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Location: Houston, Texas | Went to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo last night. I hadn't been since I was a kid, but my girlfriend gets me in free and since I have a brand new digital camera I thought I'd share a picture of Charlie Daniels, who still manages to play a little music when not preaching on the radio.
I don't neccessarily agree with all of his views but the man can still play guitar and fiddle. Just wish he would have played more of his earlier stuff.
Now that I have the camera, I'll post some pictures of my meager collection in the next few days.
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Location: East Tennessee | The Belt Buckle will set off the security devices if He get within 2 miles of any airport.
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Location: Houston, Texas | No kidding. I was pretty far away and for a while there I thought maybe he had joined professional wrestling or something. But he has put on some weight and he needs a big belt now. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | WHen he first started out I was real inpressed by him and his band. We've since gotten straight from that. Now we see Ole Charlie fighting the fiddle to stay on top of it and an old boy told our fiddle player that if he practiced real good he could be like Charlie Daniels in a feew years if he kept at it. As it is this fiddle played is already playing circles arounc the old boy. I guess it just takes the publicx some time to catch up with the world they're livin in sometimes |
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Location: boulder | Joyful noise,
Hi, by any chance do you know if that's charlies amp behind him (the tilted marshall)? That is an interesting way to mic a fiddle with other monitors pointed in that direction. I am not saying it's wrong at all, it just looks like all the mics and monitors would feedback.
FWIW, I saw the charlie daniels band once in 1980's at Saratoga performing arts center in saratoga new york, except we showed up a day late for the Frank Zappa concert and had to sneak in to see charlie. One of the funest places in country I have seen concerts at (I've been thee about 6-8 times), along with Red Rocks in morrison colorado, of course. mike |
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Location: East Tennessee | Hi,
Fugot, I saw Glen Campbell in concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 1974 I think.
Great Acoustics Especially when Glen played "If"
the song written by David Gates of Bread. Just Glen and his Balladeer. Best rendition of the song that I ever heard. Don"t remember much else about the rest of the concert. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Hi Again,
I noticed the Marshell Amp also. Told My wife it would be good for some of the nursing homes I play at. Asked Her if she would carry it for me, You really don't want to know th answer :-) |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Bill, I've never really been a real big fan of the fiddle so as far as I know he's a really good fiddler, but what impressed me most about him in the 70's was his guitar work on his early albums as well as his songwriting and the tightness of his band. He kind of lost me on some of his later work such as "The Devil went down to Georgia".
Mike, I'm no sound engineer so I can't really comment on the setup except to say that I was a pretty good distance away and the photo was taken with a 300mm telephoto so that has a tendency to compress distance, so I don't think the monitors are not as close as they appear to the mic'ed cabinet. I don't know whether the Marshall was Charlie's but its a fair assumption that it was. There were two other guitars as well as the bass, keyboards and drums with him, and two other acts that performed with very little change in the stage so there were quite a few amps around. The stage was a rotating circular stage set up in the middle of the floor of a large stadium (Reliant Stadium, where the Houston Texans play football {still can't get over what a stupid name for a team that is}). Not exactly the best acoustic facility but it sure beats the old Astrodome.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Two things about Charie Daniels worth contemplating:
1) He managed to continue playing after having his arm broken in many places when wrapped around a post auger.
2) He has resisted the temptations of a life on the road and has made his career a successful job where his marriage is solid as a rock. |
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Location: Snellville, GA | I saw an interview where he said don't learn to play
the fiddle by watching me, I learned to play it wrong. |
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Location: NJ | I made the same mistake learning to play the flute by emulating Ian Anderson. He later said that he'd recently spent a couple years "re-learning" the instrument as he'd been playing it "wrong" for many years . . . . NOW he tells me. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | My brother John was a championship fiddle player who started playing fiddle when we were in our early twenties after he had mastered steel guitar, accordian, ordinary guitar and anything else he touched. He secretely took lessons from a violin player in our small Conneaut, OH town where he owned the American Motors dealership in his REAL life. That training made him one of the best fiddle players at that time, the late 50's and early 60's, and he won a Canadian National fiddle contest allowing him to sell an album he made with his band well in that country. Also, he got jobs like the house band on a Cleveland TV country show and stints at Cincinnati's major country show WCKY with his band.
There is no shame in learning your instrument from a trained player. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | There are so many oustanding fiddle players in this part of the woods (Blue Ridge Mountains), it hard to fathom. It's like they grow on the side of the road. Many will never be heard beyond the weekly jam or contra dance, but are nonetheless frightningly good. And it's the fiddle players that get lead billing. |
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Way OT: Charlie Daniels