Re: OT: Bob Brozman

["Jeff Duke" <echohead@embarqmail.com>]

A quick look through some blogs yielded these

http://welove-music.blogspot.com/2007/09/simon-shaheen-vishwa-mohan-bhatt.html

http://nightofthepurplemoon.blogspot.com/2008/04/vishwa-mohan-bhattjerry-douglas-bourbon.html

http://zenekucko.blogspot.com/search/label/Ry%20Cooder

Listening now to Jerry and him, very cool fusion, thanks

jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paul" <phaslem@wightman.ca>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Bob Brozman


> That was a Mohan Veena, it's an East Indian slide guitar with all these 
> sympathetic strings. It was designed by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt ( 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt ) who used it in some 
> incredible recordings with various western musicians. I have a few of 
> those recordings, one with Bela Fleck, another with Ry Cooder and one 
>with 
> Taj Mahal. I understand there was a recording with Jerry Douglas that 
>I've 
> never been able to locate.
>
> You could also check out the music of Harry Manx, a Canadian blues 
>player 
> from the Vancouver area. He studied with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and uses the 
> Mohan Veena quite a bit in his recordings and concerts.
>
> Paul Haslem
>
>
>
>
>
> At 11:06 PM 4/29/2008, you wrote:
>>Very, very cool. Anybody know what that guitar was that he said "I'll
>>spend the rest of my life learning how to play this?"
>>
>>Thanks, I'm really glad I watched that.
>>
>>
>> >  On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Jeff Duke wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPXRWRxda8
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I had to share this. It seems to me that alot of topics from
>> this list are
>> > touched on.
>> > > Not a loop in sight though.
>> > >
>> > > peace,
>> > >              Jeff
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>>myspace [dot] com/artsimon
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