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Topic: George Harrison AND Forumite Content |
Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Ian Miller
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 3:01 am |
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| Roger on the ZB! Sounds bee-yoo-tiful! |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
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Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 3:05 am
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Roger still finds this a wee bit embarrassing. I don't know why.
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 4:16 am
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I'm not sure, Arch; could it be the cliched Garcia-like licks, the left-hand vibrato that sounds as if my body is wired to some outside power-source, or my apparent determination to play constantly without leaving a gap for the guitar-player?
I'd only been playing a short while and I'd bought a steel thinking: "How hard can this be?" You're looking at a self-taught player with all the attendant problems that can cause. It's now thirty five years later and I think I've shaken a lot of them off, but I wish I'd gone about things differently when I first started...
This was fun, but I still prefer seeing a still photograph rather than hearing the audio!
(Look at all that tension in my body! It's a miracle I managed to produce any notes at all...)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 7:27 am
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Hope it was okay with you that I posted this, Roger...
We all have those very same beginning steel player's musical skeletons in our closets. The difference? You moved past yours a whole lot faster than most of us and - geeeeeez - I can promise that none of the rest of us here got to 'learn by doing' in the company of anyone(s) even remotely that cool!
I love this clip. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 8:24 am
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It's perfectly alright, Chris. This clip is an inescapable part of my 'career', such as it is. As far as 'skeletons' are concerned, one's musical blunders are, moe often than not, lost in the ether, whereas this one is preserved for ever on YouTube. To show that I'm able to take it on the chin here's the whole clip, intro and all - George does quite well, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbRHxM4X2g&feature=related
I discovered recently, by the way, that Harrison wrote the lyric.
I'm not a Beatles fan, but I must say that spending a little time with George taught me what a good-natured and self-deprecating chap he was. As I may have said before, the abiding memory of that period is the time he and I discussed every nuance of every record Lonnie Donegan ever made - he was as big a fan as I was!
As far as my steel playing was concerned, George thought it was pretty good; it's a good job he was as clueless on the subject as me!
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 10:07 am
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I should have paid more attention at the time (seeing how nerdy I am about guitars!!!)
http://www.rockmine.com/Beatles/Guitars/Harr2.html
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 12:45 pm
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Forget about your playing. What about that jacket?   |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 2 Apr 2011 1:01 pm
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Not my fault!!! It was Eric Idle's idea. Everyone except me could be fitted straight out of BBC-TV's wardrobe but, as I was 280+ pounds back then, they had to make mine especially for the occasion.
Here we are filming a different scene:
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Here's the 'still' they subsequently used in the Rutles movie - this band was, in fact, the original 'Rutles'.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Ian Miller
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 3 Apr 2011 2:36 am
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Being the huge Rutles fan that I have been since ALL YOU NEED IS CASH first aired on NBC, you have no idea how much that picture means to me!  |
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