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kmh364
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Post Number: 1292
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 5:27 am:   Edit Post

Just got the "new" Harry Chapin anthology DVD released recently this year. It's supposedly a PBS documentary...very short, but decent if you like Harry's great storytelling ability.

At any rate, whilst the names of his former accompanying bandmates eludes me at the moment, his bassist uses nice basses throughout including a customized block-inlay J-bass, a Les Paul recording bass and a Series bass. The guitarist uses an Alembic Series-equipped Electrum 6-str. during "Cats In The Cradle" as well.
811952
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Post Number: 575
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 9:22 am:   Edit Post

Big John Wallace is probably the bassist. His Alembic with LEDs was my first sighting in '76 or thereabouts, for $7.00..

John
fmm
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Post Number: 112
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 10:27 am:   Edit Post

I've played that bass. My first contact with Alembic.
alembic76407
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Post Number: 405
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 6:12 am:   Edit Post

The DVD "Harry Chapin live at Rockplast" John Wallace and Doug Walker played their Alembic's the whole show and is a great DVD.

David T
kmh364
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Post Number: 1305
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 8:05 am:   Edit Post

I haven't seen the Rockpalast vid. Thanks for the info. There must be some of that show on the DVD I bought...probably the Alembic stuff...there isn't much Harry vid available from any source, unfortunately.
alembic76407
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Post Number: 406
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Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 9:43 am:   Edit Post

kevin, I'm a big Harry Chapin fan , I got to see him two times back in the 70s , rockpalast blew me away, one of my favorite live concert videos of all time!!!!!!

does the anthology DVD have "A Better Place To Be"

David T
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1306
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:05 am:   Edit Post

David:

Yes, that song is amongst the 'bonus' material.
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1307
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:22 am:   Edit Post

BTW, anybody know the name of the guitarist that always accompanied Jim Croce? His name isn't mentioned once in the "Have You Heard - Jim Croce Live" DVD from '03-'04, although Logins and Messina insinuate his first name (can't remember) during an interview. Anybody know who he is? He's an excellent steel-string acoustic picker, and not a bad singer as well.
811952
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Post Number: 577
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Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:25 am:   Edit Post

Tasty, tasty bass playing by John on all the Harry Chapin stuff I've heard. Oddly, the only HC disks I ever owned were the 2-disk "Greatest Stories Live" album, and I always heard new bits (subtle chords in the bass and such) every time I listened to it. That band really jived and each person's performance complimented the others' well. RIP Harry...

John
alembic76407
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Post Number: 407
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:39 am:   Edit Post

Kevin,
Croce's guitar player was Maury Muehleisen, who also died in the plane crash with Jim

David T
mpisanek
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Post Number: 109
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 1:36 am:   Edit Post

I was one of the very fortunate few who got to see Jim play at Glasboro State College in New Jersey about a week before he died. It was an amazing concert! It took on a whole new meaning about a week later.
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1311
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:23 am:   Edit Post

Thanks. I thought it was pretty disrespectful that he didn't even get mentioned anywhere on the disk. Jim didn't make a move without the guy, yet no one, save Kenny Loggins, makes one mention of him. I had no idea he was killed with Jim, which makes the oversight by the Croce familly even more disgraceful, IMHO.
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1312
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:27 am:   Edit Post

I loved the music of both Harry and Jim growing-up as a kid. That hasn't changed as a (now middle-aged)adult. It allways seems that the good die young, and it was certainly the case for both.
davehouck
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Post Number: 2659
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 6:29 am:   Edit Post

Kevin said "it always seems that the good die young". It may seem that way, but when you think about it, there have been quite a lot of good people that lived and are living long lives of significant contribution to their fellow humans. For instance, quite a few members of this group have met Susan and Ron, neither of whom died in their twenties, and the accounts of those members suggests that these two people can be counted among the "good". In another current thread, members have been posting comments that seemed to suggest that Paul McCartney is considered by many to be among the "good"; and contrary to rumors at the time, Paul did not die in his twenties either. So I tend to disagree, it does not always, or even often, seem that the good die young.
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1320
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 7:11 am:   Edit Post

Understood. Most of my "heroes" have died an untimely, unecessary death: some young like Pig Pen, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Duane & Berry, SRV, Jimi, Janis, Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Terry Kath, Lennon, etc. Some were not so young, like Jerry, JAE, George Harrison, etc.

Just my $0.02.

Watch out all you musicans that I dig...I may be cursed, so you may meet an untimely end, LOL! J/K.

Cheers,

Kevin

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