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Topic: Bobby Black in the San Francisco Chronicle |
Slim Heilpern
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Aptos California, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2018 4:30 pm |
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Nice article about Bobby in today's SF Chronicle:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Bobby-Black-for-decades-at-the-pinnacle-of-12555598.php
From the article, upcoming bay area dates:
Bobby Black: With Ren Geisick. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9. $20-$35. Montgomery Theater, 271 S. Market St., San Jose. (408) 506-0211. https://squareup.com/store/the-mexico-theater. With Crying Time. 8:30 p.m. Feb. 24. $10-$12. Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Ave., Albany. (510) 526-5888. www.ivyroom.com; 8 p.m. March 17. $20. Armando’s, 707 Marina Vista, Martinez. (925) 228-6985. http://armandosmartinez.com
- Slim.
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2018 5:40 pm
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I suppose the editor at the Chronicle had no idea they were illustrating an article titled "Bobby Black — for decades, at the pinnacle of pedal steel" with a picture of Bobby playing non-pedal steel. 
(He's a master of both!)  |
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Bob Littleton
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Camas, WA
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 8:00 am
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| Nice article about a wonderful musician and a kind man. Thanks for sharing this! Bobby is the real deal! |
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Bob Littleton
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Camas, WA
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 8:01 am
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| Nice article about a wonderful musician and a kind man. Thanks for sharing this! Bobby is the real deal! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 8:01 am
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I suppose the editor at the Chronicle had no idea they were illustrating an article titled "Bobby Black — for decades, at the pinnacle of pedal steel" with a picture of Bobby playing non-pedal steel. Oh Well
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I sent them an email about this issue - we'll see if it elicits a response....  |
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Craig Stock
From:
Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 8:48 am
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It seems like every picture I see of him recently is him only playing lap, does he still play pedal?
At 83, I imagine its just easier to tote the Lap around.
Good article in general.
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Dave Zirbel
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Sebastopol, CA USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 9:22 am
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| It seems like every picture I see of him recently is him only playing lap, does he still play pedal? |
He does play pedal steel sometimes but I think he mostly plays non pedal.
Here he is a couple of weeks ago!
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 9:31 am
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SGF members will obviously recognize the disparity between the photos and the text, but for the average reader of a major metropolitan daily, it'd be surprising if one out of a hundred would notice anything amiss.
That aside, nice article. And thanks for sharing. |
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Slim Heilpern
From:
Aptos California, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2018 9:58 am
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| Craig Stock wrote: |
It seems like every picture I see of him recently is him only playing lap, does he still play pedal?
At 83, I imagine its just easier to tote the Lap around.
Good article in general. |
Right, he commented at SWSGA last month that he didn't enjoy toting the PSG to gigs anymore. Hence the 12 string lap.
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 11 Feb 2018 9:26 pm
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| I lived in the SF Bay Area in 1953, and Bobby and his brother Larry played on a local TV show and I was dazzled by my first gimps of a hot guitar duo, playing life music. |
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