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Jeff Au Hoy
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Posted 11 Apr 2003 8:19 pm |
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 12 Apr 2003 1:27 am
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Thanks for the tunes Jeff. I enjoy hearing Barney's diverse sounds on the steel guitar.
BTW: I saw a documentary about Hawaii a few years back, in which Marlene Sai played the part of Queen Lili'uokalani.
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 12 Apr 2003 7:35 am
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Ron Randall
From:
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2003 11:13 am
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Jeff
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 12 Apr 2003 11:52 am
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With absolutely NO disrespect whatsoever for the "Master", (I absolutely love his stuff)...if he was playing in a hotel and Barney across the street in another, I would go to hear Barney as I feel he had the "sound" of Hawai'i which noone could emulate. He used a very large bar, his picks stuck out very far from his finger tips. I know Jerry loved Barney and his music also...one time, (so the story goes as I was not there to see it), out of great admiration of Barney's performance at a Ho'olaulea, he took cutting pliers and cut all of Barney's strings after Barney finished playing! (Of course, Barney seldom changed his strings...he kept them on his guitar for as long as there was any sound from them.)
Barney played a Magnatone double 8 for most of his career, especially during the Hawai'i Calls days, then changed over to a double 8 Canopus in the latter 5 years of his life.
Barney was absolutely one in a million...a great guy, always with a smile....and he loved Chinese food. His other passion was sausages. A year before he passed away, I took a couple of locally made Ukrainian (garlic) sausage rolls (about 15" in length) to Hawai'i and gave them to Barney in his home. I'll always remember his expression of shere exctasy when he ate those sausages !
Mahalo Jeff...Oh, I met Webley about 2 years prior to his death from cancer. He was a fine person and were it not for Webley, the world would never have heard "Hawai'i Calls". He knew how to obtain the funds from the State. This is a proven fact as the show quickly died after his passing. Others tried to revive the show on both TV and radio as recently as the mid-eighties, however although those shows were very good, they seemed to lack Webley's special 'touch'. They were never the quite the same. |
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Bob Stone
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Gainesville, FL, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2003 12:13 pm
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| Thanks, Jeff. Great stuff! |
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Jeff Strouse
From:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2003 4:34 pm
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Mahalo, Jeff!
Keep 'em coming!
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