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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 28 Mar 2003 2:54 pm |
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I will be playing at what has become my usual bat time, at my usual bat bar, Hank's Saloon, starting around 10.
It has come to my attention that as the clock strikes midnite I will apparently become 50. I just might need to prove that I can handle my likker and pick my steel every bit as good as I did when I was 25. Scary thing is that I spent most of my young drinking years perfecting my bowl-hugging technique and I hadn't started playing steel yet. So the evening could get a bunch uglier than normal.
http://www.hankstavern.com/ |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 29 Mar 2003 9:16 pm
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Jon- wish I could be there to help celebrate- I'm lookin' down the barrel of 50 myself this year...
have fun and have a designated driver/roadie. |
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Emmett Roch
From:
Texas Hill Country
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Posted 30 Mar 2003 2:09 am
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Wow, we're all turnin' 50...I remember wishin' I would hurry up and turn 21....
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GFI S-12 extended E9
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Steve Feldman
From:
Central MA USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2003 8:06 am
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Jon - You Old Fart! Congrats (I think) on making it to 50. I'll be turning 49 this year, so I'm 'rounding the bend' myself. Have a good one, and I'll remember to pray for your heathen soul!
Take care.
Steve[This message was edited by Steve Feldman on 30 March 2003 at 08:07 AM.] |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Mar 2003 11:40 pm
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First of all, thank you, gentlemen. Just so you know what to expect, I have indeed turned to dust. You are next.
It was a very slow night at the bar. The energy was dragging and from my first notes I realized I wasn't going to have a very good
picking night so I canceled my plans of debauchery and just tried to keep my playing between the dotted lines.
To my great pleasure Howard Reinlieb came by (he was in already in Brooklyn anyway). Man, Howard--You are a dude. I so much appreciate it. And it was a tremendous surprise and pleasure to have Russ Wever introduce himself. Great to meet you, Russ.
It's unprofessional of me to run down the music and to apologize for my playing but....well let me just say that having fellow steel players come to hear you reminds one of the brotherhood thing, and it provides strong incentive to get myself and my playing to a state that I can be proud to present to people other than drunks with pierced heads (who it has actually become a pleasure to see week after week--bless their pierced hearts---but they are not quite a discriminating crowd).
So anyway, blahblahblah, I'm old now and I'm happy to know some really good people. |
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Lawrence Lupkin
From:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2003 12:49 pm
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Happy Birthday Jon! Sorry I missed Sunday on such a special occasion. Cheers!
By the way, was that you ambling out of Jesse's with the paper on Sunday morning? On day our paths will actually cross. |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 31 Mar 2003 4:13 pm
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Man, that is some joint! Even those free hot dogs and hamburgers were tatooed and pierced! I almost didn't take a bunch of them home with me....what am I saying? I sport an earring....even though I gotta return it to my mom 
Jon, it was a fun place with fun music.
It was great meeting Russ Wever, who is in town from St. Louis, playing in "Hank Williams...Lonesome Highway."
Russ & Jon
Jon, if you played a D10, you each could have had your own neck!  |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 1 Apr 2003 6:07 am
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| Da Brooklyn bump! |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 1 Apr 2003 6:17 am
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I almost forgot how purty that Carter is.. especially by contrast!  |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 1 Apr 2003 11:47 am
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Yeah, now about that contrast thing---I distinctly remember Howard saying "hey Jon, listen, just for a second stop looking cool and, you know, good, if you possibly can. Just long enough for me to take this picture." Yeah, it was those exact words. Or words exactly very similarto exactly those words. And with extreme effort (don't hate me because I'm handsome) I worked up this special look. And as soon as the shutter snapped I stopped straining and reverted to utter coolness. Yeah.
Also, this is the first documentation of my new invention--the Wevermatic. When in deep sht, push a button that I will either mount to the fretboard or to the lucky 3rd string changer, and Mr. Russ Wever becomes your picking hand, thumb pick a'ready. Worked like a charm in this test.
Some pictures are worth a thousand words. One word will do for this. Eeep!
Oh, and Lawrence---a)thank you and b) yeah, I reckon it could well have been me coming out of Jesse's w/Sunday paper and c) next time you do pop in at Hanks, you must introduce yourself so as to no longer have the advantage over me (of being able to surveille me on Sunday mornings ) |
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Lawrence Lupkin
From:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2003 12:21 pm
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| Trust me, it wasn't pretty. Anyhow, definately this Sunday. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 1 Apr 2003 1:31 pm
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| Actually, no dice this Sunday. Sean's out of town and I've got the night off. |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 1 Apr 2003 2:36 pm
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Hey guys, Bob Hoffnar is playing this Sunday eve in Hoboken with Hem. I plan on going as I've always wanted to see them.
Russ, if you're not playing that night and want to see them, shoot me an email. I'll be driving from Manhattan.
Bob, you are playing April 6 in Hoboken, yes? |
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Lawrence Lupkin
From:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 5:13 am
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| Thanks for the heads up, Jon. The last place I want to be is Hank's on a Sunday with no steel guitar. Do you know if anyone else is taking the slot? |
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Jonathan Gregg
From:
New York City
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 8:55 am
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Sorry I missed it last Sunday -- I was busy torturing myself at Rodeo Bar, where I also had early indications that the night was not going to go my way.
I look forward to hearing you at Hank's sometime soon.
I did have the pleasure of hearing Russ Wever the next night sitting in with Western Caravan. He sounded mighty fine. A good portion of the Greater NY Pedal Steel Auxiliary Unit was present -- Messrs. Graboff, Segal, and Widgren (of course) along with myself.
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 1:09 pm
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You mean Widgren already has a Wever-matic??!! Damn, I knew I should patent it! Man, I wish the Rodeo stuff started earlier. I just can't make it out there and do work at 6am the next morning. It would be excellent to meet you, Jonathan.
And Lawrence--as per my email, no, I have no idea what's happening at Hanks this Sunday.
BTW---in as much as Hank's is the place to go to spend a couple of hours and then go home, roll your clothes in a couple of zig-zags and enjoy pure nicotine goodness---a major league smoke-filled bar--it was with total amazement that I observed that they took the new anti-smoking law absolutely seriously. The absence of smoke was downright distracting! Our poor guitarist was all out of shape that he couldn't torch his little one-hit bowl between songs without the whole bar smelling it. |
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Lawrence Lupkin
From:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 1:18 pm
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Not to get away too far from the subject (what was that again?..) It certainly will change going to see live music. Or playing for that matter. It sure isn't going to help clubs fill up for shows, or at least keep them full. It's okay though; Smoking ban or not, for nostalgia, that place will reek for years to come. 
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 1:41 pm
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| As little as I enjoy smelling like an ashtray at the end of the night--and for that matter, feeling like I smoked a pack and truly carrying that feeling with me for a couple of days--and I'm a recovered smoker--clean for around 10 years now--I'm way against the ban. Sleazy bars are what they are. You just don't go there if you're living a tofu lifestyle. This just seems one step too far to me. On the other hand, it's my impression that it was Daria, the bar-gal who was enforcing the law, and not just as the representative of Hank's management but as a second-hand smoker who could finally put a lid on it with the full backing of the law. Which brings us to the purported reason for the law in the first place--to protect the workers. Tough call. But I've gotta believe that if you choose to work in a dive, you just aren't gonna mind the smoke. |
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Bob Miano
From:
Bergenfield, N.J. (home of "some" country music) - deceased
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 3:16 pm
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Happy "Belated" Birthday Jon !! I would like to make it down to Hank's some Sunday to see you play. Please keep me (us) posted.
Here's to the little clubs (smoky or not);
may they live on forever !!!
Bob Miano
Bergenfield, NJ |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 2 Apr 2003 5:46 pm
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They should ban those dogs & burgers...they will kill you deader than the smoke.
And if Darla is enforcing the ban, that place will remain smokeless. I wouldn't want to be drop kicked through the bedposts of life by her!....well, maybe I would, after a few vodkas of course.  |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 3 Apr 2003 12:17 pm
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Hey Bob. quote:
Here's to the little clubs (smoky or not);
may they live on forever !!!
Amen to that!
Let me know if you plan to come on down--I'll try to talk some sense into you.
Howard--yeah, I wouldn't cross Daria. But she's a nice lady. You know what she plays in one her bands?--ukelele. Not your first guess, right? |
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Lawrence Lupkin
From:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Posted 3 Apr 2003 1:05 pm
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| Almost makes you yearn for the days of the Doray Tavern..."where good friends meet" |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 3 Apr 2003 3:39 pm
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Ukelele? I would have never thunk...
I would have never thunk this thread would be this long either. Very soon we can call it "Next Sunday in Brooklyn." |
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 4 Apr 2003 11:38 pm
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Howard, Thanks for the Hoboken invite, but I'll be at church in the Bronx Sunday evening - however still hearing steel, as Minister Ritchie plays steel at the services.
Jon, nice meeting ya, hope to hear ya again.
~Russ |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 5 Apr 2003 5:34 am
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What a coincidence...I'll be listening to Rabbi Hoffnar..
Is Minister Richie's music Sacred Steel?, Gospel, or another style of religious music?
That's also some piece of lumber he's sawing on![This message was edited by HowardR on 05 April 2003 at 05:39 AM.] |
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