Col. Bruce Hampton knows
All right, I’m going to try to make a long long story short. Col. Bruce Hampton is a Southern Guitar Guru. If you like american/blues based psycho-genius music, find some of his music and enjoy.
My wife and I once were at a concert called the JamCruise ( a concert cruise featuring 13 bands over 4 days). While on board, I got to meet and have my picture taken with my musical hero, Col. Bruce Hampton. ( He’s @ 60 yrs old by the way ) Upon meeting him, he ask me in his mature Southern voice “Boy, do I know you? You seem familiar?”. I assured him although I had seen him in concert over 20 times, we had never met. He nodded, agreed then got kinda serious with me. He leaned in towards me, so that our noses were only 9 inches apart. He looked at me very seriously for a moment and said “Boy, you ARE an Aries”. Well, I am an Aries. I was surprised, very surprised. How could a man I had just met known that? So, I croaked back “Yessir, I AM an Aries”. He smiled, rubbed his scruffy chin and floored me with …” Your birthday IS March 28th, possibly April 2nd”. I nearly Shit myself. I felt sick. My world turned grey for a moment. I whipped my head around to see who behind me knew me enough to tell Col. Bruce when my birthday is. My wife was the only person I knew on the JamCruise and she was no where to be seen. I whipped back around to Col. Bruce, grabbed his t-shirt near the neck and growled “What the fuck? What the fuck are you talking about? My BIRTHDAY IS MARCH 28TH!!!!!”. “It’s obvious Boy” his said with a wise smile. “Pleasure meeting you young man” No sir Col. Bruce the pleasure was all mine.
True story, it still turns my stomach a little. What the hell? Do I have my birthday tatooed to my head? No. Damn. I meet a man that I’ve been listening to for 10+years and within 15 seconds of meeting him, he tells me my birthday. Geez. I don’t know what to think.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Happy late b day. What an amazing story.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:42 am
Being an Alabamian, I’ve had many many many an opportunity to see the Col. live and usually grab any opportunity I get to see him.
While I’ve never met him, I know at least half a dozen people that have. Many of them have also told the Col. Bruce birthday guessing story and he nailed it every time.
He’s some kind of bar room mystic I think.
April 14th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
hey man. happy late birthday. i will make it up to you in a couple of weeks. hope it was killer. can’t wait to hang with you and G.