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Post by whitefang on Apr 11, 2021 10:28:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2021 11:14:50 GMT -5
I saw Ravi live at Ocean County College in middle New Jersey long long ago. Probably late 60's early 70's. He was one awesome player and seems to still be awesome.
I had worked as a bricklayer at Ocean County College a year or so before. I was building the heater stack which was rectangular about 15 feet long and about 8 feet wide ,just 15 feet outside of the big auditorium. One day the plumbers were putting up some pipe on the roof, and knocked a concrete block off of the roof above our heads. The block came down and killed my hoddy (laborer) (union mason laborers are called hod carriers, hoddies for short) Anyways they knocked us off right then because of the death. The next morning as I went back to work on the stack, the plumbers were still lifting pipe up on the roof. I walked right past that stack and into my car and never went back to work there. I just called the boss and went to another job with the same contractor back in Philly or in Atlantic City.
Anyways that hoddies death bothered me for the whole Ravi Shankar concert, it brought the whole thing back into my head vividly. That hoddy was a super nice guy. We became friends working together for those weeks.
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Post by jawbone on Apr 11, 2021 23:47:17 GMT -5
That's a very sad thing. I have nothing to compare to it except that, my first wife's favorite artist was Joan Baez. One year to the day after she left me I somehow ended up at a Joan Baez concert. Life sure can be weird.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 7:20:09 GMT -5
Ravi Shankar KBE (Bengali pronunciation born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, spelled Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury in Sanskrit; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), whose name is often preceded by the title Pandit (Master), was an Indian sitar virtuoso and a composer. He became the world's best-known exponent of North Indian classical music, in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many other musicians throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in Western pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform until the end of his life.
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Post by whitefang on Apr 12, 2021 10:41:53 GMT -5
I never did see Ravi in concert. The closest I came to it was seeing John open for WEATHER REPORT when he was in THIS phase----
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 14:27:19 GMT -5
I never saw McLaughlin nor Shakti, although I was a big fan of McLaughlin, especially when he was in the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I also bought the Shakti albums as well as McLaughlin, DeMeola and Paco de Lucía albums. Most amazing players. Of course y'all know I took lessons from Al DeMeola's guitar teacher, the late Bob Aslanian, (Bobby Lane was his stage name).
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Post by whitefang on Apr 13, 2021 9:55:23 GMT -5
Well, you know(because I've mentioned it often enough) that I've seen McLaughlin several times. From the Mahavishnu Orchestra's two incarnations through to his performing his "Mediterranean Concerto" with the Detroit symphony orchestra('88). Don't remember you mentioning taking lessons from Aslanian, but recall your mentioning taking lessons from Emily Remler. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 11:41:42 GMT -5
Yep I took lessons from Bob Aslanian, one hour every 2 weeks @ $20 an hour. I had to practice 4 hours a day for those 2 weeks to get what it was he taught me in that lesson. It was heavyweight stuff. Bob was a stellar guitarist, playing everything from pop to classical. I took lessons from Emily several years before I met or heard of Bob. The difference in the two was astounding. Emily was feel and Berkeley School Of Music jazz. Bob was super technique more classical. Bob played a lot more stuff per measure than Emily did. But the way she played was super beautiful (as was she) www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emily+remler The combination of the two different techniques made me a pretty decent player back when I practiced 4 hours a day. Bob moved from Teaneck NJ to a little town in Ocean County called Forked River (Pronounced Fork edd River by the locals) I lived about 20 miles south of there. Al DeMeola is from Teaneck or near there as well. When all the guitar players in Ocean County NJ heard he was there and his history as DeMeola's teacher, we all jumped on that bandwagon and went to Bob for lessons. Conversely Emily found me, she was vacationing on Long Beach Island for 2 weeks and started to run out of money. My fathers office was on a main street in Ship Bottom NJ on Long Beach Island. One day while I was practicing at immense volumes, in his office, Emily walked by and knocked on my door, and said "I am a jazz guitarist, and I will give you lessons at 10 bucks an hour". So I handed her my guitar, and said "show me". She took my Ibanez Artist (Which was the most beautiful that Guitar that I ever owned) and started to play. She asked me to turn the amp down which I did, and she began to play. I stopped her mid song and said I will take an hour now, and an hour every day that you are here on LBI. She was 18 years old at the time, and super gorgeous to me at the time, but I was 2x her age so I never tried to date her. I also took more lessons after I began to learn from Bob whenever she showed up on LBI. The difference between the two players was huge, and their lessons were both excellent.
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Post by whitefang on Apr 18, 2021 11:06:20 GMT -5
I actually once played a sitar. It was at a small music shop on Detroit's Plum St.( Detroit's answer to Haight-Ashbury) Could barely hold it up let alone PLAY anything on it! But it was fun getting a few notes out of it. I admire anyone who can play it and make any noises that sound musical. Whitefang
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