
dogs. He needed another star about as much as
he needed a set of blue prints for his multi-
decade house building project.
Then along came Greg and Sam became in-
terested. Sam who had turned so many others
away and had swore to never babysit no more.
I don’t know if it was Greg’s ghostlike writ-
ing or maybe the way he could be right unpre-
dictable and ornery, but Sam saw something
I The Doctor
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WRITER
that piqued his interest.
If for no other reason than
that one accomplishment,
Greg will always be a success
in my mind.
I attended that wake of sorts
for Greg over in Stonewall. It
was Sunday and there were a
host of musicians and music
■ folk on hand.
Yup, Sam Lowery was there, Paul Jones,
Thomas Michael Riley, Dawn from over at
KFAN and about half of The Ben Beckendorf
Band.
They were all there doing just what Greg al-
ways enjoyed doing. Taking turns playing a
tune and backing up the efforts of others, they
tried in their own way to show Greg that he
was missed.
I’m sure that Greg appreciated their efforts
and I’m sure that he was there that night. Skirt-
ing around the fringes of the spotlight and
being a part of and a part removed from it all.
Yes, I am sure that it was him that I caught
out of the corner of my eye sitting off in a cor-
ner with a grin on his face and a new song on
his mind.
Many others probably saw him too that Sun-
day in Stonewall and like me they knew not to
bother trying to get him to join in. If he want-
ed to sit off all alone and dream up a new song
then that was fine.
After all he never really wanted to do any-
thing else and in that regard he was uncompro-
mising.
Should you have missed Greg’s work you can
order a copy of “Hemingway’s Gypsy” from
Paul Jones by calling (830)885-2488 or by way
of the Internet at: apjones@gvtc.com.
All sales and donations will go to paying
Greg’s medical and funeral expenses. Paul will
have information how your donation can be
made.
If you have a special event to announce, a
new project that.you would like me to review,
or just want me to check out some new venue
or restaurant. Drop me a line c/o The Boerne
Star at: news@boernestar.com
Doc's Picks for the
Weekend..
======
Friday
Cooder Graw at Floores Country Store
Shelley King at Scenic Loop Cafe
Saturday
Drud Store Cowboys at Bandera SI
Noel Haggard at Nelson City
Monte Montgomery at Hill Country Opry
Letters From North America
by Peary Perry
Here it is Sunday afternoon,
and I’m sitting at my computer
alone in this big house. The wife
has gone to a wedding shower
for one of our neighbor’s daugh-
ters.
Yesterday she (my wife) goes
shopping for the gift for this
event. She is gone a long time,
which is not good.
Later on that afternoon, she re-
turns with two very nicely
wrapped presents in a very nice
bag. Not plastic, this is a paper
bag. This is not good either. This
looks expensive.
So, I ask what’s in the pack-
ages and she tells me she bought
the soon-to-be married couple
some items on their gift registry.
What pray tell, did you buy? I
ask.
Just some pieces she wanted
for her china set.
How much did these cost? I
ask.
As the words left my mouth I
got that look that married men
of any length of time are famil-
iar with, which says “don’t
ask,” in volumes.
I’ll know when the charge slip
comes through in the mail.
Later on we’re having some
coffee and she tells me that she
wanted to buy an entire place
setting, but it was just too ex-
pensive. This was for the formal
dinnerware.
She could have bought a set of
the less expensive every day
stuff, but those had already been
grabbed up by others. Small
wonder, some folks are faster
than we are.
So, this afternoon it gets me to
thinking about how this wed-
ding shower stuff got started in
the first place.
In one sense it appeared to me
to be rather greedy to expect
people to fork out hard-earned
bucks for stuff you want rather
than what they might want to
buy for you.
LETTERS FROM NORTH AMERICA
Peary Perry
But then on the other hand I
suppose it cuts down on the
number of toasters you might
get if you didn’t do it that way. I
guess newly married people
want toasters. I always did.
The whole idea of wedding
showers appears to be a female
driven concept.
What happens to the male in
this picture? Where does he fit
in? What role does he play? And
better yet, what kind of input
does he get to make in the de-
velopment of the wedding gift
list?
Now, to me a really cool and
equal shower announcement
would have separate gift reg-
istries for the bride and for the
groom.
Hers could list the traditional
necessary household items such
as china, crystal and linens.
His would be more power tool
orientated with and emphasis on
mowers, drills, weed-eaters and
chainsaws. He needs to be regis-
tered at Home Depot or Lowes.
I mean a gift card for plumbing
would be really great, don’t you
think?
I’m certain you’ll agree that
both her gifts and his are equal-
ly necessary for the average
household.
In fact at our house the chain-
saw gets used much more than
the china we bought some years
ago.
Come to think of it everything
gets used more than the china in
our house.
On top of that I can think of a
lot of instances when a gift card
for a new toilet flapper would
have certainly been more wel-
come than another soup spoon.
You can have too many spoons,
but never enough toilet flappers
I always say.
When we got married, we did-
n’t register our desires any
place. Mainly because no one
we knew had any money to buy
us anything. When I told people
I was getting married I seem to
recall them saying something
like “So?”
I think the only reason some of
them showed up for the wed-
ding was to eat at the reception.
I seem to remember our first
dishes as being something
called Mel Mac or something
like that. I see them in the flea
markets and antique shops from
time to time. Their prices today
are far more than we paid, I can
assure you.
Besides, they were ugly then
and are still ugly now.
I asked my wife about all of
the items on the bridal registry;
it’s so strange how none of them
are what I would have listed.
For example, a good mattress.
I bet half of the married couples
in this country are sleeping on
some cheesy, cheap mattress
they picked up on sale some-
where just because it covered
their bed, but not for comfort.
Mattresses are important. You
use them every night. More than
your china and crystal. You tend
to keep them for a long time.
In fact, you probably keep
them longer than you should. I’d
like to see someone list a mat-
tress as a gift they’d like to re-
ceive. I’d buy one of those in a
heartbeat.
Besides, it would most likely
be the biggest gift at the shower
and is bound to show the bride
that you really care. I wish I’d
have thought to buy that boy
some toilet flappers to stick in
that bag to go with my wife.
I’m sure he’d be glad to get
them.
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Cartwright, Brian & Morgan, Clay. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 98, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2003, newspaper, December 5, 2003; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1650616/m1/3/?q=%22Texas+Press+Association%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.