Well, here's a couple A la, this is my daughter's Epiphone - messing around with it a lttile and popped off a pic. I like these guitars, very simple, straighforward and with a little tweaking, play very well. It's string with .010's light gauge flat wound, D'Addario.
... And how in the world did you get that gull in flight? A huge zoom???...
Thanks, Ala. In the case of my picture of the seagull - it was really more of an opportune moment than having the right equipment. We were on a ferry going to British Columbia - I'm standing by the rail [port side or starboard - I dunno - not a sailor - Jonny help me out - if I'm on the boat looking toward the front of the boat I was on the left side - :) ] - and this gull comes flying up alongside - very close!!!!!!!
Ok, Ala - speaking of Canada - and bringing it back to something about music - do you like Loreena McKennitt? I've got six of her CDs. My favorite CD of hers is "Live in Paris and Toronto" and of all the tunes on that my all time favorite of any of her stuff is "The Highwayman." Wowie - wow!!!!!!! Like Tom Strange was talking about awhile back how a tune can just transport yah! Most of her stuff does that to me - especially that tune!!!!!!! Another thing - this is a live CD - I'm amazed at how good she sounds live!
Socks, thanks for that website. Ours looks more like the 1945 LG2 Maple model.
The newspaper had another article about him a couple days ago. He is the first cousin to my ob-gyn... AND my ob=gyn's wife is the chairperson for this event. She came out & took pix of the guitar the other day. Anyway, he is also kin to a soap opera star from "One Life to Live" I think. Anyway, her name is Ka$$ie in real life and she is married to the man who is known as Max on the show... I think I am right. I can pull the paper out of the garbage....heehee.... if I need to!!
Wow, cool pics Act2. The guitar looks old! It was a very large sound hole....interesting! Thanks, I have to wonder where it's been over the years. :)
Thanks Chatty. It's a nice little guitar, an Epiphone "dot" 335. They have a wood sound block in the body that stablilizes the top and reduced feedback. They really have a good tone, played with the volumes set back a little very clear and full, or turn up and they sound thick, bluesy. "dots" are the entry level into the whole line of 335's, simple, everything you want, nothin' you don't kind of guitar.
Actually, Socks, hubby's dad was a 'holiness' preacher and played it most every Sunday in church. Several years ago before he died, he gave it to my hubby. So it has lead a chaste (sp) life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will certainly post an update after the brunch. I cant wait. One of the FUN ladies (Dr's wife) Bobbie Can+ley called yesterday and wants to borrow or buy a hat from me. She is loaning all of hers to her friends!!!! She will be coming to the house and picking out a hat in the next few days.
Chatty, I know you remember Bobbie!!! She made Chatty and me laugh and smile at the last antique show.
So much to comment on ... ahhhhh and I have no time.... :(
So, this is just a quickie....
Act 2:
I'm just dead curious to hear what that Gibson sounds like...it would be such an interesting sound I'm sure.
Socks:
The pics I was thinking of weren't of guitars but other beautiful shots you've taken.
T-Bone:
Where did you go in BC? and I haven't listened to Loreena much...but I must go now and do so. You've baited me. Interestingly enough I saw a show about a week ago that was highlighting Female Divas...many if not most were of the land of Canadia... Sarah McLaughlin, Celine, Shania, Avril Lavigne, Joni Mitchell, (can't remember the rest right now). Interesting to me how that has happened??
Some of my favourites right now, Sarah Harmer, Waylin' Jennys, Kate Rusby (but she's british).
Chatty, she took over as Coroner after Dr. Don died. So she has been busy. Plus they had several kids between them, so I am sure her life is full, though she misses her hubby greatly.
Ala, my niece's hubby, Mike, is a professional musician and he fell in love with this guitar. Hubby has a very old Fender that he was partial to, that his dad's church people had given his dad MANY years ago, but Mike said he liked the Gibson sound much better. Maybe I can record Mike playing it sometime and post it.
So I would love to have both appraised but will have to settle for just the Gibson.
Where did you go in BC? and I haven't listened to Loreena much...but I must go now and do so. You've baited me. Interestingly enough I saw a show about a week ago that was highlighting Female Divas...many if not most were of the land of Canadia... Sarah McLaughlin, Celine, Shania, Avril Lavigne, Joni Mitchell, (can't remember the rest right now). Interesting to me how that has happened??
Some of my favourites right now, Sarah Harmer, Waylin' Jennys, Kate Rusby (but she's british)...
We went to Victoria - stayed at a great Bed-and-Breakfast Amore by the Sea. Tonto turned me on to Sarah M and Joni - great vocalists! I mentioned this earlier on this thread my avatar is a picture of me on my grandpa's porch in Nova Scotia. Beautiful place! ...Okay - speaking of avatars - your poor little elbows and knees have got to be aching by now - why don't you sit down and take a break....But seriously - can you phonetically spell how your name [a la prochaine] is pronounced - oh and what does it mean?
Chatty, she took over as Coroner after Dr. Don died. So she has been busy. Plus they had several kids between them, so I am sure her life is full, though she misses her hubby greatly.
Wonderful that she is busy, she has so much life in her.
Yup I was referring to the pictures. I have a friend in San Marcos, and she tells me about the geckos that run around thataway. And, she spends time on South Padre Island as well...
Anyhoo, back to guitars: I surely Like 'em...I am a big Doc Watson fan, among others. I play a little, on my Guild D-50, and also on my son's Johnson resonator steel guitar. I reall like that steel guitar...
Jonny, I saw Doc Watson live this summer at the River of Music Party (ROMP) in Owensboro, KY. Wow. That man is 80 something and can still hit all the notes and strum that guitar. I wish that I had brought my camcorder just for him.
Hope all your family is feeling better by now!!! I saw your prayer request earlier but didn't post.
T-Bone - neat bass - I like the finish you ended up with; it sort of reminds me of an animal skin print, like tabby or leopard print. I also like your photos in your gallery - great looking beach! And are you sure that lizard wasn't hanging around to sell you car insurance?
Socks - hubby has an Epi like that - it's a Wildkat. I'll get a pic of the 6-string kids sometime for y'all when I'm feeling more energenic... it's not happenin' today....
Acts2 - that Gibson has a neat vibe to it. What exactly is the mystery behind it again? (You said the PBS mystery science detectives were going to look at it....)
Johnny Lingo - Doc Watson! I love him - he's on Prarie Home Companion quite often. I listen to it whenever I can, but that's not much these days. I wish they did Podcasts, but they don't - Great music on that radio show, and Doc Watson is one of my favorites. Very real, very earthy. If you have LimeWire, download some of his stuff with Emmy Lou Harris, Allison Krause, and the like - it's music from another realm, you'd swear - it just TAKES you some place simple and bittersweet when you listen to it.
UPDATE: Hubby has too many guitars.... I get them confused. Ok, the other old one is also a Gibson. His Fender is just a guitar he bought several years ago to bang around on.
SO, I have decided to post a pic of both Gibsons.
ala, I am involved with the Hosp. Foundation and have served as table hostess last year and was asked again this year. Prior years, I just attended with no responsibilities. Anyway, this man is kin to a local dr. and they asked him to do a presentation and to appraise one item off each table. Since I am the table hostess, he will appraise one of my items, and since he has seen the pictures of this guitar and the only other items I will be using to decorate the table won't be as interesting as the guitar, then I feel quite certain that the Gibson is what he will appraise from my table. Does that make sense???
Dr. We$ C0wan is on "Hi$tory Detectives" where they go places and search whether things are authentic or fake, and he has been on Antique$ R0adsh0w, among others.
The previous two years, we had a local antiques dealer/interior decorator who gave a speech. So I am excited that we have someone who will do appraisals.
Yeah, Doc Watson is one cool dude. I love Allison Kraus also. And Emmy Lou is aging like a fine wine, imo.
This is the first article that appeared in our local newspaper:
Dr. Wes Cowan, star of the PBS series "History Detectives" and featured appraiser for "Antiques Roadshow," will be featured speaker at the Henderson Regional Hospital Foundation's annual Pre-Antique Show Brunch on Friday, Sept. 8.
That 10 a.m. event, which has the theme "Hats Off to Treasures," takes place in the hospital's Classrooms 1, 2, and 3 on the ground floor. Tickets are $25 per person and must be purchased in advance by calling the Hospital Foundation at (270) 827-7161. There will be door prizes, a preview sampling of antiques, and the opportunity to purchase tickets for the foundation's annual antique show Oct. 21 and 22. A preview gala for that show will take place on Oct. 20.
All proceeds from the gala, brunch and antique show will benefit the hospital's Surgical Center Capital Campaign project. Since the foundation's first antique show 18 years ago, about $200,000 has been raised in support of the hospital and its expanding services.
At the brunch, Cowan will present a talk entitled "Tracking Clues to America's Past -- Confessions of A Real Life History Detective." The archeologist, appraiser and internationally recognized expert in historic Americana will share his experiences from two popular television shows that are credited with resurrecting an interest in antiques.
He will appraise one "treasure" at each table during the program.
Guests are urged to wear a favorite hat and be ready to explore treasures from the past.
And the following is the second article that appeared. Jvdy Jenkin$ can explain it better than I can.
Among family: Roots linked famed 'History Detective' to Tri-county
By Judy Jenkins (Contact)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Cousin Wes Cowan of "History Detectives" and "Antiques Roadshow" fame is coming to town next week, and he believes someone out there has a coveted piece of his family history.
"If there's one thing I'd really like to see," says the Ph.D. archeologist, internationally known antiques appraiser and owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc., "it's a photo of my great-great grandfather Samuel Withers in his Confederate uniform.
"I know someone here must have a photograph of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry, and it would be great to see if he's in the picture."
That ancestor was from Webster County, and it seems possible indeed that the photo lurks in some attic trunk or brittle-paged scrapbook or picture frame in this area. If so, Cowan hopes you'll let him take a look at it.
I was just kidding about the "cousin" part. He isn't my cousin, but the Cincinnati resident who travels all over the country for those PBS shows is related to just about everyone else around here.
Henderson physician A.D. Sprague is his first cousin and Morganfield attorney J. Quentin Wesley is his uncle. Soap and music star Kassie Wesley DePaiva, from Morganfield, is also his first cousin.
"My mom's side of the family came from Union County and I spent my summers visiting with my (late) grandparents Roberta and Charles Wesley near Sturgis," Wes -- "Only my mother calls me Wesley" -- said in a telephone interview Tuesday. He grew up in Louisville, where his mom taught school. His parents divorced when he was 3 and his father was an advertising executive in New York.
In the rich Union County soil on those family farms, he discovered and collected arrowheads and fossils and, in a sense, unearthed his life's work.
"I worked with the UK Museum of Anthropology on a summer long dig when I was in high school and by the time I entered college, I knew I would be an archeologist, and was one for nearly 15 years," he said in an earlier interview.
His Sept. 8 visit to Henderson will see him serving as featured speaker for the Henderson Regional Hospital Foundation's annual pre-Antique Show brunch, which starts at 10 a.m. that Friday in the hospital's Classrooms 1, 2, and 3 on the ground floor.
There, he'll present a talk entitled, "Tracking Clues to America's Past -- Confessions of A Real Life History Detective." He'll share his experiences from the two popular TV shows and also appraise one "treasure" at each table during the program.
Tickets are $25 per person and must be purchased in advance by calling 827-7161. This is a fun prelude to the foundation's Oct. 21-22 Antique Show and both events, as well as a preview gala, will benefit the hospital's new Surgical Center project.
As you know if you watch the WNIN and KET shows that find Wes in a kind of Sherlock Holmes role as one of the four "History Detectives" hosts, he's a super sleuth who combines forensic technology with old fashioned detective work to authenticate -- or not -- objects and family folklore.
He told me that one of his favorite episodes involved a camera made from scraps by a Confederate prisoner on Johnson's Island in Ohio. The POW, working surreptitiously in the barracks attic, used a wooden box with a spy glass for a lens and made tintypes of fellow prisoners. "Some of his pictures still exist," Wes said.
This adventure no doubt had added appeal because his great-great grandfather had been a Confederate POW at a camp in Chicago.
As featured "Antiques Roadshow" appraiser, Wes has sometimes had the pleasure of informing hopeful people that the object they bought for pocket change is worth thousands of dollars. Such was the case with a piece of folk art a Nevada resident had purchased for $7.50 in the 1960s. It's worth $30,000-$50,000 today.
The home he shares with Shelley, his wife of 28 years, is antique filled but when I asked what he'd grab if the house were on fire, he replied, "I'd get photos of my family (which includes son Sam and daughter Panny). Forget the antiques."
What items we can buy now will be valuable in generations to come?
Likely not limited edition prints, Wes says. "Buy them if you like them or love them, but not as an investment." There are just too many of them available, he said.
Nor does he advise that we invest in antiques -- unless they're the very best -- because "tastes change and collectors' habits change."
Worth buying and passing on to our offspring, he said, are "things manufactured with quality and great design. Go to Target and look at the toasters. Some have fabulous designs. Those sorts of things have the potential to be quite valuable 100 years from now."
His mind was drifting from antiques to the anticipation of a treat when he arrives here next week.
"I'll get several quarts of Peak Brothers chipped mutton to take back home with me."
That sounds like great fun, act2! It will be interesting to see how the guitar is valued and it's history. I'd suspect as time goes on more and more guitars will show up in our hands and our children's. There are probably a lot of cool instruments tucked away in attics and closets.
(One of the better known names in vintage guitars is George Gruhn, who has a website Gruhn dot com He's been around for a long time and is one of the people who's helped to move the vintage guitar market to the forefront as collectible items and to be seen as investments. )
My day brightened when I plugged in Hubby's Telecaster into a Peavey 410 combo amp, set it on the crunchest setting I could find, with the volume on 5, and just let rip some nasty power chords. It sure beat power washing the floors or punching a wall. I UNDERSTAND why people crank up - it's therapy!
At least, until the police show up.
(That wasn't my case, but anywho....)
Okay, back to your regularly scheduled program....
Nothin' like a ride on the dragonfly to refresh and rejuvenate
Well, Happy People, it's Saturday. Speaking of volume and being it's a holiday weekend, and Labor Day's coming and all, I wanted to dip back and share a a guitarista that is not well known, and in fact for a long time didn't have a website but does now so there's somewhere to go to to see and hear some of his stuff. He's plays a Strat and is somewhere in the lineage of Jeff Beck and Hendrix. In 1980, I bought his album, a vinyl release titled "Volume". No one I knew had ever heard of him at the time, although he'd played around Europe quite a bit with various artists.
"Volume" was mostly instrumental, with a roster of serious playahs on it. And the cover was a classic - a single, large guitar Volume knob, turned all the way up. :)
The guitarist's name is Ray Gomez, and his website page HERE has some video samples and some new audio samples. I don't have the album anymore, but would like to find it. He does some serious electric playing on it.
Check 'im out if you have a mind to. The audio samples on his site aren't very smooth, and seem to take a while to load up but the video samples are cool, just short.
My day brightened when I plugged in Hubby's Telecaster into a Peavey 410 combo amp, set it on the crunchest setting I could find, with the volume on 5, and just let rip some nasty power chords. It sure beat power washing the floors or punching a wall. I UNDERSTAND why people crank up - it's therapy!
I hear ya! I hear ya! I hear ya! (Did I mention I hear ya?)
I do the same with the *five*.
3 fingerpicks, a five string banjo, and an attitude all on my front porch.
GREAT ACOUSTICS there. Wonderful place to get out frustrations.
Fast and furious, loud and raucous, down and devil-may-care.
It's a catharsis. :)
I've noticed (recently) folks walking on the OTHER side of the street when I am in one of my moods.
my brother from the sock drawer... I was searching your human, Ray Gomez, and one of the searches showed he'd played with Roy Buchanan... so I must've heard him sometime... probably even more...
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Well, here's a couple A la, this is my daughter's Epiphone - messing around with it a lttile and popped off a pic. I like these guitars, very simple, straighforward and with a little tweaking, play very well. It's string with .010's light gauge flat wound, D'Addario.
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Puurrrty! Very nice Socks!
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Thanks, Ala. In the case of my picture of the seagull - it was really more of an opportune moment than having the right equipment. We were on a ferry going to British Columbia - I'm standing by the rail [port side or starboard - I dunno - not a sailor - Jonny help me out - if I'm on the boat looking toward the front of the boat I was on the left side - :) ] - and this gull comes flying up alongside - very close!!!!!!!
Ok, Ala - speaking of Canada - and bringing it back to something about music - do you like Loreena McKennitt? I've got six of her CDs. My favorite CD of hers is "Live in Paris and Toronto" and of all the tunes on that my all time favorite of any of her stuff is "The Highwayman." Wowie - wow!!!!!!! Like Tom Strange was talking about awhile back how a tune can just transport yah! Most of her stuff does that to me - especially that tune!!!!!!! Another thing - this is a live CD - I'm amazed at how good she sounds live!
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Socks, thanks for that website. Ours looks more like the 1945 LG2 Maple model.
The newspaper had another article about him a couple days ago. He is the first cousin to my ob-gyn... AND my ob=gyn's wife is the chairperson for this event. She came out & took pix of the guitar the other day. Anyway, he is also kin to a soap opera star from "One Life to Live" I think. Anyway, her name is Ka$$ie in real life and she is married to the man who is known as Max on the show... I think I am right. I can pull the paper out of the garbage....heehee.... if I need to!!
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Wow, cool pics Act2. The guitar looks old! It was a very large sound hole....interesting! Thanks, I have to wonder where it's been over the years. :)
Thanks Chatty. It's a nice little guitar, an Epiphone "dot" 335. They have a wood sound block in the body that stablilizes the top and reduced feedback. They really have a good tone, played with the volumes set back a little very clear and full, or turn up and they sound thick, bluesy. "dots" are the entry level into the whole line of 335's, simple, everything you want, nothin' you don't kind of guitar.
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Actually, Socks, hubby's dad was a 'holiness' preacher and played it most every Sunday in church. Several years ago before he died, he gave it to my hubby. So it has lead a chaste (sp) life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will certainly post an update after the brunch. I cant wait. One of the FUN ladies (Dr's wife) Bobbie Can+ley called yesterday and wants to borrow or buy a hat from me. She is loaning all of hers to her friends!!!! She will be coming to the house and picking out a hat in the next few days.
Chatty, I know you remember Bobbie!!! She made Chatty and me laugh and smile at the last antique show.
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Socks, quitars have so much personality don't they? :)
Act2, Bobbie is a delight. How is she doing since her hubby died, have you seen her lately?
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Oh man...
So much to comment on ... ahhhhh and I have no time.... :(
So, this is just a quickie....
Act 2:
I'm just dead curious to hear what that Gibson sounds like...it would be such an interesting sound I'm sure.
Socks:
The pics I was thinking of weren't of guitars but other beautiful shots you've taken.
T-Bone:
Where did you go in BC? and I haven't listened to Loreena much...but I must go now and do so. You've baited me. Interestingly enough I saw a show about a week ago that was highlighting Female Divas...many if not most were of the land of Canadia... Sarah McLaughlin, Celine, Shania, Avril Lavigne, Joni Mitchell, (can't remember the rest right now). Interesting to me how that has happened??
Some of my favourites right now, Sarah Harmer, Waylin' Jennys, Kate Rusby (but she's british).
Gotta run
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Chatty, she took over as Coroner after Dr. Don died. So she has been busy. Plus they had several kids between them, so I am sure her life is full, though she misses her hubby greatly.
Ala, my niece's hubby, Mike, is a professional musician and he fell in love with this guitar. Hubby has a very old Fender that he was partial to, that his dad's church people had given his dad MANY years ago, but Mike said he liked the Gibson sound much better. Maybe I can record Mike playing it sometime and post it.
So I would love to have both appraised but will have to settle for just the Gibson.
I am at work so I had better sign off for now.
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We went to Victoria - stayed at a great Bed-and-Breakfast Amore by the Sea. Tonto turned me on to Sarah M and Joni - great vocalists! I mentioned this earlier on this thread my avatar is a picture of me on my grandpa's porch in Nova Scotia. Beautiful place! ...Okay - speaking of avatars - your poor little elbows and knees have got to be aching by now - why don't you sit down and take a break....But seriously - can you phonetically spell how your name [a la prochaine] is pronounced - oh and what does it mean?
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T-Bone,
I am guessing that you are in Florida or maybe on the gulf coast of Texas?
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Wonderful that she is busy, she has so much life in her.
The second link is Mason Williams doing Classical Gas! Awesome!!!!!
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If you're referring to the pictures - you're right - beach shots are at South Padre Island, Texas.
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Yup I was referring to the pictures. I have a friend in San Marcos, and she tells me about the geckos that run around thataway. And, she spends time on South Padre Island as well...
Anyhoo, back to guitars: I surely Like 'em...I am a big Doc Watson fan, among others. I play a little, on my Guild D-50, and also on my son's Johnson resonator steel guitar. I reall like that steel guitar...
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Jonny, I saw Doc Watson live this summer at the River of Music Party (ROMP) in Owensboro, KY. Wow. That man is 80 something and can still hit all the notes and strum that guitar. I wish that I had brought my camcorder just for him.
Hope all your family is feeling better by now!!! I saw your prayer request earlier but didn't post.
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T-Bone - neat bass - I like the finish you ended up with; it sort of reminds me of an animal skin print, like tabby or leopard print. I also like your photos in your gallery - great looking beach! And are you sure that lizard wasn't hanging around to sell you car insurance?
Socks - hubby has an Epi like that - it's a Wildkat. I'll get a pic of the 6-string kids sometime for y'all when I'm feeling more energenic... it's not happenin' today....
Acts2 - that Gibson has a neat vibe to it. What exactly is the mystery behind it again? (You said the PBS mystery science detectives were going to look at it....)
Johnny Lingo - Doc Watson! I love him - he's on Prarie Home Companion quite often. I listen to it whenever I can, but that's not much these days. I wish they did Podcasts, but they don't - Great music on that radio show, and Doc Watson is one of my favorites. Very real, very earthy. If you have LimeWire, download some of his stuff with Emmy Lou Harris, Allison Krause, and the like - it's music from another realm, you'd swear - it just TAKES you some place simple and bittersweet when you listen to it.
It's all good.
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UPDATE: Hubby has too many guitars.... I get them confused. Ok, the other old one is also a Gibson. His Fender is just a guitar he bought several years ago to bang around on.
SO, I have decided to post a pic of both Gibsons.
ala, I am involved with the Hosp. Foundation and have served as table hostess last year and was asked again this year. Prior years, I just attended with no responsibilities. Anyway, this man is kin to a local dr. and they asked him to do a presentation and to appraise one item off each table. Since I am the table hostess, he will appraise one of my items, and since he has seen the pictures of this guitar and the only other items I will be using to decorate the table won't be as interesting as the guitar, then I feel quite certain that the Gibson is what he will appraise from my table. Does that make sense???
Dr. We$ C0wan is on "Hi$tory Detectives" where they go places and search whether things are authentic or fake, and he has been on Antique$ R0adsh0w, among others.
The previous two years, we had a local antiques dealer/interior decorator who gave a speech. So I am excited that we have someone who will do appraisals.
Yeah, Doc Watson is one cool dude. I love Allison Kraus also. And Emmy Lou is aging like a fine wine, imo.
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This is the first article that appeared in our local newspaper:
Dr. Wes Cowan, star of the PBS series "History Detectives" and featured appraiser for "Antiques Roadshow," will be featured speaker at the Henderson Regional Hospital Foundation's annual Pre-Antique Show Brunch on Friday, Sept. 8.
That 10 a.m. event, which has the theme "Hats Off to Treasures," takes place in the hospital's Classrooms 1, 2, and 3 on the ground floor. Tickets are $25 per person and must be purchased in advance by calling the Hospital Foundation at (270) 827-7161. There will be door prizes, a preview sampling of antiques, and the opportunity to purchase tickets for the foundation's annual antique show Oct. 21 and 22. A preview gala for that show will take place on Oct. 20.
All proceeds from the gala, brunch and antique show will benefit the hospital's Surgical Center Capital Campaign project. Since the foundation's first antique show 18 years ago, about $200,000 has been raised in support of the hospital and its expanding services.
At the brunch, Cowan will present a talk entitled "Tracking Clues to America's Past -- Confessions of A Real Life History Detective." The archeologist, appraiser and internationally recognized expert in historic Americana will share his experiences from two popular television shows that are credited with resurrecting an interest in antiques.
He will appraise one "treasure" at each table during the program.
Guests are urged to wear a favorite hat and be ready to explore treasures from the past.
And the following is the second article that appeared. Jvdy Jenkin$ can explain it better than I can.
Among family: Roots linked famed 'History Detective' to Tri-county
By Judy Jenkins (Contact)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Cousin Wes Cowan of "History Detectives" and "Antiques Roadshow" fame is coming to town next week, and he believes someone out there has a coveted piece of his family history.
"If there's one thing I'd really like to see," says the Ph.D. archeologist, internationally known antiques appraiser and owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc., "it's a photo of my great-great grandfather Samuel Withers in his Confederate uniform.
"I know someone here must have a photograph of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry, and it would be great to see if he's in the picture."
That ancestor was from Webster County, and it seems possible indeed that the photo lurks in some attic trunk or brittle-paged scrapbook or picture frame in this area. If so, Cowan hopes you'll let him take a look at it.
I was just kidding about the "cousin" part. He isn't my cousin, but the Cincinnati resident who travels all over the country for those PBS shows is related to just about everyone else around here.
Henderson physician A.D. Sprague is his first cousin and Morganfield attorney J. Quentin Wesley is his uncle. Soap and music star Kassie Wesley DePaiva, from Morganfield, is also his first cousin.
"My mom's side of the family came from Union County and I spent my summers visiting with my (late) grandparents Roberta and Charles Wesley near Sturgis," Wes -- "Only my mother calls me Wesley" -- said in a telephone interview Tuesday. He grew up in Louisville, where his mom taught school. His parents divorced when he was 3 and his father was an advertising executive in New York.
In the rich Union County soil on those family farms, he discovered and collected arrowheads and fossils and, in a sense, unearthed his life's work.
"I worked with the UK Museum of Anthropology on a summer long dig when I was in high school and by the time I entered college, I knew I would be an archeologist, and was one for nearly 15 years," he said in an earlier interview.
His Sept. 8 visit to Henderson will see him serving as featured speaker for the Henderson Regional Hospital Foundation's annual pre-Antique Show brunch, which starts at 10 a.m. that Friday in the hospital's Classrooms 1, 2, and 3 on the ground floor.
There, he'll present a talk entitled, "Tracking Clues to America's Past -- Confessions of A Real Life History Detective." He'll share his experiences from the two popular TV shows and also appraise one "treasure" at each table during the program.
Tickets are $25 per person and must be purchased in advance by calling 827-7161. This is a fun prelude to the foundation's Oct. 21-22 Antique Show and both events, as well as a preview gala, will benefit the hospital's new Surgical Center project.
As you know if you watch the WNIN and KET shows that find Wes in a kind of Sherlock Holmes role as one of the four "History Detectives" hosts, he's a super sleuth who combines forensic technology with old fashioned detective work to authenticate -- or not -- objects and family folklore.
He told me that one of his favorite episodes involved a camera made from scraps by a Confederate prisoner on Johnson's Island in Ohio. The POW, working surreptitiously in the barracks attic, used a wooden box with a spy glass for a lens and made tintypes of fellow prisoners. "Some of his pictures still exist," Wes said.
This adventure no doubt had added appeal because his great-great grandfather had been a Confederate POW at a camp in Chicago.
As featured "Antiques Roadshow" appraiser, Wes has sometimes had the pleasure of informing hopeful people that the object they bought for pocket change is worth thousands of dollars. Such was the case with a piece of folk art a Nevada resident had purchased for $7.50 in the 1960s. It's worth $30,000-$50,000 today.
The home he shares with Shelley, his wife of 28 years, is antique filled but when I asked what he'd grab if the house were on fire, he replied, "I'd get photos of my family (which includes son Sam and daughter Panny). Forget the antiques."
What items we can buy now will be valuable in generations to come?
Likely not limited edition prints, Wes says. "Buy them if you like them or love them, but not as an investment." There are just too many of them available, he said.
Nor does he advise that we invest in antiques -- unless they're the very best -- because "tastes change and collectors' habits change."
Worth buying and passing on to our offspring, he said, are "things manufactured with quality and great design. Go to Target and look at the toasters. Some have fabulous designs. Those sorts of things have the potential to be quite valuable 100 years from now."
His mind was drifting from antiques to the anticipation of a treat when he arrives here next week.
"I'll get several quarts of Peak Brothers chipped mutton to take back home with me."
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ChattyKathy
Thank you.
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socks
That sounds like great fun, act2! It will be interesting to see how the guitar is valued and it's history. I'd suspect as time goes on more and more guitars will show up in our hands and our children's. There are probably a lot of cool instruments tucked away in attics and closets.
(One of the better known names in vintage guitars is George Gruhn, who has a website Gruhn dot com He's been around for a long time and is one of the people who's helped to move the vintage guitar market to the forefront as collectible items and to be seen as investments. )
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ChasUFarley
Today was an especially tough day today.
My day brightened when I plugged in Hubby's Telecaster into a Peavey 410 combo amp, set it on the crunchest setting I could find, with the volume on 5, and just let rip some nasty power chords. It sure beat power washing the floors or punching a wall. I UNDERSTAND why people crank up - it's therapy!
At least, until the police show up.
(That wasn't my case, but anywho....)
Okay, back to your regularly scheduled program....
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socks
Chas, pump - it - UP!
Oh yeah.
Nothin' like a ride on the dragonfly to refresh and rejuvenate
Well, Happy People, it's Saturday. Speaking of volume and being it's a holiday weekend, and Labor Day's coming and all, I wanted to dip back and share a a guitarista that is not well known, and in fact for a long time didn't have a website but does now so there's somewhere to go to to see and hear some of his stuff. He's plays a Strat and is somewhere in the lineage of Jeff Beck and Hendrix. In 1980, I bought his album, a vinyl release titled "Volume". No one I knew had ever heard of him at the time, although he'd played around Europe quite a bit with various artists.
"Volume" was mostly instrumental, with a roster of serious playahs on it. And the cover was a classic - a single, large guitar Volume knob, turned all the way up. :)
The guitarist's name is Ray Gomez, and his website page HERE has some video samples and some new audio samples. I don't have the album anymore, but would like to find it. He does some serious electric playing on it.
Check 'im out if you have a mind to. The audio samples on his site aren't very smooth, and seem to take a while to load up but the video samples are cool, just short.
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dmiller
I hear ya! I hear ya! I hear ya! (Did I mention I hear ya?)
I do the same with the *five*.
3 fingerpicks, a five string banjo, and an attitude all on my front porch.
GREAT ACOUSTICS there. Wonderful place to get out frustrations.
Fast and furious, loud and raucous, down and devil-may-care.
It's a catharsis. :)
I've noticed (recently) folks walking on the OTHER side of the street when I am in one of my moods.
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Tom Strange
my brother from the sock drawer... I was searching your human, Ray Gomez, and one of the searches showed he'd played with Roy Buchanan... so I must've heard him sometime... probably even more...
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