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Location: Texas | RIP Tony Rice.
Will love you and your incredible music forever!
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Location: Texas | No comments???
Wake up OFC!!!
Tony Rice was one of the greatest Ovation players ever!
The incredible albums: Acoustics, Mar West, Backwaters, Still Inside... plus the first three David Grisman albums!
LISTEN!!!
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Location: SoCal | All I"ve been reading the last 5 days, on facebook, in the Tony Rice Rulz! group are tributes to Tony. Go to youtube and punch in his name. His playing will amaze you. Just read a long thread there about Tony and his Ovation. In his last years he owned 2 guitars, his 1935 Martin D28 (the 'Antique" and his 1970's Legend.
Sergio, did you read the long piece written by Richard Hoover (Santa Cruz Guitars)? It put tears in my eyes....
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Location: Texas | Yes I read it, very moving.
Tony's impact in instrumental acoustic music set a new standard as well as his great singing and guitar playing in traditional and progressive bluegrass and many other styles.
His influence is as important as many of the legends of bluegrass, country and jazz guitar, not only for guitarists but an inspiration for everyone.
I was lucky to see him play many times and to meet him and spend some time with him backstage, he was very encouraging about my music. I played his old '35 Martin D-28 and he really liked his Ovation Legend's acoustic tone, a 1117 all acoustic model.
Everyone was very surprised that he played it on the title cut of his "Manzanita" album. And he used it extensively on many of his instrumental albums.
Listen to Tony Rice, it will change your life like he did mine. |
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Location: Maine | I will miss him for sure.. His LPs were played at home throughout out my childhood. Tony has some many great albums and recordings...He was approachable at a few Bluegrass events I was lucky to see him at.
Not only was his playing extraordinary , he's a great singer too.
Several of my favorite albums are:
Tone Poems
Skaggs and Rice
Church Street Blues
The Bluegrass Compact Disc
Manzanita
Quartet (Tony Rice and Peter Rowan album)
Tony and the super star lineup!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVl1ibykWZU
-Talbot
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Location: Indiana | Elegant player. |
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Location: SoCal | Artist - 2020-12-30 10:31 AM
and he really liked his Ovation Legend's acoustic tone, a 1117 all acoustic model.
Here you can hear Wyatt Rice (Tony's younger brother and a monster guitar player himself) talk about Tony and his Legend, as well as his search for his own Ovation Legend. Then you can hear him play it. Close your eyes as you listen to him play. You won't have a clue as to what he's playing. You'll just know that it's a quality instrument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CRJTuJ2y18&t=406s |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Great clip and a huge loss.
2020 took no prisoners. |
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Location: SoCal | It's not 2020. Ultimately, life takes no prisoners. Every hundred years, all new people..... |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA | Hello, Everyone,
I was trying to learn bluegrass/"Newgrass guitar at one point, but I saw Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs play together at a concert in Toronto in 1977, and I gave it up for a bad job. Guitar Lightning In a Bottle Personified Times Two.
Mike S.
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Location: When?? | What Paul said about the 100 year cycle, on there being all new people-- I'm glad to know that my share of this 100 years has included musicians like Tony Rice and so many others who have blessed us with talent and style so unique that under no possible circumstances can ever be reproduced. Without them, none of us would be able to say "I was there".
Here is Rice's IBMA Hall of Fame induction (he starts speaking at 8:00).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBzGDa5DAjE
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Location: Maine | Love O Fair - 2020-12-31 12:39 AM
What Paul said about the 100 year cycle, on there being all new people-- I'm glad to know that my share of this 100 years has included musicians like Tony Rice and so many others who have blessed us with talent and style so unique that under no possible circumstances can ever be reproduced. Without them, none of us would be able to say "I was there".
Here is Rice's IBMA Hall of Fame induction (he starts speaking at 8:00 ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBzGDa5DAjE
That was well worth the watch! Thanks for the link...
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Location: When?? | @TJR >>>That was well worth the watch! Thanks for the link...<<<
You're welcome.. and I thought so too. The speaking voice change-up was a pretty special thing to see and hear.
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