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I started playing the guitar |
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oh..seem ???????...emm |
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Back in 1959,my..eh..My mom and dad gave me my first guitar.. |
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was a little three-quater-size one. |
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My mom wanted to learn Hawaii music |
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and...She needed a rhythm guy so... |
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..That was me... |
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and..and then my other brothers and sister took up playing instruments as well. |
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My eldest brother Chris played the drums.. |
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..my sister Verginia played the Hawaii steel guitar. |
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And my brother Fill who was my closest sibling. |
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He was the lead guitar player,I was the accompanist. |
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And I started there..in my musical life.. |
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Doing..what I..I love to do and that is being an accompanist. |
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And..when I was little learning songs off the radio |
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and tried to work out what was going on on records. |
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One of the things that I was not aware of was that |
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there was a bass guitar on records. |
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I thought for some reason that the rhythm player covered the bass. |
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And I will show you what I mean. |
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So..there was a record by a band called 'The Shadows' |
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..and the bass part went like this...(Bass..) |
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And the rhythm went like this...(Ringing..) |
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What I heard was.....（Bass&Ringing） |
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And didn't sound like anyone was missing. |
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(Laugh..)And... |
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So...(Ringing..) |
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See it making the sound of the bass as well as the rhythm. |
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And that's...that's what I thought was..was going on. |
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And it was kind of a happy accident,because when I got a little older |
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and I heard Chet Atkins on the radio, |
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I could hear he was playing everything at once. |
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And people didn't believe that |
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they said,"Oh,no.It's a recording trick,don't take any notice to that." |
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I said,"Oh,no.I think he is playing everything at once..I'll show you how it goes." |
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And I use my..my straight pick and I work out how to get that.(Ringing...Inro of 'Windy&Warm') |
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Going like that with the pick,and then I got my fingers playing the melody. |
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And I had my own little band like this... |
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<Windy&Warm>.......(Clapping) |
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So you got the idea anyway,right? (Clapping..Laughing) |
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So that's how I started the fingerstyle playing with this straight pick. |
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And then I acrossed was about 11 or 12 years old and I finally saw a photoghraph of..of Chet |
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and he was playing with a thumbpick on his thumb.I had one of those..haa..moments,you know? |
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And..So when I got myself a thumbpick was like someone opened the gate and the horse ran out,you know. |
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So I was off and running,and I've been off and running ever since. |
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And..So I sure do own Chet so much,he showed so many of us the way... |
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inspired us seems still does today,what a legacy he left for us. |
