Jerry Reed died yesterday. I always enjoyed his antics and lyrics, much as I do (did?) those of George Miller and Del Reeves. I suppose most obits mentioned what most people remember, Reed as Cletus the Snowman to Burt Reynold's Bandit. It was through Reed that I found out what a Gimme Cap was, its derived from a guy who goes to a wall display at a truck stop and tells the cashier "gimme cap." As we fixed up the house on 85th Street before getting the hell out of Dodge, this was 1999, we tore off old wallpaper in the kitchen. Inexplicably, I took the time to write on the old wallpaper the entire lyrics to "Amos Moses" in August of 1971. I must've had a lot of time on my hands that summer. When You're Hot, You're Hot, and all that. Well, I fell into the When You're Not, You're Not part of the equation. I think I shall purchase a gimme cap at a Thornton's tomorrow and eventually toss it into Bubbly Creek. Bring a cassette player with Elvis singing "Guitar Man," Jerry picking with his fingers as the cap hits the water...
