Welcome Paradoxers!
This blogspot will be our new home to share updates on everyone's new cd's, links to music venues, and other activities.
You can also post remembrances, photos, and any other memorabilia you would like to share. It would be great if this could become like an archive for the Paradox -- then and now.
More information to follow as I figure this out. In the meantime, please add your comments and keep the site alive and growing.
Yes, we are very fortunate! I feel even more fortunate in that I was not only able to get to know, and jam with Delaney in the 80''s through the 90's, and play that famously cool Rosewood Tele that George Harrison gave him, but also own, and play daily, the 1968 Martin D-45 that Clapton is playing in this video. I would have never in a million years thought as a little eight and nine year old kid with a cardboard guitar, that any of this would have ever been possible. Shows ya that dreams do come true!
On a side note, in the mid 80's I was also in touch with Bonnie and hooked Ralph back up with her via phone.
Chris - First of all, I don't believe we've ever met (and if we have... well, please accept my apologies for such a lousy memory!), and it's been a real pleasure getting to know you some via your posts, here. Second... what a great story about that D-45 coming into your possession. I can only imagine how fantastic that D-45 must sound today, having been played a lot, no doubt, for 40+ years. Please, tell us how it sounds. I bought a new D-18 in 1970 and it sounds pretty good... for mahogany. Occasionally, I wish I'd held off and saved up for a 28 or better. Age matters greatly, but, as for improvements to tone and volume, starting with better wood probably takes you farther faster.
Bonnie and Delaney..... Wow. I saw them many times at Town and Country, the 2nd funkiest roadhouse around here, and was amazed and fulfilled every time.
I wore that record clean through the vinyl too. Thanks.
Tony, No apologies needed for any lapse of memory, as we have never met. I was never at the Paradox. Too young maybe (I would have been 10 when it opened), and too far for me to hitch hike to), but Ralph and Holly shared the stories with me.
I am really unknown to many here on the blog, other than possibly just some goofball with a bunch of old guitars, an odd sense of humor, and a fierce independent, rather than right or left, political view, but most definitely "a long time friend of Ralph Barr". That was a run on sentence, no?
I was friends with David Hanna, Jeff's brother, and Dave and I used to play music together. I also used to hitch hike as an 11 and 12 year old to the Golden Bear to see the NGDB play. I still have a great memory of Jeff driving me home from the Bear so I wouldn't have to hitch hike. I met Ralph & Holly back in the later 60's, before Ralph left the NGDB. I was just a kid back then hanging out at McCabes, and Ralph and Holly treated me very well. I did a lot of hanging out at the Normandie house from 70 to 73 (I think). Man! the people that walked through their door over the years, jam sessions till the wee hours of the morning, Seeing Duane and Delaney, puffed wheat in the kitchen cabinets left over from Bob Lind, and countless late evenings conversing with Holly about Mary Baker Eddy, Religion, Spirituality, and other topics of the day. I am probably divulging way too much info here, but I can share with you that Ralph and Holly both had a great impact on my life as I was growing up.
I bet that your D-18 of yours sounds great! Time, and playing, always have an effect on the sound of any wood instrument. Mahogany side and backed guitars have a very good reflective surface, but the top is where the "vibes" are. I think we all buy what works for us in the style we play in, and the actual sounds we want to hear. I have a 1934 14 fret D-18 that kicks ass on any scalloped braced herringbone Rosewood D-28 that I, or quite possibly anyone else owns! So it really is the top wood and how it is voiced that really has command of the sound that you will hear.
The 1968 D-45 is an especially nice sounding guitar, and will only get better with age and playing! I took it to the Paradox reunion, but didn't play it on stage, rather only showing it to the few that were interested in seeing and playing it.
Nice to met you here on the blog Tony! Maybe I will meet you in person at the next reunion.
Hi Tony...I think you made the right choice. D-18's have always been one of the first go to guitar for stage and studio. Chris is right that the top is probably the most important component. There are plenty of guitars with laminated back and sides that sound truly amazing. As an investment, yes the 28' and 45's have gone up higher in value but I believe much of the time that is pure snob appeal .Sure there are many great sounding Martin 28's & 45's and "Boutique" guitars but that isn't always a guarantee. I think in the end you should just "Love The One You're With".
We were unable to go see David Lindley but Dave, Tara and Steve went. They had a coversation with him after the show in which Dave told him about our past reunion. He told him Rodger Dutton came, Who? says D.L.? Rodger the Lodger says D.H., Oh yeah, I remember Roger the Loger. D.L. spoke very warmly of Ralph.
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Nice music. I had forgotten all about Bonnie and Delaney.
There are some good links to more songs at the end of the video.
OOh Yea!Great one Chris.
Lest we forget. Another reminder of just how fortunate we were to be around to see it all go down.
Yes, we are very fortunate! I feel even more fortunate in that I was not only able to get to know, and jam with Delaney in the 80''s through the 90's, and play that famously cool Rosewood Tele that George Harrison gave him, but also own, and play daily, the 1968 Martin D-45 that Clapton is playing in this video. I would have never in a million years thought as a little eight and nine year old kid with a cardboard guitar, that any of this would have ever been possible. Shows ya that dreams do come true!
On a side note, in the mid 80's I was also in touch with Bonnie and hooked Ralph back up with her via phone.
Chris - First of all, I don't believe we've ever met (and if we have... well, please accept my apologies for such a lousy memory!), and it's been a real pleasure getting to know you some via your posts, here. Second... what a great story about that D-45 coming into your possession. I can only imagine how fantastic that D-45 must sound today, having been played a lot, no doubt, for 40+ years. Please, tell us how it sounds. I bought a new D-18 in 1970 and it sounds pretty good... for mahogany. Occasionally, I wish I'd held off and saved up for a 28 or better. Age matters greatly, but, as for improvements to tone and volume, starting with better wood probably takes you farther faster.
Bonnie and Delaney.....
Wow.
I saw them many times at Town and Country, the 2nd funkiest roadhouse around here, and was amazed and fulfilled every time.
I wore that record clean through the vinyl too.
Thanks.
Tony, No apologies needed for any lapse of memory, as we have never met. I was never at the Paradox. Too young maybe (I would have been 10 when it opened), and too far for me to hitch hike to), but Ralph and Holly shared the stories with me.
I am really unknown to many here on the blog, other than possibly just some goofball with a bunch of old guitars, an odd sense of humor, and a fierce independent, rather than right or left, political view, but most definitely "a long time friend of Ralph Barr". That was a run on sentence, no?
I was friends with David Hanna, Jeff's brother, and Dave and I used to play music together. I also used to hitch hike as an 11 and 12 year old to the Golden Bear to see the NGDB play. I still have a great memory of Jeff driving me home from the Bear so I wouldn't have to hitch hike. I met Ralph & Holly back in the later 60's, before Ralph left the NGDB. I was just a kid back then hanging out at McCabes, and Ralph and Holly treated me very well. I did a lot of hanging out at the Normandie house from 70 to 73 (I think). Man! the people that walked through their door over the years, jam sessions till the wee hours of the morning, Seeing Duane and Delaney, puffed wheat in the kitchen cabinets left over from Bob Lind, and countless late evenings conversing with Holly about Mary Baker Eddy, Religion, Spirituality, and other topics of the day. I am probably divulging way too much info here, but I can share with you that Ralph and Holly both had a great impact on my life as I was growing up.
I bet that your D-18 of yours sounds great! Time, and playing, always have an effect on the sound of any wood instrument. Mahogany side and backed guitars have a very good reflective surface, but the top is where the "vibes" are. I think we all buy what works for us in the style we play in, and the actual sounds we want to hear. I have a 1934 14 fret D-18 that kicks ass on any scalloped braced herringbone Rosewood D-28 that I, or quite possibly anyone else owns! So it really is the top wood and how it is voiced that really has command of the sound that you will hear.
The 1968 D-45 is an especially nice sounding guitar, and will only get better with age and playing! I took it to the Paradox reunion, but didn't play it on stage, rather only showing it to the few that were interested in seeing and playing it.
Nice to met you here on the blog Tony! Maybe I will meet you in person at the next reunion.
Hi Tony...I think you made the right choice. D-18's have always been one of the first go to guitar for stage and studio. Chris is right that the top is probably the most important component. There are plenty of guitars with laminated back and sides that sound truly amazing. As an investment, yes the 28' and 45's have gone up higher in value but I believe much of the time that is pure snob appeal .Sure there are many great sounding Martin 28's & 45's and "Boutique" guitars but that isn't always a guarantee.
I think in the end you should just "Love The One You're With".
Amen Gary!
We were unable to go see David Lindley but Dave, Tara and Steve went. They had a coversation with him after the show in which Dave told him about our past reunion. He told him Rodger Dutton came, Who? says D.L.? Rodger the Lodger says D.H., Oh yeah, I remember Roger the Loger. D.L. spoke very warmly of Ralph.
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