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Topic: Looks like we have a bunch of youngun's on steel |
Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2008 10:43 am |
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| With Francesco, and all the other kids with a new interest in steel, it looks like there may be some serious hope for the future of steel guitar. |
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Chris Walke
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St Charles, IL
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 8:27 am
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What?? These kids are just gonna muck up our beloved steel guitar tradition with their fuzzy-distorted "acid rock"!! ...Buncha no talent punks who don't learn proper technique and think louder is better. Next thing ya know, they're gonna be posting questions about Jerry Garcia on the PSG side. We can't just can't stand for that!!
Just kidding.  |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 8:44 am
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Ya mean louder isn't better??  |
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AJ Azure
From:
Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 9:15 am
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| louder is useless unless the lap steel is black |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 9:47 am
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| louder is useless unless the lap steel is black |
The tribotone bar needs to be black also. No half measures will do.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 10:13 am HEY! Wait a minute...................
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YOU left out electric, Hawaiian, laptop-slide, bottle steel guitar "R - A - P - P"!......with a doo-wah pedal and fuzz, compression, chorus, flang and delay. You know, the kind you tune from the BOTTOM... UP! Complete with the electronic cut-out button like Speedy West, Noel Bogss, Jerry Byrd, Herb Remington, Leon MacAuliff and Alvino Rey DIDN'T have.
Some of it is already here........ |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 10:17 am
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Ron,
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| With Francesco, and all the other kids with a new interest in steel, it looks like there may be some serious hope for the future of steel guitar. |
Ron are you referring to Neil Scott's steel classroom students? Or something else?
I could not find a clear referral point or connection with your first post.
I think that as Bobby Ingano, Derrick Mau, Alan Akaka, Jeff Au Hoy and others in the Islands take an interest in these young people such as Neil Scott's class interest can be generated which will produce good results. Someone taking a personal interest in you does have a payoff.  IMHO.
Aloha,
Don |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 11:35 am
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Don, the refference is to George Rout's post about his grandson, Francesco, getting his young feet wet on stage, with a big hat and a big steel.
Check it out near the bottom on the page, soon to be page 2.
This last Saturday, Derrick went to Neil's classroom and did the demo for the kids. I dropped by before the doin's and saw the workshop busy with students working on the upgrade steel's that are patterned from Neil's homemade steel which he made when he was 17. The upgrade version, from the very basic initial shop self-mades the kids start with, has a tuner built into the body! It's screen sit's next to the V/T knobs for easy viewing. It seems they are allowed to put their own personal cosmetic touches to the pieces, and there were some good looking steels being produced. Some have already made their own amps.
I'm hoping that by now they have been given bullet bars and the C6 tuning to really get them into the swing.
I too would like to see our island players take time to give inspiration to kid's State wide.
Thanx for your input, Don. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 7:28 pm
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Sounds like a lot of fun for the kids. Making their own stuff may help hold their interest somewhat.
Finding teachers seems to be the common problem. I would really like to teach a young person if there was one around here that showed interest. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2008 11:54 am
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Yes, having kids do all the work is a great way to get them 'inside' the various aspects of the steel, and one of the reasons I was so impressed with Neil's efforts. The % of kids that are interested are REALLY interested, and these experiences will last a lifetime. Even the ones that fall out after a while will have this prior knowledge to return to if/when they re-discover the steel.
I don't know of any other steel class/teacher that has or is doing this combination of lessons.
Bill, you should post an add at your local music stores and free classifieds for teaching lessons. I'll bet you get some nibbles.
Or, move over here and teach me! Oops, I mean, teach the soon to be overflow of steel students in Hawaii. |
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George Rout
From:
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 7:40 pm
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Wow. My grandson Francesco is the topic of some styles. Guys, his idea of playing the steel is very traditional, he's not interested in compressors, distorters, fuzzers etc. etc.
As soon as we have some time, I'm going to put him on a youtube for all to hear him.
He's on the right track, and Ray Montee, you watch your strings, he'll come over with a pair of wire cutters!!!!!!!!
Francesco is really a good kid for steel and Dobro.
Geo
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