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Location: NJ | I saw Richie Havens last night at a little theatre in Oaklyn NJ. 20 bucks for the tickets, a real bargain!!!!
Great show, he played some favs and some not so familiar stuff. he had a backup guitarist with him that was fantastic. (he did make too many guitar faces though)
I think Richie is around 65 and he is still going strong. If he comes to your town, check him out.
oops he was playing a guild. I don't think he has played any other brand ever AFAIK. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Did you go for some Pizza at Leonetti's before the show? I lived half a block from The Ritz for a while.
Have you been to any shows at The Scottish Rite Auditorium? I saw Richard Thompson and Chris Smither there a few years back. Great little local venue in Collingswood. |
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Location: Germantown, MD | Saw Richie last fall at Black Rock Art Center here in Germantown. To Al's assessment, I can only add that he tours almost constantly, and you'd think he'd be showing some tread wear, but he doesn't. If the guitarist was a guy named Walter, I know the guitar faces from that performance, and yeah, there were a few too many. Did he have the blonde babe with the cello? She was cool. Also played cello well.
And wouldn't you think that a guy who demands as much as he does from a guitar ought to be playing an O?
Peace,
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Location: NJ | walter parks was the guitarist he is a montster player.
No cello player.
Nope I did not go to Leonetti's although I have been there many times.
Jeff I was probably at the same Richard Thompson show at the Scottish Rite Auditorium (now known as the collingswood auditorium BLAH!!!!) I saw him there several times. I did not see chris smither. I missed Jefferson starship there also.
Great show. So many of these classic guys are still out there giving up the music. I am really glad I had the opportunity to see him. |
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Location: Germantown, MD | Walter is a great guitarist. It's worth saying, too, that he and Richie probably use almost no technology to shape their sound onstage, at least in small venues like the one where I saw them. They used a PA and miked the guitars, but Black Rock is such an intimate hall that they could easily have done without that, and I don't think the sound would have been much difference.
That show got a friend of mine playing around with open tunings. I'm not sure he's gone back to standard tuning since Novemer.
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Location: NJ | walter used a vol wah, boss stomp tuner, and what looked like a keely compressor to me. Not sure if there was anything else. |
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| Man That is so stinkin cool! these guy's, who some of us grew up listening to, are still goin strong! Richie H. He is just way too cool for school man!
Love that woodstock video of him.
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Location: NJ | i loaned my 15 year old nephew the vcr tape of woodstock. when he saw that richie havens was coming he HAD to go see him. I was really suprised but he was into it. He even got a t shirt. I am glad that he is into some good classic music. |
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