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Topic: Eddie Palama - mini-documentary |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Mar 2007 4:47 pm |
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That's really cool, Andy. Thanks for sharing!
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Jeff Au Hoy
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Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 14 Mar 2007 6:39 pm
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| Watch out for that 5th string when you strum the first chord of "Sand". |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 14 Mar 2007 9:26 pm
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Eddie knows how to talk story. 
I enjoyed the clip and his reflections about Gabby.
Did you notice the natural air conditioning in his home. That is the open door.  There is most always a nice cook tradewind blowing in Hawaii.
Thanks for putting it on for us.
Aloha, 
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 14 Mar 2007 10:13 pm
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I met Eddie Palama on my first visit to Hawaii 24 years ago. I had kept asking around for steel guitar where I was (not at the posh end of Waikiki at the time) and was directed to a dim-lit bar in a shady part of downtown Honolulu. There were hardly any patrons in that bar. Eddie and his then band were playing with a beer glass in front for money. He had the generosity to invite me to play his steel guitar (I got through "Kaimana Hila" with a lot of help) on the dimly-lit stage. I met him again in Hawaii at a Ho'olaule'a at Kamehameha School three years later and he warmly remembered me and Adriana, my wife. He does a great "On a Little Street in Singapore". I last met him in 2005 when he was playing at the bandstand at Kapiolani Park on Lei Day.
He is kind and unassuming, a very fine gentleman, and a fine steel guitarist who has gone on to greater things since that bar in Honolulu (Peter Moon band, "Sanoe", the Hawaiian Hilton Village show etc. If any SGF/HSGA friend should meet him personally, please tell him that Kay and Adriana said "Hi".
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Kevin Brown
From:
England
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Posted 15 Mar 2007 12:31 am
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| Thanks from me too Andy, almost as good as your book !! |
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2007 4:15 pm
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Jeff,
Watch out for the border patrol.  |
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 15 Mar 2007 5:24 pm
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Sheriff Buford T. Justice |
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