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Scott Thomas
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Posted 6 Feb 2007 3:56 pm |
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No, not Zeppelin, Kaapana!
I picked up the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine the other day and there is an insert in the form of a small booklet stapled to the outside cover. In it is a run down of many of this year's nominees. There are features on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mary J. Blige, etc... and then right there with his own full page feature, Ledward Kaapana under the heading of nominee for Best Hawaiian Album (I think that was it). Premier Slack Key player for those who don't know him.
Here's the steel content: (okay, tenuous at best . . .)
BUT I couldn't help but think that if the Hawaiian music catagory is getting major attention, one could just as easily envision a steel guitar artist (Bobby Ingano?) getting the same exposure. I still don't think the idea of a Hawaiian steel guitar resurgence into the popular conciousness is that far fetched? |
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Terry Farmer
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2007 9:06 pm
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| I still don't think the idea of a Hawaiian steel guitar resurgence into the popular conciousness is that far fetched? |
Myself and a few million Sponge Bob fans don't think so either.  |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 12:04 am
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| BUT I couldn't help but think that if the Hawaiian music catagory is getting major attention, one could just as easily envision a steel guitar artist (Bobby Ingano?) getting the same exposure. |
I am in total agreement with you Scott.
And besides Bobby Ingano, there is Jeff Au Hoy, Ron Kanahele, Alan Akaka, K.C. Olson, Greg Sardinha, Paul Kim, etc. And before too long George Freitas, etc.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 8:44 am
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todays NewYork Times Arts section has a great article about this guy.
we have the Year of the Pig coming in soon (Chinese Lunar calendar)..
perhaps it is time for the great Hawaiian awareness luau year!
about time! |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 Feb 2007 12:20 am
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What is amazing is that most people around here have no idea what slack-key guitar is.
Couple of years ago, I was in a local music store, in the guitar section. The guy who works that area says " there was a big Hawaiian guy in here, playing one of the guitars, in a strange tuning, and played hell out of it. Never heard anything like it. He called it slack key."
Of course the public these days doesn't know what a steel guitar is either
BILL |
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Paul Honeycutt
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2007 9:56 pm
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| That reminds me of a time a duo I was in was playing a party. A very attractive young woman came up the steel player and said, "I just love your cute little organ." |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Feb 2007 7:54 am
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He didn't forget to "zip up "did he?  |
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