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Konabob
`Olu`olu
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 Posted - 10/16/2005 : 07:19:38 AM
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Hey Fran,
I just got back on the island, and read your posts. Well done! I wish I had been here to spend some time with you too. Since I live here, and have a 4x4, I have never taken a tour of Waipio - I have driven down there myself. So now I know that the tour is something I should do. Since Hi`ilawe was originally played on the fiddle, (or so the legend goes) I would love to have Shirley meet your tour guide.
I always enjoy playing with Smitty and Duane (the bass player) up at Thiebaut's. There are times when there are 6 or 8 instruments plugged into the sound system, and things get pretty cranked up. The dancing is a lot of fun to watch, and of course, Smitty's voice is soooo classic.
I hope more of you TaroPatch folks will check out the Big Island. Fran's suggestion about just pulling out your guitar at a county park is a good one. You can usually find someone with a ukulele in their car. One other thing that worked for me - If you are playing Hawaiian (especially older songs), take your guitar to the Hulihee Palace, and ask the aunties if it would be ok to play some slack key. They will love you for it, and you will feel really plugged into the history of Kona. And write or call me too! I love to kanikapila if I get the chance.
Aloha,
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Konabob's Walkingbass - http://www.konawalkingbass.com
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rossasaurus
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 10/20/2005 : 12:46:16 AM
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Aloha Fran,
Thanks for the great travelogue.
What a blast!
You can be our official TP correspondent over there.
Bravos to Lynn for getting up there to dance for the first time!
You go girl!
Kona bob, when you mentioned Hulihe`e Palace, I remembered the beautiful, lonely old koa guitar sitting in the case there; hopefully it gets played by the staff sometimes, hopefully while sitting out on the back porch.
Also, After seeing Eddie kamae's new film(& Eddie) the other night in Larkspur, made me think of Iolani Luahini(one subject of the film), who apparently used to staff the Palace sometimes in her later years.
At the Borders signing the next day we met a woman who had studied Hula with her and told us they were all scared of her because "she WAS pele" to them.
later,
Ross |
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Konabob
`Olu`olu
USA
928 Posts |
Posted - 10/20/2005 : 08:10:01 AM
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Hi Ross. That guitar once belonged to one of the Hawaiian royalty. I don't think anyone ever touches it, but I love to take visiting musicians out on the back lanai and play for the women who staff the palace. The view of the ocean and all those tall old coconut trees... everything... makes you really appreciate what the palace must have been like in the mid 1800's. The staff appreciates musicians who play slack key or traditional Hawaiian, as they do not have any radios, CD's or other sources of music in the palace. It is a museum.
Aloha,
-Konabob
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Konabob's Walkingbass - http://www.konawalkingbass.com
Taropatch Steel - http://www.konaweb.com/konabob/
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Konabob2+Walkingbass |
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
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