Post #28233 by 7TiKiS on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 12:11 PM

On 2003-03-26 12:08, atomiktiki wrote:
Buffet was definitely not listening to Denny in 1970. He was hanging out playing folk-like music in Chicago and sleeping on the late Steve Goodman's sofa(pretty much just your average bustout)! Bet he won't be telling that story any time soon to the media. I really don't think Buffet had a clue about Martin Denny.

[ Edited by: atomiktiki on 2003-03-26 14:13 ]

Actually...
According to what I've read, BuffetT was living in Nashville in 70, not chicago. He held a job with Billboard magazine, which I believe was still doing articles on Denny at the time. Who knows, maybe Jimmy interviewed him :wink:

Besides, why would he lie, what's to be gained by telling others that martin was an influence. Do you think he was hoping to swing the entire Denny community over to his music? Somehow, I don't think a guy with an income of 50,000,000.00 a year cares about what others may or may not believe, and wouldn't be tempted to try and "sway" the publics opinion by lying... course I could be wrong, but if I had 150,000,000.00 I probably wouldn't care either...

One things for sure though, there's a whole bunch of people out there that never heard of Denny until Buffett said "Thanks Martin" at the end of "Altered Boy", and started asking questions, some of which led to listening to Martins work.

So... Who is Steve Goodman anyway? :)

[ Edited by: 7TiKiS on 2003-03-27 12:12 ]