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Topic: Vintage "Dictator"! |
Dan Sawyer
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Studio City, California, USA
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Jeff Au Hoy
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Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 14 Mar 2005 3:51 pm |
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| Hmm, must be pre-war... |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Mar 2005 6:29 pm
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Actually, the headstock is missing the second letter. This is actually the lap steel which belonged to "Doc" Tator, the well-known Hawaiian potato baron who first suggested to Joseph Kekuku that he use a steel bar instead of a French fry to get the sound he was looking for.
He later worked on a dog-potato hybrid combining his two interests of tubers and pets. His experiments were the direct ancestors of the famous "Spuds" MacKenzie.
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Russ Young
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2005 6:50 pm
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Brad, are you trying to put HowardR out of work?  |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 2:07 am
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Brad is correct. Doc eventually had to be hospitalized after applying sour cream to a chihuahua while his little brother Speck was forced to watch. But those were different- some say nonexistent- times. Call me old school, but for "ambient" sounds I still use those curly fries from Arby's.
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Dave Van Allen
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Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 11:10 am
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| his nephew, Commen, went to work for Edward R. Murrow after the war... his political insights were a part of the CBS Radio news broadcasts for years... |
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 12:25 am
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| See, this is why i love the No Peddlers area. |
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Loni Specter
From:
West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 7:01 am
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| Their two kids, the Tator Tots were always peeling out in Dick's car. I remember the time they almost backed up over their dog, Spud. |
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