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Topic: Kona Bob on Steel from the Big Island - Hawaii |
Don Kona Woods
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Posted 22 Jun 2008 7:20 pm |
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Take a listen at some island music by Konabob! 
Lil Grass Shack - With Konabob, Uncle Don & Bruddah George
And what do you say about that "Stick Bass?"
Konabob hosted HSGA steel guitar players on the Big Island at Kona for a steel guitar festival at Hilo Bay in May, 2007. It was a grand time.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Steve Hamill
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California, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2008 11:46 am Kona Bob
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| I love that stickbass. I'm a member of the forum and plan to move there in few years. Bobs played with some legends over there. |
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Todd Weger
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Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 23 Jun 2008 1:15 pm Swingin'!
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I didn't know Konabob played steel, too. Very cool!
Love the Walkingbass. I believe Bob created and builds those, yes? IMO, this old-style hapa-haole music needs that upright tone to sound 'right,' at least to my ears. The Walkingbass gets amazingly close to that wonderful 'thump.'
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Todd James Weger --
1956 Fender Stringmaster T-8 (C6, E13, A6); 1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (C6, B11/A6); Custom-made 25" aluminum cast "fry pan" with vintage Ricky p'up (C6); 1938 Epiphone Electar (A6); 1953 Oahu Tonemaster; assorted ukuleles; upright bass |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 24 Jun 2008 5:43 am
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i remember meeting Kona Bob and his wife at the NY Uke Fest a few years back. She paid me just about the nicest compliment anyone could ever ask for after I played a set there. Extremely nice folks; in fact, too nice, makes me suspicious.  Just kidding.
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