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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Please excuse my off topic post, but I wanted to take a moment to remember my father.
I lost him seven years ago today to heart failure...I miss you Dad !
In memory of Clarence Michael Luton 1943-1999
(in white) playing on stage, Nashville ’96
Your loving son,
Tim |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Tim,
Thanks for sharing this. Take comfort that your father is certainly proud that you have carried on his love of music. Go stum a big old Open E chord for him.
Dave |
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Location: south east Michigan | He was a young man Tim.
I'm sorry you lost him so early. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ". . . .shining like a National guitar. . . ." |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Tim,Thank you for your post......Your father is truly blessed to have a son who loves him so.
....Is the guy playing the strat related? |
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Location: Central Florida | Bless you, Tim. What a nice way to honor your father. Thanks for sharing. |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | We should all strive to be the fathers that make our sons and daughters feel this way about us. I'm sure yours is watching over you smiling... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's always sad and scary to see someone die so young. I'm sure he was a great role model in his short time. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | It is even scarier when you realize that some of us are very close to the age when Tim's father passed away.
Makes me take a step back and examine my lifestyle and realise the importance of a yearly physical and prostrate checkup.
Tim, as someone who also lost his father way before his time, I can feel your pain.
Thanks for sharing. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Actually that's a dobro, not a National. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I was hoping no one would notice...
I couldn't think of a good dobro quote... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Aloha kakou mau loa.
Internet tranalator says;
May there be love between us forever. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Thank you for the kind words, I sincerely appreciate them.
I think when my mom passed away from cancer in '96, it took part of him and his zest for living. Terrible part is that both of them went young, but they also lived hard. Both drank and smoke heavily, even when the doctors told them both to change their lifestyles, they refused saying that there was no point to life if you couldn't live it as you pleased.
No, the strat player is not related. I believe he was a semi-famous country or bluegrass session's guitarist.
The guitar was a Regal Resonator Guitar, I think it was a RD-75. Dad had the nut changed and the action lowered. He played it as a conventional six string vice lap style because he liked the way the resonator kicked back the sound. He was heavily influnced in the style of Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed, and an excellent fingerpicker. Wish some of his mojo would of passed off to me, no such luck :( .. he always made it look so easy. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I sorry to hear about your father. Mine also died in 1999. It will be seven years on September 26. It was two weeks after his 67th birthday. My wife was one day pregnent with our first kid. It is so sad they never got to meet him. He made a great father and grandfather. |
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OT: Seven years ago today..