Hugh Pool is coming to play.

Fred.Rowe

Fred.Rowe

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I cannot believe it. Hugh Pool is playing the Union theater just down the road from us. Some serious funky R/B and ribs too boot.
Last year at the blues and ribs concert held in the little burg of Chesterhill Ohio [population 300]; they had Colin John on stage. What a concert. They broke 6 sets of drumsticks as the jamming got cranked up.
I am 65 this year, but I am still a rocker. There is nothing I enjoy more than great guitar riffs.
Check Hugh out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOC0hyFOTM

I love these hills and the people that live in them.

I wish you could all come for the feed and the music, Fred
 
Cool vid, Fred! I love that spooky sound delta blues can have through an old National. He does it well. I bet that old guitar has some interesting stories to tell. I hope it's a great show!
Just because our bodies are getting old doesn't mean our heads are! Hell, I bought a new amp this past week. LOL
Long live rock and roll. :thumbup:
 
fitzo said:
Cool vid, Fred! I love that spooky sound delta blues can have through an old National. He does it well. I bet that old guitar has some interesting stories to tell. I hope it's a great show!
Just because our bodies are getting old doesn't mean our heads are! Hell, I bought a new amp this past week. LOL
Long live rock and roll. :thumbup:
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I'm with you there brother.:thumbup: Back in the day I saw Hendrix, Joplin and Grand Funk RR all play the same evening as I was laying back on the roof of my car.
Woooo.
 
Fred.Rowe said:
I'm with you there brother.:thumbup: Back in the day I saw Hendrix, Joplin and Grand Funk RR all play the same evening as I was laying back on the roof of my car.
Woooo.
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I never got to see Jimi or Janis... a sadness for me. A Hendrix songbook is open on the music stand the last few days. I played Jimi yesterday; nanc is fetching Big brother and the Holding Company (Cheap Thrills) as I write. :)

In 1970, I went to the Goose Lake festival. I went home...changed, but say that without regret. What a time that was!

When we got a bigscreen and upgraded to hi-def cable recently, we discovered a channel called "Palladia". They have some GREAT concerts.

I don't think a love for music ever fades. Nor a love of ribs...have one for me! :D
 
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fitzo said:
I never got to see Jimi or Janis... a sadness for me. A Hendrix songbook is open on the music stand the last few days. I played Jimi yesterday; nanc is fetching Big brother and the Holding Company (Cheap Thrills) as I write. :)

In 1970, I went to the Goose Lake festival. I went home...changed, but say that without regret. What a time that was!

When we got a bigscreen and upgraded to hi-def cable recently, we discovered a channel called "Palladia". They have some GREAT concerts.

I don't think a love for music ever fades. Nor a love of ribs...have one for me! :D
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The list of talent at Goose Lake gave me chills. Music lovers who are not fortunate enough to have lived in those times missed out on events that will not likely happen again.
I was living in Florida in those days and when we heard about the festival coming to Atlanta Georgia, in 68, a bunch of us piled into the 60 VW bus and headed north.
As you stated, a life altering experience. :eek: 200,000 + jamming into the wee hours. Santana took the stage at 3 AM and played till dawn.

Life without music would not really be life at all, it feeds ones soul.

Fred
 
Wicked vedio.

I truely love it when a musician talke a 70+ year old song, (Robert Johnson) and performs it with such feeling and using a National Duolian to play it on.

The Resonator Guitar was invented by the Dopyera Brothers, and somewhat ripped off by George Beauchamp who created National and copyrighted the design. The two Brothers undaunted by the ripoff, went on to design and copyright the Dobro. http://www.gibson.com/products/oai/dobro/story.html

The history from the above link is not quite what I had read on this subject.
 
T Blade said:
Wicked vedio.

I truely love it when a musician talke a 70+ year old song, (Robert Johnson) and performs it with such feeling and using a National Duolian to play it on.

The Resonator Guitar was invented by the Dopyera Brothers, and somewhat ripped off by George Beauchamp who created National and copyrighted the design. The two Brothers undaunted by the ripoff, went on to design and copyright the Dobro. http://www.gibson.com/products/oai/dobro/story.html

The history from the above link is not quite what I had read on this subject.
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Thanks for the post on the history of the National.

During the concert, last Saturday; Hugh Pool told how he destroyed his first National while on stage. He said while on tour with Dave VanRonk he had been finishing there jam sessions by spinning the guitar in the air and then catching it by the neck, for a the big finish. One evening his timing was off and the neck ricocheted of his closed fist, spun back the other way and shattered on the floor below. He said he was devastated, but tried to leave the stage with some cool. He said he couldn't pull it off and went running back out to pick up the pieces. He said the guitar had cost him two hundred bucks, when he was still a teenager. When he went to find another to replace it, the new one set him back 4500 dollars.

Fred
 
Fred.Rowe said:
Thanks for the post on the history of the National.

During the concert, last Saturday; Hugh Pool told how he destroyed his first National while on stage. He said while on tour with Dave VanRonk he had been finishing there jam sessions by spinning the guitar in the air and then catching it by the neck, for a the big finish. One evening his timing was off and the neck ricocheted of his closed fist, spun back the other way and shattered on the floor below. He said he was devastated, but tried to leave the stage with some cool. He said he couldn't pull it off and went running back out to pick up the pieces. He said the guitar had cost him two hundred bucks, when he was still a teenager. When he went to find another to replace it, the new one set him back 4500 dollars.

Fred
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Ouch, doing something like that has to really, REALLY SUCK.
One time I was in North Caorlina doing a job and after the job was over I went into a pawn shop looking for a cheap Dobro, I found one but it was a square neck, being a round neck player and not knowing too much about the value (real value) I let it go by. I could have picked it up for a couple of hundred, not knowing that I could have just turned it over for over a thousand, and then picked up a new (by Gibson) Dobro Hound dog for just about nothing with the profit I would have made...shouda, couda, wouda :jerkit:
 
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