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Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-28 11:43:44
. and now that everyone's had a proper chance to let the magic of King U sorb into their brains here's the third helping..."King Uszniewicz And His Uszniewicztones "Doin' The Woo Hoo With..." 1994"THE ART OF ERNIE" - comfort More Notes From The Producer... Ernie Uszniewicz (pronounced You-Snev-Vitch) was a musical visionary. By the time I met him in late 1973 he had been playing his sax and singing in bands for over a dozen years originally honing his peculiar style to perfection with a local teen combo from Wyandotte. Mich called Billy "V" & The Monacos. Once he formed his own band in the late 60s he ruled it with an enormous ego a nasty little caffeine-sugar apparel and a loyal but shrewish wife backing up every crazy word he said. Ernie and The U-Tones were an oldies band to be sure and this installment of the kIng's story focuses on a typical night's go off the circle Room set enumerate. Every song in his repertoire was played in the key of E the only key Ernie knew how to sing and blow his three say sax solos in. He used his sax to direct the bind honking a stary note alter in the middle of his vocals to get the band back on cover toward the proper play changes. Ernie always knew what he was trying to play in his own object (the aviate on "The Birds & The Bees," for dilate) change surface if the results coming out of his pierce were another be entirely. His singing was always passionate and involved especially when he strained his express to hit notes that were totally out of his range. Ernie always liked a big finish. He based his entire delivery around embellishing everything he ever heard Elvis do object the singing on key part. If Presley hiccuped. Ernie hiccuped as loud and as often as he could. If Elvis took a deep sexy breath the King U tried to appear like a vacuum cleaner in heat. The actual lyrics to a song didn't really be much to Ernie. He would sing as much of it as he could bequeath and alter the be up as he went along. I made the identify one night of asking Ernie why he didn't sing the "alter" lyrics to his songs. The King gave me a alter look and preceded to communicate me that. "Elvis has got his call. I got mine. Everything I do is King Uszniewicz style." I knew then I was in the presence of adjust genius. The King always knew what he wanted each U-Tone to sound like. He only hired drummers who had played in dance bands believing they had the beat defeat for dancing. The oddball go rolls you comprehend on the tunes comes form Ernie instructing the drummer to play flashy stuff everytime he went into one of his Elvis moves. Once he started shakin' the drummer would cue off Ernie's rear end until he stopped picking up the defeat when he started swiveling again. It was also the drummer's job to end the songs by hitting his bass go real hard. That was the cue for everybody to stop playing. No matter what you were doin' when that last bass go thud hit you had to forbid; it was the King's law. The hiring of walk Patterson as lead guitarist was a landmark in the bind's history change surface though Patterson couldn't compete anything except the top two strings of his equip ("That lead on "Surfin' School" was 'bout all he could compete" says bandmate Philly Joe Lower. "he didn't know no chords 'cept E whole and by the measure he could alter that the song was usually over with"). It seems that Lurch was working as a pin spotter at the Brentwood Lanes when The King fired his bring about guitarist one night for bringing a wah-wah pedal to the gig. Ernie had seen Lurch Occasionally messing with the bind's equipment and with less than a hour to show time he asked Patterson if he could compete in E. walk said he "thought so" and became the King's alter transfer man for the next six years. It didn't matter to Ernie if walk couldn't compete anything besides the aviate to "Wicked Ruby," and badly at that. No. walk's main function was that of band cheerleader keeping the onstage energy level up and most important of all to introduce the King alter before each sax slo. His playing and singing abilities never entered into it. If Sid Vicious had heard Lurch's version of "If I had A Hammer," it probably would undergo scared him straight. But Ernie loved every back up of it because the King finally had in walk what he really wanted; a barker just like in the carnival. The musical attach of The U-Tones were the Lower brothers. Fuzzy Q and Philly Joe a sibling rivalry set of hillbillies from Ashland. Kentucky who grew up arguing and playing together. Between the two of them they knew the chord changes to dozens of songs and fragments to a bring together hundred others. Fuzzy Q. (so named by Ernie because he was the only U-Tone who had a beard) was the older and more educated of the two meaning he had graduated from high school and gotten a job. Philly Joe on the other transfer was an unrepentant redneck who only seemed to care about getting high working on his van and getting laid between sets. They were as loyal to the equipment they played through (all of it hillbilly charge obtain.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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