But he told him, play your own shit, which he kind of always remembered and I think is interesting just considering Cedar 's style and how much he wrote, how much he composed.But with all the people that you've been around, are there any little snippets of wisdom that stick out in your mind as you look back?
He wrote, "To Andrew, Victory is assured, Stanley Crouch." I remember being confused, like why is this guy signing my poster? Cedar Walton, he actually played with Charlie Parker one time.
He wrote, "To Andrew, Victory is assured, Stanley Crouch." I remember being confused, like why is this guy signing my poster? Cedar went to school in Colorado, and he said Bird was playing a big concert in town, and Ced was just playing at a little club.
He wrote, "To Andrew, Victory is assured, Stanley Crouch." I remember being confused, like why is this guy signing my poster? And Cedar was like, well, oh course.
Right. Well, we've got live guests. I've done Cedar Point and Kings Island in Ohio in the same week because I like roller coasters.
On the fourth side, wooden steps lead to a wide wooden platform and the main building of the temple itself. Beyond the wall are cedar , pine, and cherry trees. Such a description gives a sense of the history and look of the place, but to understand its power, its pure presence,
I brought a few pieces I'd like to pass around. This is actually cedar like you see on the guitar here from the top. This is very light, it's considered a soft wood.
Here, I'm slicing a big chunk of wood, this is going to be shown later, how I make the necks out of this material. This is Spanish cedar . Quite different from the Western red cedar , because this material comes from South America and it's much harder and denser than the cedar
This is just allowing this wood to not create too much of a vacuum. That is called Spanish cedar , it could also be done out of mahogany.
But the males drop stuff too. This is a male cedar tree. And that's pollen on the ground.
They grow the soy bean plants until they're about this big and then they pulled them out and tested them. This is a male cedar .
trying to find more happiness and joy in work life balance, all of this is tied together. And there are cedar chips beside it.
The paddle, as well, is my best paddle so far. It's Alaskan yellow cedar , to answer your question, with accents of cherry inlaid into the handle and blade tip. And there's some pretty bitchin' carving going on in that paddle.
suggest their favorite ones and uh some were very evocative talking about the woman who wrote in about the green market and cedar rapids iowa where every saturday everybody the whole community gathers almost and meets and talks to each other and so there's all these different things and so i found this
And I'm just curious. I know you played with Cedar Walton for a long time. I think it was over 20 years.
So that's the lowest of the lowest of the lowest price. But it's in a cedar barrel. So the one great thing about Google is that now you can just--
And it's a rainforest valley of just incredible beauty. 1,000 year old Western red cedar trees, Doug firs, trees so big that 10 people linked arm to arm could barely wrap their arms around the trunks of these trees, and they're being cut down to make toilet paper, newsprint, two-by-fours,
-The area is really, really lush. Lots of clean water and lots of cedar trees. And it's this really special place.
on streets you've walk down hundreds of times, very familiar places. So this is in a cedar tree in Greenwich Park. And it's not filtered or anything.
that you don't see from the ground. So this is the same cedar in Greenwich Park from above. And it's a bit like a roller coaster trying to climb up into this.
This is Spanish cedar . Quite different from the Western red cedar , because this material comes from South America and it's much harder and denser than the cedar used for the sound boards.
analytically, but you could solve it on a computer. And that's what we're starting to be able to do. And this is just some work done by Gerd Cedar from MIT; we work closely with him. And he's doing things like taking that Hamiltonian complicated somewhat complicated equation and solving it on a computer. And what we're able to do now is, instead of trying lots and lots of Edisonian approaches to materials and that's what we
was she was doing that and she was bringing this uh with with her camel she was bringing presence of Frankincense to King Solomon who himself was building his Palace full of cedar planks so the meeting of the amazing smell of the Cedarwood from Lebanon with the smell of frankincense from the home of Africa that's what I consider the absolute birth of perfumery in in the story of man and and no sooner than Queen of Sheba right like as far back is fascinating I uh you know I'm gonna look at the clock and I know we have just five minutes to go so maybe if there are any audience
and they see that experience, and they experience other kids-- and we take them to see Alvin Ailey. And we take them to Cedars Sinai, which is a hospital where they can see brain surgery that Dr. Black, this black man who is just an amazing scientist and brain surgeon-- and they can do surgery on the brain.
And this one over here is Japanese organic aged in cedar barrels for a year and a half.
This is spruce, by the way. You see the difference in color from the cedar piece. So we traveled, we looked for the best material.
So I decided to just build my own cedar tree with cedar bark and just a Styrofoam base.
And Hopper would hang around with these abstract expressionists at the Cedar Tavern, when he was out at the Actors Studio, in New York.
coming in from were uh some members and people in uh Cedar Rapids in Iowa in the
that special okay except for one small problem the people in Cedar rabids will
making blanket statements even when I talked about Cedar Rapids we didn't say don't go to Cedar Rapids we said if you're going to go to Cedar Rapids you
We were lucky to have the best of the best at Cedars , UCLA, Stanford, and UPMC.
And I did a trial drug program at Cedars -Sinai.
But to also just stand there and look down into the cedars where they died.
Right. Well, we've got live guests. But you know, I go to Cedar Point.
So some other views of people. It's Ravenscourt Park, a cedar tree in West London. This is a great tree.
So I brought a guitar here today that I recently finished. This guitar is built with a soundboard made out of western red cedar . This is darker than the spruce.
might want to stay off I 380 cuz boy you're going to smell Cedar Rapids for the rest of your life if you come in on
it and in fact that one and the sandalwood one made me made me very very uh sentimental I understand so The Story You're evoking I think is frankincense frankincense frankincense is probably the most ancient uh perfume captured by men frankincense and Cedarwood Cedarwood okay so the frankincense you're right is a very small tree it grows on the whole of Africa it's very difficult to see grows high in altitude in rocks and then so I'm telling the whole story in the book and and yes there are tappers with a very simple knife who scratch the bark and
They grow the soy bean plants until they're about this big and then they pulled them out and tested them. Anyhow, here's a couple of red cedars or junipers, very common landscapes.
Near the Great Lakes, you strap sheets of birch bark around cedar frames, then waterproof the seams with a goo of pine sap and animal fat.
I just refinished, you know, some cedar chests.
or he's going to be speaking to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council or the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chamber of Commerce,
But on the up side, I don't think you have the cedar revolution in Lebanon without the flattening of the world.
hour outside Katie led me on the trails I'd only ever seen in her layers here was the narl cedar that she built a fort
All right, so oak, cedar , nut, marzipan, walnut-- all these things can come from wood.
so if if you go there you will be stepping in it I'm just letting you know that uh Cedar Rapids Iowa now Cedar
know garage sale you know they just ultimately it was literally found in some collector's Cedar Chest in Atlanta
conscious people but the magic of that is that we know from all the records you know frankincense is everywhere in the Bible in the ancient text and so yes uh the queen of Shabbat she was uh she was she was doing that and she was bringing this uh with with her camel she was bringing presence of Frankincense to King Solomon who himself was building his Palace full of cedar planks so the meeting of the amazing smell of the Cedarwood from Lebanon with the smell of frankincense from the home of Africa that's what I consider the absolute birth of perfumery in in the story of man
they're gonna use vanilla uh the their supplier in Madagascar is treating uh the villagers very well the more you go in depth in poor countries the more difficult it gets you know being sustainable in in France for lavender or in uh uh Mint or our Virginia Cedar in in Texas is not so difficult when you start talking about Haiti Somaliland Madagascar it's another story so a lot has been done let's visit a lot has been done schools digging Wells dispensaries uh a lot a lot of money