Chet Atkins - Blue Angel - Cascade
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Chet's words, not mine. I think he was the greateast, ......probably because HE didn't think so.
1 year ago 6
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When God made Chester Atkins he broke the mold. RIP, Chet!
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@GameLevelEditor Yup. That chord is the mother of all killer stretches.
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@punchdrunque Holy cow! That mental picture of Mr Guitar not knowing how to play any more and RETRAINING himself from scratch boggles my brain! It is an almost unimaginable picture!
I do remember back in the 70's Chet appearing on the Mike Douglas show and speaking of his battle with what he called The "Big C" which was colon cancer at the time.
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@daffydoug I've never played a more painful guitar chord in any music even jazz then that one postiion in Cascade.
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he also developed a brain tumor and had a stroke that ALMOST ended his playing... he says he forgot almost everything about how to play and had to retrain himself from damned near scratch. He did not perform publicly for a period of 5[as I recall his telling of the story] years during this retraining process. He managed to record a few afterwards [I am so glad that he did]. Also afterwards he went touring with the younger sect, endorsing so to speak. Chet is noted for acknowledging.
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Aside from being "Mr Guitar" Chet was a remarkably strong man. I recently learned that he fought a constant battle with cancer spanning the last 25 years of his life. No one knew this, even Chet's closest friends were not privy to this. Consider a man who fought a 25 year battle largely alone because thats the way he wanted it. More remarkable is his refusal to burden anyone with this information while at the same time being the public person that was, and is Chet Atkins. RIP Chet-we love you.
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Never could get past those killer first stretches.
1 year ago 2
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retthok 1 year ago 4
@retthok
Glad you liked it . It got took down when YouTube destroyed my whole channel for copyright infringements on Major League _aseball and The _rand Ole Opry.
billga2010 1 year ago