File: woodrichard06-oh-olderfiddlerspart2_M.mp3
Speakers:
RW – Richard Wood
RW: When I was 11 – 9 I should say, a lot of my best friends were 60 really, and 55. Every second night I'd be goin' to a place where there would be a benefit or a ceilidh and meetin' up with these older fiddlers. And at the time most of the players were a lot older. Those are the guys I hung around with, that's what I was into. Naturally, you're talkin' licks and talkin' music with them and playin' with them, or playin' with a group of them. And once I started playin' piano it was the same thing, then I started playin' piano for them and goin' to these concerts with them. You learned a lot about life, you learned a lot about living, a lot about B Just everything, carrying on the music, "Get big, but don't get too big." I heard that a gazillion times. In other words, keep grounded. Don't forget where you came from. So I think that's why when I get the chance today, any time I can get out and visit some of the country folk, I do.
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RW: I did some. Triplets, different cuts, some slurring. I watched them and I picked it up. But I tried not to watch too much because I didn't want to really try to copy anybody. The only two people I really wanted to play like and sound like at the time was Howie MacDonald and Winston Scotty [Fitzgerald]. But that only lasts for so long. You can start and try to sound like them but it doesn't work. Eventually you'll come into your own sound, you'll develop your own sound.
