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Post by david on Jul 11, 2023 22:53:30 GMT -5
I don't like Howard Stern and don't understand why James Taylor went on his show, but still, this is interesting:
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Post by millring on Jul 12, 2023 5:20:52 GMT -5
I know I've mentioned it before, but I really think that his unusual way of fingering the A and D chords (I don't know anyone else who learned to play them that way) has a surprising amount to do with his particular sound.
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Post by howard lee on Jul 12, 2023 6:30:30 GMT -5
On a slightly tangential line, here are two of the three reasons I wanted to play guitar:
Seeing this photo and recognizing the passing of time always leaves me feeling wistful.
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Post by John B on Jul 12, 2023 8:40:24 GMT -5
On a slightly tangential line, here are two of the three reasons I wanted to play guitar:
Seeing this photo and recognizing the passing of time always leaves me feeling wistful.
Who’s the third? Looking at the photo, I remember when both of them were that young…
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Post by Russell Letson on Jul 12, 2023 14:10:17 GMT -5
Three reasons I learned to play guitar. (I hung out and played a bit with a girl who looked like the middle one. If we'd gone to the same school, I would have been dating her.) And my current beard is an homage to the bookend guys.
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Post by Dub on Jul 12, 2023 14:16:50 GMT -5
My three reasons.
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 12, 2023 15:11:44 GMT -5
I never cottoned to PPM. From the get go it was MJH and VanRonk. I took guitar lessons from Don Zepp. A great finger picker and bluegrass player. He has quite the YouTube presence under Zepp Music. One of the sharpest senses of humor I’ve encountered and a fine musician. I’m forever grateful to him.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jul 12, 2023 16:01:29 GMT -5
My three reasons. Actually it was the Trio's music that my friend-who-was-a-girl and I pursued back then. My focus on PP&M and Pete Seeger overlapped with that initial enthusiasm, and KT material inspired a lot of undergrad hootish activity. I didn't approach the purer forms of folk music until grad school, where I met a guy from Yazoo City who turned me on to Memphis Slim, Howlin' Wolf, and other guys who carried pistols in their waistbands and razors in their shoes.
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Post by jdd2 on Jul 12, 2023 16:09:49 GMT -5
Hoyt Axton, anyone? (KT's greenback dollar)
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Post by Russell Letson on Jul 12, 2023 16:43:29 GMT -5
Yup, a college-hoot favorite. We were much taken by the KT arrangement.
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Post by Dub on Jul 12, 2023 17:55:59 GMT -5
Hoyt Axton, anyone? (KT's greenback dollar) I used to drink with Hoyt in a bar on E. Pearson St. in Chicago. I think that’s all Loyola facilities now. Hoyt used to hang out in Chicago in the early sixties. It was a long time ago in a galaxy… well, you know.
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Post by RickW on Jul 12, 2023 19:08:40 GMT -5
I know I've mentioned it before, but I really think that his unusual way of fingering the A and D chords (I don't know anyone else who learned to play them that way) has a surprising amount to do with his particular sound. That is very odd. Seen lots of variations, but that’s strange. But, whatever works for you. He loves his suspended hammer ons, he does.
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Post by RickW on Jul 12, 2023 19:09:44 GMT -5
Hoyt Axton, anyone? (KT's greenback dollar) Saw him live here, he was backing someone up, can’t remember who. But never knew how many huge songs he wrote for other people until he walked out on a stage and started to sing them.
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Post by millring on Jul 12, 2023 19:10:09 GMT -5
Though I'm WAY too young for PP&M to be an influence, nevertheless, they were probably my first. Later album, I'm guessing. I was 10. Geoff left behind a no name guitar and a Kingston Trio songbook by which I learned my first chords. I had seen Geoff fingerpick and caught that he was alternating the base and the strings in a pattern. I was soon imitating the songs on Album 1700. When Geoff came home from college he showed me that I could change the rhythm of the fingerpicking by pinching the two outer strings as a start to the alternating thing.
If I Had Wings was my first fingerpicking song.
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Post by RickW on Jul 12, 2023 19:11:53 GMT -5
For me, it was Cat Stevens at the start. Listened to Teaser and the Firecat, Tea for the Tillerman, and Catch Bull at Four until I wore them out. Beatles songs to s certain extent, but then I went on to Jethro Tull, (Ian Anderson’s playing,) and Steve Howe of Yes. (Yes, I’m an old prog guy.)
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 12, 2023 19:26:12 GMT -5
Dub, I had no idea that KT Tunstall did Greenback Dollar.
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 12, 2023 19:26:24 GMT -5
Dub, I had no idea that KT Tunstall did Greenback Dollar.
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Post by Dub on Jul 12, 2023 19:41:21 GMT -5
Dub, I had no idea that KT Tunstall did Greenback Dollar. I think by “KT” he was referring to the Kingston Trio. Hoyt Axton’s mother wrote Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis Presley. From AllMusic.com
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Post by jdd2 on Jul 12, 2023 20:01:37 GMT -5
Sure, kingston trio (KT). Their greenback dollar cover was a hit.
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Post by howard lee on Jul 12, 2023 20:11:18 GMT -5
On a slightly tangential line, here are two of the three reasons I wanted to play guitar:
Seeing this photo and recognizing the passing of time always leaves me feeling wistful.
Who’s What's the third? [...]
Meeting girls, what else?
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