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Topic: Bert Weedon - RIP |
Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Larry Miller
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Dothan AL,USA
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Larry Miller
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Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2012 5:24 am |
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From Paul McCartney's Facebook page:
'Dear Bert - we will miss him. From early childhood throughout our lives he was Britain's Mr guitar. He seemed to be the first person we saw on television showing us how to play and he left a lasting impression on us. We use to joke about how he played a thousand notes a minute but we were always impressed with him. Like us, he loved the guitar and communicated that passion to many generations. Bert, we'll miss you.'
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 23 Apr 2012 5:53 am
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That 'Daily Telegraph' piece is well thought out and a pretty accurate assessment of Bert and how we saw him. He wasn't a player that we wanted to emulate - my heroes were Scotty Moore and James Burton - but there was an urgent need for some structured teaching material and, for many, 'Play In A Day' fitted the bill.
McCartney talks of Bert's '....thousand notes a minute...'; that's a reference to Weedon's 'party trick' of maintaining a rapid tremelo on one string as he'd gliss up and down the neck - it probably did produce a thousand or so notes a minute but nothing very musical. Mostly we (me and my contemporaries - now about seventy years old) would scoff at the deception but I'm impressed by anyone who establishes an identity in the world of music.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 23 Apr 2012 9:26 am
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/entertainment-us-bertweedon-guitarist-de-idUSBRE83J0JN20120420
My first guitar book was his Play in a Day. It took me a little longer than a day to learn, of course. 55 yrs. later I'm almost all the way through the book. 
I still use his patented flat pick, which has his name emblazened on it, and is a much better shape that those in use nowadays.
Jam with the angels, Bert. Hand out copies of your book and they'll soon be trading in their harps for guitars.
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