Eddie Palama - mini-documentary

[Andy Volk]

Came across this nice video piece today on Hawaiian steeler Eddie Palama ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2BWS-VklBo

[Brad Bechtel]

That's really cool, Andy. Thanks for sharing!

[Jeff Au Hoy]

Watch out for that 5th string when you strum the first chord of "Sand".

[Don Kona Woods]

Eddie knows how to talk story.

I enjoyed the clip and his reflections about Gabby.

Did you notice the natural air conditioning in his home. That is the open door. There is most always a nice cook tradewind blowing in Hawaii.

Thanks for putting it on for us.

Aloha,
Don

[Kay Das]

I met Eddie Palama on my first visit to Hawaii 24 years ago. I had kept asking around for steel guitar where I was (not at the posh end of Waikiki at the time) and was directed to a dim-lit bar in a shady part of downtown Honolulu. There were hardly any patrons in that bar. Eddie and his then band were playing with a beer glass in front for money. He had the generosity to invite me to play his steel guitar (I got through "Kaimana Hila" with a lot of help) on the dimly-lit stage. I met him again in Hawaii at a Ho'olaule'a at Kamehameha School three years later and he warmly remembered me and Adriana, my wife. He does a great "On a Little Street in Singapore". I last met him in 2005 when he was playing at the bandstand at Kapiolani Park on Lei Day.

He is kind and unassuming, a very fine gentleman, and a fine steel guitarist who has gone on to greater things since that bar in Honolulu (Peter Moon band, "Sanoe", the Hawaiian Hilton Village show etc. If any SGF/HSGA friend should meet him personally, please tell him that Kay and Adriana said "Hi".

[Kevin Brown]

Thanks from me too Andy, almost as good as your book !!

[Derrick Mau]

Jeff,

Watch out for the border patrol.

[Scott Thomas]

Sheriff Buford T. Justice