Talk:Boz Scaggs

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My Time release

In the biography section, it says that the album "My Time" is an anthology in the late 1990s. But in the discography, My Time is listed as correctly coming out in 1972. Is the first reference to some other album?

career as impressario

Is it worth mentioning he owns Slim's, in San Francsico and is part owner of the Great American Music Hall?

64.142.13.174 (talk) 21:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)SteveP.[reply]

fan site appropriated

The fan site referenced in External Sites appears to have been appropriated by what might be restaurant reviews. Should this reference be removed? Danellicus (talk) 20:04, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why Boz?

(Currently);

… schoolmate Mal Buckner gave him the nickname "Bosley", later shortened to "Boz".

So! Why did the schoolmate call him Bosley?

That reference link is no good. The exact same text (above) appears in several Google finds. Maybe it's in the wiki history.

MBG02 (talk) 03:23, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Found this;

"His nickname was originally a put-down. Don Lively … thought, "What's a really weird name?' and he came up with Bosley." (To insinuate he was a country boy). https://www.beautifulboz.com/page/65951

MBG02 (talk) 03:58, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That looks like a blog/fan site? Does that interview have any author? Was it in The Dallas Morning News? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:43, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the existing text as the source no longer works (domain name for sale). Martinevans123 (talk) 12:49, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It says (for the country bumpkin find): The Dallas Morning News.

There are 9 finds for Bosley (on this site): author Ben Fong Torres is cited for one matching the (current) article, but (as in the wiki page) no explanation for why the classmate(s) chose Bosley.

I’ve got two books (Q Rock Encyclopaedia, 2nd Ed, 1999; and Virgin Rock Encyclopaedia [of the 70s]); both match the current wiki article, without citing the schoolmate’s name.

This page cites author [SAM WHITING, CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER - May 10, 1991]… and a third explanation: "became the Boz after some private-school classmates in Dallas kept confusing him with a kid named Bosley." https://www.beautifulboz.com/page/64765

(Bloody hell!!). This one [author: Barry Scott] cites Boz saying "It was a nickname given to me when I started going to a new school when I was about 14 years old. I don't know the origins of it, but the kids in the class called me Bosley. I don't know why….". https://www.beautifulboz.com/page/79895

MBG02 (talk) 13:53, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

All a bit confused then, even in terms of what Scaggs himself has reputedly said in interviews? Normally book sources would be treated as more reliable. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:28, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"He lost everything..."

More specifically, he lost everything which a fire could consume and which was located at the site of his Napa area home at the time of the fire. As precious as all that stuff clearly had to have been, his bank account was presumably unharmed and his music royalties continued to be collected and remitted to him. Celebrity Net Worth shows him still worth 40 million dollars. 73.51.218.241 (talk) 05:29, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]