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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Murbyl... it's the Dr. Q act. It is old stuff. Ken Brooke and Paul Daniels did it better than most. Ricki Dunn published a book on it. But the real work is in the Dr. Q hypnotic act.
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MJE Elite user After all these years,I STILL have only 409 Posts |
I had the Dr. Q book many years ago and really loved the audacity of it, but I just wouldn't have the guts to ever perform anything from it (including the chairs). I find it interesting that there was so much discussion about the secret on this old thread, as the secret isn't going to help anyone perform the routine. In fact, everything in the Q book is pretty much the same secret. That's what scared me away from it!
What if you don't come across as the nicest guy on the planet? What if you never find the right people in your audience? I don't know how Dr. Q could be anything but a nervous wreck doing that show. My question to anyone out there is, do you remember who Dr. Q was? I seem to recall that he was someone who's name should be familiar to people here. Burling Hull, maybe? I'm sure my copy of the book ended up in a magic auction at least a couple of decades ago, and a Google search isn't getting me anywhere. |
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
I learned how the "electric chairs" was DONE, when I was about 15. I didn't DO it until I was a couple years older. I did it for YEARS in my highschool and college program. (and, sometimes on a club date.) IF I KNEW that there was a magician in the auditorium whom I did not know, I did NOT do it.
I'll repeat a formula that Jay Marshall and I shared. It's quite simple. EVERYTHING I DO IS SIMPLE. My slogan since I was a kid (I'm currently 82)has been KIS MIF. Here is the formula>>> If you want to add a trick (or routine) to your act, there are three things you must DO: l. Find out HOW the trick (or routine) is DONE. 2. LEARN how to DO it. 3. LEARN how to DO it,SO THAT IT ENTERTAINS AN AUDIENCE. The electric chairs is not a bit that you can buy on-line, and throw into your act, that night. You must be a SHOWMAN. You must have had some REAL SHOW EXPERIENCE. You better have lots of "chutzpah"! (I have permission to use that term from my "second mother" JUNE HOROWITZ.) About 25 years ago, I was helping out behind the counter at MAGIC INC. on a Saturday afternoon. A young lad asked several of us, "How much do you charge for a trade show?" Our answer was brief: "When you are READY to do a trade show, you wont need to ask that question!" So, friend Murby, if and when you have "paid your dues", you may someday "Find out how it is DONE." Learning how to DO it is something else again. --And, learning how to DO it so that it ENTERTAINS AN AUDIENCE, is the real challenge. Now, Go back up this thread and read "brother" SNILSSON'S TWO COMMENTS. >>>DAVE MATKIN: I've never seen Paul Daniels do the chairs, but I suspect that the hands on chairs bit is something he added. >>>LEVENT: Yes, DOMINIQUE KNEW! I KNOW! --BECAUSE I HORSED FOR HIM ONE NIGHT!
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Q = CUE
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george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts |
The chair routine has been my closer for the last 30 years or so, its definitely not for beginners. I do think however that when its done well there is nothing funnier.
I learned how to do it from a friend of mine John Auckland, who was a great magician and inventor, he was a wiz with anything electronic and I learned so much from him back in the 70s.
By failing to prepare, we are preparing to fail.
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