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catheglass
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 05/27/2004 : 02:29:55 AM
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Great thread - I've been listening and thinking about this also. And yeppers, ya are what ya play. Whatever, whenever.
Hey Bwop, when we're on Maui, will you teach me "Iko Iko"? Altime favorite.....and anything by Ry Cooder........drool.
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Kapila Kane
Ha`aha`a
USA
1051 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 02:21:56 AM
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| And didn't Ry Cooder release a slack key "album"...years ago. Is it still available? Title? |
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 5:09:40 PM
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| I don't think anyone's mentioned Ray Kane's arrangement of Home Sweet Home yet. |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
923 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 5:52:45 PM
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"Chicken Skin Music" featured Gabby on a couple of tracks, but I certainly wouldn't call it a slack key album.
 ohmygosh! that was my favorite album back when i was a grad student. i still love his music. i had no idea what the album title meant, though.
thanks for the illumination, fran!
PS your pseudokanikapila sounds like a blast. i can't come to this one, but it looks like maybe you hold one of these affairs every now and then...
aloha, keith
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Kapila Kane
Ha`aha`a
USA
1051 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 05:06:34 AM
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Ok, question...
When I play a song I like, and I'm in taropatch...am I being Dr. Evil if I don't play in a totally authentic Hawaiian style?
I am, after all a Colorado Birkenstock Paniolo haole.
If a song calls me, I gotta answer as best as my fingers, mind and blood can muster.
I Love the Hawaiian Way--but Music is the True Melting and Alchemy pot.
So if someone says, "I really like what yer TRYING to do!"
Or worse yet, "I really don't like what yer TRYING to do!"
How much should I care?
Depends, but in the end, "ya got to please yourself".
All I really want to do is learn, adapt, assimilate ways to play and enjoy the ride...but guess I always resist being assimilated!
Anyway, it's all right now.
Gordon
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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
923 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 2:05:33 PM
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hi gordon,
i was bugging dennis kamakahi a couple of years ago. i wanted to learn some of the runs his son, david, did on the ukulele. dennis kindly told me that we all have to find our own path.
keith
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 05/30/2004 : 2:19:37 PM
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| That's how musical styles are born or existing ones evolve...by experimenting or borrowing from them to create your own form of expression. You may be considered Dr. Evil by some if you label your style "Hawaiian" instead of "Hawaiian-influenced" but otherwise you're in the good company of plenty of other musicians throughout history. |
Craig
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