PBS Woody Guthrie?
Watched their Woody tribute pledge drive program from 1970 last night which was pretty interesting. The uncut coiled strings seemed to be the in thing
back then. Kind of silly now. I'm curious about what two guitars I saw were, one a 12 string slot head by Pete and one I couldn't ID played by Odetta. Also wondered what kind of and what thickness a pick Havens would have been using back then. You could see why his Guild had a double pickguard. |
My wife asked me about that and I said that was a thing back then. I always thought it was because us hippy guitar players could never find anything to snip 'em with.
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I enjoyed it too. I recognized some of the players and others I didn't. Good show though. I don't really know what Peter Fonda or "Grandpa Walton" added to it but some of Woody Guthrie's words were good to hear. I really liked the singing of Odetta.
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The young Joan Baez strongly resembles the young Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Anyhow I would like to check out that show. :up: |
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When I first started playing in 1971 (wish I had stuck with it now) I left my strings coiled and untrimmed. Primarily it was because I would stick the filter end of my lit cigarette on the business end of the low E. I thought I was way cool. Stupid in retrospect.
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Enjoyed it.
Ry Cooder in the backing band too. And I had to find out who the guy I didn't recognize who was playing guitar, singing backup and I think even autoharp on one song. Found out it was John Pilla, who played with Arlo Guthrie around that time. |
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The guitars
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