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By: Ukulele Poetry Slam: Friday Links | Ukulele Hunt

Ukulele Poetry Slam: Friday Links | Ukulele Hunt — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:01:51 +0000

[...] wandering along the seafront near there). And so should you if you’ve got the chance. I mean, Bob Brozman is doing a set. By the by, I’m not sure where they got that quote from me from. closest I can recall is, [...]

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:47:04 +0000

Emily: I should link back to this more often. Bob is a huge hero of mine.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:49:00 +0000

Holy living f***! Great video. Great interview. Thanks for linking back to it, Al. Can’t believe I didn’t watch it before.

By: karl

karl — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:51:01 +0000

Waaw. Just waaw. Sorry, I’m a fan.

By the way, he’s playing around with the idea of a cd with Romanian gypsies, I read somewhere. Talk about crazy rythms and minor chords…

Now we only need ukulelist-cartoonist-klezmorim Joann Sfar to do the sleeve… Hey, there’s another interviewee!

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:55:04 +0000

Bob: Spot on impression of Tiny Tim, though.

todd: He’s always great live. There’s always something interesting going on.

cbf: Same here. Even if I never get that good, at least I’ll get better.

Nina: I love that DVD. And it’s a great bonus when Led Kaapana shows up.

By: Nina Coquina

Nina Coquina — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:05:13 +0000

Wonderful interview, thank you so much. Bob has been a big influence to me since I first learned about him in the mid-1990s. He is generous with his knowledge and has an amazing intellectual curiousity for music that is so inspiring and contagious.

I strongly recommend his instructional DVD for the ukulele and I’d give my eye teeth to attend the seminar. Wish I wasn’t all the way across the country!

By: cardboardfrog

cardboardfrog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:28:10 +0000

a really cool interview, have to say, i wish i could play like bob.
I keep practicing, but i don’t know if it’ll come

By: todd

todd — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:31:06 +0000

ah, it was 1995/96ish and i lived in a desert portion of Arizona more barren and hot than the phoenix valley in which i currently reside….

i had a gig slot with a partner at the local community college in “Bullhead City” Arizona (what kind of name is that?). we were to open for a guy named Bob Brozman…….

so we did our folk set complete with guitars, mandolin, a little dobro, etc. and after the set, Bob comes up, gives us some encouraging words and launched into a snarling set with his resonator arsenal and instruments i can’t even remember….slide licks, percussive techniques, crazy vocal fluctuations, parts were beautiful other parts sounded like amped up cartoon music….it was truly a wild experience……

would love to see him live again someday….

cheers,

Todd

By: bob brozman

bob brozman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:08:12 +0000

Thanks for getting this up so quickly! Just want to add, that video is from….1986, so I was somewhat inexperienced back then, 23 years ago! And nowadays, I am no longer such a smart-aleck kid.