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I just adore these wife names - Mrs. WW - Mrs Fro . . . 😍

This blues duo from Harlem NY - Satan & Adam - had two tours in Finland. I was their truck driver - roadie - FOH-guy - tour manager. Good memories. Very interesting duo. Mr Satan was an older black guy and he had an old Ampeg guitar ( - missing one tuner knob 😂 ) + 2 Hi-Hats w cymbals, tambourines etc - and when he started going he was like a big machinery thumping. Adam was much younger white boy who played harmonica.

There was this gig in my hometown where two local musicians were standing right behind my mixing console. Mr Satan - Sterling Magee was doing his thing dressed up like party. Adam Gussow had boots, jeans, red-black checkered shirt and a scarf. One musician behind me said to the other : "That harmonica player looks like a lumberjack!" - the other replied : "Yup! And that other guy looks like a forestry machine!"

OK - so much about the veer - back to subject. When we had a gig in my old hometown , we were walking on a street when my mother happened to meet us. Naturally I introduced them. Mr Satan took my mother by the hand - bowed down VERY deep and said : "Hello, Mrs. Nuuska's Mother!" 😂
There's a TV documentary about the infamous (and eccentric) Harlem street performer "Satan", and how he came to meet Adam. All the people that walked by Satan performing on the streets everyday were clueless that this man once shared stages w/ many world famous legends. Great doc! Loved that you got to work with him. (y) (y)

 

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There's a TV documentary about the infamous (and eccentric) Harlem street performer "Satan", and how he came to meet Adam. All the people that walked by Satan performing on the streets everyday were clueless that this man once shared stages w/ many world famous legends. Great doc! Loved that you got to work with him.
I did a review of their first CD. Good music, nice story.

I don't recall anything infamous about Satan. My impression was that he was a great guy.
 

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I did a review of their first CD. Good music, nice story.

I don't recall anything infamous about Satan. My impression was that he was a great guy.
Not in terms of his character, personality, or his actions, but for the passers by in the busy Harlem street where early on, he would set up and surround himself with homemade folk art imagery associated w/ his chosen name, Satan. Just the connotation that came with the name he gave himself. Those that actually knew him didn't have any problem. One thing is for sure, no one ever forgot seeing him, mainly because of that name, good or bad. I've got no problem with it. It's just a name.
 
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