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From: Pete Dashwood on 27 Apr 2010 07:35 Howard Brazee wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" > <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > >> I spent a couple of years in Madrid and lived within half a mile of >> the Plaza de Toros. > > I spent a couple of years in Mexico City and lived within half a mile > of the Plaza de Toros. (Early 1960s) > > >> I play with a local band here sometimes, and occasionally >> participate in Folk fests and concerts for charity. I find that >> "Goodnight Irene" is a firm favourite across most age groups. Most >> people don't know it was written by Ledbetter. > > I have three copies on my iTunes, one sung by Ledbetter. I have the > composer listed as Gussie Lord Davis & Huddie William Ledbetter. > > Checking Wikipedia, I see the following: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Irene Interesting link, Howard, Thanks. Oddly, I never knew he played 12 string guitar. For about 15 years in my youth that was my favoured instrument. Not so popular nowadays. A few weeks back I treated myself to a hand made (in Southern California) Taylor acoustic/electric and it is a great delight to me. Possibly the best guitar I have ever owned (and I've had some good ones, including a Fender stratocaster back in the 60s, a Gibson Les Paul in the 80s, and George Washburn acoustic (which I still treasure) in the 90s.) Taylor guitars are making a name for themselves and it is well deserved, in my opinion. Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: SkippyPB on 27 Apr 2010 14:07 On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:51 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >Howard Brazee wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" >> <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> I spent a couple of years in Madrid and lived within half a mile of >>> the Plaza de Toros. >> >> I spent a couple of years in Mexico City and lived within half a mile >> of the Plaza de Toros. (Early 1960s) >> >> >>> I play with a local band here sometimes, and occasionally >>> participate in Folk fests and concerts for charity. I find that >>> "Goodnight Irene" is a firm favourite across most age groups. Most >>> people don't know it was written by Ledbetter. >> >> I have three copies on my iTunes, one sung by Ledbetter. I have the >> composer listed as Gussie Lord Davis & Huddie William Ledbetter. >> >> Checking Wikipedia, I see the following: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Irene > >Interesting link, Howard, Thanks. > >Oddly, I never knew he played 12 string guitar. For about 15 years in my >youth that was my favoured instrument. Not so popular nowadays. > >A few weeks back I treated myself to a hand made (in Southern California) >Taylor acoustic/electric and it is a great delight to me. Possibly the best >guitar I have ever owned (and I've had some good ones, including a Fender >stratocaster back in the 60s, a Gibson Les Paul in the 80s, and George >Washburn acoustic (which I still treasure) in the 90s.) Taylor guitars are >making a name for themselves and it is well deserved, in my opinion. > >Pete. Taylor's are nice but you should check out Yamaha acoustics. You might be surprised. Regards, -- //// (o o) -oOO--(_)--OOo- "There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." -- Woody Allen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remove nospam to email me. Steve
From: Pete Dashwood on 28 Apr 2010 06:43 SkippyPB wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:51 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" > <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > >> Howard Brazee wrote: >>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" >>> <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >>> >>>> I spent a couple of years in Madrid and lived within half a mile of >>>> the Plaza de Toros. >>> >>> I spent a couple of years in Mexico City and lived within half a >>> mile of the Plaza de Toros. (Early 1960s) >>> >>> >>>> I play with a local band here sometimes, and occasionally >>>> participate in Folk fests and concerts for charity. I find that >>>> "Goodnight Irene" is a firm favourite across most age groups. Most >>>> people don't know it was written by Ledbetter. >>> >>> I have three copies on my iTunes, one sung by Ledbetter. I have >>> the composer listed as Gussie Lord Davis & Huddie William Ledbetter. >>> >>> Checking Wikipedia, I see the following: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Irene >> >> Interesting link, Howard, Thanks. >> >> Oddly, I never knew he played 12 string guitar. For about 15 years >> in my youth that was my favoured instrument. Not so popular nowadays. >> >> A few weeks back I treated myself to a hand made (in Southern >> California) Taylor acoustic/electric and it is a great delight to >> me. Possibly the best guitar I have ever owned (and I've had some >> good ones, including a Fender stratocaster back in the 60s, a Gibson >> Les Paul in the 80s, and George Washburn acoustic (which I still >> treasure) in the 90s.) Taylor guitars are making a name for >> themselves and it is well deserved, in my opinion. >> >> Pete. > > Taylor's are nice but you should check out Yamaha acoustics. You > might be surprised. As well as Yamaha (I have an FG400A which I've had 15 years and now lend to people I'm teaching) there are a number of great Japanese acoustics, and new ones coming out all the time. I played Takamine, Ibanez, and Yamaha, while shopping, but came home with the Taylor. There were a couple of others I had not heard of, but they were all fine instruments. (we are talking 3 - 5 thousand NZ dollars, here, so they should be... :-)) It was a very full day with hours of testing. Today I was shopping for a decent amplifier for practising at home. I ended up with a Roland Street Cube which faithfully reproduces the Taylor's bright sound. Now I'm trying to learn some NZ folk songs for a Kiwiana night next month :-). The person throwing the party has requested some songs from the goldfields in the 1860s and the ones I have found sound dreadful. They are like dirges, strongly influenced by Irish music (at it's worst; at its best, Irish music can be excellent). I can understand why many people hate folk music. Someone nasally whining about death and destruction is not really entertainment and I am struggling to re-arrange some of these songs so I can do them without the desire to slit my wrists in the middle of it :-) So far I have found one which I can play without shuddering. "Farewell to the Gold". Apparently Bob Dylan did a version of it that was dreadful at some concert; the only time he's ever done a NZ written song. The words are really poor and don't scan properly to the melody, so I'm making a few changes. The song is about a guy getting swept away by a flash flood during the floods on the Shotover river in 1863, where many people were sluicing for gold. There is another one written by James K. Baxter, who was a Kiwi icon. Changing that would be like altering Holy Writ. Although it is much better written, the melody is boring and lugubrious... Looks like being a fun night :-) Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: Anonymous on 28 Apr 2010 08:20 In article <83qhpsFdeuU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Pete Dashwood <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: [snip] >The person throwing the party has requested some songs from the >goldfields in the 1860s and the ones I have found sound dreadful. They are >like dirges, strongly influenced by Irish music (at it's worst; at its best, >Irish music can be excellent). I can understand why many people hate folk >music. Someone nasally whining about death and destruction is not really >entertainment and I am struggling to re-arrange some of these songs so I can >do them without the desire to slit my wrists in the middle of it :-) This reminds me of a snippet of television I saw, decades on back during an insomniac night, where a Scottish comedian was - what else? - carrying on and whining about something-or-other. He was in the 'an' then I did *this* ta earrrn a shilling an' foun' dout thet th' lassies seemed ta love folksingers' stage; he commented that folksongs were the easiest to do and the most ridiculous to listen to 'were ye sober... which th' audience, a'carse, werrrren't'... and he let loose with a typical 'Therrre war... *ten* thousand sailors, *dead* a-pon th' flooorrrr...' (pause for laughter) '... *thrrree* thousand babies, trrrapped i'side th' mine.' (more laughte5) '... an' th' ladies looved it, I dinna ken why.' I picked up a set of the Bristol Sessions a while back (that's Bristol, Tennessee, USA) and got reacquainted with some 'old friends'... might be time to break down and get Smith's Anthology. I gave up playing decades on back (Guild F-112, Martin Silk-and-Steel strings) when I realised that I didn't have the drive to be Leo Kottke or the madness to be John Fahey. DD
From: Alistair on 30 Apr 2010 12:41
On Apr 26, 5:04 pm, Howard Brazee <how...(a)brazee.net> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:58:14 -0700 (PDT), Alistair > > <alist...(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >And we Highlanders still do. > > Why is it that in the U.S., I hear lots of people identifying > themselves as or with Highlanders, but hardly anybody self-identifying > as Lowlanders? > > -- > "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, > than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace > to the legislature, and not to the executive department." > > - James Madison Highlanders looked scornfully down upon the lowland Scots (glasgow/ Edinburgh and further south) who wore trews and not kilts. My clan was based on Mull and to the west of the great glen. I was born in Inverness (hence the broad Scots accent that I type with). As an aside: I am reading a book written by a Rhodesian and find that the words float through my mind with a distinct southern african accent. |