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Topic: Sol Ho'opi'i clips on YouTube |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Gary Lynch
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Creston, California, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2007 1:13 pm |
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| Music to my ears. I love his playing. |
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Gary Anwyl
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Palo Alto, CA
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Posted 23 Mar 2007 9:58 pm
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| Great clips! It's fun seeing Sol Hoopii even though it's pretty brief. It's also nice to see Steel Guitar music being used to "set the mood" for a pretty sensual scene. |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 24 Mar 2007 6:40 pm
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Always enjoyable to hear Sol play. 
The so-called hula dancing was atroceous in all of the clips!  Well what can you expect, it wasn't filmed in Hawaii. 
Aloha, 
Don |
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Tim Tweedale
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Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 10:51 am
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Wow. It is really something to see Sol Ho'opi'i in action. Particularly interesting to see some of his percussive guitar-hitting in the second clip.
-Tim
"We've got to do something about this unemployment situation!" |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Jeff Au Hoy
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Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 3:58 am
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| nya see! nya! |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 5:39 am
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I just spoke with my brother. He's a big Edward G. Robinson fan. He confirmed that Doug Smith is indeed correct, the movie was 'The Little Giant'.
My brother writes:
Doug's right. Smart Money was a different one.
'The Little Giant' was a spoof of Robinson's 'Little Caesar'.
There is a great line in it, he's at some mob guy's house and he's looking at a Renoir painiting.
The mob guy says, "that cost me 100 grand".
Rico (egr) says "those gold frames sure must cost plenty of dough..."
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Hawaiian Steel Guitar/Ukulele Website |
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Darrell Urbien
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Echo Park, California
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 9:46 pm
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Don't have any comment about the authenticity of the Hula, but if that's what it was really like in LA in the '20s and '30s, then [using Bill Murray Stripes voice] "I wanna party with those guys!" Anyone know where the movie was supposed to be set?
Sol looks to be having a great time in that party clip (though he doesn't appear to be actually playing - in any of the clips). I wonder how many times they had to do that shot... |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 12:59 pm
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Here is a synopsis of the flick:
The Little Giant (comedy)
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson) decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Hawaiian Steel Guitar/Ukulele Website |
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