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Topic: Margie Knocks Me Out |
norm mcdaniel
From:
waco tx
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Posted 12 Mar 2012 11:04 am |
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I got to talk to Margie mays friday morning before she played in the non pedal room upstairs at the Sheridan . What a great personable lady she is. I already had my mind made up about her before I even heard her play that brown Jerry Byrd guitar. After I heard her I was even more impressed. She is smoooooth.
Every one that I heard play were good but she really played stuff that was Neat ,especially the B-11 tuning things.
Norm McDaniel
Waco Tx |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2012 12:44 pm
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| Margie is the steelshizzle! |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 12 Mar 2012 9:57 pm
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Her version of Echoes of the South Pacific was the first time I had ever heard the piece. I lifted it lock,stock, and barrel. 
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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James Hartman
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 6:30 am Re: Echoes Of The South Pacific
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Sweet. I think I'll have to cop that arrangement myself. |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 3:15 pm
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I believe she's in A6th.
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 11:42 pm
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I first met MARGIE MAYS some 20 years ago and have always been impressed by her musicianship. As I recall,
she was playing one of those old solinoyd tuning switch guitars, (brand name escapes me), which made 'pop' noises every time a switch was pressed to change the tuning ! The distraction never bothered the listener as she played ECHOES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC so beautifully.
Oh, and she still looks as young as I remember her ! |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 12:44 am solenoid
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| That's her old Magnenoid, I mean Magnatone - Multimatic. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 1:08 am
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| The first time I ever heard of her was when she was one of the specially selected performers at the sorely missed Jerry Byrd Steel Guitar Ho'olaule'a, and she was not only playing her neato guitar, but playing it well, and looking cute. I was smitten. Being a fan of the oddball makes of guitars, I had to see it and talk to her, now. I went outside and found the backdoor to the hall... and it was open! I peeked inside, knowing it would be grounds protected by guard dog Byrd, and the only sights to be seen were Margie and her cool Magnatone as she packed it away. I went inside, made my howdys and explained myself so she felt comfortable, and she immediately became my new best friend by being so friendly and telling all about her Multimatic. Then in walked Jerry, surprised that a new face had breached security, he eyed me with burning lasers that left scars, but seeing Margie happily engaged he knew I was no threat and let it go. That was also the last time I ever saw her play the Mag and she says it rarely gets out of the case. She really made that oddity sound great. |
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Bill Wynne
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 8:21 am
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I, too, am knocked out by her tone and technique. She plays like a Hawaiian. I am pretty sure she is in B11th judging by those strum 9th chords she is playing.
But to take up the vitriolic pen (which I occasionally borrow from Basil Henriques) for just a moment... For those learning this tune from Maggie's recording, there is an incorrect chord on the downbeat of the second bar every time she returns to the head. When she moves from the I to the V, she does a five-fret glissando. That gliss is supposed to land on a somewhat tense augmented chord - not on a 9th - as evidenced by the augmented 5th in the melody. (It would probably help to hear the melody line unharmonized - the way Hal sung it on the original recording.) It gives Aloma's composition a somewhat unique feel (as the augmented is not a staple in Hawaiian tunes).
If you haven't heard the original, shame on you.  Hunt down Hal Aloma's "Live at the Luau 400" LP on Dot Records. (It is not a "live" album by the way - simply a reference to the club where he had been playing at the time the recording was made.)
~ Bill |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 8:46 am
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| Bill Wynne wrote: |
| If you haven't heard the original, shame on you. Hunt down Hal Aloma's "Live at the Luau 400" LP |
Might as well start the search on planet Mars! In decades of focus I havn't even heard of that album until now. I'll reprimand myself with an early bedtime and no dinner. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 9:30 am
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The actual title is "At The Luau 400", Dot DLP-25367.
Here's the cover. I don't have it, though.
Thanks for sharing that clip of Margie. I didn't get to see her while I was there.
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 9:40 am
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| Thanx for that, Brad, maybe Brian can be cajoled into sharing the music! |
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Wally Pfeifer
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 10:50 am
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Oh, man,- you poor guys don't have "Luau At The 400"? Ron knows I have it along with 5, 6, 7 or ? other Hal Aloma LPs.
And Margie sure makes good music on any song she plays.
Just recently saw her at the Phoenix Steel Show in January.
Wally |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 2:25 pm
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Hi Bill, your vitriol is coconut milk compared to Baz. I too noticed the the different chords as I had an original of Hal's sheet music. I said I believed her tuning was A6th. Having some similarity to B11, I guess I was just able to make it fit, kinda. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Bill Wynne
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 7:07 pm
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| Ron Whitfield wrote: |
| Thanx for that, Brad, maybe Brian can be cajoled into sharing the music! |
Or you could cajole me. Hell. You didn't even try very hard. 
I have had this album since I was a kid. You would have been hard pressed to find it in Hawai'i because these mainland recordings didn't see much distribution there. Hal Aloma was born in Hawai'i but worked and lived out his days on the east coast (including a stint at the Hawaiian Village at Disney World Florida). His birth name is Alama, and he was brother to Sam Alama (who wrote classic hapa-haole tunes like "Kanakanui Hotel").
I will post a link to the tune this weekend.
- Bill |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 7:25 pm
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| Bill Wynne wrote: |
| Ron Whitfield wrote: |
| Thanx for that, Brad, maybe Brian can be cajoled into sharing the music! |
Or you could cajole me. Hell. You didn't even try very hard. |
Oh, but I did, and maybe it's working, as  ...after trying softly for years, I had to assume the direct route was doomed to the deep well of failure frustration.  |
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