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Fred Kinbom


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Post  Posted 16 May 2010 2:37 pm    
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This is not lap steel, but it is a bakelite Rickenbacher (Spanish neck), bottleneck slide, Ry Cooder, and pretty freakin' amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcfrCRCyG4

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Mark Eaton


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Post  Posted 16 May 2010 5:14 pm     Re: Ry Cooder on a Rickenbacher bakelite Spanish
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Fred Kinbom wrote:
...pretty freakin' amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcfrCRCyG4

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Fred


Thanks for the link, Fred!

"Pretty freakin' amazing" is what I would call a massive understatement when it comes to Ry Cooder.

I would like to follow Ry around and catch the excess music in a bucket that drips off him and have a little bit of it for myself.
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Alan Brookes


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Post  Posted 16 May 2010 5:24 pm    
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Pretty good. Who would have believed it started out as a Woody Guthrie song ?
I prefer this version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KmbUCwkyE&a=jmscJg-F56c&playnext_from=ML&playnext=1
It's more true to the original, and I like the guitar work more. Winking


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Paul Bostic


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Post  Posted 16 May 2010 5:27 pm    
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That totally rocks!
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Brad Bechtel


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Post  Posted 17 May 2010 6:44 am    
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Moved to Music from Steel Without Pedals.

Those Spanish (round) neck Rickenbacher Bakelite guitars are very rare. Of course, being Ry Cooder, he'd get a great sound out of any board with strings. Thanks for sharing!
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Phil Sottile

 

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Washington, USA
Post  Posted 17 May 2010 10:20 pm    
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I saw Ry playing the bakelite in SF Oct 2008...he's the MAN!!!!!
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Tony Glassman


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Post  Posted 17 May 2010 11:23 pm    
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Phil Sottile wrote:
I saw Ry playing the bakelite in SF Oct 2008...he's the MAN!!!!!


What a soulful genius! Ry hasn't lost lost a single step since I first heard him in the '70's.
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Russ Tkac


Post  Posted 18 May 2010 4:55 am    
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Smokes!

I saw him in 1981 still about the best concert I've been to. Smile
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Steven Cummings

 

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Post  Posted 19 Feb 2011 4:31 pm    
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Yep....
Ryland when he was young, Ryland now....
The man plays with oodles of soul...such feeling!
Musically he is one of the guys I look up to without a doubt!
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Alan Brookes


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Post  Posted 20 Feb 2011 10:19 am    
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For those not familiar with the original Woody Guthrie version, listen to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKbeSPE-uA

To see the song in context, watch this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUagbsg-HI
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Paul Sutherland

 

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Post  Posted 20 Feb 2011 10:41 am    
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I just spent the last half hour listening to this and many other YouTube videos of Ry Cooder. I particularly liked his work with John Lee Hooker. Ry Cooder is a great talent.
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