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Glad to hear you're enjoying it all. One thing you have backward though, the Firestorm was fresh off the truck, while the JackKnife Plug had at least 3 years on it when I popped the tin. I'll bet the Firestorm will be superb with a bit of aging though. I think the JackKnife is also available in ready rubbed form now too if you prefer it that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alligator Gar
GH Louisiana Flake in a Canterbury billiard
OK, I admit that I'm smoking a cigar - and a bad one at that but I wanted to post something that might be more approachable for some, played by my new wannabe gurlfriend. She speaks German and some English and of course Russian (and maybe others).
Bad cigar on a freezing night but Tatyana's doing her thing and that's good, thanks for introducing us Jim (@Freestoke).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kxn...=RDpPu1om4WZsQ
WOW...Just ,,,WOW !!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Not far from finishing this bowl of G&H Rich Dark Honeydew in a straight 2014 MM Pride Legend.
Listing this early so I can go back to work: Model Match in an early smooth Radice Tiger Eye G medium bend pipe with a bamboo-style carving on the shank.
Peterson’s Sherlock Holmes in a 1987 Peterson first series Sherlock Holmes full bend with a silver band. Finished work for the day!
Chatham Manor in a 1979 straight smooth Dr. Grabow Grand Duke 45 pot.
She's a doll, hug Pete!? (Hmm -- "hug" instead of "huh". Some sort of Freudian slip apparently.) This Brazilian cutie is even a little further up the classical guitar pecking order. Get a load of her and her husband's version of Tico Tico. That is SO amazing when they trade left and right hand duties. Looks outrageously hard to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcsSPzr7ays
Moving on to some RY. Adding another video. (Yeah, I should be on the appropriate thread, huh?)
And just to show that the Tico Tico duo can play for real, here's a little Scarlatti. (Scarlatti is seriously underrated!) This performance actually makes me cry it is so marvelously played. Perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgwYM_reNZo
As tears stream down my cheeks, I'm trying to keep this bowl of BBF lit. Just had a heavy snowfall that lasted about an hour and gave us a fresh inch or so. Ah, spring. Can summer be far behind!?
:lol: The apropos desert island smoke for when the yacht runs ashore!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nachman
Ah. Right you are. The plug was marked 2011. It smoked like it, too. Can't wait to start carving on it tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pugsley
Morning Jim,Quote:
Originally Posted by freestoke
I hope that the snow's gone for you today. Maybe set a bowl of Royal Yacht out for Mother Nature? Can't hurt and if she doesn't smoke it then you can!
I listened to ~15 pieces by Tatyana and the Bach Allegro (your first post) I feel to be her best. With more listens she has some synch problems (bass/arpeggio) but she's right there and has the intangibles. I don't have your ear or experience (audio's lesser quality too) for me to compare the young lady in Duo Siqueira Lima with Tatyana. The Scarlatti piece is delicious and it sounds like a harpsichord arrangement. In this Chopin Valse, Tatyana's inconsistent but when she's on it's uniquely guitar and (to me) very beautiful. She's a keeper.
Tatyana and I have decided to name our first, Jim, whether it's a boy or girl.
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a 1961 Barling's Make #5179 smooth saddle billiard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtvHoSzMiLI
The last of my stash of Ogden’s Walnut in a straight sandblasted pre-transition Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver band and military bit.
Three Nuns in a rarely smoked Reiner Pipe Art Design B 1/4 bent tomato.
Chopin arrangements are really tough on CG. The piano is so big and lound, and four fingers just can't compete with ten, so the guitar is badly over-matched. Pair that with the quintessential writer of piano music taking the instrument to its harmonic limits and it becomes hard to get the feel of the original music. This arrangement works quite well, though, and she plays it very nicely indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Heading back to the Royal Yacht for another sail through the concert hall. :pipe:
What I hear in Tatyana is the ability to shape and phrase individual notes beautifully. Her shortcoming (at this point) is that she has small lapses of making the whole.Quote:
Originally Posted by freestoke
Three years ago, Maurice Andre, the French trumpet player, died. At any speed or in any register, his notes are perfectly crafted and delivered as a sublime whole. Tatyana is missing the last part yet but she's very young and Andre struggled with this early in his career too. He's (to me) the greatest musician that I've ever heard.
For you folks who may not like classical music, give this a couple of seconds until Maurice starts playing an he really heats up at ~3:00, you might be surprised, (old recording and the orchestra's not much - just listen to the man play).
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in The Beast (getting my mojo back) 1985 Ser Jacopo L2 Maxima smooth taper billiard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwFuuaK8WqE
Watch City Jolly Bastard in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer.
Borkum Riff w/Cherry Liquor in an old Cob. First ever OTC not bad, but I must say I've walked right by OTC's for forty years.
Not far from finishing this bowl of Bourbon Street Match in a 2014 John Barrett smooth short shank slight bend olive wood poker.
Still banging the drum...
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a late 1930s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood EL, smooth saddle billiard (gr. 4 size).
@freestoke, you're a bad influence on me, hot chicks playing sizzling guitar and smaller bowl pipes (smoked another early this AM), what's next, vegetarianism?
Ennerdale Flake in a Highlander pot
Watch City Jolly Bastard in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend tomato military mount with an aluminum accent, horn ferrule, and cumberland p-lip stem.
H&H Ten to Midnight in a Canterbury billiard
Half way through this bowl of McClelland A.M. Pipe in a 2003 Ural full bend egg shaped Lattice meer.
Fresh Fire Storm in my sweet little Lark.Attachment 2179
Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem.
Lane HG-2000 in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer. Getting some art work together to sell tomorrow for a comic con that I am a guest at.
Hearth & Home Virginia Spice in a MM Twain cobwarden
Firestorm in a MM Diplomat with my new Forever stem. Why did I wait so long to get one of these?
GLP Picadilli. I'm not all that fond of it, but I'm trying to empty a jar so I can open a tin of London Mixture from 2010, either that or a new tin of Aperitif, or maybe something else. I have about eighty jars going, and am determined not to buy any more.
Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 2003 smooth three quarter bend Rinaldo Fiammata Odissea Titania 02 Silver Line 3 Straight Grain egg.
St. James flake in a 80s capitello pot.
Davidoff Scottish Mixture in my Dr Grabow Grand Duke straight,,,,Finest start to a weekend in years !!
Tilbury in a 2000 thin stem sandblasted black silver band spigot Ardor Urano S. Holmes #68/100 D.R. briar calabash with a smooth flared top.
GH Louisiana Flake in a MM Twain cobwarden
Smoked some sliced black goop you could fill potholes with in my bamboo egg.
http://i.imgur.com/JDAsn3l.jpg
Brugmansia for scale. Never should have stopped playing trumpet.
Having some nice homemade flake at the moment - VA topped with I can't remember what. Earlier had some Captain Black Cherry and some F&K Sterling Balkan 759 Match.
80 jars? You definitely need both hands. Any have royal Yacht in them? :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nachman
Been smoking
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Scotch Flake Aromatic (not an aro) in the Old Hoss, 1985 James Upshall "P" taper billiard.
Love this stuff
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