GIPSY HEART

A project in need of investors: a bio-pic about Gypsy kid, Jimmy Rosenberg. Child prodigy, Jimmy received a record contract worth million at age 15: big mistake! Frank Zappa once lauded kids like Jimmy saying “in Europe, there are little kids who can play circles around US guitarists” :+:+:+: UPDATE — May 19, 2006 Dear friends, Jimmy is out of jail. We took our caravan down on Monday 15th. to Asten in the South of Holland, where we were made very welcome by the families, in particular by Jimmys mother Engelina. After a fitful nights sleep, we donned our nice clothes and drove the thirty kilometres to the jail which is in the cheerfully named village of Grave. When we arrived, Jimmy had just stepped out of the gates and the television crew from Amsterdam were already filming. We all greeted each other, and Jimmy got on one knee to play on the Harmsworth and Willis spruce top D hole that we had brought down. He had not played a real guitar for five months, having only a nylon stringed toy whilst incarcerated. He went fearlessly into ‘Improvisation Number 1’ by Django, and it was a perfect start to his new life. From Grave we went into a heavenly cafe for coffee. The cafe proprietor was surprised to find a film crew working whilst we had coffee, and Jimmy played a few beautiful tunes, and off we drove to his Dads house in Gemert, closeby. There, we had the great pleasure of listening to Jimmy play both with Mekki, his father, and Nomy, his younger brother. Considering …
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