[Slowhand] Great Career Move

[Luke Pacholski]

Nick, re:


> A friend sent me the below e-mail, which I thought I would share with Slowhand Digest subscribers.

>

>                                 DeltaNick

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> I was watching TV the other night and stumbled onto Letterman just as he was introducing Cher, who I could care less about BUT, I have new respect for her and here is why.

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> He was asking her about famous musicians she has met in her career and then Letterman asked about Hendrix to which she responded, "yes" she had met him. He then proceeded went to slap on the default superlatives, "you have to say that Hendrix was the all time, greatest guitarist in rock history right??I mean the greatest." Cher looked at him a bit incredulously and said "well ? I ... I would say that there are MANY great guitar players and certainly, Jimi was different, he was unique, he did stuff no other guitarist was doing"? then Letterman interrupted again, "but he was the greatest wasn't he?"? to which Cher again hesitated and said "well again, there are many great guitarists, for instance, CLAPTON ? you know, Hendrix was a whole package, it was what he wore, how he presented himself that made him different but there are many great guitarists."  But Letterman, being the jerk he is, would not give up, he then said "But if Hendrix were alive to today, he could GET IT DONE

>  right"? to which Cher said with a bemused expression, "I don't know ... but I will say that dying was the greatest career move he could have made." That sort of shocked Letterman.

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> She was right!

>ti

> So, bravo to her even if she does look like a wax dummy with 100 face lifts:-)


Alas, the tone of the conversation was nothing like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPmG3_Zh4o#t=169

Letterman asked "was there a greater guitar player in the world of
rock and roll?". Cher proceeds to praise him quite a bit, eventually
saying "...there never could be another him, there are great guitar
players, Eric Clapton is a great guitar player, but there can never be
another him...". Cher did make the dying quip at the end, but it had
nothing to do with coming back at Letterman because he wouldn't give
up. Letterman wasn't interrupting, nor was he continually insisting
that Hendrix was greatest.

Luke