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Original Post By:
Boswell
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Date: 6/29/2009 3:37:27 PM
(Updated: 6/29/2009 3:44:51 PM)
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Hi gang,
Here is Gerald Ross on Hawaiian steel, accompanied by Marv & Kathy Reitz on guitar and bass ukulele. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmh8clXS2HM
Gerald perfomed it, at my request, at his workshop on Hawaiian steel at The Portland Uke Fest 09.
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Posted By:
Hipster44
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Date: 6/29/2009 5:27:10 PM |
That was mighty fine...very enjoyable. Gerald is
truly remarkable.
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Posted By:
Gerald Ross
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Date: 6/29/2009 6:58:58 PM
(Updated: 6/29/2009 7:00:04 PM)
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Thanks for posting this video Jimmy. We're a bit shaky at the start but we end the tune nicely.
Kathy Reitz is playing a "Stretch" uke bass made by famed uke luthier Joel Eckhaus.
http://www.earnestinstruments.com/stretch.html
My bald spot is not so evident in the video. Keep watching that spot - within a few years I'll probably have the Larry Fine look.
http://www.derhamgroves.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/larry.jpg
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Posted By:
CurtSheller
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Date: 6/29/2009 7:14:53 PM
(Updated: 6/29/2009 7:15:06 PM)
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Love your steel work. Great song and impromptu performance.
I'll have to make it out to the Portland Uke Fest one of these years.
Curt
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Posted By:
James Clem
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Date: 7/4/2009 5:52:10 PM |
| This is a wonderful version of the Sol Hoopi classic by Gerald. Tasty! We should also give some much deserved credit to the contribution that Marv & Kathy Reitz made to the Portland Ukefest this year. Marv played some great clarinet at the Swing Dance on Thursday and Kathy sang a very nice version of "Sugar Moon" at the dance.That was one of the highlights of the festival for me. That song was written by the great Cindy Walker, a very under rated writer who wrote such classics as "You Don't Know Me" and "Bubbles in My Beer". I urge everyone out there to seek out more of the great vintage artists like Cindy Walker and keep their music going for another generation.
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