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Topic: An Old Phart (His words) playing "Lover" |
basilh
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Posted 27 Dec 2009 6:07 pm |
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I obtained this file and pictures by subterfuge.. but WTF, it's worth listening to..AND it's a GOOD example of someone caring enough to do their OWN backing..(Creative content 100%)
Click Here to play
Played on a Gibson EH-150. I like the Speedy West type bar crashes and the Les Paul type plunky bits, but the frightened wasp part eludes me as to it's source.. 
That was in his Hey-day, this is the man and his better half now ..v
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Wally Pfeifer
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2009 2:08 pm Lover
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Thanks for sharing that with us, Basil. I love the beautiful hula girl but I can't imagine music like that coming from old Grumpy in the background.
A nice mixture of multiple sounds. 
Wally |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 30 Dec 2009 5:19 pm
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2010 3:42 pm The one man band does it again!
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I tell ya, if I lived where it get's to minus 47 degrees  there'd be no way I'd be anything but grumpy, well maybe dead, but certainly unable to play music!
Kudos to Keoki for another fun listen, and Baz for putting it up.
More! |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 3 Jan 2010 5:19 pm
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| I hear techniques and phrasing similiar to Alvino Rey and Noel Boggs. Many of us, including Speedy West, picked up from these styles in later years. I enjoyed your arrangement, very good playing especially your finger harmonics. |
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Kevin Greenberg
From:
Lakewood, CA
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Posted 3 Jan 2010 8:49 pm lover
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| Wow! That was everything except a few tone control boo-wah's! Fantastic! |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 3 Jan 2010 10:55 pm
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Mahalo guys...Appreciated. That cut was done at least 18 years ago on a GIBSON 6 string EH-150 using a TEAC A-3440 deck. Everything you heard was me, (no electronic gimmicks)...Vibes, r/guitar, bass. It's a great tune and fun to do. 
PS: Ron, the temp today is almost sub-tropical....only -28 ! |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2010 11:23 pm Well now...
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| George Keoki Lake wrote: |
| PS: Ron, the temp today is almost sub-tropical....only -28! |
...that's more like it, time to bust out the Speedo! 
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Laurent Arams
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Edmonton,Alberta, Canada
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Posted 4 Jan 2010 12:38 am I know that old phart!
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Isn't he a real looker? His beautiful wife Mary keeps him tolerable! Just joking!!! He is in fact my Hawaiian Lapsteel teacher and a fantastic one at that! Patient and understanding of my short comings!He's a hell of a guy! I'm very lucky to got to know him and his wife that past few years. I can't say enough good things about them.
Just my 2 cents,
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 4 Jan 2010 11:04 pm
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Thanx Laurent....I'll give you a penny in change for your two cent investment !  |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 9 Jan 2010 9:15 am
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I've listened to many steel players as we all have, I've been in touch with Keoki for a long time..Billy Tonneson another great steel player Billy nailed it and posted something that I will have to agree to, George, you sure knocked out that steel of yours..Don't ever underestimate your ability ...you are a GREAT steel player..
Baz.........thank you for allowing all of us here on this Forum to listen to a friend and a great steel player as well..
Woweee
George, buddy keep swingin.. |
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George Rout
From:
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Jan 2010 5:05 am
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Not bad for a homeless person. Has anybody ever visited his tent!!!!! All that music from a person who has yet to switch over from steam to electricity!! It's fantabulous!!!!
All joking aside, nobody has been more helpful than Keoki when I've been looking for assistance here and there on any Hawaiian music/guitar subject since we met about 15 years ago.
You're still a shining light George. Keep it going.
Best wishes
George Rout in Peach Picking Country
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 13 Jan 2010 9:59 am
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Tough to keep a "shining light" lit using only steam !
Anyway, mahalo George, Laurent and Jody for your very kind comments. |
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Jon Nygren
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2010 12:35 pm
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| I loved it...i'm especially digging the vibes in the background. Don't hear that often! |
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 13 Jan 2010 1:33 pm
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Thanx Jon. I have never professed to be a Vibe player even though I love the instrument. (I own a set of Deagan Vibes). I wish I had concentrated on Vibes years ago. However it might have been a waste of time now that Vibes can be imitated quite well on modern portable keyboards...not to mention the weight! Man, Vibes are heavy to cart around to gigs...I'm just too old for that !  |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2010 2:16 pm
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| George Keoki Lake wrote: |
| However it might have been a waste of time now that Vibes can be imitated quite well on modern portable keyboards... |
As a Leedy Vibraphone<sup>TM</sup> player I very much disagree with that statement. You might get a vibes tone that you like from a keyboard, but the subtleties of good mallet technique are totally lost.
Back on topic... what are the chords to Lover?
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 13 Jan 2010 3:45 pm
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b0b...I fully agree with you. I attended a Vibraphone Concert last Friday at MacEwan University, (our local "Berkley"). Great jazz college. What a beautiful experience to see these young folks playing 8 sets of Vibes on stage ! Their mallet work was absolutely superb...something I really never mastered and never will. I doubt if most people in the audience fully appreciated the hours upon hours that go into mallet practicing and technic. Great arrangements, jazz, classical, etc.
As for the chords in LOVER...very simple, really. If played in the key of F, start with F and go down chromatically to C7 (twice for the first 16). The bridge slips into the chords of A and E7 then to C and G7 to C7...Back to the first 8.
It's a fun song to play and not all that difficult. LOVER originally came out as a WALTZ many years ago. Somewhere along the way they started swinging it. Les Paul and Mary Ford really made it famous. |
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