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tommyceilings

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Reading the Searcy thread reminded me that we are in a very critical stage of pool in the next 5 years or so.

All the people who have stories (true, slightly embellished, or made up, but still incredible to hear) are getting pretty old, are sick, or have passed.

If you happen to know a stakehorse, railbird, player from the great era of pool and action. Sit down with a cassette recorder or a camcorder and film away. Just let them talk and get some stories.

We've lost so many great players within the last 10 years and stories are few and far between.

Keith is still with us and he has stories out the wazoo, Grady is still with us, Ronnie is still with us. When these guys go, we will be working on 3rd and 4th hand information which we all know gets twisted around quite a bit.

Tommy
 
There are one or more billiards streaming and DVD production companies on AZB. If there is interest in doing this, I guess maybe one of these companies travels around and could get some of it done. Put out one disk to see if there is a market.

It would be nice to have a market, so we could get professional-level source material. The idea, and the people, deserve that much care and attention.

Maybe we need a list of 50 really interesting people to talk to, and from that list get 10 interviews on the first HD-DVD/BD.

So who is on the list, and where are they now?

And if someone reading this thread is on, or knows, the production companies, maybe they can say what they think.
 
I say this as one of the greats is really sick.

Honestly I believe that if a few people pass, we lose 30-40 years of pool history about players, games, spots, match-ups, stories, etc.

A lot of the players aren't good story tellers, they match up playing pool well, and that's it. So the person interviewing them would have to do a lot of "and then what happened" "so how did you do that" type furthering questions to keep the conversation going.

Grady, Billy I, Danny D, Buddy, Keith, Cooney, Freddy B,

Think of who we've lost that we can never hear from again.
What a book Bugs could have had, that knowledge that man had, the stories.

derangedhermit said:
There are one or more billiards streaming and DVD production companies on AZB. If there is interest in doing this, I guess maybe one of these companies travels around and could get some of it done. Put out one disk to see if there is a market.

It would be nice to have a market, so we could get professional-level source material. The idea, and the people, deserve that much care and attention.

Maybe we need a list of 50 really interesting people to talk to, and from that list get 10 interviews on the first HD-DVD/BD.

So who is on the list, and where are they now?

And if someone reading this thread is on, or knows, the production companies, maybe they can say what they think.
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This is an excellent idea, capturing first-hand accounts of the great players from our past. I wanted to do something like this before Fred Whalen passed. He would've been a wonderful source of information dating back to Greenleaf, Taberski and others of that era. We missed a golden opportunity.
 
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