mikelz777
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I just saw this the other day on The Odd Couple - Oscar's Surprise Party.
I just saw this the other day on The Odd Couple - Oscar's Surprise Party.
He said he'll show me the same way his teacher showed him. He took my hand, put the fleshy side in his mouth and played it like it was a harmonica. That was it, I got it.
Movie "Wild Hogs" - William H. Macy playing ukulele in camping scene
Just watching this episode, saw the uke, liked the song, so I posted it. Because that's the way I roll.
not to be "that guy" but the C1K doesn't have binding (I know, it's in the caption of the pic)... my guess is a 2K. I've also seen him playing a Flea.Wow! I can't even imagine! But I love it!
Turns out that our man Bill is a major aficionado! I saw an article last year called "William H. Macy thinks ukuleles can save the world" that I think a lot of you will relate to. The broader context is that people turn to ukes in times of trouble, first noted in the 1918 flu epidemics (actually spanning three full years - ring any bells?), and of course, repeated in 2020, 2021, and 2022 (that's the bell ).
(There's Bill with a Martin C1K.)
A little snippet:
Macy wasn’t always a ukulele player – he grew up with a guitar. It wasn’t until after filming “Boogie Nights” in the mid 1990s when director Paul Thomas Anderson held an impromptu talent show to celebrate – with the caveat that you had to do something you’d never done before. Macy picked up a Martin ukulele at a nearby Guitar Center, and though he didn’t win (“I’m still pissed about that,” he joked) he also “never picked up a guitar again.”
I also noted that he keeps at least 8 ukes just in his office! A man after our own heart.
not to be "that guy" but the C1K doesn't have binding (I know, it's in the caption of the pic)... my guess is a 2K. I've also seen him playing a Flea.
Probably considered the best sounding uke in a film as well.I’ve heard it said that the best-ever placement of a ukulele in a motion picture was in Charlie Chaplain’s City Lights.
That was a silent picture . .
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Probably considered the best sounding uke in a film as well.