By Rick Carroll.
IZ: Voice of the People is an incredable book about Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole’s life. Packed to the brim with color photos, it is a very complete biography that makes you feel like you have known Isreal all your life. Some of the things the book talks about are: Iz as a child, his involvement in the Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau, and sadly his death. A great book for Iz fans or those just learning about Iz. 186 pgs.
My family and I went to see Leabert Lindsey and the Hapalaka band perform at the Keahou Shopping Center yesterday. They have been performing for years and play some of the best paniolo music around. I think they played 8 or 9 songs but it felt like longer because his sister was talking in between. Leabert plays guitar and the Hapalakas play bass, ukulele, drums, congas, and lead slack-key guitar.
I went to the 60th annual Aloha Festival’s Poke contest at the Hapuna Prince Beach Hotel a couple of days ago. It was great, I got to eat poke (raw fish mixed with soy sauce, lime, seaweed and other good stuff) and listen to a hilarious MC. With more activities coming up later that afternoon, my family and I went and goofed around in Kawaihae and Waimea.
After all that we returned to the hotel to wait for 7:00. I wandered around the grounds, going up and down stairs and elevators until it was time to go see the Brothers Cazimero. Once we got in the doors we found seats in the sixth row. Then we watched Darlene Ahuna play some Hawaiian songs with her band.
Then the Cazimero Brothers, Robert on the bass, and Roland on twelve string guitar came out to set up.
They were incredible! Even though I didn’t recognize some of their songs, it was easy to see the skill that these guys possessed. Roland is easily the greatest guitar player I have ever seen, he can play! On their version of Waimanalo Blues Roland jammed three of his strings off (jammed as in broke).
I would highly recommend seeing the Brothers Cazimero live to anybody who appreciates music.
I was a little disappointed with the Super Mario Bros TAB I found on Dominator’s site a couple of months ago. But since then I have found a better version of it at Ukulele Zoo. This version is in the standard GCEA tuning and pretty easy to figure out.
The guy who made the TAB has the song divided into five parts: The main theme, Underground, Star, Water, and Level completed.
Thank you guys at Ukulele Zoo!
