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Topic: Jim Flaherty ? Does anyone know anything about him? |
Gary Meyer
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Sacramento, California, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2010 7:54 am |
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I recently acquired a pedal steel guitar course written by him. Doing a search on him, I found very little.
Does anyone have any info or background on him?
Thanks ! |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 28 Aug 2010 5:25 pm
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Hi Gary -
I met Jim Flaherty at Jeff Newman's College - Intermediate E9 course back in 1980, I think it was. Hal Rugg was our visiting pro. Jim was a great guy, slight, from Chicago, mild-mannered, soft-spoken, dry sense of humor, nice touch on the steel.
When I moved to Chicago a couple of years later, he was living in a small house on Sheffield Ave., not far from Wrigley Field. Jim, Michael Lee Allen, and I used to hang out together sometimes and the three of us drove to ISGC one year, 1982 maybe?
I remember Jim showing me his course as he was developing it and I was surprised by how thorough and logically it was laid out. I didn't know that he had gone ahead and got it published. Curious how you got it, Gary... I know Jim used to jam Sunday afternoons at some old bucket of blood on Grand Ave. where the heating was - honest - a wood-burning stove. But I got a new job, Michael Lee moved to Fresno & I just lost touch with Jim. |
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Jim Palenscar
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Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2010 7:25 pm
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| I too, met Jim at one of Jeff's courses- perhaps the same one as Frank. I believe that his dad was the legendary race car driver- Pat Flaherty. |
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Gary Meyer
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Sacramento, California, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2010 4:16 pm his course
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| What made me curious is that I bought a box full of PSG learning materials and his course was in it. It titles "E( Blues",comes with a cassette and is primarily single note blues riffs. A couple of the pages are missing but the cassette is in working order.I did a search on him with no results.. |
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