Dr Sharl Meets John Mayall

7 thoughts on “Dr Sharl Meets John Mayall”

1. Cool!
   Did you ask him about the tree house?

2. Unfortunately, no (i didn’t know about the tree house story until now tho’. Interesting!
   I did want to ask him if he has met Frank during his years in Laurel Canyon, but how do you get to that point? “Mr Mayall, i am in fact a Frank Zappa fan, and would like to know…”
   No, that, you just can’t. Didn’t have enough time anyway…

3. Understand about the time…
   I would have tied Mayall & FZ together by asking something about Clapton. But John may have not been on very good terms with Eric around that time – or even today, for all I know…

4. Hey anybody want to buy a John Mayall LP signed by the man himself? Meet me on eBay!

   (I kid! I kid!)

5. There was a song about FZ called “2401” on Mayall’s 1968 album “Blues From Laurel Canyon”.
   Don’t know if they actually met though.

6. From:

   http://www.johnmayall.com/fanmail_2.html

   I met Frank in New York in Jan 68 and he let me stay at his house for a few
   days in the summer of that year. (2401) We never played together but were
   very good friends throughout his life.

   See also:

   http://www.jackboulware.com/writing/index.php?p=16

7. I wish I woulda known! Thanks for the juicy article.
   What’s with log cabins in Laurel Canyon? They get on fire like nothing… From http://www.johnmayall.com/bio.html :
   “And extreme misfortune came his way when a brush fire destroyed his hand-crafted and legendary Laurel Canyon home, taking with it his scrupulously-kept diaries, his father’s diaries, master recordings, extensive book & magazine collections, Mayall artwork, and much much more. Determined to rise from the ashes, Mayall persevered.”

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