02-11-2021, 10:55 PM
My favorite experience with Chick was when I was at the HMV on St. Catherine's street in Montreal back in... the summer of 2001(?). He'd popped in for a quick promotional performance prior to his main performance that evening or in coming days. While playing his solo 15 minute set, the security alarm started to go off as someone figured most were enthralled with the concert and it was the time to shoplift a CD or two. So the alarm is going of, 'BIP--BIP--BIP' (it was alarming en francais, of course) and Chick continued to play. As he was playing, he turned his solo performance into do a duet with the alarm, interplaying back and forth with it as it sounded. The guy was good, and most gracious as well when I got a moment to be all awkward fan afterward and say hello. RIP