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Topic: All hail Bobby Ingano, conquering steel King |
Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2006 6:04 pm |
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The hardest working man at Oahu's Tamashiro Market came back home Saturday from Maui and a day of studio recording for the upcoming CD by 'The Hula Honeys' with an article of (criminally rare) praise in the latest edition of The Maui News www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=22695 given to him by Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom concerning the story behind her new CD of trad. Hawaiian songs which he is again the featured steel player on a few cuts.
Bobby has got to be the most in demand 'Hawaiian' steel player of the modern era, if not of all time, and most of us are well aware as to why.
That he remains a 30+ year full time worker at Tamashiro's, has an ever increasing and inumerable list of studio credits in the last 10 years alone (with many of the jobs taking him off island, and the airport security hassles that go with it), more and more live/concert work (again, many on the other islands or mainland), his frequent/regular 'sit in' gigs, often with top local pro's, the usual party playing he loves to do, and still manages to keep a smile on his face, a happy family life and mental even keel while staying interested and inspired towards discovering/furthering/enjoying his and others music is simply astounding to this viewer.
My hat is SO off to him.
I feel fortunate to have known of this incredible guy for nearly 30 years, not to mention being allowed to carry his guitar or amp occassionally.
What an inspiration!
There is lots more good news for fellow BI fans soon to come.
Stay tuned[This message was edited by Ron Whitfield on 29 August 2006 at 10:54 AM.] |
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Øystein Røysi
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Trondheim, Norway
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Posted 28 Aug 2006 6:13 pm
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Ron---Where can I (here in Norway) get my hands on this album? It sounds incredible!
Thanks!
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Gold Tone Solid Spruce Weissenborn (D), National Dynamic (A6), SRV Strat, Koch Twintone II, Ayers Acoustic. |
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Mitch Druckman
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2006 8:28 pm
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This is the featured album at mele.com
They also have sample tracks from the album. |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 28 Aug 2006 9:01 pm
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Here's my two bits worth....I have NEVER met a nicer person than Bobby. I feel his potential talent is yet to be heard even though he blows me away with what he is doing on the steel today. He's an incredible guy in every respect and he is the ONLY steel guitarist I have ever come across who could actually sell toothpaste with his huge smile while playing ! (As Jerry once replied when someone mentioned JB never smiles while playing, "I'm not selling toothpaste!") Bobby would be a great toothpaste salesman !!! Bobby, you da best brah, and you are also so beautifully modest.
http://www3.telus.net/public/lake_r/ |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 28 Aug 2006 10:40 pm
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As I was saying in another post: I first met Bobby at Kapiolani Park at a May Day festival over 20 years ago. I did not know who he was at the time, but I thought,"This guy has a great future ahead." My thoughts have turned out to be correct.
He has an awesome touch on the strings of a steel guitar. Why? Because Bobby has such a big aloha heart.IMHO
Aloha, 
Don[This message was edited by Don Kona Woods on 28 August 2006 at 11:41 PM.] |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2006 10:29 am
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Keoki, Oystein & Don, I'm sure Bobby'd be quite appreciative of your respectful words if he was able to hear/read them, but he's probably the last one who'll ever be on a computer. That's a good thing for me as his typical humbleness and aversion to overt promotion would have him dissing the title of this thread. But that desire to remain reserved and in the shadows is also one reason he doesn't get the local or world wide acclaim he deserves, altho that may soon be changing, thanx to the .net, a new label, and his busy recording schedual.
I can't think of a more worthy person.
Mitch, thanx for the link info www.mele.com |
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Mat Rhodes
From:
Lexington, KY, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2006 10:54 am
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Amen to that! Bobby's style is a big inflence on me. He should be rich...  |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Aug 2006 3:10 pm
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Bobby is "DA MAN" alright. I'Ve been associated with him for some years, doing guitars etc for him. He has surpized me many times, when I thought I knew all about his talent, which turned out to be the tip of the iceberg. You will never hear him boast, and he doesn't care much for people who do.
He had known me for only a couple of months some years back, and he decided I should have a Rick bakelite, so he sent me one!! |
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Terry Farmer
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2006 4:08 pm
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| I had the incredible good fortune of meeting Bobby a few years ago and watch him play. That smile of his is contagious! I've never seen anyone enjoy playing steel as much as he does. He is an absolute blessing to this crazy world of ours. I wore out his first CD and was really happy when it was reissued. Can't wait to get a hold of this new one. Thank you, Bobby. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2006 10:55 am
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Bill, you are one of very many that has been given steels by 'DA MAN', h**k, he's given me 3 fry pans over the years! Of course I didn't accept any of them, but it's just another example of his big Aloha heart you mentioned, and he's the biggest 'giver' I've ever encountered.
However, I recently did gladly take 2 steel bars once owned and very used by Barney Isaacs he offered and the big Dunlop is now my treasured main bar.
If there is anybody in the world perpetuating the Hawaiian steel guitar and the Aloha spirit, it's Bobby. |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Sep 2006 9:27 pm
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I would like to add a little anecdote. I was on a visit to Waikiki, might have been 2002, may be inaccurate. I just " happened to be passing by" the Banyan Tree courtyard at the Sheraton Moana on Kalakakua Avenue where a new steel guitarist, they told me at the counter,Bobby Ingano, was playing. Loved his simple style from the first note I heard him play. During the half hour rest period I got talking with him and he asked me if I wanted to play on stage. Me, a total stranger to him!!! Okay, he said, he would be playing there again the day after next. Come on up and he would give me the stage, he said. I asked if I could get a feeling for the tuning on his guitar, which he graciously allowed me to do before his time on stage was over. C6 with a high G, it was. I could not sleep that night, and maybe not even the following one, figuring out what I would play and where I would find the notes on a guitar on a tuning I had never played on at that time, as I had not my own guitar with me.
On the day, I got there well on time, a nervous wreck,heart pounding. During the rest period he came up to me and said I was on immediately after. I told him how nervous I was to be playing at the Banyan Tree. He gave me his great big smile and a handshake before I went on stage. Brah, he said, just play straight from your heart. That was my inspiration. I played Harbor Lights without a glitch which he seemed to like, asked me to come play it again a few days later at another venue right by the sidewalk on Kalakakua Ave. , I forget the name. Advised I needed to turn the tone control on the guitar down a bit for the tune.
That is Bobby. Immensely talented but a truly unassuming, kind, and humble person. Truly, the salt of the earth.
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