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03-24-2017, 06:31 PM
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Welcome aboard
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03-24-2017, 06:48 PM
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Ah, a Flamand! Great piece of trivia: during WWII, a British RAF pilot and a Polish RAF pilot, both POWs, made a break from Oflag IV-C Colditz, the highest-security German POW camp where all the "bad boy" escape artist prisoners went after they escaped from more than one other camp. These two guys knew very little German and knew they, like everyone else, would be "controlled" or interrogated at train stations and in public by German police. These two adopted the cover identity of being Flemish brick masons drafted into the war effort. The job description would allow them to travel near the frontiers of the German empire where defense works were being built and their professed nationality. The adopted nationality featured a language that so few people knew that they could bet they could act as if they didn't understand German and be thus couldn't successfully interrogated on a casual level. They were right, and were successful in fleeing Germany and escaping to Switzerland.
Unique language! Bob
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03-25-2017, 04:51 AM
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Gitarre you are about right about the pronociation of my name
 a rolling RRRR and then ehnaaaht . It is the flemish version of René (French) and in Germany they use the female Renate  Great story Bob Womack! For those that don't know, Flemish isn't actually a language, it is Dutch with a different accent, like the difference between British and American english. The Dutch often think we are a bit slow, but that is not true, we are more relaxed  So we are learnig history and geography lessons on a guitar forum  And while we're at it, we have the joie de vivre and the taste in good food and drinks from the French and the work ethics and the gründlichkeit of the Germans.
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03-25-2017, 10:56 AM
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So glad you discovered Mr. Prine and those other great writers. He changed my life in 1972.
Whenever I hear John's name I immediately think of his best buddy, the late, great Steve Goodman. Steve died way back in 1984 and so many younger players have never heard of him. Besides being a stellar acoustic player, he wrote what many consider the best train song ever, "The City of New Orleans." Steve and John toured a lot together back in the day. Here there are on John's wonderful tune "Souvenirs." Enjoy!
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03-27-2017, 01:38 PM
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John Prine and Steve Goodman, great to see and hear!
A little trivia about Steve's City of New Orleans, almost everybody over 35 in Holland and Flanders knows that song. Well the melody that is, a dutch version called 'Het is weer voorbij die mooie zomer' (It's all over again that lovely summer) is in our collective musical memory but nobody knows Steve Goodman. I discovered Steve Goodman's song 'Would you like to learn to dance' on this forum and I must say I like it very much. It is special in that it's what I call a very un-macho lovesong. He invites the girl into dancing and singing and maybe a little loving. Very sweet
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#23
03-27-2017, 01:45 PM
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Welcome!
You will be a beneficiary and hopefully a contributor to a cool place with a wealth of experience and folks always glad to help you buy another guitar... unfortunately only with advice, not money.
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03-27-2017, 02:18 PM
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From your introduction I'm guessing you are a John Prine fan. hello in there back at ya. Welcome
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03-27-2017, 02:34 PM
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Hi Renaart,
Welcome from a Brit! Good to see another European here!
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03-27-2017, 02:37 PM
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thanks! scott
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