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Topic: guitar player in movie Roadhouse
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Ron Victoria
Member From: Metuchen, New Jersey, USA
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posted 30 July 2005 07:02 PM
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I was watching that old movie Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze. I saw a man playing what I thought at first was a lap steel. Upon seeing him closer, it was a conventional electric guitar on his lap and he was fingering the frets. My friend told me this man is really blind and an established msuician. He was called Cody in the movie. What I was wondering, does he finger the guitar differently because it's laid flat. Is he the only person who plays guitar this way?Ron |
Duane Solley
Member From: San Antonio, Texas, USA
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posted 30 July 2005 07:28 PM
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Thumbs Carlisle,who is deceased, played a regular guitar laid flat on his lap and Gene Field has a double neck guitar wiht one neck fretted so that he can play it with his finges instead of a steel. He was at the Texas Steel Guitar Jamboree this year and I was amazed at his abilities. |
Keith Cordell
Member From: Atlanta
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posted 30 July 2005 08:06 PM
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He played in standard tuning, he is really blind and his name is Jeff Healey. He is a musician in Toronto who had a brief popularity on the SRV circuit of blues types. I thought he was a really good player, his approach to the fingerboard gave him an unusual touch and his bending was radically different on some tunes than you might have expected. ------------------
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George Keoki Lake
Member From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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posted 30 July 2005 09:07 PM
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Though not blind, Dickie Philips played regular guitar on his lap much the same as Thumbs Carlisle. I'm not sure where Dickie is today...any of you old tymers recall him or know if he is still amongst us ?[This message was edited by George Keoki Lake on 30 July 2005 at 09:07 PM.] |
Don Kona Woods
Member From: Vancouver, Washington, USA
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posted 31 July 2005 12:07 AM
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Is he the only person who plays guitar this way?
Another guitar player who is blind and plsys the guitar laying flat is Hawaiian artist B.B. Shawn who plays on occasion with Bobby Ingano a Hawaiian steel guitar recording artist who has been a guest at Hawaiian steel guitar conventions here on the Mainland. B.B. Shawn plays slack guitar style. Aloha,
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Larry W. Jones
Member From: Kingwood, Texas, 77339 The Liveable Forest
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posted 31 July 2005 01:35 AM
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Presenting the late "Thumbs Carlisle".
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Tom Stolaski
Member From: Huntsville, AL, USA
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posted 31 July 2005 04:44 AM
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I was lucky enough to see Thumbs Carlisle at the ISGC playing with Buddy Emmons. I was amazed at how he was coping note for note everything that Buddy was playing. Even the Boo-Wa licks! It was a sight to see. |
Joey Ace
Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada
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posted 31 July 2005 05:03 AM
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Jeff Healey is the guy in the movie.
He plays in standard guitar tuning. The fingering has to be different due the angle of the hand. The thumb is used a lot.Jeff is a Jazz fan, has a huge collection of 78s. Louie Armstrong is his favorite. He also plays trumpet. Jeff's still very active in music, and owns a club in Toronto. http://www.jeffhealeys.com/
Ray Benson performed there last month. |
Bill Creller
Member From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA
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posted 31 July 2005 11:09 AM
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B B Shawn also plays the bass on his lap, if my memory is correct. |
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