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naukilo
Lokahi
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 Posted - 03/29/2012 : 12:11:59 PM
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Dennis Kamakahi & Stephen Inglis will be re-launching their new CD (WAIMAKA HELELEI- Songs of Kalaupapa, Moloka'i) promo concert tour in Northern California 4/12 - 4/22 after a successful tour of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Saratoga, CA & Eugene OR.
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/16/2012 : 07:26:34 AM
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Just had a very enjoyable evening with Dennis and Stephen at the Club Fox last night. What lovely music! Some of the best close vocal duet harmonies I have heard in a long time. I did not know much about Stephen and had never seen him live. Being a guitar geek I could not help but notice the "stop box rig" at his feet. He was using dual pickups with dual guitar cables in a sheath comming out of his Lowden guitar into a British tube preamplifier and then there were about eight stomp boxes. He was not using this rig to produce any electronic "special effects" sounds (like Makana), but I think he was attempting the get the best acoustic sound he could with the rig.
I asked him about his setup and he indicated the it was nearly identical to the system that Richard Thompson is currently using. Turns out that Stephen is a big fan of Richard Thompson (and so am I) so we had a short discussion about Richard and his former group Pentangle, etc. It is interesting that I had just posted about Richard Thompson on the other thread here about Hapa and Andy Wang because Andy had posted a favorite quote of Richard's.
I highly recommend seeing these guys if you get a chance. Their new CD managed to grab three Na Hoku Hanohano nominations.
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Mahope Kākou...
...El Lorenzo de Ondas Sonoras |
Edited by - Lawrence on 04/17/2012 06:33:52 AM |
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guitar yogi
Akahai
Kiribati
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Posted - 04/17/2012 : 11:58:52 AM
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| I saw Rev. Dennis and Stephen in Eugene with George Kahumoku and Richard Ho'opi'i- great show. I'm curious as to what kind of "stomp box" Dennis was using on some songs- it almost sounded like a phase shifter. (Cool sound.) Anyone know what that was? Also, when George Kahumoku played with Richard Ho'opi'i, he quickly retuned his 12 string guitar from taro patch to something else, then he played "bass" guitar on his 12 string while Richard sang and played 'ukulele. I was wondering if anyone might know what kind of "stomp box" George was using to make his 12 string sound like a bass? |
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/17/2012 : 1:57:19 PM
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Yes - Dennis also used a phase shifter on his guitar on some numbers near the end of the show I attended. I do not particularly like the use of phasers on this kind of Music. Makes me think of psychedelic late seventies kind of stuff (like Itchy-Coo Park... "I got high-ai, touched the sky-ai... phase... phase... phase... blah... blah... blah..."  ). However Dennis' phasing was more gentle and almost bearable. Importantly, I have listened to their CD several times now and did not hear this kind of phasing on Dennis guitar.
I have never seen George with a stomp-box, he probably just played bass on the lower strings. He often tunes to an open F or even E which puts his lower strings at pretty low tones. Also, he is quite good at playing pseudo-bass, probably due to his background experience playing Tuba.
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Mahope Kākou...
...El Lorenzo de Ondas Sonoras |
Edited by - Lawrence on 04/17/2012 2:01:48 PM |
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DENNIS KAMAKAHI & STEPHEN INGLIS IN CONCERT
