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wcerto
Ahonui
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 Posted - 05/11/2008 : 12:44:09 AM
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Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there. And thanks to the genltemen who assisted in that regard. Sometimes we blame you and sometimes we thank you.
Here are You Tube delights for this week. No You Tube for two weeks, since we shall be soaking up all the music we can on our Hele to O`ahu for the next couple of weeks. We are going to try to get to Pakele Lounge, so you may see some big hairy bearded dude with some crazy old hootchie-mama on his arm. Ahem. That would not be me! I'd be the old lady listening to the music.
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You Tube – Week of May 11, 2008
Our dear friend Jesse Tinsley with another beautiful song – Na Pua Lei `Ilima - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQ-V0kc3NI
Julie – This one is for you – about the Rickenbacker Fry Pan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP13cDaI6EY Question: does this guitar have fret wires?
Jeff Peterson & Riley Lee perform Maika`i ka Makani O Kohala in the Atherton Studio at Hawaii Public Radio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZsmgUQjlA
From our friend Tafkam - (Mitchell Chang) - Highlights from the 1st Annual Southern California Slack Key Festival in Redondo Beach, CA, January 20, 2008. This is a most excellent slide show with musical accompaniment by the artist who is pictured. Great photography! And Makana had his shirt on. What’s up with that? Steven Espaniola’s Makee Ailana is one of the best versions I have heard. I like that it is so slow and sweet. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-Ae_QB6-M
Isa Lei by Henjo29. Very nice, but a word of caution to you guys filming yourselves. Make sure camera does not point at your crotch. Druther look at your face. Or focus in on the guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYg0P3sOWY
FCTV808 -- He is very, very good! And he gives his props to Ozzie. –
Maunaloa - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkwFGe-P6v8
Ka Wailele o Nu`uanu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uK1pdL21O0
Old Timer’s Hula - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOGXjygGnZM
Zack Onaga – Opihi Moemoe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUnwkVJkb_U
Kaleonahenahe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUnwkVJkb_U
Koolau Lap Steel w/Rob Ickes and Paul Anastasio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIlWxtc0qHQ
Kaleo Agsalda – Aloha for Now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RFMwvcUESk -- He makes up for Makana not taking his shirt off.
Jasmine Trias – from Night Time w/Andy Bumatai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ota6nFZ_Jaw
Sherrell-Lee – Don’t know who da heck , but this lady can SING! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs3AqI10V_U
GeorgeBoards Lap Steel Guitar - Song of the Islands -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QktsaQRu-I
Steven Young from Night Time with Andy Bumatai - great falsetto – Kuhio Beach - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4jipiJzyT4
Lei Day program at Haleakala School – 5th graders and a hula kahiko - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtGC2-gHCF8
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Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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PoiDog
Lokahi
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Posted - 05/11/2008 : 07:09:15 AM
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Originally posted by sirduke58
Hi Wanda
Zack Onaga is "slackkey808" Only 19 years old & plays all that with just his index finger
& thumb. He also does "Punahoa Special" on a Dobro, Maunaloa Slack Key, Wheeha Swing and
Ku'uipo Onaona. All flawless,learns mostly by ear and watching. Told me Led helps him out
when he has time which is hardly ever. His words not mine. First started playing slack
key about 4 years ago.  That's not fair
Braddah Duke
Look out world! Buaddah Duke wen learn how fo use da smileys! How's it...Eh eh...I gettin' betta at lefty! |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2008 : 1:35:36 PM
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Jesse - you made the ding, ding, ding, a-oogah, a-oogah find of the week. I sent the link to a friend who was pictured in this session to see if he can tell us what the song is. What a precious video. Thanks so very much for telling us about it.
When I search for videos to post links, I pretty much only search two things: slack key and hawaiian music. If someone posts a worthwhile video with different key words, we miss it with the two simple searches I use. Perhapos I should expand my searches to other key words. Any suggestions on what other queries I should use? |
Me ke aloha
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Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2008 : 6:41:54 PM
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Mahalo e Braddah Duke. Very sweet video, reminds me of my old uncle who just passed. Kupuna love those old songs.
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/11/2008 : 9:33:53 PM
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The song is Ka Moa`e by Solomon Hiram probably composed at the turn of the 20th century. Hiram also composed Sase.
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Originally posted by wcerto
Jesse - you made the ding, ding, ding, a-oogah, a-oogah find of the week. I sent the link to a friend who was pictured in this session to see if he can tell us what the song is. What a precious video. Thanks so very much for telling us about it.
When I search for videos to post links, I pretty much only search two things: slack key and hawaiian music. If someone posts a worthwhile video with different key words, we miss it with the two simple searches I use. Perhapos I should expand my searches to other key words. Any suggestions on what other queries I should use?
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wcerto
Ahonui
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 01:32:45 AM
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Keola & Peter - thanks for sharing your expertise!
Martin had plenty hair back then; so did Cyril and Bla. And none of the hair is white! But hey, even Paul's hair was dark back in 1979 -- before kids, but Paul had his beard, even at that time -- no shaving since he got out of the Army in 1972. Martin's do reminds me of an old Cleveland Indians Baseball player named Oscar Gamble. Now Oscar had an afro, the likes of which I have never seen since. http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2006/10/jeter_choked_th.html What was really silly fashion back then was the white boys who went to the beauty shop to get perms so they could have afros, too. I remember sitting in the beauty shop with curlers in my hair and all the yucky perm chemicals on my hair, when in walks a guy from work. I was embarrassed as can be for somebody I worked with to see me sitting there like that until I remembered that he was a guy and somebody he worked with was going to see him sitting there with curlers in his hair, too. He was probably more mortified than I was. http://www.paulsfunkystuff.com/2007/12/top-10-white-man-afros.html |
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wcerto
Ahonui
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 06:24:06 AM
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Julie – This one is for you – about the Rickenbacker Fry Pan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP13cDaI6EY Question: does this guitar have fret wires?
The frets are part of the aluminium cast neck. |
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 09:52:57 AM
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For the uninitiated, better check out this video on Liko while you can, there are so few of them. Most of you are unaware of who Liko`okalani H.F. Martin is. I know him well, and played with him for several years back in the seventies. He was a good friend and mentor for me back then when I was an activist.
This is what you will not get from watching the video clip. He composed “All Hawaii, Stand Together” also known as “Hawaii Loa, Ku Like Kakou” which is the modern anthem of Hawaii – you can hear this on the late Dennis Pavao’s CD of the same name. In addition he also wrote “A KamawaiLua Lani” which Cyril Pahinui sings on his latest release and also on the Brother’s Pahinui CD by Panini Productions.
In addition, the group Country Comfort had a monster hit with “Waimanalo Blues”. This is another song that a lot of people know in Hawaii. This song was composed by Liko and Thor Wold, and was originally known as “Nanakuli Blues” – it was a beautiful protest song in opposition to development in Leeward Oahu. Country Comfort also used several more of Liko’s tunes “We Are the Children”, “Sunlight Moonlight”, “Honky Tonk Wines”, “The End of the Line”. Jerry Santos of the group Olomana had a hit cover of “We Are the Children”, and as I recall this was on their second album “Come to Me Gently”. I remember singing this with Liko in 1971 at one of the earliest Diamond Head Festivals in front of a crowd of perhaps 50,000 people.
In my opinion, he is an uncompromising artist of legendary stature. My views are based upon knowing him and his music. Even now, the quality of his performances, the subject matter and the depth of songs make him Hawaii’s best artist/songwriter. His performances are memorable – they are in the deep old Hawaiian style. The slack key and singing is incomparable. If you really want to know slack key you listen to Liko’s playing. If you ever get the chance to hear him, you will be lucky. His concert performances are rare, they are in support of particular Hawaiian issues, and you would probably have to be involved with the Kanaka Maoli movement. Not the kind of gig a tourist would go too. Just the same Liko is no ka `oi – he is the best.
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Originally posted by wcerto
And here is the Uncle Liko singing Fantasia. Very nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN5PjT-yH3Q
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 11:03:29 AM
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Liko Martin's playing and singing are really haunting--I think I see what Peter means about the "deep old Hawaiian style."
It's also good to see FCTV back--his previous batch of videos (which included some of the same tunes he has now re-recorded) were pulled for some reason. He's a nice picker.
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Retro
Ahonui
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 12:20:21 PM
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Originally posted by Peter Medeiros
In addition he also wrote “A KamawaiLua Lani” which Cyril Pahinui sings on his latest release and also on the Brother’s Pahinui CD by Panini Productions.
Leilani Rivera Bond's version of "`O Kamawaelualani" is quite beautiful, too; that's the one I learned it from, when she taught it to our hālau (as heard on her CD "Nā Hōkū O Ka Lani.") |
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 12:53:35 PM
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Hi Russell,
I know that both you and I as authors have to be accurate, and now that you got me thinking about it, I was just wondering what is it that you think I mean? I'm just curious okay. But take this with a grain of salt, and lets not turn it into a sketch out of the Firesign Theater ?
Basically what I am trying to say is that he is one of the very few performers who has an understanding of Hawaiian music at its deepest level (the closest concept I can come up with now is mystical and that's not good enough a description). It's in his voice; it's in his strum; it's in all of the songs he has written; it's how he makes already beautiful Hawaiian music more beautiful.
Liko is the real deal, who has lived most of his life without the anointment or public accolade that come from recording or playing slack key festivals or concerts nowadays. Remember, I think it was a few years back when you questioned a comment I made that some of the best of the Hawaiian artists never recorded. This is one of the guys, and he is at the very top of my list. He is dirt poor, but gives to us these songs which are priceless. Anyway that's what I think. Hmmm?
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Originally posted by Russell Letson
Liko Martin's playing and singing are really haunting--I think I see what Peter means about the "deep old Hawaiian style."
It's also good to see FCTV back--his previous batch of videos (which included some of the same tunes he has now re-recorded) were pulled for some reason. He's a nice picker.
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 1:57:44 PM
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Peter--I wasn't drawing any broad anthropological implications in my response to your description, just that there's something very direct, informal, and untheatrical about that performance (insofar as any performance can be untheatrical, anyway). I was struck by how delicate and intimate the playing and singing seem--certainly not a stagey presentation. I connect what I see in that video with the descriptions of personal and family music I've gotten from any number of Hawaiians I've talked to. I'm not sure how much of it remains in the urbanized parts of the Islands, but I'd like to think that it survives in the Hawaiian equivalents of the mainland's down-home regions, like the part of West Virginia I visit every summer. (And of course, the banjo and fiddle have to compete with rap and metal and karaoke there, just like everywhere else.)
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 2:34:38 PM
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I agree with you. Your description of his back porch presentation as being delicate and intimate are good choice of words.
This type of performance although rare now, is not exclusive to Hawaiian music. As you mention you will find it happening in all kinds of music. I've heard artists busking outside train and bus stations, at family gatherings and others at the festivals I attended when I was younger, and they just knocked me out. Almost all of them would go unheralded, except for the few who were given a chance to reach for the ring. And they would be luckier still if they came away, without being cross-colateralized in the deal.
Braddah Ed, gave us a link to another clip featuring Liko and Skippy Ioane. Skippy wrote "Hawaii '78" that the Makaha Sons and Bradda Iz recorded -- it's another of the Hawaiian anthem type of songs. Skippy is another former Kamehameha classmate of mine, but brother had to leave early. For your book, here's an update -- The class was just loaded with musical talent, the more notable being Keola Beamer, Jerry Santos, George Kahumoku, Wayne Chang, Jon Osorio, Skippy Ioane and about six or seven other kumu hula.
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Originally posted by Russell Letson
Peter--I wasn't drawing any broad anthropological implications in my response to your description, just that there's something very direct, informal, and untheatrical about that performance (insofar as any performance can be untheatrical, anyway). I was struck by how delicate and intimate the playing and singing seem--certainly not a stagey presentation. I connect what I see in that video with the descriptions of personal and family music I've gotten from any number of Hawaiians I've talked to. I'm not sure how much of it remains in the urbanized parts of the Islands, but I'd like to think that it survives in the Hawaiian equivalents of the mainland's down-home regions, like the part of West Virginia I visit every summer. (And of course, the banjo and fiddle have to compete with rap and metal and karaoke there, just like everywhere else.)
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