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Topic: Can We Still Play The Music We Love? |
Eric West
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Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 May 2006 4:48 am |
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Well Donny in a short burst before I fly out the door..
In his early times when Johnny Made it, he WAS the real thing.
When he "got into trouble" was around the time of his TV show, and it all got "packaged" "produced" and WAY too "commercial. A good bio I saw on him had him saying just that.
It all fell on his head and he headed off to oblivion.
He and his producers forgot what made Johnny Cash Johnny Cash.
Then some kid remembered.
EJL
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 9 May 2006 9:00 am
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| Go banjo. Away. |
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 9 May 2006 9:32 am
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B0B, you won't have to agree with me, I have changed my mind. Here is something I can't understand: I go to several Steel Guitar Shows, where I hear some of the greatest players and singing in the world. These Shows are advertized where the public should know the Show is going on. I see promoters spending lots of time and money trying to get the general public to attend.
Musicians,and singers have family and friends, and those friends have friends. When I look out over the audience at these great music events, I see the general public staying away in droves. 99.99% of the audience are musicians, not the general public. It is not the cost of the Show, because tickets are really cheap, and a lot of the times free. It is not the quality of players, or the singers. Some say it is because the public does not relate well to instrumental music. That can't be the case either, because there is a lot of great singing at these Steel Shows. I personally can't figure out why the general public is not interested in attending these great Steel Guitar Shows. Al Petty once told me, that it was difficult for him to understand why the public did not love the steel guitar as much as he did. These Steel Guitar Shows are not just about the Steel Guitar, all kinds of great musicians show up. Even when advertized as a Music Show, instead of a Steel Guitar Show, the public stays away. So why is it that the general public does not pack these Steel Shows to soak up the great music and singing? I have had this question on my mind for a long time. I think it somehow relates to B0B's original statement in this topic. Walk Me To The Door-- won't sell to the public where B0B lives. dI doubt that it would sell to the public where I live. Especially if the band were wearing cowboy hats and the people saw a steel guitar. It might sell in Texas. |
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Kenny Yates
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Hattiesburg Mississippi
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Posted 9 May 2006 11:13 am
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I don't know , can you really value the opinion of someone who doesn't like Banjo, the only instrument where it is nearly impossible to play a really sad song?  |
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Joe Casey
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Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 10 May 2006 4:10 am
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Just wondering if Tiny Moore was the same person that lived next door to me in Sacramento? "Y" street.He became a baptist preacher.Also taught me how to play guitar.(1960)
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 12:50 pm
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Joe,
Gotta be. He was tall, and he was heavy until the early 60s when he got diabetes and lost weight and kept it off, but I think he kept smoking. I think he was in his late 30s at the time. Remember his tv kids show called Ranger Roy's Round Up Time? I can still sing the theme song, which he played on a big flat top as I recall--maybe the one he used for your lessons. I don't know if he lived on Y Street. (I went to high school at 34th and Y.) He was married to one of the McKinney sisters--Dean, I think.
He was teaching in Sack o' Tomato/Sack Toe at that time. I took lessons from him at Ye Music Shop at Town and Country Village at about Fulton and El Camino. A few years later, he owned Tiny Moore Music Center at about El Camino and the freeway. He had a beat Volkswagen, which i think he later repainted. He played around town in the Tiny Moore Trio.
Here are some photos of him with the Billy Jack Wills band in the 50s. http://images.google.com/images?q=billy+jack+wills&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
Here are some photos of him when he was old. There's also a photo of a Pastor Tiny Moore in here, so maybe it's this other Tiny you took lessons from. http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Tiny+moore%22&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 4:14 pm
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| I don't know , can you really value the opinion of someone who doesn't like Banjo, the only instrument where it is nearly impossible to play a really sad song? |
Most banjo playing sounds pretty sad to me. |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 7:04 pm
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bOb,
All of my banjo playing playing does. |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 11 May 2006 5:06 am
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Darryl, I actually lived on X St.and there was an alley separating our houses.He one day came over while I was fooling around with Jack Vaughn trying to write songs with a new Silvertone flat top. He then brought over his F cut along with a mandolin might have been a Gibson and this was almost a daily thing until he had me playing pretty good. I believe the radio show you talk about was Charley Moore (oops I'm wrong Thats Charley Marshall) on KFBK. Man for the good old days.I use to get 50 cents a car to park on our lawn for the old State fair as X street was the last exit/ entrance. Billy Jack was doing a Show on Sacs new KCNW fm station.I'll bet I wouldn't recognize the place.Sure do get homesick for them old days.
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[This message was edited by Joe Casey on 12 May 2006 at 04:45 AM.] |
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