10/28/2022 0 Comments Jason ladanye confident deceptions![]() ![]() My damn trick got rave reviews even though it was the biggest load of crap every put together by man. After all I know perfectly well that if you were to advertise gold plated thumb tips magicians would buy them simply because they were gold plated. I knew it was absolutely horrendous but on the grounds that magicians will buy anything I thought their money would be far better off in my pockets rather than theirs. I should know since I invented a most horrible version of Out Of This World to rip off all the daft magicians. As Al Baker once said, "Many a trick has been killed by improvement". I do not remember saying that the first published version was the best although it very often is. You can't even get on Scottish television. It is perfectly evident to me that you would not have what it takes. They don't have the timing, the showmanship and the knowledge of people. That is why you see so few people doing it. Pitching svengali decks is a highly skilled profession. There are a lot of fake diamonds about I am afraid.ĭuncan old chap. And yet inside the covers of such are tricks which are light years ahead of the crap of today. They always sit unsold forlornly on the shelves of my local magic shop and I think have been there for the last hundred years or so. There was a whole bunch of these put out some years ago. As for Hugard I have one of the bound volumes of his magazine. However, one exception does not a rule make and in fact I suspect Mr Roth is pretty old school himself. And when I say "hypnotic" I am not talking about the kind that puts you to sleep. And I think, despite what that old misery Goshman stated, to have excellent presentation. In fact I consider Mr Roth to be one of the greatest magicians I have ever seen and easily the best coin magician in the world. As for David Roth I appreciate him greatly despite grumpy old Al Goshman once growling to me, "he hasn't got any presentation". ![]() ![]() It appears that the more obscure Bill Duncan who has not been on Scottish television after all is once again contradicting me despite the fact that I am never wrong. Or you can stick with coal.Īt least you can heat the house with the later. Take a clever idea, add history, and mix with talent and inspiration, and you get diamonds. A mildly clever concept, that languished undone because it's was just a clever idea. But compare Hugard's routine with Roth's and you'll see the same thing. I agree that lots of folks who don't read, or know their history, reinvent basic concepts, and often in the rush to publish don't give the ideas the necessary polish. But I'm not sharing who did that other than to say he's a friend of Josh Jay's and it's been published. And that routine has since been reinvented, and better as well. The Roth routine is very good the Hugard bit a forgotten footnote.Īnd, as I recall Hugard's bit was preceded by Scott in A Discoverie of Witchcraft. ![]() David Roth's wonderful (and seldom improved) Karate Coin routine may have been preceded by Hugard's The Finger Gimlet, but there's a very important difference. I investigated things, and what I found was that sentiment was usually wrong. All the old guys (before I was an old guy) used to tell me that. And one of the things they will learn is that all this allegedly newer stuff is old stuff rehashed. Performer wrote:And I suggest some of the dafter people here investigate books from before that time. ![]()
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