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Topic: Wishbone Ash and Robin Trower |
Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Bob Smith
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Allentown, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 4:35 pm |
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| Ah man, thanks for the Wishbone!!! Theres good example of killer guitar tone ,huh? I think i wore out my copy of that album.Wasnt it called "Argus'\" ? I think those guys still play . bob |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2006 12:00 am
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Bob,
Argus was indeed one of those early albums. I should have posted one of those Wishbone Ash clips from 1973. That's when I saw them live (with Trower on the same bill).
But by '76, Ted Turner (real name) left, and I started losing interest in the group. The twin guitars of Turner and Andy Powell were the main interest for me. Way back then, Rolling Stone included them in a list of the top guitarists of all time, and Ash was known as the English Allman Brothers. They've gone through a lot of personnel changes since, with some original members coming and going.
About 20 years after seeing Ash live, I was in the guitar store in Phoenix where Duane Eddy started and saw a guy who looked like Ted Turner. So I said, "You look a guy who was in Wishbone Ash." He said, "I am a guy who was in Wishbone Ash."
I got to see him jam with a Phoenix guitar slinger named Chuck Hall, and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Ted was playing a lot of screaming lap steel, unlike anything I've ever heard.
But I've lost track of Ted. There is a lot of info about the current Ash at their site, but the last I read, Ted's whereabouts aren't clear.
I wonder how many young uns know that Trower used to win as many guitarist awards as Beck.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character. -- Charles Barkley[This message was edited by Darryl Hattenhauer on 22 November 2006 at 12:02 AM.] |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2006 12:47 am
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| Darryl, you've got nine postings of videos you like in the last 20 posts or so - could you please try to condense the posts, into "My favorite videos of today" or something? I like YouTube too, but the "Music" section is a catchall for many other subjects too. I know it's exciting to see something new, but that many separate YouTube posts is sort of overwhelming. There's a "Steel on the Web" section here for specific steel postings, but everything else piles up here in "Music." Maybe we need a separate "YouTube" section? |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2006 1:11 am
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Sorry, Dave. I find out so much from all the youtube posts that I thought I'd return the favor, but I guess you're right, since hardly anybody is responding.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character. -- Charles Barkley |
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Jim Hankins
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Yuba City, California, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2006 10:41 am
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| Darryl, I appreciate the post on Wishbone Ash, and your info on Ted Turner, Jim |
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Jesse Pearson
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San Diego , CA
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Posted 22 Nov 2006 12:48 pm
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| Dave, tell me your kidding right? I saw Wishbone Ash live on Oahu Hawaii back in 74 or 75, we were tripping on blotter and the whole place was one big pot party that night at this outdoor ampa-bowl under the stars. The very best live concert I have ever seen, I thought they were from Heaven that night, lol. I still play "Blowing Free" note for note for my own enjoyment and still perform "Day of the Eagle" with my 3 piece. That's some interesting info about Ted. I didn't know he was into lap steel. [This message was edited by Jesse Pearson on 30 November 2006 at 07:13 PM.] |
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Tom Olson
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Spokane, WA
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 4:07 pm
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I like the Robin Trower video clips. Watch "Too Rolling Stoned" and see if you agree that Trower looks just like Liza Minnelli with a page-boy haircut!!
It's interesting to see how Trower changes the position of his picking hand. At one point in "Too Rolling Stoned" he's picking the solo right over the end of the neck. |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 4:12 pm
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Tom,
You just Ruined Robin Trower for me!
dh
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 4:21 pm
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Ohua, Hawaii's mystery island!
The best trips never end, eh Jesse?!
Was that Andrews Ampitheater at the UH, or the Waikiki Shell?
Too bad neither venues have shows much these day's, as they are the best and have had some of the greatest shows ever in Hawaii. |
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Drew Howard
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 4:45 pm
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Mott the Hoople!
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Drew Howard - website - Red guitars sound better!
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Darryl Hattenhauer
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 5:34 pm
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Drew,
You just found a memory cell I'd misplaced years ago. I think I'll dust it off and use it until it disappears again.
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Bob Blair
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 7:16 pm
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I think I saw those guys at the Reading Festival in the summer of 72! Then again, I remember incredibly little about that Festival - in fact that whole long-ago summer in Britain seems to have fallen into a black hole in my memory.....
sigh.... |
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David Doggett
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Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 30 Nov 2006 2:15 am
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I have to tell you guys this story. From 1968-1972, I was a member of a coop that published a little underground newspaper called The Kudzu, in Jackson, Mississippi. This put us on the promo list of a lot of record labels in the era of album rock. We got a stack of LPs in the mail every day. Most of them were groups like Moby Grape and Ultimate Spinach. After hearing two or 3 cuts, you were ready to rip the shrink wrap off the next album in the stack and move on. But occassionally we would find a previosly unknown jewel of a group that would immediately become a favorite to be put in the continuous play mode along with Hendrix, The Beatles, The Stones, etc. If it was really good, it would go into the late night, lights out, lava lamps aglow, altered states, maximum volume play list. One of those was the Wishbone Ash "Pilgrimage" album (1971). I still have the album, and it was treated with such reverence that it is still in pretty good shape for vinyl.
In case anyone is interested, another such special album was the second album of Osibisa, called Wcoyaya, which is now available on CD.
Thanks for the memories.  [This message was edited by David Doggett on 30 November 2006 at 02:04 PM.] |
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 30 Nov 2006 12:31 pm
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"All the young Dudes"
All the Young Dudes
Mott the Hoople
Columbia 31750
Released: November 1972
Chart Peak: #89
Weeks Charted: 19
Life was definitely simpler then... Eat, Sleep, Study, Party, Go to Class, Read, Remember, Regurgitate.............[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 30 November 2006 at 12:32 PM.] |
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Kevin Ruddell
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Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2006 3:06 pm
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David " Ted " Turner played some great screaming lap style steel on the eighties tours when he re-joined Wishbone Ash. Plus he has a great natural feel on guitar that is tone to the bone . He made a pretty potent combination with Andy Powell's Flying Vee and Martin turner's very unique bass playing in Wishbone. A friend of ours attending Ohio State around 1970 saw Wishbone Ash at a concert there and the band were delayed by a heavy snowstorm and came on pretty late . Andy Powell apologized for the delay and promised the audience they would make up for it and they certainly did according to my pal. Ted quit the Ash after the Live Dates album saying he wanted to grow up a little more normally as a 24 year old .
John Lennon tapped him to play on the " Imagine " lp and he's played with many people including John Mayall I believe.
Sad to say in the late 90's Ted was walking back to his apartment with his 11 year old son Christopher from their regular video rental store in Scottsdale AZ. A drunk driver drove onto the shoulder hitting Christopher and throwing him into the air killing him instantly and driving off . The police later apprehended a 67 year old former owner of a Tool and Die shop in Mt. Clemens MI and convicted him with the parts of his Rolls Royce left at the scene. |
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Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2006 3:35 pm
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Okay, okay -I know I'll probably be thrown off the forum for this but - close you eyes and listen to the beginning of the Wishbone Ash song
If you didn't already know otherwise, doesn't it actually sound quite a bit like, er, well, um, a banjo??[This message was edited by Chris Bauer on 30 November 2006 at 03:35 PM.] |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 12:22 am
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Chris,
Right you are. And it even sounded more like electric guitjo/bantar when I first heard them, which was live in the early 70s. And they only did it for a couple of bars. Just enough to make me wonder what they were doing and if they'd start crankin' up and really gettin' it. Them they hit that simple DAH dah DAH DAH! and we knew we were in for a ride.
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