Sweet And Lowdown Page #2

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- What do you think?

- It sounds okay to me.

- Yeah.

- It's fancy.

I'm considered

the best guitar player...

maybe that ever lived.

Certainly in this country.

There's this...

There's a gypsy in France...

and he's the most

beautiful thing I ever heard.

Tonight's the night.

Emmet, just as long as you're happy.

That's the most important thing.

It's really beautiful.

It is really beautiful.

It's like jewelry.

Hey, I wanna just be alone with

the moon for a minute, all right?

You wanna be alone

with the moon? Okay.

Emmet, you know what you are?

You're a genius.

She's a knockout, ain't she?

Hope it's safe.

Of course it's safe.

Why wouldn't it be safe?

It's a hell of a drop.

A man can break his neck.

Really?

And it starts to build and build

in Emmet's mind.

And by show time...

he's numb with fear,

he's petrified.

And the audience is out there

waiting for him...

and he's backstage, meanwhile,

drinking and drinking.

When he's ready to go on,

he's stiff as a board.

- Snazzy!

- Did you buy that off the rack?

Look. The Big Dipper.

- Emmet, your gun is bulging.

- Do you think?

What the hell you

need it on stage for?

I don't feel right

without it.

I'll give it back to you

as soon as you're done.

Show time!

- You all right?

- Emmet, be careful.

You're on?

Need a hand?

Let's do it.

Sooner or later,

everybody's dreams go up in smoke.

What about my dreams?

I can't settle down, Ann.

- We don't have to marry.

- I can't.

I gotta be free.

I'm an artist.

I thought you liked me.

We have fun.

I took you to the dump.

I let you shoot my gun at some rats.

Shootin' rats at the dump

is not my idea of a good time.

Why not?

We brought sandwiches.

And sittin' at the railroads watchin'

trains, that's pretty strange too.

See? That's what I mean.

What I like to do, what you like to do,

ain't the same thing.

That's not it, Emmet.

It's that you keep

your feelings locked up...

and you can't feel nothin'

for anybody else.

You say that

like it's a bad thing.

Some terrible things happen

to people in love. I know. I've seen it.

I enjoy the company of women.

I love 'em.

It's just that

I don't need 'em.

I guess, you know, that's the way it is

when you're a true artist.

It doesn't mean

we can't fool around.

Oh, right.

Or shoot rats or watch trains.

I never met anybody that

keeps their feelings so locked up.

I let my feelin's

come out in my music.

Maybe if you let your feelings out in

real life, your music would be better.

Don't talk.

Emmet met Hattie in New Jersey.

The band was playing a resort hotel.

On a day off, Emmet...

and his drummer,

Bill Shields...

were doing their

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