tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24192308.post-82350368565243787582008-07-12T07:52:00.000-07:002008-07-12T08:07:43.212-07:00One of the reason's I used to talk with Jack Gwynne and Jay Marshall a lot about magicians like Paul LePaul and Nate Leipzig was - that they were card magicians. They did other magic to like coins - Leipzig used to do thimbles in his act. But they also did a lot of card magic.<br /><br />I was into card magic. The best most entertaining card magician that I have seen perform card magic "live" is Harry Lorayne. I have seen him lecture and perform shows. He also has published a lot of books on card magic. All the books have great material in them. I do quite a lot of Harry Lorayne magic in my own act. I did a trick of his with cards called "foursome" just a few days ago and it knocked the audience cold.<br /><br />I bet that some of you would think that I might have named Dai Vernon or Jack Pyle. I only do about two of Dai Vernon's tricks in my act. What I do with some of the Vernon stuff is take bits and ideas - small things. Like his idea for rub a dub dub. I worked out an audience tested routine with that card change - and card vanish idea. I like a few of the ideas in his cups and balls routine. And I use his idea of the triumph shuffle to cull and stack cards on the fly. And once and a while I do the trick Triumph that was published in the stars of magic.<br /><br />I used to do the travelers (on and off) but I have found with a lot of Vernon magic that many of the routines are to long and drawn out for table restaurant magic (work). I think that it is more of the kind of magic that would work in a "formal" close up show.<br /><br />And Jack Pyle was a performing magician that never published his stuff.<br /><br />But I would also pick Jim Ryan as an outstanding performing magician with some great published card effects.<br /><br />Just my opinion.<br /><br />Onward and upward!Glenn Bishop "Bish The Magish"noreply@blogger.com