Jake Shimabukuro is playing within range of lots of BNers this week.
As pirate@43/Jim already noted (Click here for info) Jake is in NYC on Monday.
Then he's in Austin, TX on Wednesday and Thursday, Raleigh, NC on Friday, and Nashville on Saturday.
http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/cgi-bin/ ... &log=20062
Jake, in a town near YOU...
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Jake, in a town near YOU...
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Re: Jake, in a town near YOU...
Little Freudian slip, mayhaps, SGH???SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Jake Shimabukuro is playing within rage of lots of BNers this week.
As pirate@43/Jim already noted (Click here for info) Jake is in NYC on Monday.
Then he's in Austin, TX on Wednesday and Thursday, Raleigh, NC on Friday, and Nashville on Saturday.
http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/cgi-bin/ ... &log=20062
Seriously, thanks for the info!
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Re: Jake, in a town near YOU...
phjrsaunt wrote:Little Freudian slip, mayhaps, SGH???SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Jake Shimabukuro is playing within rage of lots of BNers this week.
As pirate@43/Jim already noted (Click here for info) Jake is in NYC on Monday.
Then he's in Austin, TX on Wednesday and Thursday, Raleigh, NC on Friday, and Nashville on Saturday.
http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/cgi-bin/ ... &log=20062
Seriously, thanks for the info!
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thanks, Auntie....
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None in CO.. like so many artists. Yes, I'm pouting. 
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I'd really like to hear Pat Robitaille, the 19 y/o folk rock singer/songwriter who's opening for Jake in Nashville. I liked what I heard at his website! (http://www.patrobitaille.com)
He's got a couple of clips here: http://www.patrobitaille.com/songs&stories.htm
He's got a couple of clips here: http://www.patrobitaille.com/songs&stories.htm
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Jake Shimabukuro Review
The show last night in Raleigh was a really cool show. It was just Jake and his Uke. It was amazing how he could go from playing delicate melodies to full speed ahead all in the same song. Most of the time the Uke sounded like an acoustic guitar, unlike the traditional Hawaiian ukelele sounds. What I heard when he played the National Anthem before Jimmmy, (and saw on the screen in Wrigley field) was probably less than half his real life max speed.
Jake sings, reluctantly, and very little. He sang only like one or two lines from a song he said he wrote when he was in elementary school, and that was about it. He played a new song he said he wrote just three weeks ago when he was in Maui. Jake said it is hard to figure out names for songs that have no lyrics, so this song did not have a name yet - so he just called it the Maui Song.
He had the fuzz thing going for part of While My Guitar Gently Weeps - sounded just like an electric guitar. Before the last song somebody yelled out "Eruption", and Jake answered back "Don't tempt me, I will do that", then proceeded to turn the fuzz thing back on and played the first few bars of Eruption (a Van Halen song).
The encore was this thing called Crazy G where he played, then stopped, and the audience yells, "Faster", then he plays it over again, faster. This went on for about seven times, and in the end I was pretty much mesmerized, but at the same time thinking how the hell does the skin still stay on his fingers?
After the show he hung out in the lobby and talked to everyone, and signed the CD's for all that wanted it. Jake's one cool dude, and also a really nice guy. As everyone left, we noticed the set list still laying on the stage, and we went to the stage people and asked for it, but they said we had ask Jake. We did ask and he said great! I'll even sign it for you. When he signed it I said hey - you played the Beatles Medley in the second half, and he said yes, sometimes he changes it - and in this case he did not feel like playing another mellow song just then.
If you can see Jake Shimabukuro, go!! You will not be disappointed.
Jake sings, reluctantly, and very little. He sang only like one or two lines from a song he said he wrote when he was in elementary school, and that was about it. He played a new song he said he wrote just three weeks ago when he was in Maui. Jake said it is hard to figure out names for songs that have no lyrics, so this song did not have a name yet - so he just called it the Maui Song.
He had the fuzz thing going for part of While My Guitar Gently Weeps - sounded just like an electric guitar. Before the last song somebody yelled out "Eruption", and Jake answered back "Don't tempt me, I will do that", then proceeded to turn the fuzz thing back on and played the first few bars of Eruption (a Van Halen song).
The encore was this thing called Crazy G where he played, then stopped, and the audience yells, "Faster", then he plays it over again, faster. This went on for about seven times, and in the end I was pretty much mesmerized, but at the same time thinking how the hell does the skin still stay on his fingers?
After the show he hung out in the lobby and talked to everyone, and signed the CD's for all that wanted it. Jake's one cool dude, and also a really nice guy. As everyone left, we noticed the set list still laying on the stage, and we went to the stage people and asked for it, but they said we had ask Jake. We did ask and he said great! I'll even sign it for you. When he signed it I said hey - you played the Beatles Medley in the second half, and he said yes, sometimes he changes it - and in this case he did not feel like playing another mellow song just then.
If you can see Jake Shimabukuro, go!! You will not be disappointed.
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Hey Snake, we need more wine!
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I think Nashville is on the way down I-75, so when you and Alison hit the road for the Topless Phlocking...Capt.Flock wrote:Wow I am so freakin jealous , maybe I am going to have to make a trip some where to see him. Went out and order one cd, cd like it so much I got the rest.
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I'll second that!! Thanks so much for sharing and I'm glad you got to see such a talented musician and great show!!conched wrote:Great review, gbman. Sounds like you enjoyed yourself a lot. Thanks for the post.
SGH, thanks so much for posting this. I'd intended to check but forgot. Looks like I might have to road trip to Chicago for March 11th.
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Ukulele Road Warrior
Jake Shimabukuro
Sometimes it makes me play better to see the blood," says Jake Shimabukuro. "It's like battle scars. It's like, Yeah! I'm a man now."
Although those words sound like they should be coming from the lips of a guitar player or a rassler, the weapon of choice for this gent, who often works so hard at his craft that his digits bleed, is a ukulele.
The nylon-stringed, two-octave instrument hasn't been modified, but in his hands, it sounds something like a guitar. "It's like working with a little toy piano," Shimabukuro said recently from his home in Hawaii. "Because I have this limited range, I have to think of other ways to play a song, which a lot of times means coming up with some kind of different fingering technique."
While his interpretations mimic the guitar, they don't copy the sound. His version of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on his 2004 record Walking Down Rainhill sounds like a cross between a mandolin and a harp. Because the fourth string is tuned an octave higher than the others, Shimabukuro can get some close voicings with notes between the first and fourth strings.
Shimabukuro says he felt the ukulele had so much potential and was such an untapped source of music that he wanted to re-introduce it to people.
He's been successful from the beginning. His debut, 2002's Sunday Morning, won him major awards in Hawaii including Na Hoku Hanohano's Instrumental Album of the Year and Favorite Entertainer.
But don't let the word "instrumental" fool you into thinking that Shimabukuro is some laid-back hula strummer. He does let the natural sound of the uke come through for some work, but a good deal of it is amplified and utilizes some rockstar effect pedals. His two main influences are Eddie Van Halen and Pat Metheny.
For his latest project, Dragon, Shimabukuro recorded on two-inch analogue tape. "I definitely like the rawness of recording live," he says. "There are parts you wish you could have done better, but then there are going to be parts that you couldn't have planned, which just happened and are just magical."
Most of the magic happens when people see Shimabukuro live and realize it's his hands, not the effects, that are responsible for the sounds tumbling out of the instrument. He uses no pick, strumming the nylon strings with an intensity characteristic of the marching band drummer he once was.
But Shimabukuro tackles material few marching bands and even fewer uke players would dare attempt, from Paganini's "24th Caprice for Violin" to Chick Corea's "Spain. "I've always had a passion for different genres of music," he says. "I like to take what I like from different styles and incorporate it into almost a fusion of styles."
For his next record of solo ukulele arrangements, Shimabukuro is working with Jimmy Buffett producer/guitarist Mac McAnally, who wrote Buffett's "It's My Job" and who has also produced Little Feat.
Shimabukuro considers Buffett, who recently invited him out on tour, as a mentor, along with Béla Fleck. "Guys like that, having them serving as your mentors and giving you advice and taking you out on the road with them, is really a priceless experience," he says.
Ukulele Road Warrior
Jake Shimabukuro
Sometimes it makes me play better to see the blood," says Jake Shimabukuro. "It's like battle scars. It's like, Yeah! I'm a man now."
Although those words sound like they should be coming from the lips of a guitar player or a rassler, the weapon of choice for this gent, who often works so hard at his craft that his digits bleed, is a ukulele.
The nylon-stringed, two-octave instrument hasn't been modified, but in his hands, it sounds something like a guitar. "It's like working with a little toy piano," Shimabukuro said recently from his home in Hawaii. "Because I have this limited range, I have to think of other ways to play a song, which a lot of times means coming up with some kind of different fingering technique."
While his interpretations mimic the guitar, they don't copy the sound. His version of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on his 2004 record Walking Down Rainhill sounds like a cross between a mandolin and a harp. Because the fourth string is tuned an octave higher than the others, Shimabukuro can get some close voicings with notes between the first and fourth strings.
Shimabukuro says he felt the ukulele had so much potential and was such an untapped source of music that he wanted to re-introduce it to people.
He's been successful from the beginning. His debut, 2002's Sunday Morning, won him major awards in Hawaii including Na Hoku Hanohano's Instrumental Album of the Year and Favorite Entertainer.
But don't let the word "instrumental" fool you into thinking that Shimabukuro is some laid-back hula strummer. He does let the natural sound of the uke come through for some work, but a good deal of it is amplified and utilizes some rockstar effect pedals. His two main influences are Eddie Van Halen and Pat Metheny.
For his latest project, Dragon, Shimabukuro recorded on two-inch analogue tape. "I definitely like the rawness of recording live," he says. "There are parts you wish you could have done better, but then there are going to be parts that you couldn't have planned, which just happened and are just magical."
Most of the magic happens when people see Shimabukuro live and realize it's his hands, not the effects, that are responsible for the sounds tumbling out of the instrument. He uses no pick, strumming the nylon strings with an intensity characteristic of the marching band drummer he once was.
But Shimabukuro tackles material few marching bands and even fewer uke players would dare attempt, from Paganini's "24th Caprice for Violin" to Chick Corea's "Spain. "I've always had a passion for different genres of music," he says. "I like to take what I like from different styles and incorporate it into almost a fusion of styles."
For his next record of solo ukulele arrangements, Shimabukuro is working with Jimmy Buffett producer/guitarist Mac McAnally, who wrote Buffett's "It's My Job" and who has also produced Little Feat.
Shimabukuro considers Buffett, who recently invited him out on tour, as a mentor, along with Béla Fleck. "Guys like that, having them serving as your mentors and giving you advice and taking you out on the road with them, is really a priceless experience," he says.