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Focused on winning, Chapman adopted and improved upon the mid-engined layout of the successful Cooper race cars. A much simpler car than the Type 16, The Type 18 was so competitive in both Formula 1 and 2 that it was emulated by the majority of cars in those formulae. Racing with the Type 18 in Monte Carlo, Stirling Moss drove to victory at the first of many championship Grand Prix wins as driver for the Rob Walker team.
Chapman said he regarded the Type 18 as the first true Formula 1 car he had designed and built, his previous front-engined efforts being merely dabbling.
The Type 19 large capacity sports racer was developed from the basis of the Type 18 and went on to dominate its class in the USA..
Keen to maintain Lotus' pre-eminence in Junior racing, Chapman developed the Type 20. Using the majority of parts from the Type 18 packed into a smaller body, the Type 20 mades an immediate impression on the track.
Demonstrating the typical 'can do' attitude of Team Lotus, in only 6 weeks the Type 21 was designed and built to compete in the 1961 Formula One season. The Type 21 was the FIRST F1 car to use a reclining driving position.It was also the first Team Lotus car to win a world Championship Grand Prix, with Innes Ireland taking first place at Watkins Glen, USA.
Lotus introduced the Type 24 with a conventional chassis at the start of the '62 Formula One season, but it was soon eclipsed by the radical Type 25.
Abandoning all the existing conventions, the 25 was the FIRST F1 car to use a revolutionary fully stressed 'monocoque' chassis design, reinforcing Chapman's reputation as a brilliant engineer. Winning four Formula 1 races in its first year, at the hands of the talented Jim Clark, just missing out on the Championship in the final race.
The Type 26 Lotus Elan was introduced and rapidly became a class leader by which other sports cars were measured. The car continued in production for 11 years due to it's excellent design and subsequent popularity.
Chapman developed his first Indianapolis car, the Type 29. With a power to weight ratio of over 800bhp per ton Lotus proclaimed it to be one of the most, if not the most potent piece of racing machinery ever built. After leading the Indy 500 for 28 laps, Jim Clark finished in second place.
Lotus assisted Ford in winning the British Saloon Car Championship by developing and building the Type 28 Lotus Cortina.
With Jim Clark at the wheel of the Type 25, Lotus secured its first Formula One Constructors' Championship, and the Drivers title; this was also the first Drivers' World Championship for Clark, winning seven out of ten races. Both titles were won with an astonishing maximum points.
Lotus developed the Type 30, their first car designed for Group 7 racing. The Type 31, 32, and 33 were developed. These new cars were built for Formula 3, 2 and Tasman, and 1 respectively.
The Type 33 was an evolution of the monocoque Type 25.
Again the brilliant Jim Clark brought home another double for Team Lotus, winning both constructors' and drivers F1 championships, this time at the wheel of the Type 33.
Clark also won the famous Indy 500 race in the USA in the new Type 38 having lead virtually from the start, averaging 150.686mph – a new record.
On the road, the Type 36 Lotus Elan fixed head coupe made its debut, the first 'luxury' Lotus Coupe.
It was in this year that Lotus moved to a purpose-built factory based in Hethel, Norfolk. Built on a former US Air Force base, covering 55 acres, the old runways were converted into a 2.5 mile test track which, over the years, saw the inaugural drives of some of the worlds's finest road and race cars at the hands of some of the world's most famous racing drivers.
The enhanced Type 45 Elan S3 drophead sports car made its debut, followed by the mid-engined Europa (Type 46) road car, whose handling received considerable praise in the press. Soon after the Europa went into production, work began on the Type 47, a Cosworth-Ford powered racing version. Jim Clark went on to be placed 2nd in the Indy 500 despite suffering from handling problems with the Type 47.
The Type 43 made its debut at Reims. It was the FIRST F1 car to use the engine as a structural member. However, the car suffered from problems with the BRM H16 engine, with only one F1 win at Watkins Glen in the USA.
The Type 49 Formula 1 racer became the FIRST car to be powered by the legendary Cosworth-Ford DFV V8 engine, a motor which went on to dominate the Formula 1 scene for over a decade. Jim Clark won the Dutch Grand Prix in the 49, and took pole position In the following 11 Grand Prix races.
The more spacious Type 50 Elan +2 went into production, with a longer chassis and different bodywork, enabling two children to be carried in the rear seats.
1968 proved to be a tragic year for Team Lotus. They were to lose the heroic and talented Jim Clark in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim on 7th April. The racing world were devastated. The black badge was introduced onto Lotus cars leaving the factory following his death as a sign of respect.
Graham Hill drove to victory winning the Constructors' and Drivers' titles for Lotus again.
This is the year when Chapman, ever the keen business man, introduced the FIRST commercial sponsorship onto the Formula One scene, and the Type 49 debuts the famous Gold Leaf livery of red, white and gold.
The 49 was also the FIRST use of Aerofoil wings in F1.
Lotus also launched the S2 Europa.
The new Seven S4 began production. Vastly different from its predecessor, the S4 was designed to be sold to a much wider public through an all-new dealer network. The Seven S4 is designated Type 60 and used a chassis fabricated from tubular steel with welded steel sides.
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- Extendable handle deploys and locks with one hand making it easy to maneuver when your other hand is full
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- Handles Worked Well
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Size restrictions on certain domestic flights in Australia prompted us to look for something smaller than our usual travel luggage. This was the largest wheeled duffel we could find that met QANTAS and JetStar requirements. We bought two, and they worked well. They roll easily and held everything we wanted to stuff in. Despite rough handling by airport personnel, they made it through looking like new. The red color made them easy to pick out on baggage carousels. Zippers worked easily and handles held up. Only two issues, really, and they're general duffel issues:
1. they don't stand up, so at car rental counters, etc, you either have to lean them against something, or bend over to lay them flat then bend over again when you're ready to move on. I played a game with myself, trying to stuff things in in such a way that the duff would stand up. A couple of times, I succeeded.
2. you can't find specific articles of clothing in them unless you unpack completely. I found myself pawing through everything trying to find a pair of socks or a certain shirt. There's probably a clever way to pack (separate plastic bags for each type of clothing - socks in one, shirts in another, etc.?), but I just resigned myself to making a mess when I wanted a particular item.
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Over his four-year collegiate career, the 23-year-old Ontario native compiled 84 goals and 101 assists over 152 appearances. Carey led the country with 14 power-play goals last season and was a Hobey Baker finalist after racking up 51 points in 38 contests.
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Blood Lord wrote:Mr. Sefrol wrote:Here's the most common grading for the Bioshock franchise.
Bioshock > Bioshock: Infinite > Bioshock 2
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orangetom1999 wrote:I would immediately be branded or labeled as "Anti Semitic.
I thought this odd at the time and it took me a bit to realize it was in fact a type of censorship and attempt to defalut through and stifle dissent..ie...censorship...control...guilt manipulation.
Over time I began to realize that this control/censorship fingerprint was being picked up by many of the nations minorities in reinforcing their "Victimhood " status since public education and televisions and movies send out the message that "Victims " automatically default through at the expense and on the purse of everyone else.
I think the proper term you describe would be to "nullify", where instead of 2 valid opinions in a matter both standing with their own merits, they invoke the anti-semitic card, play the race card, or the homophobe card, to label your opinion as tainted. This effectively dismisses it, and renders it null, void, and without any merit. It is a tactic to avoid having to concede their plights may not be all that true.


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Serves: 12
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Total Time: 28 min
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- 2 package(s) Croissant Rolls
- 2 package(s) Cream Cheese
- 1 cup(s) Ranch Dressing, (You can also use powdered ranch for a stronger taste.)
- 1 teaspoon(s) Garlic Powder
- 1/4 cup(s) Green onions, minced
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- 1 medium head of broccoli, shredded/minced
- 1 package(s) carrots, shredded/minced
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- Using a grater or a knife, shred/mince the cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, green onions, and celery seperately, set aside. (You can do this the night before)
- Heat the cream cheese so it can be mixed. Add the ranch (powder or dressing), green onions, and garlic powder and stir til well blended, set aside. (You can do this the night before)
- Preheat over per directions for croissants. Spread the dough out flat on a large cookie sheet and cut or poke a few holes across the surface (to reduce bubbling) and bake per directions. Let cool approx. 5 minutes, or put in the freezer for 3 min.
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The College News VOL. XX, No. 2 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS. 1933 PRICE 10 CENTS College Must Educate for Changing World Students Should Develop Men- tal Elasticity, President Park Declares TOLERANCE IS NEEDED 'The following is a continuation of of Miss Park's speech at the opening of college: a In our corner relative peace and rising courage seem at the moment possible; we may cautiously, eye on barometer, unreef our sails again and hope to make some headway. That is true and heartening and unexpected. But around and before us lie the anxious problems and uncertainties of the economic, political, and finan- cial world to which we are each of us connected by so many personal threads. Your father's business ties you to them, your mother's purchases, the hole that the bill for your tuition makes in the common purse. I am out of the college office and in Wash- ington or New York every hour� the ups and downs of college invest- ments, the discussion of NRA policy as applied to college employees, my weekly afternoon at the county-seat listening to discussion of this win- ter's relief problem�all these take me there. In the end, and a not re- mote end, as the world careens and rights itself or sinks, so Bryn Mawr College will careen, right itself, or sink. It is not then a time when we can think of ourselves as a compact, smug little crowd gathering in this brisk, blue morning, carried on the momen- tum of a social class or a family, or a distinguished academic past, pretty sure to be on the winning side in the future. No such pretty picture. We don't even know what the alternative is: only that a current not on the surface, but strong, from deep below, a force neither entirely understand- able or controllable, is taking us from a past in which you, like your moth- ers *nd grandmothers have lived, into a future in which you must live, make your friends or enemies, earn your livings, marry, plan the lives of children, grow old, but whose eco- (Continued on Page Two) College Council Reports Topics of Discussion At the first meeting of the College Council, Wednesday, October 11, the following matters, among others, were discussed: The status of transfer students, Freshman Week, the Col- lege Inn, and Deanery rules for the undergraduate body. It was decided that transfer stu- dents, whose academic status is not definite until they have passed their examinations at the end of a year at Bryn Mawr, should be allowed, nev- ertheless, to enter the class to which they belong socially. It was thought that the classes could arrange to re- ceive them and formally enroll their names on the class list. In regard to Freshman Week, it was recommended that it be cut short half a day. That will mean that the halls will be open at 8 A. M. Thurs- day instead of 3 P. M. Wednesday as always before. The first formal meeting will take place at 8 P. M. Thursday, but there will be inter- views -all -day Thursday so that no' time will be lost for the real business of Freshman Week.- * * A new function has been assigned to the Council, that of acting as a consulting committee for the College Book Shop and the Tea Room. It is thought that by their advice' these two new enterprises may be kept in close touch with what the college wants. I Mrs. Chadwick-Collins reported that several undergraduates, appar- ently ignorant of the Deanery rules, had come in, unaccompanied by alum- nae, and signed slips. The Deanery is not an annex of the Inn and tea cannot be served there, after the first of this week, when there was open house for undergraduates. CALENDAR Sat. Oct. 21. Opehing qjj the Djeanery. Tea in honor of President - Emeritus Thomas. 4.00 to 7.00 P. M. Sun., Oct. 22r Chapel. The Reverend Frank Gavin will pre- sent the address. Music Room at 7.30 P. M. Students and Faculty Have Close Contacts President Park Gives Chapel Talk on Four Channels of Communication New Policy at College Inn Appreciated by Students Students may now view with de- cided joy rather than alarm the atti- tude of' the College Inn. Like so many institutions, both collegiate and otherwise, it has suffered or rather enjoyed some important changes dur- ing the summer. The college should appreciate the fact that it now has become a part of the campus in every sense, and the Tea Room, which, of course, concerns students most, is be- ing managed for them. Club breakfasts are served for thirty or forty cents, and students re- port that they can enjoy the meal and still make their morning class. Serv- ice is the welcome word. Then there are luncheons and a dinner with both nalate and purse appeal. Tea, the perennial afternoon sport at Bryn Mawr, is served for a quarter. One's first glance into the tea room this fall reveals a new atmosphere of light and speed. The attitude of the managers is even more cheering. They asked for any special sugges- tions and said that they would do all they could to get what the stu- dents want. That deserves three happy cheers. The Inn proper has been turned into apartments, but there are still a few rooms for visiting relatives and friends. All in all, it is quite chang- ed, but everyone seems to like it. Lantern Ceremony is Tableau of Beauty Singing is Memorable for Its Freshness and Full Vib- rant Quality CLOISTERS AID EFFECT The traditional Lantern Night ceremonies were held with impressive solemnity despite the vagaries of the weather and the casualties inci- dent to the proverbially unlucky Fri- day the thirteenth. Nothing can really mar the serene beauty of the cloisters thrown into even blacker lijrht by the flickering, swaying lines f lanterns. All the audience can do s to peer down from the balcony into the shadowy depths and appreciate the beauty of Lantern Night. For 't is distinctly' not a performance put >n for the delectation and subject to the dogmatic criticism of the watch- srs, who are busily clutching the ivy on the upper edge of the balcony and �nattering with cold and martyred atience during the lengthy pauses of the ceremony. These intervals of waiting, slightly �w� for the audience, threatened to break the atmosphere of breathless suspense several times. And yet the �limax of the evening succeeded one of them: the high moment of the ceremony came when the green lan- terns at the side started swinging and the first notes of Sophias broke the ominous silence. The freshmen sang particularly well and their singing was sustained far better th^an the sophomores' as the red line of lanterns swung through and beyond the cloisters. The new arrangement for a group of freshmen to cluster just outside the exit on either side to reinforce the singing of the last few freshmen in line may account to some degree for the contrast between the two classes' singing in procession. At best, the sophomores have difficulty co-ordinating at the start of their procession into the cloisters, but their lack of seriousness prevented even the final singing of Pallas from be- ing other than weak and uneven. This marked difference in the sing- (Contlnued on F�k� Four) B. M. SYSTEM IS UNIQUE "Bryn Mawr College prides itself on the fact that there is direct com- munication between the Administra- tion and the students on matters con- cerning the students," said Miss Park in Chapel last Tuesday morning* when she talked to the student body as a whole, but especially to the freshmen, on "Channels <Jf*"Commun- ication." This plan, however, which provides that the Administration shall talk directly to the stuflents, and they in turn to the Administra- tion, through certain formal chan- nels, while irreproachable in theory, i� often a failure in practice. The President and Dean often get wrong impressions of student thought and make wrong opinions which must be corrected. Moreover, the students frequently get distorted ideas of the thought of the Faculty. For this rea- son it is necessary each year to de- scribe to the freshmen the formal channels of communication between the students and the Faculty in the hope of eliminating these mistakes. First, of all, students have a di- rect point of contact with the Admin- istration through appointments with the President and the Dean, who hold definite, and what they hope are ade- quate, office hours. Miss Park is in her office in Taylor from eleven-thir- ty to twelve-thirty on Wednesday and Friday mornings, and at home from three to five Tuesday afternoons. In sase of emergency both Miss Park md Mrs. Manning can be quickly reached. The wardens of the various halls are the second channel of communi- cation. Miss M. Carey Thomas work- ed out the present system of wardens for she realized that a college back- ground would be of great value to a warden in helping her meet the prob- lems which the students would be likely to bring before her. The war- dens today are college graduates, some of whom are doing work in their field here at Bryn Mawr, or are read- ers for undergraduate courses. They are in a position to be useful to every student, and hold themselves ready 'or any emergency. The third channel of communica- tion is the College Council, which is a more thorough-going organization here than elsewhere. It was begun (lining the War with the intention of making it easier for students to take extra-curricular activities, and was made permanent when it had proved its efficiency. It is composed of representatives of the various un-" dergraduate organizations, and of such Faculty members as Miss Park, Mrs. Manning, Miss Petts, and Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, there being eight- een in all. The Council has no pow- er at all; its duty is merely to dis- cuss frankly and completely any mat- ter connected with college life, such as the budget, courses, management of the halls, and so forth, and to re- fer it afterward to the person or persons rightly in charge of it. Be- cause of the nature of matters dis- cussed, the Council is often unable to publish a definite report, but the topics brought up in each meeting are usually mentioned in the News. The fourth channel of communica- (Contlnuea on Page Four) Jane Ad dams Due to the prolonged illness of Miss Jane Addams, who was to have delivered the first two lectures of the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Foundation series, the chronological order of the lectures has been rear- ranged. The new order is printed below: Monday, October 30. Mrs. Dean will speak on "Fascism or Democracy iff Europe." Monday, November 6. Mrs. Dean will speak on "The New European Balance of Power." Monday, November 13. Mrs. Dean and Miss Fairchild will speak on "The Soviet Union At the End of the First Five Year Plan." Monday, November 20. Mrs. Slade will speak on "The Far East." Monday, November 27. Miss . Addams will speak on "The Hopes We Inherit." Monday, December 4. Miss Addams will speak on "Oppor- tunities of the New Day." All the lectures will be given in the auditorium of Goodhart Hall and will begin promptly at 8 20 P. M. Deanery Will Open as Alumnae House Oct. 21 Alumnae at Last Have Strong- hold on Bryn Mawr Campus MISS THOMAS TO RECEIVE Bates House The Bryn Mawr Leagfle is conducting a drive this week for the benefit of Bates House, the seashore home for poor children, which is run during the summer by Bryn Mawr un- dergraduates. Since the main- tenance depends entirely on funds contributed by the stu- dent body during the college year, the support of every stu- dent is earnestly solicited. Pre:ident-Emeritus Thomas and the Deanery Committee will officially open the Deanery as the Alumnae House on Saturday afternoon, Octo- ber twenty-first. In order that the Deanery may look exactly as the Alum- nae remember it, Miss Thomas has presented it to them intact, with all its paintings and etchings, its furni ture collected from all parts of th world, its entire library, its hand some and valuable rugs, and its in numerable sets of china. Miss. Tho- mas has also offered continual and most helpful suggestions to the com- mittee in a sincere attempt to make the Deanery .as attractive and a-- w 11 fitted-out as pos'ible. The great sitting room on the first floor, which is a copy of Dorothy Ver- non's Gallery in Haddon Hall, Ches- hire, the large hall, the dining room and the libraries will be used for col- 'ege attd alumnae entertaining, offi- cial and private. The blue study, where Miss Thomas usually worked, will be reserved for committee meet- ings and general conferences. The other rooms will be for general use. On the second floor is Miss Tho- mas' own library, a large, comfort- able, and extremely beautiful room, covering the entire front of the house and reached by its own spiral stair- case. It is to be reserved for Alum- nae only, and tea will be served there informally every afternoon. The use of the bedrooms is confined to grad- uates, And former graduate and un dergraduate students of Bryn Mawr College. Distinguished guests of the college will also live at the Deanery. The presence of an Alumnae House on the campus will satisfy a long-felt want, and that this Alumnae House sh<>ii_ dually be-m^*: ..;.-earns almost too good to be true. The pos- sibility of staying in such an utter- ly beautiful place should in itself be enough to bring crowds of Alumnae trooping back to Bryn Mawr at the first opportunity. Duncan Rediscovered Secret of Movement Ideal Was Interdependence of Arts; Dancer Must Try to Aid Composer GOAL WAS NATURALNESS Social Marriage Sylvia Cornish, '33, to Robert Allen, of Boston. Engagements Nancy Knapp, '36, to Benja- min Belcher, University of Vir- ginia. Priscilla Totten, ex-'34, to Brown Temple. The following is a continuation of J. Barber's article on the dance: And now for the more specific ques- tion of how Isadora's dancing is dif- ferent from that of her imitators. In the first place it is not "Nat- ural" dancing. It invokes a difficult and long training, a cutting away of insignificant gesture, an intellectual de-intellectualizing. Unfortunately we must he taught skillfully how to be natural. SfcC .i ,ry, it is not "Interpretive" (lanc..iri. Isadora was a good Wag- nerian; the "Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music" was her Bible and, unlike Nietzche, she never re- canted. The ideal for her was a mu- tual interdependence of the arts, i here is in her theory of thel rela- tion of inu.iic and dancing a sugges- tion of her pantheistic beliefs: "The great composer combines the abso- lute perfection of terrestrial and hu- man rhythms." But the' dancer should aid the composer; the ideal is a mutual improvisation. If that is now impossible, at least instead of the arrogance of "interpretation" there can be a more fruitful surren- der to the greater personality of the musician. But symphonic music over- whelms the single dancer; Beethov- en's "men of tone" of the Ninth Sym- phony are many, the music of Gluck is written for the chorus. Poor Isa- dora never danced a solo, but always peopled the stage imaginatively with the dancers she hoped to train. But the particular connection of mu- sic and dancing is based, I believe, largely upon consideration of social convenience; the temporal element is constant for dancer and audience. But one might as well dance to a Persian carpet. Thirdly, the dancing is' not "Greek." The costumes mislead; they arc not Greek, but only the least arbi- trary, least inhibiting costume. It is silly to expect a dancer to account for the vagaries of costumes whose counterpoints very > often have only a confusing relation to his own move- ments. Only , the supreme dancer could be asked to do that, and then what would be the advantage, when western costume has lost its religious and social significance? Until the re- crystallization of the symbol in MS- tume, the nude alone can be simply expressive. It is a sad paradox that although the nude is recognized as the most significant subject of the other aMs, "only the dancer has for- gotten, wUjo should most remember." The dancing itself is not-a Greek derivative, even though Mr. Kirstein (Continued on race Four) Sunday Chapel The Evening Service next Sunday, October 22, promises to be interest- ing and well ordered. It will be con- ducted by the Rev./Frank Gavin, Ph.D., Th.D., LL.D.Jof the General Theological Seminary in New York City, who will be in Philadelphia for the Oxford Movement Centenary. Dr. Gavin will talk on the Oxford Move- meatpwwr" � necial reference to its place in the world today and fts at- titude toward the problems of modern life. He will briefly discuss its his- tory, personalities, and then attempt to interpret its religious, theological and social content. Mr. Willoughby is co-operating with Dr. Gavin in choosing hymns by those associated with*'the Movement. The Processional will be the one by Vaughn Williams, a favorite of the Bryn Mawr Choir, that is to be used at the Centenary- It will surely be a privilege to have Dr. Gavin at Bryn Mawr, and it will be interesting to hear him explain the Oxford Movement and show that there is more than a little difference between it and the Oxford Group.
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I got to thinking about Josh Graves the other day.
There are very few musicians that have impacted their chosen instruments as creators of a musical style. I'm not talking about the hot new guitarist or banjo player of the week. I'm talking about the Teachers. The ones who truly blazed a new trail playing music.
Near the top of the list are: Andres Segovia, Sabicas, Chet Atkins, Earl Scruggs and Burkett, "Uncle Josh", Graves.
Uncle Josh took his bluesy style on the dobro and added some Scruggs style right hand techniques to come up with a wildly infectious style that touches virtually every dobro player today
"Dobro" is a brand name, a guitar construction description and, when written in lower case, a generic term for playing a guitar using a hand held metal "slide" or bar. For a musician to call themselves a dobro player the guitar must have a resonator in it for that resonator is what gives the instrument its distinctive tone.
"Dobro" is now a registered trademark of Gibson Inc. although they did not invent or develop the guitar in its basic form. It was invented by a team of brothers named Dopyera "Do-(pyera) Bro-(thers), being a mix of the last name and the word brothers, in the late twenties and has retained its basic form for over eighty years.
I got to thinking about Josh Graves the other day.
I think of him often…after all it was he that inspired me (among others) to play the dobro guitar. And I play that one more than any other. I can't play a dobro and not think of Buck Graves… "Uncle Josh"
I didn't really focus on the instrument for years. Even though my dad played a lot of country on the radio at home I didn't get The Call. I was immersed in learning to play guitar like Chet Atkins and my dad didn't care for "hillbilly" music that featured banjos and such. I never did learn how to play like Chet Atkins, by the way, but I did get a fair grasp on playing finger style guitar.
Then one day I happened to hear Flatt and Scruggs doing Randy Lynn Rag. Buck Graves (as Uncle Josh was known for a long time) took his solo on the song and it just hit me that this instrument was one I needed in my life but I had no idea what it was. I had no idea what it even looked like. I just knew I had to learn how to play whatever that thing was.
I was just eighteen or nineteen and in those days I would spend my summers with a family of folks who lived in Hastings, MI. There were three boys and the sire, all musicians, in this clan. We would put on a stack of country LP records at dinner and soak up the music. After dinner we'd go into the 'front room' and play country music using guitars, mandolin and bass.
We all puzzled over this thing Buck Graves played and never really understood it until we happened to go to the Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ol' Opry and actually saw Flat and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys play Randy Lynn Rag onstage.
That did it! Now I knew what I was aiming at and understood that, because it used a steel like a Hawaiian guitar, I was going to have to make some changes.
It was just an idea for a long time. A nice idea, but since I didn't have proper instrument not much could be done in learning it.
In my early twenties I met and was befriended by Jerry Garcia. Jerry was into bluegrass at the time (around 1962) and was most helpful in getting me on the road to being a dobro player. I had borrowed an all metal National guitar and set it up to play "lap steel" style but it still didn't sound as good as the wooden bodied instruments Uncle Josh played.
Jerry kept saying "Ya gotta do this like Uncle Josh…you gotta do that like Uncle Josh" and he would play the records and point out the licks. After I got my hands on the National guitar he started drifting toward playing blues with 'Pig Pen McKernan', heading down the path that eventually became the Grateful Dead so I didn't get much time in on playing dobro with him but I had paid close attention to what he told me about how to play it. Eventually we got hold of an old wood bodied "Regal" dobro. When it was obvious he was going to be playing electric guitar for a living Jerry transferred the wooden instrument to me and the metal National was retired forever.
When my pet Gretsch electric guitar got stolen I devoted even more time to the dobro and, lo, it came to pass that I would get to meet and actually play with none other than Burkett Graves, Uncle Josh…
Now I retreat to the literary license of changing names to protect something, but I'm not sure what… Possibly my life… possibly the innocent, but truly innocent adults are so rare nowadays…
There was this guy I knew who was a bit of a character. Let's call him LeRoy Hobbs.
Now, LeRoy, he was a Good Ol' Boy-Foghorn Leghorn talking kind of guy, who loved country music and he liked me playing with him. We would get together and pick from time to time. LeRoy sang fairly well, kept good rhythm and all that but wasn't what they would call star quality.
But he did like the idea of being a promoter, figuring if he was running the show he could book the star and get to sing with him too which, on the face of it, wasn't all that bad an idea.
The thing about booking a 'name' was that the more popular the name the more they cost. So LeRoy did some shopping around and found Uncle Josh to be available complete with a singer named Bobby Smith, for a very reasonable price.
Some fellow promoters had warned him that, while Josh was certainly a fine musician it was hard enough to get a good draw with even a good, well known bluegrass group and Uncle Josh Graves just didn't have a lot of draw power. Few people knew who he was in the grand scheme of things. Fewer people even knew what a Dobro was.
Be that as it may, the price was right and Josh and Bobby were more than happy to be bed and boarded at LeRoy's house for the duration to save money. So LeRoy booked Josh and Bobby for four engagements.
Now all he needed was a band!
We got to know some other musicians, a banjo player, Bill Weeks, a fine mandolin player, Ernie Henson and a bassist Bert Pakka. Bert and Ernie had been friends for years and like some friends do, tended to bicker some. And of course I have to smile now because they were so much like the Sesame Street Bert and Ernie in this way.
LeRoy hired good lead flattop player, another southern guy, Johnny Mason and, to round the band out, he hired a "girl singer" named Rae Jensen.
Before I go on I should mention that the word "hire" should be applied very loosely in this tale. We backing musicians would only be getting paid if there was any money left over after paying Josh and Bobby and their travel expenses.
The male musicians actually played pretty decently for a bunch of guys who had just formed up. Everyone knew and played the common bluegrass numbers which helped immensely. We practiced and practiced. Everyone was excited about being the backup band for Josh and Bobby and we were all fired up
Rae was a pretty girl with waist length brown hair and she had a fine singing voice but the thing is she just wasn't country. She had a stage voice… the kind you wanted if you were doing Oklahoma or Sound Of Music… that kind of thing… LeRoy kept looking for a couple of songs she could sing because he was bound and determined to have a "girl singer" in the band.
Finally, he had her learn Dolly Parton's "Tennessee Mountain Home" as her featured solo which was an experience of a lifetime because on the chorus Rae would sling those operetta tones on that mountain song and took it to a dimension it was never meant to go. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't country.
We practiced a lot since we had about two months before Josh and Bobby were due in.
This was enough time for our various personalities to settle in.
It's kinda like trying to fit five people in one bed sometimes because, particularly among males, there is the subtle rooting and scraping for Alpha Dog. This came out strongest with Bert and Ernie constantly sniping at each other. Bert considered himself the natural leader of the group which didn't sit well with some people. It didn't sit well with any of them as a matter of fact.
Bill Weeks, the banjo player, had his own agenda. He fancied himself a Lover and figured we'd pick up some groupies for him to enjoy. I and the guitar player, Johnny Mason, avoided the politics. We just wanted to play the music and get it as right as we were able.
But even with all that simmering beneath the surface we all did our duty and got our list as tight as we could,
Finally the day came… we were going to meet and play with Uncle Josh Graves and Bobby Smith.
We picked them up at the airport and found them to be very cordial, very southern, gentlemen in speech and manner. We grabbed their instruments and a couple of suitcases and stole away to LeRoy's house.
Our dream of sitting around and playing music with the two men was dashed rather quickly. Bobby said that they didn't like rehearsals because it spoiled the spontaneity of the music. "We know all the songs. Played 'em a thousand times." Bobby said, "So we wait 'till it's time for us to play to keep them as fresh as we can."
This actually made a lot of sense. We were learning about how it was with a professional musician sometimes. They weren't here to entertain us. They hardly knew us so I can imagine them being reluctant to 'just play'. They gave us two albums and said "These are the songs we're going to do when we come on." Josh got out his Dobro and said "This is how I'll end my songs." and played an easy to spot takedown and close.
Everything was in G.
Piece of cake. "Learn the songs." How hard can it be?
And so it went. We learned the songs. Actually they learned the songs. I only played dobro when we played our opening set. When Josh came on I, of course, would be leaving the stage.
There was one song Bert Pakka had a little difficulty with. It was Bob Will's "Maiden's Prayer" one of many dobro "standards". It was an easy enough tune but Bert didn't always make the first chord change in the right spot and, worse, he was oblivious to the error. He didn't care to be told he was playing such a simple sounding song wrong which compounded the omen one might draw from that.
An interesting bit of business happened when I opened my case to show Josh my Regal dobro. When Jerry Garcia and I had corralled it, he had gotten it for thirty five dollars and I had done some restorative work on it. I never gave much thought to its value since Jerry had paid so little for it. Josh's eyes lit up when he saw my Dobro and I saw his hands make a slight clutching motion. He definitely wanted to see more of that instrument. He took out his steel and picks and played it for a little bit.
"Would you want to sell this?" he asked.
"Well, no, not really. It's the only one I have so why would I sell it?"
He served up one of his trademark grins and handed the guitar back to me.
For the rest of the time he would indicate how much he was willing to pay. He'd sit in the front when I was playing and hold up fingers with that grin on his face. Josh seemed to truly love the sound of my Regal and kept teasing me about buying it. His best 'offer' was 400.00 but I think he's glad I didn't take him up on it. I found out later that buying instruments on the road was not something he could do easily. Money was tight. He played it often while he was in California. He even used it a couple of times onstage at two of our shows.
Our first gig was the Palomino Club in Los Angeles and there was the second omen. The problem was that while we were booked to play one show there we, or I should say, Uncle Josh, was listed on the Palomino's calendar and advertising as being booked for the next night. In short, we were playing a night early and the people we were playing for were not looking to hear us. This creates a vacuum and everybody loses in the process.
Still, we got a lesson in How It Was Done.
Now, Burkett Graves was a short guy. Probably five feet two inches. He was broad in the chest, a man who understood work. In those days (in the mid seventies) he had dark hair "stylishly long" to his collar and he wore a large silver and turquoise buckle on his belt and black shirt and black jeans, a turquoised bolo tie and, of course, cowboy boots.
When he took his position at the mic he owned the stage. You no longer saw a short guy with an overlarge belt buckle. You saw a showman. You saw How It Was Done. He played with tremendous authority. He was able to play long passages accurately without having to watch his hands. When you consider that his left hand used a hand held steel/slide to do what a regular guitar's frets do playing accurately without watching was quite a trick and a testament to the man's artistry.
Josh used a "Stevens" steel. This item is made of nickel plated brass and Josh had used his for so long that much of the plating had worn off the part that contacted the strings.
His thumb pick had definite grooves in it but let me tell you, that man would take up a dobro and just make it sing. I had a chance to play on the dobro Josh used and wondered where the sound went because I couldn't pull the same tone out of it that he did. That is the other mark of a true professional. The ability to get the absolute best performance from their chosen instruments. We were learning that we did not know How It Is Done as well as we thought we did.
Uncle Josh played a mixture of blues and mountain music in his overall approach.
He clearly adapted some of Earl Scruggs' right hand technique, but it was his fire that set him apart… And through it all he had a mischievous grin and the ability to put that grin into his style of playing that was uniquely his. Every Dobro player that came after him absorbed some of Uncle Josh because he, more than anyone else, established the instrument's identity and raised the bar.
In spite of being mis-scheduled Josh went over well. Not riotously so largely due to the scheduling mix-up but he still put on two good shows because he did what he did so well an that was How Things Were Done.
The next morning we got another lesson when we watched him lay two tracks on a Herb Pedersen album.
That was interesting in itself. They put Josh in a room, got a sound level check and piped in the songs in question. They only needed to play part of the main tracks on each song in turn for him once when he said "I'm ready". The producer started to tell him what he wanted and was starting to sound like an overzealous film director.
Josh said, "Just point at me when you want me to play."
So they turned on the red light, the producer pointed and the track was done. He bagged both of the two songs he was contracted to record on in about an hour from arrival to departure taking no more than two takes on each song. Josh even took my instrument and used it on one of the tracks which thrilled me to death
Our next gig was in three days at the now defunct Boarding House in San Francisco so we had some down time to get to know Josh Bobby Smith.
They were both warm and congenial men each with a gentle senses of humor. Perfect southern gentlemen, very courtly and flirtatious with the women they met
They both enjoyed a little nip now and again, preferring scotch while myself, LeRoy and Johnny preferred bourbon. So, for the duration, we California guys switched to Scotch to keep things simple.
We were fooling around one night and I sang the only song I knew…an old Johnny Cash song "Poppa Played The Dobro" a song about a poor man who loved playing Dobro but only had a shabbily maintained instrument. to play on.
Josh and Bobby liked my delivery on the thing and we quickly came up with an arrangement that allowed me to play Dobro on it also. This became my solo piece (with Josh playing the main of the Dobro parts of course). I got to take one break in the song so suddenly I was part of the main show. I even changed the last verse in honor of Josh but I'll tell you about that later in this tale.
Josh told us some funny stories about his days as a "Foggy Mountain Boy" with Flatt and Scruggs. One of them was him telling how he was obliged to carry Lester Flatt's guitar to and from the big tour bus when they were on the road. This irked him no end but he put up with it. He was, after all, only a "Foggy Mountain Boy" and not the Star. On one of their albums is a shot of all the bandsmen, including Lester, standing by the bus holding their respective instrument cases as if they were ready to board the bus. They were about to board but Josh said "When the photographer left, Lester put his case down and said 'Pick it up, Josh.'
Here's Josh's tale of how he came by the Carlisle guitar he'd brought along as he told it to me…
Cliff Carlisle was a very well known instrumentalist in his day. He was one of the early steel guitarists (on Dobros and National's). He played on several Jimmie Rogers recordings to give you an idea of his time period. Cliff Carlisle was one of Josh's idols.
Cliff got tired of the road and making no money so he retired from the music scene. He thought, however, that the guitar should still be played so he let it be known that it was for sale but only to a player, a musician, not a collector or speculator. Josh couldn't afford it and it finally went to some guy who showed up with a bandaged hand. Told Cliff he could play but couldn't demonstrate because of the 'hurt' hand. He paid Cliff a good price and kept the guitar for years.
Finally, for whatever reason, the guy either gave or sold at a very reasonable price, the guitar to Josh. He confessed that he really couldn't play it and thought that Josh deserved to have and use the guitar.
Later in life Josh played one of the State Of The Art 'Signature' Dobros made by Gibson and Cliff's guitar is in the Country Music Hall of Fame museum in Nashville.
Uncle Josh told me about the time right after he'd joined Flatt and Scruggs and they'd recorded Randy Lynn Rag, Shuckin' the Corn, etc. which had all those hot Graves dobro solos in what was then the hottest Bluegrass group around. Apparently, according to him, Oswald Kirby offered him the opportunity to visit him so he (Oz) could give him (Buck) some tips on playing the Dobro.
Nice of him.
Buck Graves told me about being on the road in the fifties with Flatt and Scruggs and being accosted in a parking lot by a rural sort who had a Dobro to sell. Buck played on it and allowed how it sounded pretty good how much did the man want?
"Two fifty."
Well, the most Buck ever made with Earl was 250.00 a week, so he said to the man: "I can't afford no two hundred and fifty dollars for that guitar"
"Oh no," says the man, "I'm only askin' two dollars fifty cents."
I believe Buck paid him 25 or thirty dollars which was what I'd seen them going for second hand in a store back home in those days.
Another story.
When I saw him Josh Graves traveled with his Cliff Carlisle Dobro in a case with his name painted on the side (crudely by one of his grandkids) as baggage. When I asked him about the risks involved he told me you couldn't get carried away worrying about such things. "You just slack the strings and always have a couple of extra bridge saddles just in case…"
Josh told about having his 14 fret Dobro stolen. (These instruments have a brighter sound to them.) It was this instrument he recorded the Randy Lynn Rag etc sessions on.
Some years later a woman called him and told him to come get his guitar. Her boyfriend had stolen it and now that she was splitting up with him she thought she'd give Josh the opportunity to get his guitar back..
Now back to our story…
Early on it was apparent that Bobby's Martin was breaking strings at the bridge. We had to to talk Bobby into letting us put in a new bridge saddle on his Martin. The original bridge had chipped and kept cutting strings. Bobby's guitar kept busting the high 'e' and 'b' string. A good friend of mine, Ron Nakamura, was part of our small entourage and he became Bobby's string changer. When a string broke, Bobby would grab LeRoy's guitar and Ron would take Bobby's Martin and put on whatever string broke. Well, this couldn't go on.
Being employed in a music store (Gelb Music) at the time I determined that the bridge saddle was cutting due to bad wear that had made sharp spots. I managed to talk Bobby into letting our repairman put in a new bridge saddle on his Martin. To get him to turn loose of it we had to swear that not a drop of guitar polish was to touch the guitar.
Doug did a perfect job although he later said he was glad to get that guitar done and away because of it's intrinsic value. The repair was made to great success and all the years of mud, blood and beer was untouched.
That Martin, by the way, needed a neck re-set as Martins sometimes do. It tilted forward some and that meant it had an extra high action. This didn't bother Josh or Bobby because when they played it they used a capo. That was a magnificent pre-war D-28. I'll tell you now that everything they say about those pre-war Martins is true. Hard to play past the third fret but the tone on that thing was stunning.
Josh would play "You Are My Flower" just like Earl did using that guitar. It was a wonderful sounding instrument.
I really regret not asking Josh for some pointers on technique. Having said that I learned a tremendous amount from him from just watching him but even today there are loads of questions I wish I had asked him. Still, every once in a while he would play a shot and look to see if I was paying attention.
We all had our indulgences and one night after all of us were sharing a bottle of Johnnie Walker, Josh got to talking about what a really nice guy Earl was. "If I was in trouble I could call Earl right now (2:30 in the morning in CA) and he'd do what he could to get me some help."
The bottle made another round…
"Let's call him!' Josh said.
And he did. Called poor Earl at what had to be four in the morning in Tennessee or North Carolina and told Earl a tale of being in jail. Sure enough, Earl said he'd get up and send bail money…where did it have to go?"
He let Earl in on the joke (although it's questionable whether Earl saw the humor in it.
Another interesting thing… Josh would not go into a public rest room by himself. He usually took me with him because, at 6'2", I was the biggest guy in the band. In the early days he said he had gotten jumped by some country boys who did not like the idea of their girlfriends flirting with the musicians. "I always carried my steel in my fist to give an extra meaning to my punch but there were three or four of them that time and I just couldn't fight 'em all."
Boarding House Night finally arrived.
The guys in the band were stoked. We were going to be backing up Josh Graves and Bobby Smith. And we also got to open the show! On our home turf!!!
Surely our fans were legion and the place would be packed to the rafters!
Well, we only got half a house.
But still, those were our people.
We would conquer, like the Beatles, be the show everyone wished they had been to.
I was a bit apprehensive. As we lined up to do our opening routines I asked myself why in the world I thought I should be opening for Josh Graves. What possessed me to do such a foolish thing? And a thought occurred to me… I play too… And I instantly relaxed, ready to play…
The announcer intoned his intro and the curtains opened… we were ON!
Bert and Ernie were to open with a Louvin Bros song that moved right along.
For some unknown reason they opened it in a key that was a tone, tone and a half sharp from it's rehearsed pitch.
…and played way too fast.
It is the suspected that the ingestion of certain stimulants was probably the culprit but there we were, five guys all playing the same song, in different keys, all at once.
That little surprise took a bit of live, quick thinking recovery but it threw us off our stride. We held it together long enough to bring out Josh. He and I got through 'Poppa Played The Dobro' without incident and I was allowed to escape to the wings and watch the rest of the show from backstage.
Josh and Bobby did their turn and Bert still didn't make that proper turn on Maiden's Prayer.
We got through it but I began to see that we weren't anywhere near in the class of Josh and Bobby musically and here's why.
There are always exceptions but the idea of the professional musician is to Make No Mistakes and Make It Look Spontaneous. Band mistakes mar the show and not looking spontaneous makes you look bored and condescending…things the patrons do not want to see.
That is part of How Things Are Done.
It is one thing to have a temperamental star. We were fortunate that Josh and Bobby were definitely not temperamental. But the star's name is on the bill and you pretty much have to take what you're given in that respect. Some (but not all) stars in all the musical fields were prima donnas and not all of them were musical savants.
But as I said, it is the star's name on the bill and the band, to be considered professional, needs to perform flawlessly. To do less is to affect the star's turn negatively. This is a risk artists like Josh take when they use local pickup bands. It will save the expense of hiring Nashville hired guns but you risk not having the stable base that a truly professional level band provides. Both of these men had a warm, gentle sense of humor and were very careful not to say anything bad or negative about our musicianship. They were very supportive to work with but, looking back on it, it's a wonder they were able to stand it. I often wondered if we cured them from ever using pickup bands again.
Josh and Bobby had a tremendous capacity for drink. They could consume rather large quantities of alcohol and it did not affect their performance. The same could not be said for certain members of the band in this little tour. Their less than stellar performance showed what happened when certain popular stimulants were added to the mix
Josh and Bobby delivered. The band, well, the band did the best they could.
Everybody was glad when the Boarding House gig was over except for LeRoy because the gate wasn't near what he had hoped. LeRoy was starting to worry about money.
We had two more gigs to do featuring Josh and Bobby.
One was the first annual Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival. Josh Graves and Bobby Smith were the headliners.
And a gig at a joint in Berkeley who's name escapes me now.
After seeing the light house receipts at The Boarding House, LeRoy began to see that perhaps he overbooked since Berkeley was very close to San Francisco. Why would someone pay to see an act in San Francisco and also pay to see the same act in Berkeley the very next night? Particularly since the headliner is playing an instrument unknown to most people. And ticket sales for the Berkeley gig were flat. We showed up at the venue but no one else did so we never even played the room.
LeRoy still had to pay Josh and Bobby plus pay their air fare back to Tennessee. He didn't have the money and it looked like he wasn't going to get the money…
LeRoy was in trouble…
Grass Valley, our final gig, was a one day affair. It had a light turnout mainly because it was a new event and possibly also because while everyone attending knew who Uncle Josh was Josh just did not have the draw of someone like Emmy Lou Harris and others who would headline the event in years to come. The annual Grass Valley show eventually became one of the Must Sees to bluegrass aficionados.
Still and all, it was a beautiful setting at the fairgrounds in Grass Valley. A lot of redwoods and the people who did come were in good humor. Several well established local groups played on the stage through the day and I was impressed with the sound setup on the stage. The sound tech had a line made on the stage. The microphones were on one side of the line, the performers on the other. If you were a singer or soloist you stepped up to but not past that line. If you were the supporting players you were to be exactly two paces behind the solo line.
And it worked flawlessly. The musician could hear themselves perfectly as could the audience.
I did my last Poppa Played The Dobro with Josh. Everybody else played well. Ernie managed to make the proper turn in Maiden's Prayer and the event faded into history… one of my fondest memories of it is seeing Josh and a young Sally Van Meter sitting cross-legged on the grass across one another as they worked out some chops. It just epitomized the feel of the day…
Grass Valley was a small success in a beautiful arboreal setting…
The Palomino club and the Boarding House gigs were not what they should have been and Berkeley was a disaster.
To their everlasting credit, Josh and Bobby agreed to forego the Berkeley gig and did not demand payment. LeRoy had to borrow money from Rae, our "girl singer" to cover the expenses of getting the two men back to Tennessee…
After Josh and Bobby left the band itself had one more local gig that was pretty anticlimactic. By then Bert and Ernie were barely on speaking terms, Bill, the banjo player, was in a snit because he wasn't able to produce the sexual conquests he had bragged he would score. It just collapsed on itself and looking back on it I don't think I ever saw any of the participants again since. Certainly not in a musical setting.
Josh and Bobby showed us a side of musical life we weren't aware of. People like to think "Being Famous" is all you need to make big bucks in The business.
But Being Famous in your field does not necessarily equate with being wealthy.
Among Dobro players there is only one Josh Graves. All of the greats, Jerry Douglas, Mike Aldridge, all of them cheerfully admit being inspired and mentored by Uncle Josh. But he was far from being wealthy.
Josh made as good a living as he could but as time went on he had some devastating medical catastrophes happen. The first event was bypass surgery on his heart. This is difficult to manage when you have insurance but Josh did not have any such thing. He had no choice but to keep working.
As you get older in the business, your bookings start to drop off. The phone doesn't ring as much as it did just a few years ago…
Then he got diabetes.
Between the diabetes and a surgical procedure involving trying to transplant blood vessels in his legs something went terribly wrong and he eventually lost both of his legs. He took as many gigs as he could, playing in a wheelchair and laying his Dobro on a table built to order by friends but it all took its toll and he eventually died "from complications" in what was left of his legs in September of 2006 very near his birthday.
He was around eighty years old…
I haven't sung Poppa Played the Dobro in years.
When Josh and Bobby were here and Josh was playing for and with me on that song I changed the last lyric.
The original goes like this…
Now that Poppa's gone away
It's hanging by the Flue
The strings are all rusty
The resonator's rusty too
I just know it's never gonna sound
The way it used to do
When Poppa Played The Dobro This a way…
I changed that part and Josh and I did it this way:
Now that Poppa's gone away
I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll sit here and I'll play it.
And I'll play it just for you.
But I just know it's never gonna sound
The way it used to do
When Poppa Played The Dobro This a way…
A footnote:
I got to work with LeRoy and Bobby Smith on one more occasion.
LeRoy booked Bobby to play a 'Day on the Green' at Bay Meadows racetrack. Bobby very kindly requested that I play Dobro for him.
He taught me a couple of valuable lessons.
First, he told me: "I play rhythm. If we don't mesh and play together in time you best believe it ain't because of me!"
Next, he took me through "Little Rosewood Casket." Sang it through for a verse then asked me to play it.
"Nope, No, No, yer playin' it wrong."
"How so?" I asked.
So he showed me. He made me play the melody as he sang it. He would pause until I got it right, and then go on. Only when I was able to actually play the melody line perfectly all the way through would he allow me to back him up on the song.
"You were playin' at the song …now you kin actually play the song. Without being able to play the song proper you just can't do it justice in a band situation."
Bobby's dead now. Too bad. He was a warm, but firm musician and a gentleman. I can still hear him walking me through that song…
"Thar's a leetle Rose-wood Caskit…Settin' on a mar-ble stand…"
Note: click this link to hear my version of Poppa Played The Dobro
"Thar's a leetle Rose-wood Caskit…Settin' on a mar-ble stand…"


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Thursday, January 3, 2013
My Dad Impregnated Me Twice – Teenager
It was discovered during investigation that his daughter Janet(not real name)got pregnant in the process twice, only for her father to allegedly ab*rt the pregnancy with the aid of a herbalist.
Sitting at a corner in the Human Rights Office, 17-year-old Janet could not raise her head to face her father, Wale Akinusi, who was also there. When approached, she simply stated that at last, she had been freed from the psychological trauma associated with her father's sacrilegious act.
Crime Alert gathered that Janet's tale of woe started after her mother abandoned her barely when she was two-year-old for her paternal grandmother.
It was gathered that her mother who was then a Junior Secondary 3 student, was impregnated by Wale who was 32 years old. Initially, he reportedly denied paternity of the pregnancy but later opted for an ab*rtion on the ground that he could not afford to father a child then because he was only an apprentice.
But his mother came to the rescue as she offered to take care of the baby who turned out to be Janet.
But when she was 12, her father, reportedly took her from her grandmother, with a promise to give
her a better education.
Rather than live up to his promise, her father, allegedly use her to satisfy his s–xual urge, a practice that went on until he was arrested.
Narrating how it all started, Janet in her sitting position with her head bowed all through, said: "When I was leaving my grandmother's house, I was happy because my father said I would be attending a better school. But I waited for months without being enrolled in any school.
"One night, then, I was 12,my dad called me into his room and told me he took an oat with my mother to be the first man to sleep with me. He said it had a spiritual connotation and that it was to enable him assume his proper financial state.
"Then, I was too young to understand what he meant. He had carnal knowledge of me that night. At a point, he asked if it was painful. All I did was to watch him have his way, still unable to understand what he was doing."
First pregnancy aborted by a herbalist
"It continued until I was 14 years. Then, I started having a funny feeling. I told him I was sick and when we conducted a pregnancy test, it was positive. Next day, he told me we were going somewhere and we ended up in the home of a herbalist in Ikorodu, who gave me some concoction. I drank some in his apartment and took the rest home. After two days, my menstruation started and my father assured me all was well.
He only gave me a week's break before he continued all over again. Two years later, when I was 16 years, I got sick again. When I informed daddy, we went for another pregnancy test which confirmed my fear; I was pregnant again!
When he returned next day from his shop, he told me there was no need to go to the herbalist. Rather he gave me two sachets of Alabukun and squeezed some lime juice into a cup, asking me to take it in a gulp. It did the magic and the menstrual flow started few days later."
"After the second ab*rtion, I became tired of the whole thing. I started being afraid every night. At times, I would put tissue paper under my panties , pretending I was witnessing my monthly flow. After a while, he got the trick, for he started taking note of the date.
Challenges father
"I summoned courage and reported the sacrilegious act to our neighbors. But none of them could confront him. Rather they told me they could not interfere into our family affair" , she stated, with her head still bent.
Apparently discouraged by the cold reaction from the neighbors, Janet decided to take the bull by the horn. Looking straight into his father's eyes for the very first time since the sacrilegious act started, she told her father she was tired of the whole thing. To make do her threat, she reportedly rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and threatened to stab him if he attempted to force her.
"This happened on November 28, 2012. My father had come home from his shop . And at about 6pm, he called me inside to warm his bed. But when he saw the knife, he retraced his steps. I quickly ran inside my room , with the knife in my hand and packed my things out of the house, to stay with a friend whose family welcomed me after I narrated all that has been going on in the past five years."
"After spending three weeks with them, I received a text message from my father, asking me to come home, or I would die. When I showed the text message to the family I was putting up with, they suggested I reported the case to the police. I hesitated at first because I was scared he would be jailed.
"But I changed my mind when the text message threat continued", she said.
I did that to appease the gods – father
When approached, it was obvious that 49-year-old Wale Akinusi, a fashion designer who hails from Ondo central in Ondo state was oblivious of the legal implication of the offense, as he showed no sign of remorse.
He bluntly told this reporter that what he did was not new under the sun, adding that this would not be the first time such story would be published on the pages of newspapers.
"It is not a new thing that a man is sleeping with his daughter and even if I am jailed at the end, I will surely come out after serving my jail term. But I promise that my daughter will join me" he threatened, dismissing the issue with a wave of the hand.
Continuing, he said: "I went back to claim my child so as to fulfill the oat made between her mother and I. That was why I took her to the herbalist when she was pregnant, so as to appease the gods of her mother's land. You will not understand.
"You see, when her mother was six months pregnant, we made love. She later told me that it was a taboo for a man to sleep with a pregnant woman in her place. She said the only remedy was for the man to be the first person to sleep with the child.
"I initially did not want to do it. But along the line, I discovered that things were not going on well with me financially. And when I made inquiry, I was made to understand that I had to appease the god's of her mother's land, so as to attain my rightful place in destiny."
Asked why he continued after the first time, he kept mute. Also asked why he did not satisfy his sexual urge on his wife who has had four children for him, he explained that they were leaving apart.
"My wife lives in Ketu with the children while I live in Ojo. I had to live apart because I do not want my wife and children to suffer the consequences of my sin. Also I did not want my wife to know I was sleeping with my own daughter", he said.
Meanwhile, effort according to sources at the Human Rights department, was on to arrest the herbalist who allegedly gave Janet the concoction that aborted her first pregnancy,while her father would be charged to court.
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- Anonymous03 January, 2013 22:17
Ode,mumu,u want to deny incest or abomination av never been committed before in ur faceless and useless tribe.see ur mosquito mouth like yoruba people again. My friend if u av notin meaningful to say shuttttt up ur dirty stinking mouth.
Ifesowapo - Anonymous04 January, 2013 01:07
I don't want to insult you its a new year. I know an igbo father who was sleeping with his three daughters to their mothers knowledge! The issue here is the sexually abused person. How do they ill and know its not their fault.
Delete - Anonymous04 January, 2013 13:16
Please lets not start. What about the Youruba Chief that stays in Ajah that sleeps with his daughters? Abeg leave matter. Its all over the world. Sick people. Poor child. Mothers, i repeat mothers no matter how much you trust your husbands, never leave your daughters with a man. Never! The devil is very powerful. Yet he shall continue to be disgraced.
Delete the FACT IS THAT 7 OUT OF 10 GIRLS IN NIGERIA HAVE BEEN AND ARE STILL BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED AS CHILDREN IN DIFFERENT WAYS, 70% HAVE NEVER HAD THE GUTS TO SAY IT OPENLY. IF U HAVE A FEMALE CHILD AROUND, EVERY MALE IS A SUSPECT......FACT!!!! OUR FEMALE LEGISLATORS ARE SLEEPING ON A BICYCLE SINCE THEY HAVE NOT THOT OF PASSING A BILL THAT WOULD FULLY GUARANTEE LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR PAEDOPHILES COS THE INCREASE IS AT AN ALARMING RATE
- Anonymous03 January, 2013 20:40
Very sick unrepentant man......im broken. How is she supposed to face life now? I know how beign forced at 13 killed me and its effects are still here and im 25 now. I can imagine her at 12 and for five years.....Jeez how wicked. She didn't ask to be born neither did she ask for that kind of heartless and Fetish dad. God will Judge him....dog, im sooo full of hatred for him right now. Let's hope God helps this poor girl overcome this..... Very painfull.
ReplyDeleteRepliesits really sad that there isn't much help for people who are going through child abuse and those who are victims….an ex girlfriend was abused my a big uncle in their church she is in her late 20s now and she is still ashamed to tell her parents…if govt are not doing much i wonder why we private people are not doing enough if not for the resilience of nigerians many would have been committing suicide left and right…
the man has this sort of face that you just feel like punching or slapping- Anonymous04 January, 2013 10:47
I never told mƴ parents but I still live with the hurt. Infact, can't tell a soul. I still feel hurt and shamed.
Delete you have to tell someone before it leaves a permanent damage psychologically telling someone even a professional or those in spiritual or moral authority will go a long way in getting you on the road to recovery..this is not just my assertion but grounded in scientific fact which you can research into
Deleteu r a proper mumu,does anyone on here know my identity talk less of an ex girlfriend i dated like 3 yrs ago?
- truthurts03 January, 2013 21:00
you didn't want your wife to know you were sleeping with your daughter and at the same time it was an agreement with you both...story for tortoise!
meanwhile its domestic issues like this Nigerian police would be sharp and up to task.
hope the girl would ever recover, poor child.Replies- Anonymous04 January, 2013 00:46
Mumu Read the story well, the mother of the girl is not his wife. Ozuo una go just dey talor without reading properly
- Anonymous03 January, 2013 21:32
this is wickedness of the highest order and more painfull he isnt remorseful.who willfix that young girl now? not going to be easy for her to have a stable relationship. she needs total mind orientation and counselling and prayers. i pray God heals her wounded soul. bella
ReplyDelete - baby f03 January, 2013 21:39
God will farabale and Punish ds bastard.. Tf !he even has mouth to talk..
ReplyDelete jeez! Dz man is sick! Sleep with ur daughter?? Wot stupid god wld encourage such abomination... I weep 4 d poor gal. Only God knws wot she went tru in dat house.
d world is becoming unsafe 4 d gal child wit dz psychos ol around us. If u r a lady, Plz make it a point of duty to protect ur daughters frm dz Dogs. monitor how dey mix up wif d older guys be it family relatives. Dont Evn marry a man without self control. Ur daughter myt become a victim on a cold nyt,(whn u r nt Arnd 4 genuine reasons) And if u catch any of them, use a sharp knife and cut off dat d**k. Evn God will understand.
And ladies, Plzzz flashing boobs n indecent exposure of oda provcatv parts is not helpin matters. Men r easily aroused by wot dey see. After feeding their eyes wif dz provcatv images, dey use dz defenceless gals to satisfy dia lust.
Then guys, self control is very important.
i pray she overcomes d psychological trauma and move with her life. May she find happiness, peace and fulfilment.- Anonymous04 January, 2013 01:04
The evil that happens in this world. Please its not a tribal or race issue. It happens more than we care to believe in many homes. We need to speak openly about this and give victims the courage to heal .
ReplyDelete - Anonymous04 January, 2013 08:29
The man said dat to appease d gods as is d tradition of the woman for sleepin wit her yl pregnant, he has to sleep wit d child wen she is born abi? Wat if the child was a boy? Wetin 4 happen? The man is simply mad!
ReplyDelete - Anonymous04 January, 2013 12:58
This man obviously likes sleeping with under age girls. The girl's mother was in jss3 when he impregnated her, den he waited for his daughter till she was 12. He's a really sick man paedophile and incest
ReplyDelete - Anonymous04 January, 2013 13:00
So alabukun and lime juice equals to abortion...... Noted. That's my moral lesson from the story
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous04 January, 2013 13:27
You are not well. Silly child. So you want to use alabukun and lime to about abi? May God give you quadruplets, idiot. For your information, there are some pregnancies that do not abort except you visit a doctor and guess what? Doctors are now born again and dont indulge unlike sometime ago. Omokomo
- Anonymous04 January, 2013 14:29
This is outrageous. Incest! Mothers please be very careful with your daughters. A woman with an unfaithful husband should be very careful more. A single mother who is married to another man other than the father of his daughter(s) should equally be more careful. A woman with a husband who has little or no strong moral grounds should be more careful. A woman who married a non true born again i.e hypocrite should be seriously careful. Women teach your children morals. Educate them on sex. Teach them how to live holy lives. Develop a close relationship with your children especial female ones. Above all, draw them closer to God, buy Bible for them. God bless our women.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous05 January, 2013 01:43
hi ladun, why do you spell abort and abortion as ab*rt and ab*rtion? they are not swear words na.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous25 January, 2013 17:54
dont be surprise all this things are happening, if u re so close to the bible u shud know that the book of 1st Peter 5vs8, says be self control and alert the devil ur enemy is a roaring lion, roaming around luking for whom to devour....this is the sign of d end tym...so bcareful devil can use ur father, mother, sister, brother, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew and cousin even ur pst against you.so alway work with caution.....may God be with dat poor girl...her father is from the pit of hell


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