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Topic: Some RARE recordings of Tau Moe |
basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Ron Whitfield
From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2009 12:48 pm High fives and mahalo's, Bas!
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You've outdone yourself this time. Thanx! |
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Roger Shackelton
From: MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 28 Mar 2009 5:52 pm The Tau Moe Story
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HI BASIL,
THANK YOU ever so much for sharing this priceless information and recordings of the TAU MOE FAMILY.
I was very fortunate to have met TAU and his daughter DORIAN at HSGA 2003 in HONOLULU.
TAU was helped to the stage and played a tune on DUKE CHING's Triple Neck FENDER STEEL GUITAR.
ROGER SHACKELTON |
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Michael Kienhofer
From: Goulais River,Ontario,Canada
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 6:39 am Tuning Used?
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Hey Basil! that was great but could you help out a rookie and give me the Tuning Tau used on the "Tape " he sent you? Thanks again,Michael |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 10:25 am
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OK -- E13
From the first string..
E-C#-G#-E-D-(B or E)
and on 8 String
E-C#-B-G#-E-D-B-E
He also told John Marsden in July 1967 that he used
E-B-A-G-E-C-E-C (C6th added maj7)on his twin neck |
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Alan Brookes
From: Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 4:42 pm
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Very interesting. I'd never heard of him before. |
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Mitch Druckman
From: Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2009 8:56 pm
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Thanks for posting Tau Moe's music.
There's a great modern album of the Tau Moe Family with Bob Brozman. It's titled...
Remembering the Songs of Our Youth
(Ho'omana'o I Na Mele O Ka Wa U'i) |
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Mike Neer
From: NJ
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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billchav
From: Houston, TX USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2009 8:59 pm Tau Moe's Music
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Basilh, this is the most enjoyable posting I have had the pleasure of reading and listening to of all your great contributions to the Forum. Keep up your great work. I have been a fan of Tau Moe and Rose for many years along the playing of both you and Bob Brozman. _________________ "Keepin' the steelin' going strong"
www.billchaviers.com
Steel Guitar Tabs |
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Bill Creller
From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Apr 2009 10:15 am
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That stuff is really neat. Thanks for sharing and posting all that Bas !! |
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George Keoki Lake
From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 3 Apr 2009 11:51 am
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Tau Moe will always be near and dear to my heart. My wife and I had the wonderful privilage of knowing Tau, Rose, Lani and Dorian for so many years. We had many jam sessions at his home in Lai'e, one of which was a Sunday afternoon when Bob Brozman asked me to take him there to meet his "hero" ! That particular jam session was taped and I sent a copy of the tape to Bob in the later weeks. Bob mentions the event on the LP cover. Tau was virtually an 'unknown' in Hawai'i even at the peak of his fantastic career, however everywhere else, especially Europe he was Hawai'i's unofficial ambassador. His steel guitar styling was a close match to the great Sol Ho'opi'i and Sol K Bright sr...amazing technic. Tau was one smart cookie...he enrolled young Lani into acrobatics and dancing classes, and young Dorian into ballet classes also. They in turn taught each other, plus Tau and Rose everything they had learned. Their act encompassed everything from big show 'modern' music of the day to Polynesian. Tau presented me with a VHS tape of their act which is absolutely astonishing. He even knew how to arrange for a Big Band. Rose had a remarkable voice that was so unique right to the end of her long life. Even suffering the ravages of alzheimer, she was still able to remember and sing the lyrics to so many hulas now long gone and probably forgotten. Theirs is a remarkable story on a par with Hollywood's "Sound of Music". |
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Brad Bechtel
From: San Francisco, CA
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Posted 3 Apr 2009 12:29 pm
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Thanks for sharing this treasure trove of music, Basil. We all appreciate it. _________________ Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Stephan Miller
From: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 3 Apr 2009 6:27 pm
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This music is a revelation. Many of us knew Tau Moe only through the Brozman/Moe Family recording, and there's really no way to tell from that CD what a brilliant electric steel player he was. Baz, thanks for all the time that went into this impressive contribution. |
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George Keoki Lake
From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 3 Apr 2009 7:30 pm
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Hi Baz...Such great stuff by Tau ! Whenever we jammed in Lai'e, (also at the Kapiolani Park concerts), he used a 6 string Fender tuned to C#m. |
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Darrell Urbien
From: Echo Park, California
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Posted 3 Apr 2009 9:58 pm
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Amazing. Thank you! |
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David Cook
From: Florida, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2009 5:09 am
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Thanks so much for this wonderful music!!! He is so good and so creative! It is a revelation to hear a master from the past! Thanks so much for your "community service". We all appreciate it. |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 27 Feb 2011 5:28 pm
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Stephan Miller wrote: |
This music is a revelation. Many of us knew Tau Moe only through the Brozman/Moe Family recording, and there's really no way to tell from that CD what a brilliant electric steel player he was. Baz, thanks for all the time that went into this impressive contribution. |
Too true Stephan, there's simply no way of telling how good Tau was, by listening to THAT recording.. IMHO they suffered that particular endeavour purely for publicity purposes. |
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Jeff Spencer
From: Queensland, Australia
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 1:15 pm
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Thanks for a great effort Basil. A great contribution to the world of steel
Jeff |
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David Matzenik
From: Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 2:49 pm
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basilh wrote: |
Too true Stephan, there's simply no way of telling how good Tau was, by listening to THAT recording.. IMHO they suffered that particular endeavour purely for publicity purposes. |
Basil, I know you like black and white evaluations so I will say you are just plain wrong about THAT recording. Also Tau made the initial contact with Brozman, I doubt at Tau's age he did it for publicity. _________________ Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 3:01 pm
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OK David, maybe I was to obtuse, My words above were specific.....especially "suffered"..and "they"...
Not only Tau was involved, and the rest of the family did have a say..
I don't know about Tau making first contact with Brozman, I do know that Brozman's burlesquing and music hall flamboyant playing did nothing to showcase Tau's playing.
When I discussed the recording with Dorian she intimated that his involvement was "accommodated" for exposure reasons.
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Billy Tonnesen
From: R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 3:13 pm
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I always thought Hawaiian music first migrated to the West Coast and branched out from there. Your post has been quite a revelation. It is greatly appreciated ! |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 3:13 pm
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David Matzenik wrote: |
Also Tau made the initial contact with Brozman, I doubt at Tau's age he did it for publicity. |
True David, but not looking to record with Brozman, just as Brozman says:-
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In 1986, I received a letter from Mr. Tau Moe, ordering one of my own albums. |
Also, not so much for publicity but exposure for pecuniary and LDS reasons.
Throughout the 60's we were in touch and regularly met with the family, likewise with Bill and Mary Buysman, George de fretes, Bill Thoma, Joyce Aubrey and others, the European Hawaiian family was our family back then.. |
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David Matzenik
From: Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 8:34 pm
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Basil, if you care to follow this up I would direct you to track 13 of the Album “Remembering The Songs Of Our Youth;” # Fort Street 1929 and 1988. It starts out with Tau playing on 1929 recording and then through some rumbles turns into a live recording of the family with BB. I think the two players are not all that different in style. If that was “burlesquing” (to use a Byrd-ism) then Tau didn’t seem to mind playing that way. But the live part of the track in 1988 reveals a great deal of enthusiasm by all present for that music especially from Rose who thanks everybody at the end. But then you say Bob was merely “accommodated” for exposure purposes! Oh, what a put down! Could Tau really have been that condescending toward Bob? Tau lost his National Tricone during the war. On his 80th birthday Bob Brozman presented him with a 1932 style 2 guitar very much like the one he had lost. As I understood it Bob and Tau were great friends, but I guess that’s show biz for you. _________________ Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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basilh
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 2 Mar 2011 10:04 am
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David, yes Tau is emulating the mid 20's stlyings, prompted to do so because of the instrument used and Bob's participation. His real love was the Electric Hawaiian Guitar, however maybe it better NOT to follow this up here.. I'll PM you with more details.. |
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