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Location: NJ | FYI:
If anybody's interested, David Bromberg will be performing live in the studio soon (it's now 13:05, my time) on WNYC-FM here in NY.
It can be heard on-line at:
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Bromberg is a real talent..
Fiddlemaker these days in Wilmington DE in addition to playing music. |
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Location: NJ | Not a Fiddlemaker.
Violin Dealer.
(and head of the Arts Council) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I use to have a Bromberg T-shirt back in the '70s that I wore while in college. It had a line drawing of him on the front.
I got constantly asked if the drawing on my T-shirt was of me :eek: .
Not sure how we both look now but I guess at one time there was a resemblance.
WOW....hadn't thought about David Bromberg in 20-25 years. Glad to hear he is still out and about and performing. |
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Location: NJ | Promoting his first album in 30 years.
I just saw him this past Fall at B.B. King's in Manhattan. He played a GREAT version (as he did just now, on the radio) of Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I believe he's making them too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | From AMG:
"There is no denying that Bromberg, who basically gave up the road and the studio at the dawn of the '90s in order to become a violin maker, possesses an innate love for the roots Americana that populates his comeback album. And on its own merits, it's a satisfying enough listenhe sounds perfectly comfortable within the familiar domain of this material." |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | What time is the broadcast supposed to be?
That link says he's on the show but doesn't really give a time. |
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Location: NJ | He did leave the biz to make 'em, but I'd read that he made a course-correction and became a dealer of fine violins, instead . . .
. . . still, I 'spect he cranks out one or two outta' the back room, every now and again . . . |
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Location: NJ | ". . What time is the broadcast supposed to be? . ."
A half-hour ago.
He came on RIGHT after I made the initial post.
sorry.
(I posted it as soon as I'd heard)
If y'do some research, I believe WNYC PodCasts all of their programs . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I stand corrected.
Bromberg has an in-shop luthier (violin maker). Bromberg does not actually make them. |
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Location: PDX | I have the album with that line drawing on it! It's a great album i still listen to.
Thanks Cliff for the link -- i caught the show. And really liked David's playing. Back to the solo stuff like on the aforementioned album. Lot's of his music with a band that followed i really didn't care for.
Now we need JJ Cale to show up and two of my favorite players/songwriters will be back in production. (and no that stint with Eric Clapton doesn't count :) )
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cliff, John. How was the new material? |
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Location: NJ | You can hear it on Amazon:
Bromberg |
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Location: PDX | What Dave played on the show was heavy country blues influenced.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hmmmmm....maybe we haven't changed so much! ;)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That brings back some old, but very vague memories. I don't think I could call it a flashback, because it's not clear enough. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I remember him from back then and he was pretty good and influential. I saw him at the National Guitar Workshop summer sessions a couple of years ago and I had to question by basis for good memories. Maybe it was just good drugs...... |
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Location: NJ | He definitely ain't what he used to be . . .
He used an analogy of softball:
Y'go to a picnic, and there's a softball bat, ball & glove there.
Y'pick 'em up and play a little ball.
When you're done, y'don't play again . . . till somebody else has a picnic . . .
He did that for about 20 years - where he hardly even TOUCHED a guitar. I think he was concentrating on the violin business . . . and raising a family. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He was a staple at Stockton when I was there 20 years ago. Bromberg, Warren Zevon, The Hooters, Taj Mahal, Fleck, were always regulars doing great shows... |
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Location: NJ | "Letric Chair Blues" is still my favorite . . . |
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| I know the name and I can't remember why. Did he hang out/record with Jerry Garcia? |
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Location: NJ | Quite possibly . . .
(but anything Garcia's associated with, I usually walk away from . . .) |
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| I was thinking about you earlier cliffie - we just had Tiger Prawns followed by a Parmesan and coriander omelette with potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers and porcini mushrooms slow roasted in olive oil and a beautiful mix of herbs (recipe on request) and it crossed my mind that the carnivores who inhabit the OFC would have me marked down as a pinko liberal (by your standards I'm a communist) when I thought of you. The wines were to die for.
And I still count Mr Garcia as one of my most enduring musical influences. Seeing The Dead at Wembley in the very early seventies was one of the great nights of my life.
See you in CT. |
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Location: NJ | Aw, damn! . . . y'just made me hungry!!
I was just gonna stop for a slice on the way to tonight's gig. That ain't gonna cut it, now . . .
If I can get to the venue early enough, Vietnamese Spring Rolls might be in order.
I'm OUTTA' here . . . . |
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