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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
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 Posted - 08/12/2004 : 10:49:33 PM
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I'm staying out Kailua way, brought a guitar and an ukulele, and would be grateful for a chance to play. Our phone here is 262-6341 (but it's busy a lot because it's our internet connection) and my email is fguidry @ yahoo.com. I'll travel anywhere for some music.
I'll be at the Slack Key Festival on Sunday, hopefully down front, wearing a black T shirt with a mamo on the back and a black ball cap.
Hope to see ya,
Fran
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E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key Guitar in California - www.kaleponi.com
Slack Key on YouTube
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
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Pupule
USA
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Posted - 09/17/2004 : 10:36:55 PM
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| Awesome photos. Thanks for sharing them. I saw some familiar places and others where I've never been. Thanks for the quick cyber trip! |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
1533 Posts |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 02:02:29 AM
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Thanks for the photos, Fran, so we could see you and Led on stage with Alika. Nice!
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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 09/18/2004 : 11:15:38 AM
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hey fran, it's great to see the photos from the trip! you do more in one trip to hawaii than i do in a year's worth of trips...
i especially liked the photos of kimo. i love his `ukulele style, and didn't know he did slack key too. how did you meet up with him?
keith
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 09/18/2004 : 11:56:26 AM
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Hey, Keith,
Kimo leads the 2nd-Sunday-of-the-month kanikapila at Ward Warehouse. We were really lucky to stumble over the event and I had a fantastic time. While I was playing my wife was working the crowd, and met a friend of Kimo's, so she arranged an introduction that way. We hooked up again at the Slack Key Festival, and then I prevailed on him to come by the house. He stopped by for the kanikapila that we photographed and posted, and he also visited for a very enjoyable dinner the night before we left and gave me some more tips. I've been practicing a little chord progression he showed me on the uke
C6 Cdim7 Dmin7 C#maj7 Cmaj7
I'd have to show you the chords to give the effect, because it uses the high C as a pedal and only moves that note for the final chord. It sounds very sophisticated yet playful.
Kimo's slack key is very nahenahe, and like Kevin he demonstrated that the slack key should grow naturally from the singing. He apparently learned from his family as a kid. He uses a brush on the 2nd and 4th beat bass notes, and sometimes elaborates the brush into a separate little figure in the bass. It's beautiful to hear. He's also very charismatic. All the ladies in our party got a little faint when he came around.
While I was waiting in the Kahului airport after you dropped me off, plucking on my uke, I looked up and found Kimo with two cases under his arms. He was returning from Maui after doing a recording session and picking up not one but two new Eric Devine baritones. When he started to play he attracted the attention of another musician in the waiting area, and before you knew it we was jammin'! That kind of stuff doesn't happen very much when I'm flying on the mainland <grin>.
Thanks again and again for suggesting that I visit Maui, and for putting yourself out to taxi me around. You know it was one of the peak musical moments in my life and I owe it all to you.
Fran
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E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key Guitar in California - www.kaleponi.com
Slack Key on YouTube
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Gary A
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 09/18/2004 : 12:35:38 PM
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| Fran, Thanks for sharing your photos. I also enjoyed your posts to Taropatch.net during your trip. It sounds like you had a great time. |
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 09/18/2004 : 2:22:17 PM
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| OMG i love the way Kevins brother plays that bass! |
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Julie H
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 09/19/2004 : 7:25:52 PM
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FRAN! How I enjoyed your photos! I lived "on and off" on Mokolua Road in Lanikai in the 70's. Had a boyfriend in the Hawai'i Air National Guard who rented a house there, and we woke up everyday to that beautiful sunrise over the islands. How I long for those good old days.... 
So Alika is playing again with Led? Several years ago I got the major stink-eye  from Sharon (Led's wife) when I mentioned to her that I got some great photos of Led and Alika in Santa Cruz. Guess their split was a painful subject at the time. Glad to see they are talking (and playing) again.
And that Kevin Brown! I got to meet him at George's workshop last year, but I never got to see him in person with that bass on his lap. I've missed out... Gosh, I miss being in Hawai'i.
Aloha, Julie
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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 09/19/2004 : 11:38:25 PM
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aloha e fran,quote:
Thanks again and again for suggesting that I visit Maui, and for putting yourself out to taxi me around. You know it was one of the peak musical moments in my life and I owe it all to you.
woof! i had as much fun as you!
i expect to hear a few variations on "grandfather's clock" the next time i'm in waihe`e  ; that was fun to hear in slack key!
aloha, keith
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 09/20/2004 : 01:22:59 AM
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Hey, Julie. We sure can't afford anything down in Lanikai, and we're coming off some pretty decent NorCal real estate. Seeing Led and Alika together was quite an eye-opener. With Alika providing rhythmic foundation, Ledward just went for it on his pa`ani and fills.
Keith, I hope everyone listens to Leonard Kwan do "Clock." That was the source for my version. It's pretty simple, loads of fun, and as you say just calls out for lots of variations. And thanks again (I'm up to about six mahalos and only owe you about 94 more).
Fran
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E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key Guitar in California - www.kaleponi.com
Slack Key on YouTube
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