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Topic: Early Waikiki Islanders practise sessions (1963) |
basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Harry Dietrich
From: Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 May 2007 12:08 pm
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Baz
Is that you doing the singing?
If so....pretty good.
Harry |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Alan Brookes
From: Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 17 May 2007 5:02 pm
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No, I can't figure out the tunings. |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 17 May 2007 6:50 pm
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Beautiful playing, Baz. I really enjoyed your rendition of Ebb Tide - it's always been one of my favorite tunes. _________________ -𝕓𝕆𝕓- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video |
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Posted 18 May 2007 2:34 am
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Great listening, Baz. I loved hearing The Thins We said Today on steel. Was that inspired by Desi Arnaz? ("Let me 'splain a 'thin or two, Lucy!" )
By the way, newer members, if you like these cuts, check out Baz's wonderful Live at the Castaways CDs for more swinging and tasteful steel work.
ps Kind of you not to comment on the two egregious typos on MY post! Typos ... the bane of my professional career.
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 18 May 2007 5:35 am
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Just ONE "Typo".. you should see how many there are in the magazine before Pat puts on her editor's cap..
Of course it should be "THINGS" but I was trying to get all the links to work and ignored the spelling of the body text..
Admonished, ostracized and castigated.. but nonetheless happy !!
BTW The spell checker says that "nonetheless" IS a word !! surprise surprise..
BTW we also "Love Lucy"
Did you notice the messing around by me on the plectrum guitar on "Nuages" |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 18 May 2007 10:29 pm
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Admonished, ostracized and castigated. |
Would that be perchance a "Hankeyism" ? |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 19 May 2007 1:23 am
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Admonished, ostracized and castigated |
Isn't that part of the seldom-heard third verse of the Rogers and Hart tune that goes, "I'm wild again, beguiled again..."? |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 19 May 2007 3:56 am
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Probably, but I'm just Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered as to what the song is ! |
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Alan Brookes
From: Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 19 May 2007 4:54 pm
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There's some good material there.
I think you got the name of number 2 right. It's that famous Hawaiian folk song called "Please tell me the name of this." It goes...
"Please tell me the name of this,
It's much too good a number to miss.
I sit on the beach and sing it out loud,
It never fails to draw a crowd.
I pull out my guitar and we start to roll,
Till my tone bar falls into the hole.
I'd play some more if I knew how,
But they're about to throw me out of the luau...." |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 19 May 2007 6:31 pm
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Number 2 is an old standard called "Pili Me 'Oe" i.e., together with you. Not sure who composed it.
Alan, what's the melody to that song? I'd love to learn and sing it. |
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George Keoki Lake
From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 19 May 2007 11:27 pm
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Thanks George, typos are the bane of the cixelsyd !!
Being somewhat of a Kamaaina myself I've long ago forgotten how to spell Malihini..
Play this |
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George Keoki Lake
From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 20 May 2007 8:41 am
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What the heck is a cixelsyd !! I've looked on all my steel guitars and can't find one of those. Am I missing something ? Is this why I'll never amount to anything on the steel ? Should I toss all my guitars in the nearest river ? Oh woe ! Goodbye cruel world !!
http://www3.telus.net/public/lake_r/ |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 20 May 2007 9:33 am
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Reverse it !! |
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Alan Brookes
From: Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 20 May 2007 11:04 am
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Jeff Au Hoy wrote: |
Number 2 is an old standard called "Pili Me 'Oe" i.e., together with you. Not sure who composed it.
Alan, what's the melody to that song? I'd love to learn and sing it. |
Jeff: Does "Pili Me 'Oe" translate to "Please tell me the name of this" ?
The melody of the song ? You can make it up as you go along... |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 20 May 2007 11:16 pm
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Both Ken Ufton and myself used to call it "Cowboy Hula" maybe that's a UK nickname for it !! |
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Derrick Mau
From: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 21 May 2007 3:37 pm
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Baz,
My records show that song #2 (Pili Me 'Oe) was written by Charles E. King. |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 9 Apr 2008 8:44 am
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Keoki said "What the heck is a cixelsyd !! I've looked on all my steel guitars and can't find one of those. "
Well George a cixelsyd is a Dyslexic trying to type his "noitcilffa" |
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Howard Tate
From: Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Apr 2008 10:52 am
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Bas, your playing always has such great tone, and is so clean, I love it. |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 9 Apr 2008 11:59 am
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Muchas gracias Howard, or should that be Mahalo Nui ?
You've just "Made my Day".. |
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Brad Bechtel
From: San Francisco, CA
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Posted 10 Apr 2008 7:45 am
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Your practice sessions sound MUCH better than mine. Thanks for sharing, Basil! _________________ Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Nic Neufeld
From: Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 3 Jan 2018 7:24 am
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basilh wrote: |
Did you notice the messing around by me on the plectrum guitar on "Nuages" |
Thanks for these. Sound pretty good for recording them that long ago!
I was listening to them without looking at the titles and it ran across Nuages, and for a second I thought it the Jerry Byrd intro to Sand, so I can see why (as I've read on here) people wondered if he was influenced by Nuages... Nice fretting! |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2018 10:24 am
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Nic Neufeld wrote: |
I was listening to them without looking at the titles and it ran across Nuages, and for a second I thought it the Jerry Byrd intro to Sand, so I can see why (as I've read on here) people wondered if he was influenced by Nuages... Nice fretting! |
The resemblance to Sand was what attracted me to the song as well. Both songs are in our Wine Country Swing repertoire. _________________ -𝕓𝕆𝕓- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video |
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