By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 03:58 pm:

WE HAVN'T SPOKEN MUCH HERE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE GREAT EDDIE "BONGO" BROWN...BUT I DO HAVE ONE RECCOLECTION THAT STICKS IN MY MIND...AND PERHAPS SOME OTHERS WILL BRING UP THEIR OWN!!!...I USED TO PLAY A LOT OF SHOWS AT THE 20 GRAND GOLD ROOM!!!...ONE PARTICULAR NIGHT...I WAS PLAYING A SHOW WITH, I BELIEVE, THE "SOUL DELEGATES"...OUR 13 PIECE BAND AT ONE OF "FRANTIC" ERNIE DURHAMS SHOWS...ERNIE BY THE WAY WAS JUST A NICE GUY...ALWAYS A SMILW ON HIS FACE...ON STAGE OR BACKSTAGE!!!...IT WAS A HALLOWEEN SHOW...AND DURING A BREAK...ERNIE HAD A COSTUME CONTEST WITH EVERYONE WALKING ACROSS THE STAGE IN THEIR COSTUMES...ERNIE JOKING WITH ALL THE CONTESTANTS...GIRLS DRESSED LIKE TIGERS...ALL KINDS OF STUFF!!!..."BONGO" EDDIE...USED TO POP INTO THE GOLD ROOM ON OCCASSION...SITTING IN WITH A BAND...OR JUST HANGING OUT!!!...NEAR THE END OF THE CONTEST...BONGO EDDIE COMES WALKING ACROSS THE STAGE...DRESSED IN A DARK CASHMERE COAT...SUNGLASSES...AND HIS LITTLE "FRO"!!!...ERNIE ASKED EDDIE WHAT HIS COSTUME WAS...AND EDDIE WISPERED INTO ERNIES EAR!!!...ERNIE...CRACKING UP...ANNOUNCED THAT EDDIE WAS DRESSED AS "BLACK PANTHER...H RAP BROWN...THE CROWD WENT NUTS...I WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY WHITE GUY IN THE AUDIENCE...LOOKED AROUND...AND JUST STARTED ROLLING MYSELF...JUST A FUNNY, FUNNY DEAL!!!...STU

By Scratcher (65.132.78.142) on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 04:04 pm:

Kenny Stover once told me Eddie "Bongo" Brown was the life of the party type. The consummate jokester. They would sit around at Marvin Gaye's house with a bunch of musicians and others and cap on each other.