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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 31, 2015 10:10:38 GMT
Oh I wish......... Trouble is, even I wouldn't let me play with people like that turning up.
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 30, 2015 20:04:55 GMT
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 29, 2015 15:58:11 GMT
Best advice I had was to do 2 things.
Slow down: with the nerves cranking up you will be tempted to play faster than you normally would and finish at an uncontrollable gallop,
And don't forget to breath!
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 13, 2015 17:12:49 GMT
You could try this I suppose: linkDid once hear of a bass player rubbing Bar-B-Q into his strings to give them a worn in sound. But that's bass players for you. But clean pandies for me, every time.
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Post by slidingwolf on Nov 29, 2014 9:14:33 GMT
I was fortunate enough to see toumani diabate with ali farka toure about ten years ago, supproting Cesaria Evora from Cape Verde, back when our local theatre was more adventurous with their choice of acts. I suspect that, like me, most of the audience had little idea about this sort of music back then. And yet, when I went to buy a cd during the interval, they had sold out. Gives you hope somehow. Toumani Diabate has to be one of the most pre-eminent musical talents in the world - an astonishing talent. If you can find it, there was an excellent review/interview with him in Songlines where they discussed the different styles of kora playing from different parts of the region. Well worth hunting down.
And thanks for posting the Derek Gripper - not someone I had come across. Really beautiful stuff.
Here's one of my favourites:
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Post by slidingwolf on Nov 21, 2014 22:08:59 GMT
They gave my dad viagra when he was in hospital. It stopped him rolling off the bed. Nurses on the geriatric ward love Viagra too. Stops the old blokes dribbling on their slippers.
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Post by slidingwolf on Nov 21, 2014 21:57:17 GMT
Spent a very pleasant evening watching this guy yesterday. Awesome player. So why isn't he world famous?
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Post by slidingwolf on Jul 18, 2014 19:26:49 GMT
Sad, sad loss. Nearly saw him about 10 or 12 years ago, but he was suffering from ill health even then.
Another great Texas blues man, dead and gone.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jun 28, 2014 13:27:29 GMT
Wonderful madness.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jun 7, 2014 10:00:42 GMT
Not sure if this should go in here or not but I saw this duo on Thursday. Brilliant. Imagine Seasick Steve teamed up with Bonnie Raitt - except he's from Australia and she's from Ireland. And she plays percussion.
If you see them live, it's not entirely acoustic (there are el****ic guitars in there as well) but worth seeing just to hear her voice alone.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jun 6, 2014 15:35:27 GMT
Don't forget, as well, you move the slide, not the guiar.
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Post by slidingwolf on May 3, 2014 15:01:46 GMT
Either a 1930's wood bodied Dobro or the equivalent made by Mike Lewis. Or then again I would love to try teh more exotic Paul Beard models, but you don't see 'em on sale over here www.beardguitars.com/odyssey_A_home.htmllink
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Post by slidingwolf on Apr 9, 2014 21:22:05 GMT
Totally real. Love it. Now, there are plenty of references but there ain't a great deal of actual slide in this. I think you might like the Eastern connection though ; Out of all those 60s guitar heros, JB's the only one, for me, who keeps doing original stuff. I love his stuff. And his bass player! How can she be so good at that age??? Thanks for posting.
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Post by slidingwolf on Apr 5, 2014 14:03:01 GMT
Saw him open he show with this, and that was me high as a kite for the next hour and a half.
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Post by slidingwolf on Apr 5, 2014 14:01:46 GMT
And a great lap slide player too, which is where he started.
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