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| 575.1 | I have a couple | PLDVAX::JACQUES | | Fri Apr 08 1988 18:19 | 34 |
| Larry,
I have "The Real Howard Roberts", and "Howard Roberts Plays
Guitar". I know that you have a beat up copy of The real HR, but
if you want to copy mine, I have a perfect copy. The other album
is kind of strange, ie. He has strings (violins, etc) in the back-
groung throughout the album. I think I may have brought it over
your house the time I came over.
I looked through the record catalogues in Strawberry one time
to see what was available for Howard Roberts albums. I ended up
ordering the 2 albums that I have, but found the rest were out of
print. You may be able to find them in used record stores, but they
will probably be tough to locate.
I have noticed that you have been getting into the various notes
files lately. I have been writing into notes files a lot the past
year. Lately, I find the notes are getting a little less interesting
than they used to be. Most of the really interesting subjects have
already been covered, and the good notes are buried beneath 500 other
notes. I just hope this conference doesn't end up getting hacked
up the way that Music notes has been. They are upto Music_V3 now,
with 2 old music notes files archived. The best way to avoid this
is for people to avoid writing garbage notes into the notes file
needlessly. It would be nice if the moderator could just go through
and thin the conference out by deleting a lot of the day to day stuff,
which is not of general interest to the entire conference.
Let me know if you are interested in the 2 albums I have.
Take care and keep in touch,
Mark Jacques
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| 575.3 | let your fingers do the walking | RICKS::CALCAGNI | | Mon Apr 11 1988 14:23 | 9 |
| One good thing about living in the Boston area; there are LOTS
of good used record shops (sort of makes up for all the other crap
we have to put up with). With a little perseverance, you should
be able to find any out of print stuff you want and usually at bargain
prices too. I recommend Stereo Jack's in Cambridge and Looney
Tunes in Boston for starters; look in the Yellow Pages, there are
plenty more.
/rick
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| 575.5 | From 'Desperado' | PNO::HEISER | really SALMAN::RUSHDIE | Tue Feb 28 1989 13:18 | 5 |
| Roy Clark was being interviewed on TV, and was asked about his
versatility, specifically the differences between playing jazz and
country music -
"Jazz is just down-home pickin' with the mistakes left in."
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| 575.6 | How would he know? | RAINBO::WEBER | | Tue Feb 28 1989 14:11 | 6 |
| re: -.1
This is why Roy Clark's name never comes up when discussing great
jazz guitarists.
Danny W.
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| 575.7 | Great minds think alike... | DEC25::HALL | I brake for hallucinations | Tue Feb 28 1989 17:31 | 1 |
| I knew there was a reason I liked old Roy...
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| 575.8 | R.I.P. | RANGER::WEBER | | Thu Aug 27 1992 10:54 | 38 |
| The new GP had two shocks in store for me. The first was
pleasant--opening to the back and seeing that lovely "Mary Kaye" Strat.
I'm not even a Strat fan, but that's one that could make me change my
mind.
My smile soon disappeared when I turned to the front and saw that
Howard Roberts died in June. I was not aware of this and found it
surprising that I had not seen it in the national media, for while
Howard hasn't exactly been as well-known recently as, say, Slim
Whitman, he was a very popular player in the '50's and early '60's, had
some relatively successful records as a leader, and has been on
thousands of records as a sideman.
I've never considered Howard a jazz player, although he's done some
nice jazz records. He's just been one of the most versatile,
technically proficient players for 40 years--and yet another of
my childhood idols. My favorite records of his include "The Real Howard
Roberts", "Spinning Wheel" and one of movie theme songs done in a nice
jazzy manner, the name of which escapes me at the moment. Howard wrote
a column for many years for GP and has published several useful guitar
instruction books.
He's also responsible for one of the most unusual guitars around, the
Epiphone (and later Gibson) Howard Roberts, based on the ES-175, but
with an oval soundhole, floating pickup and 25.5" scale. These are
great guitars and under priced on today's vintage market. Strangely
enough, I've been playing an HR Artist a lot for the last few months.
Coincidence? I think...so.
I have an interesting HR souvenir--his ID card from a NAMM show some
years ago. He gave it to me after I accosted him on the way out and
told him how great he was. Although I have not come across a recent HR
recording, and don't know how actively he's been playing, somehow the
world seems different to me without him.
Danny W.
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| 575.10 | | LUNER::KELLYJ | Graves without flowers | Thu Aug 27 1992 18:28 | 8 |
| Re Larry,
I agree with you and Danny W: HR was a tasty player. I remember the
day I found out who he was: I asked my guitar teacher the name of the
guy who played the _Twilight Zone_ theme: Howard Roberts. Ever since
then, he's been a favorite.
Cause of death was reportedly prostate cancer at age 63.
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| 575.11 | no apple for the teacher | RANGER::WEBER | | Thu Aug 27 1992 19:02 | 6 |
| re: .10
Although HR could have played The TZ theme, I'm pretty sure it was
originally done by TT--Tommy Tedesco.
Danny W.
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| 575.12 | does close count? | RANGER::WEBER | | Fri Aug 28 1992 11:11 | 11 |
| Well, I'm half right--according to TT's GP column in the 7/83 issue, TT
played on TZ The Movie, but found out the original music wasn't done in
Hollywood, but was from France! Whoever the guitarist was, it wasn't HR
(I've had people tell me it was Tony Mottola, Bobby Bain and Mundell
Lowe also, and in each case, they knew someone who knew for sure--thus
are musical urban legends born)
BTW, the album of HR's I couldn't name is called "All-Time Great
Instrumental Hits".
Danny W.
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| 575.13 | No, Danny Weber played it! | LUNER::KELLYJ | Graves without flowers | Fri Aug 28 1992 12:01 | 2 |
| According the requiem article in this month's GP, HR *did* play the
theme to TZ. Just contributing to the legend, I guess.
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| 575.14 | Howard was one of my favorite players | MILKWY::JACQUES | Vintage taste, reissue budget | Mon Aug 31 1992 14:39 | 17 |
| I'm also bummed to hear of Howard's death. Actually, Larry V is the
guy that turned me onto HR. "The Real Howard Roberts" is one of my
favorite jazz albums. I have heard that Howard Roberts played on
most of the Monkey's records back in the 60's.
Not to change the subject but Danny mentioned the Mary Kay Strat.
The originals Mary Kay models are very rare, the chances of finding
one are almost nill. However, Fender recently re-issued the Mary
Kay model. I'm not sure if it was issued by the custom shop, or
if it was a regular catalog item. EU Wurlitzer in Worcester had
one a while back. I'm sure you could locate one if you really
wanted to. Food for thought.
I'll have to pull out my old Howard Roberts albums at home, and
give a listen in memory of the great one.
Mark
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