Talk:Reverend Gary Davis
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I think that there should be an article on the first "world citizen" Gary Davis, bomber pilot during World War II. I'll be looking to add to the page.
[edit] Many Great Students, but not Jorma
The Rev. Gary Davis had many famous students, and influenced many more, But Jorma Kaukonen was a member of the latter group, not the former.
It was Jorma's roommate at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio-- Ian Buchannon [1]-- who actually took the lessons from the Blind Reverend; Kaukonnen, in turn, learned from Buchannon. In Jorma's own words (at least according to a 2000 Cincinatti Enquirer article [2]):
“Ian was a student of the Rev's (Rev. Gary Davis). We lived in this house together, and it occurred to me much later that my playing was probably so obnoxious that, out of pure self-defense, he just took me under his wing. And I pretty much quit going to classes the next quarter and played eight hours a day.”
--Jorma Kaukonen
For more infromation on other students of The Reverend, see a brief webpage I knocked together one Saturday morning at [3]
--71.80.235.137 04:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
