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Speaker 1: Strings Attached, the West Australian Guitar Festival is back for

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Speaker 1: its fourth year in Margaret River next month and the

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Speaker 1: curator Dan White is joining us.

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Speaker 2: Now, good morning, Dan morning.

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Speaker 3: How you doing this morning?

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Speaker 1: Good get fourth year?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, amazing, absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Strings Attached is an event for players, makers, retailers and enthusiasts.

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Speaker 1: It's spread across eight venues. What can you tell us

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Speaker 1: about this year's event.

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Speaker 3: It's a great weekend for strings. So if you're into

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Speaker 3: guitar or good music, you can get amongst a whole

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Speaker 3: bunch of performances. We've got over forty artists this year

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Speaker 3: from around the country and overseas, a whole bunch of

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Speaker 3: hands on workshops, master classes, panel discussions, plus a massive

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Speaker 3: exhibition from guitar makers and retailers from around the country.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, you can do.

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Speaker 4: All you got to do is go ont a Facebook

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Speaker 4: marketplace or go into a music shop and you see

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Speaker 4: how people who love their guitars. It's just like a

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Speaker 4: real passion and they start collecting them and all the

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Speaker 4: rest of it's so much passion involved, isn't there?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely see? But the thing to know is they all

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Speaker 3: give you different songs and they all play different looks.

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Speaker 3: I've been justifying this for years.

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Speaker 4: Mate, My brother buy them. They're like his children.

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Speaker 1: Something for everything at the festival too, because whether it's

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Speaker 1: prog metal to punk, blues, country, jazz, it's all there.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite genre for the guitar yourself, Dan.

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Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, I like good music really yeah. I started

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Speaker 3: out with a lot of blues in my early years,

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Speaker 3: but I love funk as well, good soul, and I

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Speaker 3: mean good music is good music, so which I really

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Speaker 3: represent a bit of everything at the festival because guitar

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Speaker 3: is one of those instruments is played in so many

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Speaker 3: different ways. You know, it's present in every genre of

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Speaker 3: music in the world pretty much, but it turns into

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Speaker 3: a pretty diverse program pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And we spoke to Steve Via, guitar virtuoso and rocker

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Speaker 4: for a long long time the other day and he's

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Speaker 4: got this new thing called the Hydro. It's got three

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Speaker 4: next and it looks like it looks a bit like

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Speaker 4: something out of Mad Max.

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Speaker 2: Would you have a crack at that thing?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Mate, I would do my best, but I've probably

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Speaker 3: got four hands not enough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like an ocupos amazing.

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Speaker 3: All right. So we've got a wonderful player from the US,

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Speaker 3: Larry Mitchell, Grammy Award winner who plays with Steve very

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Speaker 3: regularly festival.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.

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Speaker 1: Well I was going to say, who's coming.

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Speaker 3: Larry Mitchell Michael Fixed, the three time Guitar Gold Guitar

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Speaker 3: winner from Queensland, our very own a blues rocket, Yes,

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Speaker 3: the Deli. Uh yeah, plenty from around the country, a

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Speaker 3: few great players from overseas and plenty from here in

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Speaker 3: Western Australia as well.

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Speaker 4: Can see that Forli Every time I drive down Charles

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Speaker 4: Street when they play the Gels.

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Speaker 1: You know it's someone I would have loved to have

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Speaker 1: seen in concert. And I know he's been here, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's becoming again. Leo Kottkey he

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Speaker 1: have you ever had the pleasure down?

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Speaker 3: No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: He has that. He's got that real finger picking style.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely have to see him play.

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Speaker 3: Live, thankfully, so I'll put him on the list.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, see if you I think he's about

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Speaker 1: seventy seven now, actually see how you go? Yeah, guitarist,

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Speaker 1: don't you know get old?

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Speaker 4: It's funny, Dan, because we we're fucking to Steven and

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Speaker 4: Danny and Moss lately of course and both and Tommy

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Speaker 4: Emmanuel is there the greatest player on earth.

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Speaker 2: It's funny how it lines up.

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Speaker 3: Mate. Tell you what, there's some incredible guitarists right here

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Speaker 3: in Australia. There's so many in the Yeah. If you

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Speaker 3: speak to Tommy giving me putting the words yeah.

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Speaker 2: We will, we will built top of the wish list,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't it. Do you have anything?

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Speaker 3: Can you?

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Speaker 1: I know it's like asking you to narrow it down,

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Speaker 1: but who are your favorite guitarists.

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Speaker 2: In general all the time.

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Speaker 3: That's a tough one, with a lot of Clapton, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Hendricks and Robin Trap, Robert Chower too. Yeah, I've got so.

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Speaker 2: Many, so many.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's funny you mentioned because he's got his guitar

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Speaker 4: Fest coming up before yours is October, and he is

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Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks time over in l A.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listener, listen as good as yours Dan, it's strings attached.

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Speaker 1: It's the greatest name. Six to the eighth of October

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Speaker 1: in the beautiful Margaret River, perfect place for it. Tickets

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Speaker 1: are through the w A Guitar Festival dot com dot

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Speaker 1: Are you always great? To chat down.

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Speaker 2: You know your Dan. The plectrums will be fine.

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Speaker 3: You have