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Lee Baucum Member From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) - The Final Frontier |
posted 13 June 2006 08:11 PM
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These are lots of fun: Lee, from South Texas |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 14 June 2006 08:01 AM
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I'll have whatever he's having... |
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Gene Jones Member From: Oklahoma City, OK USA |
posted 14 June 2006 08:26 AM
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In my younger years I had some nights like that....but I wouldn't want to hear the "playback"!  |
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Mike Perlowin Member From: Los Angeles CA |
posted 14 June 2006 09:37 AM
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Bob's an interesting guy. We see each other every year at NAMM and chate for a few minutes. Besides beig a hot player, he is also a scholar of Hawaiian music, and has studied it extensively. As shown in the videos, he's really into Nationals. He won't play and doesn't even own any electric instruments. ------------------ |
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Bob Martin Member From: Madison Tn |
posted 14 June 2006 09:54 AM
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Quite a showman and entertainer :-) Bob |
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Ben Elder Member From: La Crescenta, California, USA |
posted 16 June 2006 11:19 AM
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I see six pickups in the top photo: http://www.wirz.de/music/resofrm.htm (Great accidental find while searching for this CD cover photo.) |
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Mike Perlowin Member From: Los Angeles CA |
posted 16 June 2006 12:31 PM
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Unless Bob has had a change of heart, you won't see any pickups on his personal instruments. He told me he doesn't even like to listen to music made on amplified instruments. (I didn't ask him whether or not this includes Jerry Byrd and all the other great Hawaiian steel guitarists who played electric instruments, but I got the impression that it does.) ------------------ |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 16 June 2006 01:23 PM
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Bob and I went to college together and, I must say, he never showed the slightest interest in the pedal steel (of course, that might well have been a reflection of my playing on it at the time!) And then again, I showed rather little interest in his clangy metal guitars. The difference has now been revealed in the fullness of time: He's played all over the world, and I'm played all over... um, all over my house? |
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Bob Martin Member From: Madison Tn |
posted 16 June 2006 01:45 PM
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If he is a true lover of non amplified instruments he will have to forego ever recording his beautiful music because it is of course amplified. I can't imagine music without some sort of amplification but that's because I love to record so much. I could very easily just play guitars without amplification but as soon as its time to record I'd say bring on the amps/mics guys :-) Bob |
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Colm Chomicky Member From: Prairie Village, Kansas, USA |
posted 16 June 2006 02:23 PM
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You are right about Bob being into Nationals. Back in about 1986 I sold a vintage Style 3 National (near mint condition) through Gruhn's that Bob Brozman picked up. He used this instrument extensively and if you have not seen Bob's book on Nationals, I recommend it. This National is pictured in full-page spread (front and back)in the book. I emailed Bob and he responded that he sold the Style 3(after picking up his Style 4)to a doctor in Austin. I've wondered if Bob's book helped to stimulate the demand (and really high prices) for these vintage instruments. |
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Ben Elder Member From: La Crescenta, California, USA |
posted 16 June 2006 02:38 PM
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The big kick in the pants for the National market came a few years earlier, when Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms" cover, with Mark Knopfler's Style O, came out. All of a sudden, millions of people who never knew there was such a thing became interested. |
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John Kavanagh Member From: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
posted 21 June 2006 11:30 AM
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Brozman Plays some wonderful smoking solid-body electric steel on his albums "Devil's Slide" and "Truckload of Blues". The former is the only steel guitar album my wife really likes. |
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