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Cat Bentivegna Adami
My apologies to the AZ community for loading previous newsletters all at the same time and with the link only. I'm not so technically savvy and it's difficult for me to cut and paste. These newsletters are generally created only once or twice a month and are intended for the audience members interested in the history of pool players in America in the second half of the twentieth century. They're supposed to be about characters, and the fun of hustling pool and life in subterranean America.
It's nearing the 3rd anniversary of my Dad, Freddy 'the Beard' Bentivegna's passing and I'd like to do whatever I can to keep his extremely important voice and memory alive. He was so proud of his website bankingwiththebeard.com and no one loved pool more than he did. And engaging and teaching about bank and one-pocket pool on this forum. Thank you.
Here's the link with photographs:
http://mailchi.mp/ff6ecbbf3397/22xyxpqvf0
Here's the text-only version.
Freddy 'the Beard' Newsletter June 2017 - Road Music
The Beard loved listening to music while hustling pool on the road.
His father was a Dixieland jazz drummer who also drove around America to make a living, so he was accustomed to long hours in the car. He also gained a great appreciation for musicians.
The Beard had certain albums – first on eight track in his white Camaro – and later on tape or CD in his many Cadillacs – that he considered “road music.” This was music to get you in the mood for a long drive somewhere to make some money.
John Lee Hooker was a favorite, as was Muddy Waters and “Big” Joe Turner. When he went south, it was always The Allman Brothers - always. He thought it was important to “get down with it” and southern rock helped ease him into the mood of the new pool room he was driving toward.
It should be noted that he loved everything about the south - the women, the accents, the long stretches of farmland, the slower pace, the moonshine. And southerners loved him and his Yankee accent and pimped out clothes. He said he could act as crazy as he wanted to around southerners and they didn’t blink an eye at him. When The Beard came to town, his southern pals and backers would have the ingredients for him to make them an Italian dinner upon his arrival. He also complimented southerners for being fierce fighters in the US military and thought they were some of the best badasses around.
There was something about The Allman Brothers that hit the right nerve with the Beard. He thought Dickie Betts was the second coming and would talk about him non-stop. Eat a Peach was the Beard’s favorite album. There were so many “jams” that The Allman Brothers came up with that somehow captured the mood of a man on the road in America in the early seventies.
“Ramblin’ Man” was of course the perfect song for a pool hustler. It made you risk a speeding ticket as you had to press your foot down on the accelerator and fly across the pavement with it on.
“Revival(Love is Everywhere)” also encompasses the Beard’s turned out, hippie philosophy. He always found LOVE and CASH on the road.
One of my Dad's pals was Gregg Allman's neighbor in Florida. They were supposed to meet, but the Beard wouldn't get on an airplane for anyone - even his favorite rock star. I'm sure they're jammin' now.
RIP Gregg Allman
P.S. He also loved Canned Heat's "On the Road Again!"
What's your favorite "road" song?
XXOO The Pool Hustler's Daughter
It's nearing the 3rd anniversary of my Dad, Freddy 'the Beard' Bentivegna's passing and I'd like to do whatever I can to keep his extremely important voice and memory alive. He was so proud of his website bankingwiththebeard.com and no one loved pool more than he did. And engaging and teaching about bank and one-pocket pool on this forum. Thank you.
Here's the link with photographs:
http://mailchi.mp/ff6ecbbf3397/22xyxpqvf0
Here's the text-only version.
Freddy 'the Beard' Newsletter June 2017 - Road Music
The Beard loved listening to music while hustling pool on the road.
His father was a Dixieland jazz drummer who also drove around America to make a living, so he was accustomed to long hours in the car. He also gained a great appreciation for musicians.
The Beard had certain albums – first on eight track in his white Camaro – and later on tape or CD in his many Cadillacs – that he considered “road music.” This was music to get you in the mood for a long drive somewhere to make some money.
John Lee Hooker was a favorite, as was Muddy Waters and “Big” Joe Turner. When he went south, it was always The Allman Brothers - always. He thought it was important to “get down with it” and southern rock helped ease him into the mood of the new pool room he was driving toward.
It should be noted that he loved everything about the south - the women, the accents, the long stretches of farmland, the slower pace, the moonshine. And southerners loved him and his Yankee accent and pimped out clothes. He said he could act as crazy as he wanted to around southerners and they didn’t blink an eye at him. When The Beard came to town, his southern pals and backers would have the ingredients for him to make them an Italian dinner upon his arrival. He also complimented southerners for being fierce fighters in the US military and thought they were some of the best badasses around.
There was something about The Allman Brothers that hit the right nerve with the Beard. He thought Dickie Betts was the second coming and would talk about him non-stop. Eat a Peach was the Beard’s favorite album. There were so many “jams” that The Allman Brothers came up with that somehow captured the mood of a man on the road in America in the early seventies.
“Ramblin’ Man” was of course the perfect song for a pool hustler. It made you risk a speeding ticket as you had to press your foot down on the accelerator and fly across the pavement with it on.
“Revival(Love is Everywhere)” also encompasses the Beard’s turned out, hippie philosophy. He always found LOVE and CASH on the road.
One of my Dad's pals was Gregg Allman's neighbor in Florida. They were supposed to meet, but the Beard wouldn't get on an airplane for anyone - even his favorite rock star. I'm sure they're jammin' now.
RIP Gregg Allman
P.S. He also loved Canned Heat's "On the Road Again!"
What's your favorite "road" song?
XXOO The Pool Hustler's Daughter
