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Topic: A diplomatic way to tell you... : |
J D Sauser
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Wellington, Florida
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Posted 9 May 2007 6:27 am |
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I have made friends with some of the locals here in the Dominican Republic. One family has a 5 year old girl. She has once discovered the awkward looking thing we so much love to wing wang our blues away on standing in my office and I showed her a couple of weeks ago what awful noises one can make with it.
Anyway, last weekend we all drove to the river to have pic knick and a point of time, she chose to spend some time in my car and play CD's. All of a sudden she comes out running to me... grabbing me and dragging me to the car: "Listen! There's YOUR guitar on the radio!" I said that yes, this was indeed a steel guitar, to which she replied all excited: "Yes, but someone STOLE it from you!"
What a diplomatic way to remind you, you definitely do NOT sound like Jerry Byrd!
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 9 May 2007 7:36 am
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 9 May 2007 8:11 am
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Obviously a very sharp young lady !  |
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 9 May 2007 11:44 am
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| Why not get her started early and offer some lessons? You could show her something real simple to start. We need more youngsters playing music. |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 9 May 2007 2:52 pm
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| Dan Sawyer wrote: |
| Why not get her started early and offer some lessons? You could show her something real simple to start. We need more youngsters playing music. |
She'd be welcome to the all the lessons she'd want.
But well, I'd need to get my Salsa, Bachata and Raegeton chops in line first... Country, Western Swing and Hawaiian don't seem to impress the heck outta them... and somehow I understand. She thinks it's funny... LoonyToon music, as she calls it .
At just a tad over forty I can't afford to sound that old yet... so I will try to work myself into newer Latin Romance stuff.
... J-D. |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 9 May 2007 3:23 pm
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| At just a tad over forty I can't afford to sound that old yet |
A lot of people your age seem to think this way... idunno why. |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 9 May 2007 3:59 pm
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| Jeff Au Hoy wrote: |
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| At just a tad over forty I can't afford to sound that old yet |
A lot of people your age seem to think this way... idunno why. |
Because you're not that age yet... You ARE young, so playing some ol' stuff won't discount your coolness to much. I happily played hillbilly music with 16... it was the early 80's, yet it was cool. Wait till you are middle age crazy .
I think there is an other issue too. Sound has changed a lot... digital, 3D... stereo alone just sounds dated to most nowadays. It seems the same with movies.
I still dig the old sound and I LOVE listening to you and am amazed to hear how well you captured "that" sound and at times I still do play my ol' Rick thru it's original amp, no efx, no nothing, just warmth, because it's neat. But for a generic audience I prefer to build up something more fresh and free of moth balls (that's a joke! so don't get offended, OK).
... J-D. |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 9 May 2007 5:37 pm
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I play the old stuff. I play 1930's swing, Hawaiian, ukulele music, early blues and jazz, early country, novelty tunes etc.
I'm 52 years old. I've always liked this music - even when I was a kid.
Today whenever I play solo or with a group of like minded musicians I/we get a great response from all the age levels in the audience. People smile and enjoy the music and their pre-conceived notions of what they think they like musically quickly fade away. It's honest, real music and it affects people in an organic natural way. Granted I've only played live to United States audiences - who knows how it would be accepted elswhere... dunno.
I don't apologize to the audience about my taste in music or what I am presenting to them.
My philosophy is - give the audience what they think they don't want. It works most of the time.
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Hawaiian Steel Guitar/Ukulele Website
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 10 May 2007 7:14 am
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I thought you could pop up here, Gerald and I respect your stance. Still, mine has helped me to find new things I also REALY DO LOVE too. And while you help keeping the ol' stuff alive, I might someday contribute to the instrument finding acknowledgment in some other directions. But yes, I must admit that the ol' sound does not fit or represent my lifestyle nor environment anymore. I still love it and sometimes spend time emulating it but I have shifted into other things too. I see that in many things I do, like my architectural preferences, more modern furniture and an insatiable thirst for speed (on the road and in the air) and a huge shift in priorities in life. Maybe I spent too much time of my early youth playing with moth balls and having a romance with a time in which I wasn't even born... and now I feel the need to be young before I'll be old... Middle age crazy... well, I still keep my hair short, but, oh well...
Hey, I'm learning to dance Salsa and Bachata, and have a ball doing it here. Still, when I see a proper Hula I tend to be moved to tears (just don't tell anybody).
Anyway, Jeff said he'd "dunno" why people could feel that way, I tried to explain to him why he possibly couldn't but it was not my intention to say that everybody will eventually experience what I do.
OK... this topic has shifted considerably but so be it.
Thanks! ... J-D. |
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MUSICO
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Jeremy Williams in Spain
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Posted 12 May 2007 8:59 am
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Hi JD,
glad to see you happily installed in a new (and wonderful) country. "Saludos" from Spain, and best wishes on staying young by being happy....I have hated dancing since I was young but I can go with loving miriad music styles. Everytime I hear any style played with style, feeling and technique I feel I could ditch everything just to play like "that". "THAT" can be classical, oldtime jazz blues indian.
¿What instruments do you have with you out there? and ¿What got lost, stolen sold in the move?
Jeremy Williams
Barcelona Spain |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 13 May 2007 10:05 am Hey Jeremy
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Well yes, I arrived in a paradise, but one with a lot of "apple trees" I must add. Still, I love it here and am slowly re-learning to live.
Most of my stuff is still in Spain and all the vintage Ricks are at my parents in Switzerland, so, no loss (yet).
I came over here with (only) two very large 100Lb suit cases, one of which contained a brand new little non pedal guitar I had the priviledge to pick up on my way thru the States. I'll tell you more about it later.
Just got me a small headphone amp which I mostly run thru my computer... it mixes real well with some tracks I use and gives me a "recorded" kind of sound. I got one Rick amp waiting in Florida and intend to pick it up on my next shopping spree there.
Thanks! ... J-D. |
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