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Here is an other Eddie Bush photo....any info on band members will be helpful. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/16086_Eddie_Bush_Show_Golden_Nugget_41456_text_added_1_1.jpg From left to right: Ernest Kawohilani (who sometimes went by the moniker Prince Kawohi) on the Strat Harry Baty (of...

The steel player here is Sam Makia (standing to the right of McIntire). Sam was bass player for McIntire before Aloma left the group, then took over as McIntire's steel player, and then finally Sam led the band in that room (the Hawaiian Room of the Lexington Hotel) after McIntire left. Aloma and Ma...

Hello, all! I haven't been around in a while. For those who don't remember me, I am an avid collector of Hawaiian music (over 20,000 recordings) who launched a 24/7 streaming Hawaiian music radio station some years ago called Ho`olohe Hou Radio. I am also an occasional steel player. Every January 18...

Don Kona Woods wrote:I am really enjoying Ho`olohe Hou Radio.

Mahalo nui loa to Bill for this Hawaiian treat.

Thanks, Don! I appreciate the support. So many rare and even one-of-a-kind recordings being featured. I wish it would catch on among more steel players.

But we'll keep doing it every Saturday!

~ Bill

We' re doing it again! Tune in for "Steel Guitar Saturdays" plus three episodes of Hawaii Calls.

Click here to listen: http://www.hoolohehou.net

Today at Ho`olohe Hou Radio (Click here to listen - http://goo.gl/sFPbp4)... And if you love the idea as much as I do, maybe we'll do it again next week? Last week hundreds accepted the invitation - from the Netherlands to New Jersey. So "Steel Guitar Saturdays" is now a staple at Ho`olohe...

Beautiful rendition! To set the record straight, "Shells" was written by Lani Kai (star of "Adventures in Paradise" and Ito in Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii) and Alex Kaeck (formerly of the vocal group The Invitations).

Today at Ho`olohe Hou Radio (Click here to listen - http://www.hoolohehou.net)... "Steel Guitar Saturdays" is now a staple at Ho`olohe Hou Radio. Tune in every Saturday to hear selections from the Ho`olohe Hou Radio archives of more than 25,000 Hawaiian recordings - more than a third featu...

We know that is Jules not only because his style is unmistakable, but because the original liner notes indicate that the album was made in Honolulu with the Hawaii Calls orchestra including many of its members of that era - Jimmy Kaopuiki, Sonny Kamahele, Pua Almeida, Sonny Nicholas - arranged and d...

I am 1/4 Filipino.

Did I get the job?

~ Bill Wynne

Not taking anything away from Bobby by any means, but this is not a new aggregation. This is Alan Akaka's Islanders without Alan Akaka and substituting Bobby Ingano.

Alan, Kaipo, and Gary have been playing together since their Halekulani Hotel gig 15 years ago.

It was the 25th anniversary of his passing last Friday. So I thought a tribute was in order. Freddie was one of my childhood heroes. So I have a lot of obscure recordings by him - recordings on which he has not really been identified by anyone publicly. For example, he did two records with Sam Koki ...

Matt - I had not returned to the SGF in several days. So I had no idea that the "mystery pledge" was from an SGF member. What can I say? Mahalo for appreciating the effort and supporting it generously. I was trying to count up the steel guitarists in today's playlists at Ho`olohe Hou Radio...

I have come back to the forum from time to time to alert my steel-playing friends about my blog devoted to the preservation of Hawaiian music - Ho`olohe Hou . Well, now Ho`olohe Hou the blog is Ho`olohe Hou Radio - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, featuring primarily out of print recordings from my ar...

I recently posted here about the volumes of rare steel guitar recordings I have been posting to my audio blog, Ho`olohe Hou . Some of these are one-of-a-kind or never commercially released recordings which just happen to feature Hawai`i's legendary steel guitarists. I was surprised that the post gar...

Was Frank M at this show with you? I'm thinking that the Fender is one of two that Frank sold to Jeff. I'd like to get Frank to check out this video. FnD were right next to me enjoying the steel fest, and yes that's one of two Miller tri's that stayed in Hawaii with Jeff and were sounding great, th...

Many of you know that I used to host a podcast – and, later, a radio show – devoted to primarily out of print and rare Hawaiian music. Last year I revived this concept in the form of a blog, and I got so busy maintaining it that I failed to tell my friends at SGF about it – a travesty, especia...

Tonight... Live from Honolulu... Join me and my friends - Jeff Au Hoy on steel guitar, Halehaku Seabury-Akaka on guitar, and Ocean Kaowili on bass - for what I hope will be a very special evening of music and merriment "Hawaiian style." 6:30PM HST / 9:30PM PDT / 12:30AM EDT For the live st...

Thanks for the update, Derrick. While it might be Mike Kaawa's group now , I have two CDs of that group that plays at Honey's on Sundays and they are both under the group name "Eddie Kamae and The Sons of Hawaii" - both on Eddie's "Hawaii Sons" label. So sometimes I put two and t...

I was a huge fan of Poncie Ponce. I am not sure I would have called him a supporter of the steel guitar. He was not a bandleader; he played with the bands hired to back him. The arranger of his Warner Brothers LP - "Poncie Ponce Sings" - hired California-based Vince Akina (of The Polynesia...

I met Don twice and had the pleasure of accompanying him at one convention. A marvelous player and a terrific human being.

I still use a bar he made me from some unknown polymer. The guy was technically brilliant.

I will try to post some video of him here soon.

R.I.P., Don.

~ Bill

In addition to Jack's mentions, is not Paul Kim still playing with Eddie Kamae's group at Honey's at Ko'olau from 3pm until...?

~ Bill

When I announced "Hawaiian Night" at the local Italian restaurant where I usually perform jazz and pop, Don Woods said, "I hope this starts a trend." Indeed, it did as we sold out an Italian restaurant with Hawaiian music. So I have been asked to do it again next Tuesday evening ...

If you happen to be within driving distance of the modest hamlet of Ewing, NJ... Halehaku Seabury-Akaka - who with his group, Na Hoa, garnered four Na Hoku Hanohano Awards for their debut CD release - and yours truly have teamed up for an evening of Hawaiian song and storytelling at Villa Rosa Risto...

Today would have been Billy Hew Len's 92nd birthday. I will be honoring him for the next week on my blog.

~ Bill Wynne

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