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Location: 6 String Ranch | It has come to my attention that there has been some inaccurate information posted here!
As it turns out Glen Campbell's mother never worked at the factory. It was a look alike stand in stunt double who's real name was Sandy Cavolini. No wonder she would never sign autographs! It turns out that mom spent most of the time at home in Arkansas except when she went out to the left coast to see her boy.
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Location: Dallas | cwk2, ARKANSAS!! - well ___t that explains it. Any relation to the Clampetts? I went to Silver City in '76. She was running a crooked balloon dart game/combo Raccoon on a stick stand, reading palms on breaks. I knew she had to be a stunt double cause this one had a beard and all her teeth :rolleyes:
Still waiting to see who sigh'd my puppy and what the (M) M-293 means.
Also, will I start to loose it too, when I get to 687 posts? Yikes !! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Sandy Cavolini was his real mother, thanks for the verification.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Al says that when you get to 750 posts it starts to fade. Of course that won't be appearant to you, only others. |
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Location: Baton Rouge, LA | So, does this Sandy Cavolini have a son named Glen Cavolini? Perhaps he plays an Ovation VIOLIN??? (as opposed to the mandolin).
One wonders about such things.
I love this club! |
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Location: Dallas | Tommy, do you suppose that Glen had/or has a twin or other out there?
It's possible. :confused: |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | The Ovation VIOLIN!!! No wonder cwktwo got nervous when I mentioned Mr. Dopyro, the resophonic violin maker and founder of Dobro. Come clean cwktwo, where are those prototype Ovation resophonic violins from your collaboration with Mr. Dopyro today? Was it an experiment that took a Frankenstinian turn and they produced a banjo like sound at the first touch of the bow on the strings? The playing of Beethoven's fifth sounding like the five string sound of Banjo Twist, resulting in Sandy Cavolini and the research team being exiled to a small Pacific Atoll with all the prototypes and a wierdo called Gilligan.
No wonder the M is (M)ystery, fess up cwktwo.
Bailey
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Location: Dallas | Well, I bet The Shadow Knows :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was a 5 string violin. The M stands for Mary-Ann. |
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Location: NJ | I guess the jackalope's out of the bag!! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Rumor has it that Amelia Airhart's plane was on that island, but the natives killed all interlopers after the violin incident. The prototypes were known to the natives as the "debbil bugs of the goddess Georgia", after Sandy fended of a native attack by grabbing a prototype and playing and singing an early version of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, the horrible dissonance freezing them in their tracks, and the threat of a repeat performance kept her on the throne till she drowned trying to escape in a raft made from the prototypes lashed to a palm frond frame. She might have made it, as five porpoises started to buoy up her sinking body and pushing her ashore on the mainland, but the waves gently played upon the prototypes revealing their sound, and they drowned her on the spot, playfully destroying the prototypes as they returned to playing on PBS for dead fish, chastened but unbowed.
I heard this story in Good Time Charlie's bar in Ocean Beach California, told by 7 foot tall Polynesians who played professionally at the Kon Tiki on San Diego bay, but came to Charlie's to jam and drink beer when they weren't working. The abalone divers, tuna fishermen, and straying family men at Charlie's got better music than Kon Tiki, the Polynesians played in Charlie's their homesick island songs and rythyms on beat up old guitars. My friend Charlie, the bar owner, a veteran of the battle of the bulge as a 17 year old and a total degenerate, as we all were then, always promised FREE BEER TOMORROW.
There is some truth somewhere in this, but I am not sure where.
Bailey
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Location: Dallas | WOW Bailey, I can dig it brother.
Wonder if those boys had to play "La Bamba" there :rolleyes:
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bailey, You've found the connecting piece! Sandy's aunt was named Amelia so that must be the connection to the remote Atoll. As far as the restless natives and the big G, aren't they endorsing the new Rainsnot violins? They have never recovered from the Loss of their beloved Sandy (only discovered after the fact) and are trying to recreate those "sounds". Needless to say, the tourist traffic on the island is down significantly. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Absolutely!
And Gizz, They didn't have to play La Bamba but for them it was worse. If I can recall through the fog of many postings, here and other places, the Polynesians were very unhappy with their job at the Kon Tiki because they had to play Hawaiin music, Don Ho was big, but they didn't like being Ho's. They were the happiest bunch of guys I ever saw, when they weren't singing their great Polynesian harmonies at Charlies, they were on those beautiful San Diego beaches, singing and drinking beer all night long. For all you guitar collectors, their guitars had no brand names and the finishes looked like childrens sand box toys, and their tunings were known only to them, I never knew if they brought them from Samoa or bought them in Mexico. They sounded great cause those guys played music, the guitar just let the music come out of them. Something to think about in guitar theory.
Bailey
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Oh Mother, Where art thou?
