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Nothing but respect for that guy 
Except that the only audience was my wife and two South Carolina janitors.
Theodore Bikel is someone whom most of you have probably never heard of. He was born in 1924 in Vienna. He is an actor, folk singer, stage presence, and LOTS of "etc." He did a film with Humphrey Bogart, a folk festival with Bob Dylan, a thousand different TV shows (Dynasty, Law and Order) and films (he was the Russian sub captain in "The Russians Are Coming"
and stage shows (the lead in Fiddler On The Roof). He speaks twice as many languages as I do, and I speak nine. He likes to say "I speak 35 languages and 19 of them are Yiddish." A mutual friend had introduced us, and told him that I wanted to play with him just once some day.
One New Year's Eve, after we had rung in the New Year, he came up to me and said "Get your guitar. We are going to find a room somewhere and sing Russian songs!" So I got my guitar, we left the main celebration, and for almost an hour, I was doing duets of old Russian folk songs with this living legend in a gig that could probably have sold out Carnegie Hall. The only people who heard it were my wife, who knew what was going on, and two local janitors (we were in Charleston, SC), who hadn't the faintest idea who Theo is. One of them said, "I don't know what y'all are singing, but it sounds pretty cool."
It was pretty cool, alright.
