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Topic: How to impress your relatives |
Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Jul 2003 2:00 pm |
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Have you ever impressed one of your relatives with your musicianship? I have.
It was about 1947, and I had just bought a Gibson Console and Gibson amp in Louisville. As I recall, it was about a $1,500 investment – quite a chunk for a kid back then. I took the rig with me the next time I went back to Mississippi to visit my parents. While I was there one of my uncles who operated a sawmill heard me play and said, “Boy, I’d give a hundred dollars to have one of them thangs and know how to play it.”
During another visit down home my great uncle Ivy stopped in and heard me play a little. He said, “That beats any damn thing I ever heard. You bring that thing down to Becker and play it at my junk yard and I guarantee we’ll have a dozen people there -– and we’ll charge ‘em a dime apiece.”
Any similar experiences? |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 4:58 am
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my Dad shrugged at first when i got into playin guitar
well 15 years later after hearin' me play on the porch he told me that he was amazed to hear what the bug had done too me.
my Dad was'nt the musician type but he got into tellin' me about some uncle he had that played fiddle, who neglected House and Family and spent his Life playin'.
it did make me feel good to know that my Dad respected my relationship w: Musik
All Children should have access to a musical insrument
trade in yer Colt45 fer a Fender and you'll still get the message across
even better too 
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Steel what?
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Carl West
From:
La Habra, CA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 5:09 am
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Roy, I guess lots of us have done that sometime or another. I can just remember play'in for a lot of them and it was funny
that their response was all pretty much the same. They all use to comment and then say: "Don't sell your truck or quit yer day job "
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Scott Henderson
From:
Camdenton, Missouri, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 5:35 am
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I have kind of been in the shadows in my family as I have an uncle who is a thumb pickin chet atkins monstor and a cousin who did a little 13 yr stint with a guy named Garth Brooks. but since then they have heard me play and were pleasantly surprised. hahahah
they're proud (sometimes to the point of embarrassment, but they 're good people)
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Steelin' away in the ozarks and life,
Scott
www.scottyhenderson.com
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 6:34 am
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I don't think I could ever do anything that would impress MY relatives! 
Uff-Da! |
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 6:58 am
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Get out of the music business??  |
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Jesse Pearson
From:
San Diego , CA
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 7:43 am
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| My Grandfather was a retired col. and he couldn't understand artist types at all, he even went so far to ask me why I thought I was any good at music when I was a teenager. That all changed when I got booked in San Antonio for three weeks at a club with half priced drinks one night a week. I had just told a packed house that I would be giving away a round of free drinks to the loudest table and kicked off a song when he came thru the door, the look on his face was "what the hell"!!! He later said "I guess you showed me". |
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Posted 15 Jul 2003 8:34 am
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I impressed my relatives when I got a day job.
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2003 8:45 am
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Before I took up steel I was deep into fingerpicking blues stuff. I was visitng my relatives in NJ and they asked me to play for them on my old National- I ran through some of my favorite Bill Broonzy, Gary Davis and Robert Johnson stuff when one of my uncles got up and said "I don't know why you have to play all that sad, depressing stuff!" and went and put the "Sound of Music" Soundtrack on the record player. I took it that he was suitably impressed!
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C'mon by and visit!- www.markvanallen.com
My Bands: Sugarland Kate and the Retreads Kecia Garland Band Shane Bridges Band Dell Conner Blues Band
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 17 Jul 2003 3:02 am
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I still think the best way to impress relatives is to invite them all over to your home for dinner..
the day after you have moved with no forwarding address...
tp
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Jul 2003 7:01 am
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| You will never know how many relatives you actually have until you move to California and all of your relatives from Mississippi and Alabama start showing up for a free vacation. (Actually happened -- several times.) |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 23 Jul 2003 4:04 pm
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I gotta tell you folks that one of my fondest memories is sittin' on my grandparents porch, in Wolf Summit, W. Va. circa 1965, with my dad, mom, grandparents, brother, sister, many uncles and aunts, and their kids. What a memorable evening. I was playing a lap steel, dad & uncles had guitars, mandolin, fiddle, bass guitar, harmonica, and other stuff I can't remember. I was 12. Home was Buffalo, NY.
Been there and done that too Dolly Parton, and I wouldn't a missed it for the world.
Too bad those days are gone.
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