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Location: Yucaipa, California | Did anyone see the recent PBS broadcast on the Blues? There was one segment filmed in Mali and the Mali guitarist was playing an Ovation! |
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Location: NJ | i have been watching the series, cut I missed the ovation. Great stuff but I keep forgetting it is on and only view segments of it |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | It was on the first segment where they traced the roots of the blues all the way back to Africa and Mali in perticular... The Malian man was playing incredible riffs on a slot-head Ovation.... too cool... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Yep, it was an ovation. Been taping the series. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I'm taping the whole 14 hours or whatever it comes out to. There is a certain resonance to this as I joined the Army in 1953 and traveled throughout the south and saw the terrible conditions that prevailed. I was from Ohio, so "colored" and "white" did not make any sense to a 17 year old boy, as all the "negroes" I met seemed to be nice people, in the Army and out. I gave a young black boy a guitar in Newport News, VA because he was talented and didn't seem to be able to afford one, and I had two or three. The "black" part of that town was a lot more fun than the other, and my 49 Ford spent a lot of time there in what would be considered a house of ill repute, but we just enjoyed the company, my Alabama bootlegger buddy and I, we fit in OK. I'lll never regret hangng out in that side of town.
Bailey
Another historical fact, VA had State liquor stores, so if you wanted a drink after they closed you had to know a bootlegger. Hotel elevator operators were one, but mine was a taxi driver that operated just off post so you flagged him down even if you weren't going anywhere, and he took you to a house where a pint of bourbon would materialize for an atrocious price. $4 cash. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Saw the blooze show last night. Son House sounded good on his National style O. |
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Location: Indiana | I think I'm going to buy the DVD set of the entire series from PBS. It's $139 bucks I think for 7 DVD's. I've always been a blues nut and I would love to add this documentary to my blues collection.
mark |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | On a side note: Does anyone know of software that allows you to digitally extract DVD audio onto a regular audio CD? |
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Location: Indiana | I've never tried it, but it looks like these guys have. This thread may point you in the right direction.
Extracting DVD audio and ripping it to cd |
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