Old man, Old Hawaii

[sittall]

Rob, a Gabby Pahinui CD is closer than you may imagine. Check out the Pahoa Library next time you are out and about.

[Rob Tucker]

I will do that. I have come across a few here and there but they have generally been real bad recording quality, especially for the prices. I had some great tapes years ago that wore out and I can't seem to find that quality again in CDs. It's interesting that Gabby is not more present in the Hawaiian music racks.

I will check the library though. Thanks. Good tip.

[Greg]

You can access any item in the statewide catalogue online.

Your card number is your online ID and your pin is usually the last four of your phone number.

I love the Pahoa library and it's helpful staff, but space limits the selection of materials available. Why not browse the whole state system?

Order something online and it will be shipped to Pahoa from anywhere in the state system it's available. This sometimes takes awhile, but they notify you by mail when ordered materials arrive.

You can order books, CD's, and DVD's.

It's free!

http://www.librarieshawaii.org/Default.htm

[Kelena]

Welcome back to Puna, Andy. Andy and his wife were in a little video on photobucket. Uke player James Hill lead a little group at TGI Fridays after the Museum Concert. The link disappeared though so, I have had to remove it from this comment.

[David M]

More appropriate title Glen []

If anyone is interested, there will be a music festival (3rd Annual) at Laupauhoehoe Point Park Feb 16 - all local music. Tickets are only $10 to support the scholarship fund. Listen to KAPA to get some of the details and where to purchase tickets (50's Cafe has them).

David

Ninole Resident

[Les C]

"Pure Gabby" is one of the better compilations of Gabby's music. Another recording with Atta Issacs, "Two Slack Key Guitars" is also an amazing recording, two truly amazing guitarists. Lotta jazz stylings in the slack-key. I got turned on to slack-key in the mid-60s by a haole classmate who had taken ukulele lessons from a guy named Hal Lawrence (I think) in Honolulu. The only records available were LPs by Leonard Kwan, Sonny Chillingworth, and the Sons of Hawaii (?). The latter put out an album called' "Kanikapila!" Gabby was in the group but no one was a star, except to their families and friends, maybe. If I recall correctly, the group was composed of Gabby (guitar), Eddie Kamae (ukulele), Barney Issacs (Atta's dad, I think, on steel guitar), and Joe "Bla" something (bass). Really tight stuff. At the Big Island Music Festival in Hilo, two years ago, there was a group who played just like them. But I don't remember who they were.

Regarding the former mistitled subject about the Superferry, there was the hydrofoil for a while. Was that an auto ferry, or just a people mover/marine mammal slicer?

I don't go as far back as Bill Tapia, my mind can only recall from the early 50's. But it was way different. Statehood, in 1959, made one of the biggest differences. When you grow up in an insular setting like an island and you don't know any different, life is fine. Salted salmon, canned spinach, Spam, Vienna Sausage, Carnation condensed milk; the HRT (Honolulu Rapid Transit buses); Lani Moo - the cow mascot for Meadow Gold, or Dairymens, or Foremost, I forget which; Kini Popo, Lucky Luck, Primo Beer, etc. were all part of the fabric of life here. Well, in Honolulu, at least. My recollections of the Big Island and Maui are vague: seeing lava in what I think was Halema'uma'u firepit; a crater that sunk into a farmer's field in Kapoho or Pahoa, I forget; going to one of my grandfather's funerals in Makawao and actually seeing a funeral pyre. The ensuing development, crowds of people and cars, however.... it's why I had no interest in moving back to Hawai'i after having lived on the west coast for too many years. When I visited my aunt and uncle in Mtn. View in 1990, the east side of the BI reminded me of the "olden days". It became possible for me to think about living in Hawai'i again. So, my wife bravely made the leap with me and here we are.

[mella l]

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Originally posted by Glen

Welcome back to Puna, Andy. You can see Andy and his wife in this video as the camera sweeps to the right. The uke player is James Hill, of Canada. After the concert these people partied a little at TGI Fridays:
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c345/m...¤t=029.flv

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Glen thank you for this story! I went to the above site but didn't know which file to view the uke player in. Valentines? Hula? Couldn't find it!

mella l

[Guest]

He (Tapia) was on Television this morning.

Clips at the link.

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On this day in History:
Captain James Cook's body is buried at sea following recovery of his remains from Hawaiian natives, 1779.

[rusty h]

wow,
to be able to see what it was like back then and to be able to talk to someone who lived back then would be a dream come true. tlaking to older people is so cool.

looking into their eyes and knowing they have seen so much and it will never be as it was back then!

priceless

[Kelena]

I am so glad to see that he is still treasured. What a character. Thanks for the link, Damon. It's not his ukulele playing, it's the spark the guy has. That's what's really amazing.