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Location: Michigan | I confess, I'm a Roy Bookbinder fan ever since getting a couple of his DVD's.
Checked his website a while back as I saw he was coming to Michigan to play. When I saw he was putting on a workshop at Elderly I couldn't resist. That was Monday past. Saturday night he was playing in Flint about an hour away so me & my other half headed up bought tickets at the door for $12ea and grabbed some seats in the front row.
Wow, it was great. He played about 2 hours actual time with a 20 minute intermission, which about half of that was taken up by me talking to him, buying a couple cd's and of course personalized autograph on the live at the Fur Peace Ranch CD.
Told him thanks & I'd see him monday as I was signed up for his workshop at Elderly.
He's a great fingerpicker, my wife liked him but was a little disappointed by his singing. I explained to her that was his style kinda half talking & half singing alot like playing the guitar and story telling which we all know is no small feat in itself. But just listening to him, working for & studying under Rev Gary Davis, the late Dave Van Ronk, Pink Anderson and all the different people he's played with and became friends with since starting out after getting out of the service in 1965 and hanging out in that whole Greenwich Village thing back then.
Driving home I felt somewhat depressed and intimidated as a guitar player.
Walking into Elderly I kinda felt butterflies in my gut, but they went away when he walked in the workshop room and said "Hi Walt" and the only time I told him my name was when he signed that CD.
A grate 2 hour session, with a total of 6 of us he went through any things we asked. I got a little help with some things I hadn't quite got worked out from some of his DVD's, one being the famous G lick and some other chords I never knew exsisted that you can't find in any of the websites. After the class I talked for a bit more, got his card bought his book and told him I'd catch him next time around.
What a great man, I think I'm a bigger fan with a better understanding now.
Wally |
A Roy Bookbinder weekend
maybe I could schedule 'Sea Cow Serenade II' at that time... It'd be a great time for ya to head down here for some sunshine and an 'O' jam!
