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Topic: WINDY & WARM BY CHET ATKINS |
Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 29 Oct 2012 10:09 am |
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When I watch Chet clips, it always makes me try to figure out a way to get some cash to go out and buy a nice Gretsch - then it hits me that when I play the thing it won't sound anything like that.
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2012 12:21 pm
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Mark,When I was around ten and had my little Stella guitar,I KNEW without a DOUBT if I had a Chet Gretsch guitar I could play like him. I was ABSOLUTELY SURE of this.When I got grown and could afford them I bought several Gretsch guitars over the years.They DID NOT make me play like Chester.  YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 12 Nov 2012 7:08 pm
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I have that album and now it's been commercially released onto CD. It was my dream as a kid to play like Chet. About 20 yrs ago I decided to go out and at least learn to play some semblance of the Atkins style. I went through 6 or 7 teachers before I found a fingerstyle teacher that really knew what he was doing and could actually convey the style to me. AFter 6 months, he told me, "Son, I've taught you all I can. You've excelled faster than any student of mine ever did. Now, go out there and do it". Well, there I was getting pretty good on fingerstyle guitar but that's not what bands were looking for. Then I heard that haunting sound in country music called a pedal steel. The rest is history. I never forgot that alternating bass thumb rhythm, it's still in my mind and my hand, but steel rules now.
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2012 9:29 am
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| Charles Davidson wrote: |
| Mark,When I was around ten and had my little Stella guitar,I KNEW without a DOUBT if I had a Chet Gretsch guitar I could play like him. I was ABSOLUTELY SURE of this.When I got grown and could afford them I bought several Gretsch guitars over the years.They DID NOT make me play like Chester. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC. |
i still have the letter he wrote me back when i was in high school. i asked him if he had a spare gretsch he wanted to get rid of and he could just send it to me!!! lol. he said that he used them on his recordings. so i got an autographed pic instead! still have it. he was my guitar hero!! |
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