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Topic: The coolest-ever Alvino Rey pic? |
Andy Volk
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2011 10:20 am |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Feb 2011 4:21 pm
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He certainly had a lot of good photos. Here's another favorite.
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Mark Roeder
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 15 Feb 2011 2:32 pm
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The double neck looks like the one when he was playing in the Horace Height Orchestra. I wonder if Gibson made it ?
Here is another picture from my old Alvino Rey Instruction book.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 15 Feb 2011 7:32 pm
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The double neck looks like the one when he was playing in the Horace Height Orchestra. I wonder if Gibson made it ?
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Yes, it says Gibson on the headstock.
I think he had a very Dracula-esque look about him--love the hair. But the lighting was so extreme and effective in those early photo sessions.
BTW, I knew a guy who had a Super 400 that was made for Alvino and he didn't find out about it until Alvino died. Needless to say, he sold it for six figures.
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Billy Tonnesen
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Posted 15 Feb 2011 9:24 pm
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Mike:
I wonder what he sounded like when playing the double neck Gibson with no pedals. Maybe there was some old Horace Height records he played on !
I missed seeing the "Gibson" on the head stocks. I have Macular Degeneration and I really have to look close for small words and print. |
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Jason Hull
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Posted 16 Feb 2011 4:42 am
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| In the photo with the Super 400, he reminds me of John Cusack. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 16 Feb 2011 5:26 am
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| The sensibility regarding lighting was very different than today as were the film stocks and grain patterns. High contrast and drama was the aesthetic. In addition, there was less media saturation in those days - even less amateur photography so people have a look in their eyes that differs from modern shots. Within a formula, early pro studio photographers were masters of their craft (often looking to master painters like Rembrandt & Caravaggio for inspiration). Alvino was also a very photogenic person. Agree he looks like a young Cusak. He's an interesting figure who deserves a good full-length bio. Somebody else write it! |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 16 Feb 2011 5:29 am
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By the way, I just read somewhere that the 2 brothers in the band Arcade Fire are the grandchildren of Alvino Rey.
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Fred Kinbom
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Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jason Hull
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Posted 16 Feb 2011 5:09 pm
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| Fred Kinbom wrote: |
| I agree. He also reminds me of Peter Lorre and Jacques Tati! |
Peter Lorre, yes! |
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James Williamson
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California & Hawaii
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Posted 16 Feb 2011 10:19 pm Alvino Ray and Arcade Fire
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| Is that a fact Mike....wow, so Alvino was photogenic in Peter Lowry kind of way, successful on steel for his day and had good genes that spawned a band with the album of the year for 2010...what a guy. |
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Todd Weger
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Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 18 Jan 2013 2:25 pm Esquivel?
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Does anyone know what type of steel A.R. played on the Esquivel sessions? Some of the tunings are kind of weird. I read somewhere he played a doubleneck PSG, but nothing on the recording that I can hear sound like PSG in 1968. They sound much more like a non-pedal to my ears, but I could be wrong.
I'm playing the steel parts on those tunes in a couple months in Mexico City. A friend transcribed ALL of the tunes for 23 piece orchestra, since the charts are either lost or were destroyed.
Anything anyone know about that? I think I'll post this again in a new subject heading, too.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2013 3:17 pm
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I had a chance to buy that very super 400 about 10 years ago for $5k - the music store up in New England that had it assumed it was refinished, as Gibson didn't make a blond 400 until '39 - this was a '35. I asked for the serial number and sure enough, in a copy of Gibsons shipping ledger records I had .... Shipped to one Alvino Rey.
Stupid, stupid move - I wonder if whoever got it realized - I sure didn't tell them.
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 25 Jan 2013 12:26 am
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In this one, the cartoonist even picked up on the spot in the middle of
the steel where Alvino cut it in half and inserted a piece to make it a
longer scale length!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 25 Jan 2013 12:44 am
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Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures, most especially Doug Beaumier's stunning studio shot. 
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Steve Blazek
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Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2013 7:38 am
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| My father used to play sax in that band, can you steer me to any more photos? |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 28 Jan 2013 8:57 am
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 28 Jan 2013 1:43 pm
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Alvino was married to one of the King Sisters, Luise.
She preceded him in death in 1997. Alvino died in 2004.
We, at the Aloha International Steel Guitar Club in Winchester Indiana, were fortunate to have Alvino as as our featured guest artist in 1998.
Here is a photo of the Alvino and Luise in later years.
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Garry Vanderlinde
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CA
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Posted 28 Jan 2013 8:29 pm alvino's grandson
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Win Butler of Arcade Fire looks a lot like granddad Alvino...
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