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Location: closely held secret | So, Jeff... are you bummed or what? |
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Location: NJ | I think he's "bummed" . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I think he is a "bum" |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
A really good teacher really takes away all of the apprehension Yeah, Mike just takes this in such stride it makes everyone comfortable. He'll just tell you to put your slide on and take a few licks, then kick it over to someone else. At one point he kicks it to me and says "OK Dave, SING a verse." Talk about apprehension! But it was totally cool. Dave |
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Location: Tennessee | Not much to add to Al's Epistle, except to thank Bill for the hospitality and getting the whole thing set up. Mike was a great teacher, and never once let on that he was disgusted with my total lack of ability. I've got a whole new set of good fundamentals to completely mangle, but I'll have a lot of fun doing it. I saw and listened to an incredible array of guitars. All I could think was, "someday ...".
I was really nervous to go to the clinic at first, which accelerated after listening to Bill and Davis play/jam at O'Kane's on Thursday night. But once we got into the semi-circle, it became apparent that we were all learning new things and everyone started from the same zero point. That was cool. Naturally the real players often progressed faster than certain yours trulys, but if anyone is apprehensive about going to a clinic, don't be. Everyone is there to learn and sometimes you'll find yourself catching things faster than the real players.
Everyone that was involved ... my gratitude and thanks for making it such a great weekend ... Bill, Lorraine, Mike and Jan Dowling, Joe at the Florida House, Dave (it was nice meeting Julie), Davis, Cole, noodler Brandon, MIA Willie, Michael, and the Stevenson/VonTropp family. And of course Al, who tried to inject bad karma into everything, but was foiled when his luck was completely turned around after ordering a kid's meal for dinner. ;) Sue, if you're reading this, Al had a terrible time, the place was no good at all, and you were lucky you stayed back home in NJ.
Last thing ... Saturday night at The Frisky Mermaid, a guy named Ben Prestage played. What an incredible and fun show. In addition to playing both electric and acoustic guitars at levels I have rarely (if ever) seen, he also pulled out and played a "cigar box" guitar: quite literally, it is a cigar box with two broom handles for necks - one that had one bass string on it and the other with three guitar strings. The pickups were sewing machine bobbins with magnets, and were grounded to beer bottle caps at the back of the "bridge". He used a Sharpie as a nut in whatever position he wanted for the key of the song. And then this cat proceeded to play three parts on this guitar simultaneously (bass, electric guitar and slide guitar) while - at the same time - using his right foot to pound on a bass drum and his left foot on a pedal that drove a snare drum and high-hats at the same time. I kid you not. The guy was freakish in more ways than one. Here is his website: http://www.benprestage.net/. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Not much to add to Al's Epistle,
hmmmm .....
gospel according to St. Al I like that!!! and I did have pancakes for breakfast!!!
And of course Al, who tried to inject bad karma into everything, but was foiled when his luck was completely turned around after ordering a kid's meal for dinner. ;)
if it wasn't for bad luck I would have none at all.... it just follows me.
Sue, if you're reading this, Al had a terrible time, the place was no good at all, and you were lucky you stayed back home in NJ.
just make sure you tell her I ate vegetables.
Last thing ... Saturday night at The Frisky Mermaid, a guy named Ben Prestage played. What an incredible and fun show. In addition to playing both electric and acoustic guitars at levels I have rarely (if ever) seen, he also pulled out and played a "cigar box" guitar: quite literally, it is a cigar box with two broom handles for necks - one that had one bass string on it and the other with three guitar strings. The pickups were sewing machine bobbins with magnets, and were grounded to beer bottle caps at the back of the "bridge". He used a Sharpie as a nut in whatever position he wanted for the key of the song. And then this cat proceeded to play three parts on this guitar simultaneously (bass, electric guitar and slide guitar) while - at the same time - using his right foot to pound on a bass drum and his left foot on a pedal that drove a snare drum and high-hats at the same time. I kid you not. The guy was freakish in more ways than one. Here is his website: http://www.benprestage.net/. |
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Location: NJ | How was th'Shrimmps???? |
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Location: closely held secret | Al, someday we'll have to teach you how to use this website of yours. |
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Location: Tennessee | Shrimp seems to be a key ingredient in nearly everything in and around Amelia. Being a shrimp lover myself, it was like being in heaven on earth. Had it a prepared number of different ways over the weekend (the Tapas restaurant was GREAT, thanks again Bill), but clearly my favorite was the shrimp cooked over a hot flame. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Al, someday we'll have to teach you how to use this website of yours. great
more stuff to learn |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Glad you all had a good time. Let's do it again.
Al, sorry the weather was so sh!tty, be sure to tell sue that. So damn cold that you had to wear your hat everywhere. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and yet the Mosquitos were still swarming... |
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Location: NJ | just needed "you all" to read this again.
phrase of the weekend
"what's the matter? YOu don't like grits?" |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Al, you bring up an interesting point. I found myself starting to use some interesting vocabulary. Sunday AM on the way to the airport I stopped at the Huddle House for a coffee.
Flo (waitress): "Hi'a sweetie"
Me: "I'll have a double tall skim latte"
Flo: "Y'all ain't from 'round here, huh?"
Me: "No, just traveling through"
Flo: "All by yer lonesome?"
Then before I could catch myself, out came "yup, the young-in's is home with mamma."
Well, maybe it'll help my southern guitar blues playing. Lord help me.
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Location: SoCal | After spending almost 7 years in Texas, I found myself speaking with a Texas accent. When I was a senior in college in Austin, I was working in a retail store and said to somebody "Will that all for y'all?" I heard myself say that, winced, and never spoke with a Texas accent again. Ever since then, I've sounded like a mid western newscaster.... no accent at all....... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well that's not a good thing.....
You needs to get some ethnicity an locality in yo voice.
And another part I love,
Up north if you call the waitress sweetie or sugar she'll slap you, (all that political correctmess bullsh!t), and down here she'll slap you if you don't. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | "You needs to get some ethnicity an locality in yo voice."
Bill - figured you had the Ct and Fl accents down but when did you move to Harlem? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cwk2:
And another part I love,
Up north if you call the waitress sweetie or sugar she'll slap you, (all that political correctmess bullsh!t), and down here she'll slap you if you don't. obviously you have not eaten in a NJ diner for a while |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I usually try not to do anything in New Jersey but leave. |
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Location: NJ | HEY!!!
One of these days we'll t'get you an Lorraine t'come visit Cape May . . . |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cwk2:
I usually try not to do anything in New Jersey but leave. damn ......
hit me right in the center of my heart....... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Al, don't sweat it, Bro...
Everybody knows (except Floridians, themselves) that Floridians are completely insane... I've been to countless countries on this globe and Florida is by far the strangest place I've EVER been.... and I've been there a lot.
(the fact that half of all current Floridians are former Jerseyites, not withstanding) |
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Location: closely held secret | Comes from living on a long sandspit that could disappear under a high tide at any moment. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by alpep:
just needed "you all" to read this again.
phrase of the weekend
"what's the matter? YOu don't like grits?" NB: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. I believe she said "y'all doan liak griats?" to Al. She was still bemused by my asking for sourdough toast. Doh! |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Jeff, most of us natives know that everyone here is crazy. Hell, without Florida, Dr. Phil and Jerry Springer would have no material! |
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OT: Mike Dowling Clinic
