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Richie Havens Homeboy from the neighborhood (Bed-Stuy) Richie Havens... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I'm only familiar with him via the Woodstock performance.
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I saw him on an old Married With Children episode recently. But I don't know much about his music though. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Mr. Havens' is the reason why I'm a Guild acoustic gee-tar owner.
Best guitar thumb since Wes Montgomery too. | |
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IMO, it's not a good bulk of his best stuff.
This is a good get...
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...High Flyin' Bird: The Verve Forcast Years
If you find that you like it, you can backtrack and get specific albums.
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He was a staple of free-form FM radio back in the day.
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Nice.
I'm pissed that his version of Run Shaker Life isn't on YouTube. Guess i'll have to make my own damn video.
That thumb thing probably has a lot to do with the fact that he uses an open D (or sometimes D minor) tuning. Barre-chord city.
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Yep... that's his mainstay tuning.
Mr. Havens did a Q&A years ago after a performance at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Someone asked him about his playing style and technique: one of things Havens' mentioned was his hands were always huge (and he has HUGE mitts) even as a child so, playing most guitar chords were a challenge. Havens' said he was missing around realized playing barre chords would allow him to play around the fretboard a lil bit easier. By the way, his finger nails on both hands are super long and health.
I'm sure Guild builds Havens' guitar necks to his specification. I don't know, sometime I envy men who have big hands / long fingers and then sometimes I don't.
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Wow! I was a huge Richie Havens fan early on. I'm sorry to say I haven't been as attentive in the more recent years. I saw him back in the late 60's at a club in DC (maybe The [old] Bohemian Caverns?). Anyway, he played his guitar so hard, he had broken strings flying everywhere! Never trust anything spoken in the presence of an erection.
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I've only seen him live once since then. I do own several of his early albums on vinyl. I need to get back into him...... Thanks, tA!
He deserves a signature model.
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You're most welcome. An extremely aggressive rhythm style to say the least.
He's still strummin' away...
Has a spot on this release (around 5:10)...
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