Comments on: Electric Guitar Home?…..

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:04:44 +0000

Dear Doug Paging.

Now as for J.J.�s remarks up there, perhaps you should leave Oklahoma because apparently you are an ass. Oklahoma has had many inventions and many intelligent statesmen and innovators. Has one never heard of Jim Thorpe or Jean Kirkpatrick?

1st I can’t get out of this state fast enough. You are obviously one of those who think this state is the center of the known world. I’m assuming that you are not having to go to a job each day that you hate that keeps you away from your family for days at a time, because you got laid off from a job that you loved and would have done for years. Because it is the only thing that pays enough to live on in this state. A state that thinks that prices need to keep up with with the rest of the country but wages do not.
2nd. Is that all we as okies can come up with is Athletes, and crooked Politicians. Oh yeah Country Music Singers. Everybody talks about Garth, Reba,Carrie Underwood, etc. Where are the accolades for Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, Jessie Ed Davis, I could go on and on. I guess if that makes me an Ass then hand me the Toilet Paper to blow my nose. This is what I look like heading South where there are some opportunity’s. BTW, I was born and raised here and have lived here all my life. I’m gonna do what true Okies do when faced with a bleak future, go where the jobs are.

By: Weinerschnitzel

Weinerschnitzel — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:08:39 +0000

By: Weinerschnitzel

Weinerschnitzel — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:03:15 +0000

OKC was the home of legend Charlie Christian. He played frequently in a section of the city called The Deep Deuce (or, Deep Second if you are older than 70). It is now apartments, which is very sad. There was a major 66 stop called Ruby’s (Rudy’s?) and he played the electric guitar there. Though debated, it is said that the first recording of a “steel guitar” occured in the northeast stage of the building. The building still exists, not too far from the site of the former home of famed poet Ralph Ellison (The Invisble Man).

OKC’s memory was erased in the 70′s. Not just from the drugs, but because the city decided to destroy all the famous buildings in DD.

http://home.elp.rr.com/valdes/photos.htm

By: Doug Paging

Doug Paging — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:02 +0000

I also saw this billboard and found it hard to believe as I always knew Les Paul to be one of the pioneers of the electric guitar. I did some digging but most Oklahoma sites are quite vague, but I did eventually find the man they are talking about in the billboard. His name is Bob Dunn and he was a Western Swing pioneer who is credited with some of the first recordings of an electric guitar. He electrified his steel guitar. That being said, he probably wasn’t even in Oklahoma when he did this and it is not entirely true that it was invented here. But I’m sure Mr. Dunn’s work did help advance the creation of the electric guitar. You can read an article about him here:
http://www.well.com/~wellvis/dunn.html
Now as for J.J.’s remarks up there, perhaps you should leave Oklahoma because apparently you are an ass. Oklahoma has had many inventions and many intelligent statesmen and innovators. Has one never heard of Jim Thorpe or Jean Kirkpatrick?

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:39:56 +0000

I saw the same billboard for the first time about a month ago, so I am finally getting around to digging up this subject because I couldn’t believe what that billboard was saying.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:07:36 +0000

MR,

Save some time when you come up again. I have an excellent road trip planned.

How well do you know Washington? Washington Quiz (no points, sorry).

How many inches of rain falls on Washington’s Coast in a year? (100 to 200 inches)

Where was the heaviest snow fall recorded? (Mt. Baker near Bellingham, Washington)

The weather is really, really bad here. And the oysters are gone.

By: MRambler

MRambler — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:36:52 +0000

I’ve been watching the weather lately, and, yes, it rains and snows a lot in Seattle, but, I would still love to live there as opposed to dry, dusty, and windy every day Oklahoma….. Now, as for being “very cultured” without any oysters, I don’t know, Anon…. If “everything is more expense” there is “cultured”, then Seattle is at the top of the list!…..

By: anon

anon — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:44:51 +0000

J.J.,

Sorry I missed your post.

To answer your questions about Seattle…….No, I’m not a native of Seattle. I am a native of Washington though. What did we have going before the tech. boom?…….nothing. It was great. We just ran around in our flannel shirts. They were warm and cheap in thrift stores(we didn’t have much money). Nobody wanted to come here so we had oysters, clams, mountains, beaches, lakes, all to ourselves. For fun we would go down to the beach and roast oysters on a fire…..in the rain. We were a cultural backwater.

Then the BOOM.

Now we are very cultured and I can’t find an oyster. You wouldn’t believe how fast things changed. Be careful what you wish for.

It still rains a really, really lot here.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:15:57 +0000

My guess about the original question that MR asked is that Oklahoma is so barren of good inventions and technology that they will lie and take credit for anything just to sound good, because as we all know the only thing that OK is known for is the invention of the parking meter, Will Rogers, Garth Brooks, and loosing jobs at such an alarming rate that by 2010 we will be a suburb of India and the highest wage offered in this city will be 2 rats a day. (FOLLOWUP) Anon: I’m assuming that you have lived in Seattle all of your life, Now I’m not trying to be a smart ass. Before the Technology boom, what was Seattle known for? I know, fishing, and Boeing but was there any thing that it had going for it? I would like to know. Because if your fine town could become the city that it has become today then why can’t Oklahoma City? All we hear about this crap hole we live in is how our ancestors built up a great city up from dirt, then why are their descendants letting it turn back to dirt?

By: anon

anon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:26:38 +0000

A guy at the Museum of History and Industry told me. I called to find out about the funky old electric guitar they had in a display case of Seattle inventions……including the automatic transmission. I could find out more. I still know people there. The case also had the first water sky but, I thought water skying was invented in Italy.