the season where there's just a whole bunch of stuff going on with clearly super have been around for i think we're in our eighth year now i can't keep track anymore i suppose of course the seattle players association it's a gathering of enthusiasts you as you might call us all different styles all different skill levels all different age groups all different whatever just people who love to play so we got people who are absolute beginners we get them started on a few chords and some easier songs that they try to keep up on some of the more complex songs we might teach an interesting chord or two or if they can't figure it out in time we tell him just sing  louder you get people who've been playing their whole lives you get a lot of people who've moved to this area from hawaii maybe they played when they were younger and now they want to get back into it it's open to anybody who wants to play and we gather on a monthly basis on right there's a certain coffee shop and a hamburger joint right at that curve it's not that actual building it's actually just a little bit west of it down the hill there's a brick building it used to be a school and downstairs and there aren't building there it's where  lot of people have activities there the seattle folklore society does concerts on saturday nights but super gathers there on the second sunday afternoon of each month and we have our song circles we've got song books that we work from a lot of people just kind of go through we pick the songs we ask people what songs you want to play we work on stuff for a couple of hours sometimes we'll have workshops prior to last month uncle rod gucci and i did a little bit of a workshop where we trying to help people refine a couple of hawaii and songs because a lot of the folks who play are not from hawaii but they want to learn hawaiian songs because we'd sometimes performative ads and people ask you know can we do something  so we teach them songs a lot of them don't know the language and they want to make sure that they're singing it a little more accurately they don't want to they don't want to think that they're singing about communist tractors or sometimes you know they want to make sure they get the language right so we go through and we help them to refine it that's just one of the things that we do in a workshop we have a lot of guests come through and do strumming sessions to teach different kinds of strums different kinds of songs all kinds of stuff that people ask for some months we do open mike we want to turn it on oh it's a treat because there are some people there who just are so scared about performing in front of anyone but they're willing to get up in front of this group with their friends and is just a kick you know she's she's got her group continues to grow from anywhere from nineteen this year there's thirty three of them that's in this group that's going to make going to sound oh and they and they're really quite good we have them over at the columbus heritage first i think it's a second year i think for two thousand and seven yeah something like that and they were just a hoot because they went ahead and did this the parade and they just had so much fun again they are planning this coming from ash and yeah the last i heard was that they were coming here in the weekend of the may eighteenth nineteenth weekend and they would just really be a hoot to have all of you know the super group and they're going to be going down to oregon i believe it's going to be in the portland area for the eighteenth and then they're coming up this way up in the seattle area on the nineteenth so that should be a real fun troupe to watch and i mean they're delightful and they they seem to have it all you know they're playing music they're singing and some of my doing solos and so it should be a real fun group of kids coming up this way and you rice i think we could probably get a lot of the folks from super two to meet up with him yeah he'd be with along with a bunch of his friends they coordinate this a lot friday night and we had an opportunity to to join in on that it was really cool they had everybody met at of an interesting thing they opened up with first of all they opened up with like and open my get announcements and they're in their open mike they opened it up to different people just similar to what you guys do they've sign up in the different people come up and they have a chance to come up and play music for one or two songs there was an interesting couple who came up and did a capella it was just a couple and feel was so cool just to watch them do that and there were other folks coming in and playing who clearly and and some folks had dancers dancing to them and it was probably about a half hour forty minutes of doing all of that and then they had an educational piece and they talked about like a quiz and they talked about the famous couples of holy and and true books way of doing this the answers that they gave it was some ridiculous answers so you're almost kind of have to guess and you can guess that like three out of four of the answers were wrong anyway so one obviously wrong so if you missed that and you really don't know that much about your your whine history but at the end of it they they gave the buck kind of snuck in his the birth of his brand new granddaughter ok and they're showing that he's just like having a real with that but at the end of the you know when when you won when you got the right answers there was a couple of us who did get our right answers told papa and got his right and i did so we went up there we went up to collect our prices our prices but guess what homemade ice cream right there priceless it was it was fatter so we were eating that while we were watching the kohala but so what i saw what i saw is in the eight years their ukulele is very strong up in the northwest very much so they have an olympia salem and we bumped into charlie and and bill and i had an opportunity with maggie she took us up to the new hope bible college the president know how wonderful this instrument is maggie was there which is just going crazy because we're going wow he did not know and come to find out that they have they have a music department where they want to be able to continue having that booklet as being one of the main it makes sense to calais is a great introductory music instrument because it's relatively easy to play compared to a lot of other instruments so i say relatively easy because of course every instrument has its challenges and you can become good on a pretty quickly if you want to become really really professional really great at it of course like any instrument you've got to practice you've got to work on it you've got to play a lot but it's a good starting point and i've heard a lot of people who started with it went on to other things myself included i've been playing with you since i took started because we had many of the parents of the children were learning basic google away so they could accompany the children at home and play songs and i think we had seven players on stage that day and our slide guitarist pat and i commented to him about all your global players and he said what we really need is a bass player to hold the rhythm together i would point i realized ok that's something i need to learn so i took a few beginner bass lessons and now that's another instrument that i play and i have a bass and you have more than one that you have to have the basic will and a regular size bass guitar yeah but you have the one that's a cute little one is that it which one is the one that's that's that doesn't have that that's a regular tenor ok well yeah there's i have three yes speaking of mean we can get crazy oh yeah on article i said fact you know when we moved i was taking a look at all the ones that we have i have a lot of different one i love them all this is been one of my don't so you need to cut through that's part of the reason that i bought this until a several years ago when i owned but it's my primary instrument but it is a ten or a six string so that it cuts through a lot stronger than it's got a lot of volume to show it so it sounds pretty good doesn't it yeah ok well then ok then decides that one you have the one that doesn't have the i have an electric one has no headstock on it the strings run down and across a pick up and then therefore pegs are right up here so there's no resonant body it has no sound to it at all unless you plug it in but i needed one for electric and i kind of like the design of it it's called a stick it's a beautiful thing and i can run it through effects cuddles and things like i into our columbus store he comes walking in with this in the case comes and he hands it over to us and he says well i wanted to sell this and we said well we're not in the market to buy and so he says  just just kind of play with it and hang on to it and just kind of play with it and i'll be back oh well he didn't show back up for another month in the meantime we've got playing it and i really did like it and so when i asked him what he wanted to it to me for i mean it was like up with all kinds of different this is not a song that we've done at super i mean we've done it for an open mike but it's not one of the songs that we've taught the group it's a little bit more complicated than some of the hawaiian songs we've done but we have taught the group songs such as well last year the whole set was beatles songs we talked a group a bunch of different beatle songs were and this year the set will be all elvis through i'm going all the songs and we're not just going to be doing all hits we're going to surprise some songs that are they were hits but they were lesser known hits you'll hear things like heartbreak hotel ok viva las vegas hound dog but we're also going to songs like such an easy question and don't so you might want to do you going to do like i did i had to to come and play when we do shows like folklife we also perform things like a live allow ha festival in september we have performed at watching my own renton for their polynesian festival i think we're going to be at the thomas the thirty players so not everybody comes to super wants to be a performer they might want to come in and learn some songs and learn some techniques but they don't necessarily you don't have to be a performer you don't have to be someone who's willing to get on stage to play to be a part of super and as i say we've got people there who i think only pick up their i once a month if you can up they come they play at super then they go home they put it back in the case and they don't touch it for months and that's fine because at least once a month they're playing and if they feel inspired they'll play a little bit more often than that and if they want to be part of a performance we have a few opportunities but we're not about performances that's just an extra thing that we do it's just getting together and doing the music and just everybody looking forward to get together you guys have a picnic and soup and said you know i live pretty far away from seattle i'd like to have something closer to home i was talking today with something about the group called hogs which is hawaiian local level a group of silverdale and click so there you can seniors weekly and stuff and they're a little bit tighter on that kind of stuff and they do a version of maui hawaiian superman which is really good and they've helped to teach us that they came up and did a session with us one time on a kind of teacher's parts on that and strengthen that song so we all interact in these various and sundry groups now assuming that this program airs when exposed to air i would say that the next super gathering is coming up on sunday the eleventh of march we're going to that's coming up this next weekend may well be and i'm going to say which probably falls on like mother's day mother's day and then of course we will perform at folk life this year then we get together in june and july and august we'll have a picnic in september will probably be performing it live of october november and december we usually throw a big holiday party to kind of celebrate the anniversary of supers birth which takes place in january but it's easier to just make it into a big holiday party with a potluck but this month i don't think i think i'd  couple international kind of the fun yeah i guess a little while stuff yeah that would be kind of file we do a lot of very familiar holiday carols too but after the march one we're going to have a say an open mike so the different players can kind of people think it's like a town at temple they feel like it sounds like that but i don't think so well you know i am really happy that you came and joined us today you've got to do this again i would love to i'd love to but we're running out of