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slackkey
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 06/24/2003 : 04:17:33 AM
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 Yikes! I just now realized something embarassing...All this time I've been saying open-mike instead of open-mic! Time to burry my head in the sand!!! 
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2003 : 12:51:02 PM
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| And all this time I thought you had a friend named Michael who didn't hold anything back. Now I'm embarrassed. |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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Pupule
USA
4551 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2003 : 03:56:10 AM
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Thanks Ed - for taking all the photos. It was great meeting and hanging out with you. I wish we got to hear you play though!
Now, Don Kauli`a can PLAY! Awesome! So glad that Don is part of our `ohana here. It was so much fun hearing you play at the Blue Marlin and at the slack key fetival. What a fun night we had at the Blue Marlin. If anybody visits Maui, the Blue Marlin is the place. Good food, and fun music.
Now about my shoes... if they were good enough to get Bing to post, the loafers were worth wearing! Anyway, that was my first night in Maui. Now I'm barefoot. Gotta go island style gradually or you might get the bends. |
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donkaulia
Lokahi
249 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2003 : 1:10:38 PM
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Hey Andy,
Say hello to other half for me. Thanks for jamming. You play Moloka'i so sweet. I like that style...tuned in taropatch but playing in D...you almost fooled me and the band...good job...well done.
The Staff & Management as well as the Owners of the Blue Marlins added Aloha Saturdays now. Last week we had all kines of people showing up to jam, sing and now dance the hula.
Last Friday, I had the Bryants jam with me...so awesome. They both stayed the week and brought over their guitars. Saturday I had another couple from Oregon, one of them a Music Teacher. They just wanted to hear some real close up 'kihoalu' stuff.
So much fun...Thanks Andy for developing this kind of website for the world to get involve in.
Aloha, Malama Pone, A hui hou!!!!
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donkaulia
Lokahi
249 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2003 : 1:12:17 PM
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Malama Pono...not Pone....Oooops.
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 06/30/2003 : 2:34:58 PM
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A little more detail on that first Blue Marlin Night:
We were sitting at the center table, eating and drinking and talking, and all of a sudden, David just gets up, right in the middle of everything, and calmly walks up to Don. Kitty asks me, "What is he doing?" (David is sincerely shy.) So, he gets the guitar and starts in on "Pauoa liko ka lehua", playing beautifully and *singing* and he adds on that beautiful ending he developed. We are all goggle-eyed. Then he calmly walks back, sits down, says nothing, and resumes eating and drinking. I asked him about the ending and he says "I don't know why I did it. I just threw it in." Ho!
Then Sarah gets up, with her mouth full of Ono, and talks to Don and Boy and launches into the "Toad Song" - a Hawaiian tongue-twister written by Puakea Nogelmeier and originally done by Keali`i Reichel (later became a hula). She gets Don and Boy to do the froggy "Hoom Mama, Hoom Baby" back up. Then people started coming out of the woodwork. The bar cleared, as did the tables that had the view of the musicians blocked, and they are standing there gawping and laughing. Andy says, "Reid, you have created a monster." After that was over, she made a mistake and played and sang "Pua Mikinolia" which is a sweet, lyrical song with a single line, slowly syncopated pa`ani. Wrong kind of song for a restaurant and bar. But she recovered when Don requested Ka Manu, which she did in the old Aunty Alice style in Double Slack.
Then Andy gets up and starts playing and singing a gorgeous Kalapana song about Molokai. Very tricky vocal part, too. And he sings and plays wonderfully. Sarah says, "Andy has a secret life." We have *never* heard him sing before, even in our living room and his voice is clear, sweet and nahenahe - delectable. Moreover, he follows it up with an upbeat "Kaimana Hila". Andy can do anykine!
Don does *everything* up there: plays 3 instruments, sings, runs the board, jokes around and has perfected the "Don Kauli`a photography system". The last consists of raising the camera at a 45 degree angle in the air, leaning back so that his head is next to the guest artist, waving shaka, big smile, and CLICK/FLASH. Got it. And, friends, you just don't know how good he plays until you hear him and see his flashing fingers. What a performer!
...Reid
BTW, let's embarass Bing. He has only posted 5 times, but we know who he is,don't we? At the first Aloha camp, Keola went down on his knees in front of Bing when he realised Bing was in class, and (I recollect) might even have kissed his hand, because Bing is a surfboard making pioneer. Keola said that he and Kapono used to try to steal Bing surfboards as teenagers because they were simply the best and the coolest. So, Bing is retired and retiring - the stealth surfer now living in the mountains. |
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Mainkaukau
Lokahi
USA
245 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2003 : 5:42:16 PM
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Keola said that he and Kapono used to try to steal Bing surfboards as teenagers because they were simply the best and the coolest.
Hey, someone stole my "Bing" surfboard from my parent's house back in the late 60's. Hummmmmmmmm? I wonder?  |
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