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Topic: Cuba? Venezuela? Traditional music on lap steel |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 6:48 am |
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Regardless of whatever steel guitar that is, whatever genre of Latin music and wherever it was taped, the steeler is having fun and the crowd is enjoying the music. I like how he adapts traditional guitar triplet runs to the steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL86e7RjKTQ&feature=related |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 7:58 am
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I liked that!
There is so much potential for the steel in Latin music. I spend all of my time now studying Brazilian and Latin Jazz in hopes being able to tap into it.
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Links to streaming music, websites, YouTube: Links |
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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John Mulligan
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 8:53 am
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Ry Cooder got the idea of blending steel with Cuban son music. I don't know if he started it or just popularised it. His playing on Buena Vista Social Club is masterful; understated, often subtle and with unbelievable tone.
Check Joaquim Santana; he has an interesting style. |
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Jim Pitman
From:
Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 9:09 am
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Indeed, that is so cool. A duo entertaining the mixed crowd of young and old and the guy's playing an 8 string lap steel.
You know I've been thinking how much of a dinosaur I've become musically....and then i see something like this...those people are digging it. |
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Mike Anderson
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 9:36 am
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I love Latin music and have played it for a living, and this is cool. But that said - I LOVE being a dinosaur! "Dinosaur" for me is a compliment meaning "has good taste".  |
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Carlos Polidura
From:
Puerto Rico
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 1:19 pm
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| Most people think that the steel guitar is limited to x- type of music, but as we can see it is not. Click here, yours truly... WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/SERAFINPOL |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 2:52 pm
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| Carlos-- Watched some of your lap steel music, also in a traditional Latin style. (Maybe a little Hawaiian also, just around the edges? ) Enjoyed it-- your playing is very polished. That's a Dynalap you're playing, right? |
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Carlos Polidura
From:
Puerto Rico
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 3:20 pm
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Hi Stephan. Thanks for your compliment. Yes it is a Dynalap. I bought it about four years ago. I may say that I try to blend some hawaiian sound on the latin music. Works well for me.
Thanks |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 11 Mar 2012 7:23 pm
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| I just spent 8 days in Havana (Habana)this past February.......I saw a lot of music going on but no steel guitar.....I even brought my bar & picks just in case..... |
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AJ Azure
From:
Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Mar 2012 8:55 am
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I have one word for you Piazzola. Start with Libertango, continue to Adios Nonino and continue from there.Rinse, repeat
I am currently working on some fusion-esque renditions. |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 12 Mar 2012 9:41 am
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| AJ Azure wrote: |
| I have one word for you Piazzola. |
Plain cheese or with mushrooms & sausage?...... |
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Michael Stover
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 12 Mar 2012 9:48 am
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Great clip Andy, thanks for posting. I showed this to a friend who's well-versed in Latin music, and he identified the song form and rhythm as huapango, the music of the eastern region of Mexico known as Huasteca. So the clip is probably from Mexico, but the music betrays a strong Cuban influence due to proximity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huapango |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Alexander Stepanenko
From:
Moscow, Russia
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 10:59 pm
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| Very interesting topic. |
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Bob Stone
From:
Gainesville, FL, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 5:20 am
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Hi,
Yes, a most interesting topic. I play several bossa novas and am itching to play some tangos.
Here's a nice cumbia I worked out on lap steel with an accordion player friend who does a lot of Latin music (his wife is Brazilian). We did it in G minor, and it fell nicely in C6. Sadly, we abandoned it because we couldn't get our drummer friend to do the proper rhythm. Ry Cooder recorded it (on guitar, not steel) on his Mambo Sinuendo album.
This video is enjoyable on many levels...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NltpAfEqR6E
Also, as a point of interest, there are hundreds of recordings in the Arhoolie Foundation's Frontera Collection of Mexican music 78s and 45s that include Hawaiian guitar solos. Steel works especially nice with Tex-Mex boleros.
Buena suerte,
Bob |
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Paul DiMaggio
From:
Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 26 Mar 2012 9:55 am
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| I just got back from 2 weeks in eastern Cuba. I visited several Casa de Trovas and Casa de Culturas and talked to quite a few musicians. I asked about steel guitars in Cuban music and none had ever seen them played in Cuba. We stayed at the Brisas hotel in Guardalavaca a few nights and I heard a band playing at a restaurant, they were very good. Older gentlemen, and a bit of an odd combination for a Cuban band, 2 guitars, a tres, and the percussionist played maracas, and guiro, no bass,no clave and no drums of any kind. When they went on a break I ended up talking to the percussionist about music in general. When he asked what I played I had a hard time explaining what a steel guitar was, my spanish is not that good and his english was about same. So I went to my room and got my bar and picks and when I arrived back the other guys were sitting at the table. When I pulled them out, the 2 guitarists got really excited. Turns out their father had played "guitarra havaiana" back in the 40s and 50s. The younger of the 2 said he used a knife the older one said he used a round rod but long and held like a knife. I asked specifically what kind of music he played,and they said Cubano. |
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Paul DiMaggio
From:
Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 26 Mar 2012 10:09 am
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| I don't know how good of a player their father was but if the talent shown by his sons is any indication,he was one heck of a player. The percussionist has been teaching classical guitar for 15 yrs in Holguin city but bows to those 2 old guys' expertise. |
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Kevin Brown
From:
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 26 Mar 2012 6:06 pm
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 29 Mar 2012 8:48 am
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 29 Mar 2012 8:50 am
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 29 Mar 2012 8:53 am
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 29 Mar 2012 8:55 am
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Andy Volk
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