Get the LED Out

Here's a fascinating interview with slack key master Ledward Ka'apana... if he tried the same stunt today, copper thieves would steal his aerial!

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"The year he started seventh grade and had to take the bus 12 miles to the high school was the same year transistor radios came to the Big Island.

"The thing wouldn't work unless it was nighttime," he said. "We used to take copper wire and tie it to the top of a coconut tree and then bring the wire all the way down into the house and stick it in the radio. And the thing would catch all the stations from Oahu."

When he listened to the slack key music of Gabby Pahinui from Oahu, "Walk, Don't Run" by the Ventures, country-western and oldies but goodies, his guitar playing absorbed new influences."

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