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Bridges plays guitars such as: Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentlemen Model G6122-1959.
Following Merivale's example, Robert Atkins adapted all three plays into a single piece for a performance at The Old Vic in 1923 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of the First Folio.
Following Merivale's example, Robert Atkins adapted all three plays into a single piece for a performance at The Old Vic in 1923 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of the First Folio.
Following Merivale's example, Robert Atkins adapted all three plays into a single piece for a performance at The Old Vic in 1923 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of the First Folio.
In addition he also plays a Gibson SG tuned to an Open E, a 1981 Zemaitis tuned to a B, a Schecter, a Fender Esquire, and a Chet Atkins acoustic guitar.
Although the character of Yvette is in her late teens, Essence Atkins ( who was born in 1972 ) is actually only ten years younger than John Marshall Jones, who plays her father.
Currently, Atkins plays the recurring character Special Agent Clinton Jones in USA Network's White Collar.
Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet ( twice ), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989 ; Richard III with Ian McKellen ; King Lear with Ian Holm ; Tennessee Williams ' Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth ; Eduardo De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria and Le Grande Magia ; John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins ; Hedda Gabler with Eve Best, and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.
A number of hit comedies transferred to or from the theatre in the 1970s and 1980s, and other important plays here during the period included Rattigan's Separate Tables, with John Mills in 1976, Lyle Kessler's Orphans in 1986 with Albert Finney, I'm Not Rappaport the same year, with Paul Scofield, and Dorothy Tutin, Eileen Atkins and Siân Phillips in Thursday's Ladies in 1987.
In Britain his plays are now regularly revived in community theatre and in 2008, he had his first West End production in a career of almost fifty years with Jonathan Kent's revival of The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, with David Haig and Eileen Atkins.
Ebony spent many years playing for Redoubtables Women's Cricket Club in Croydon but has since moved to Shepperton CC and plays alongside fellow England women's cricket team mates Nicki Shaw and Caroline Atkins.
All three Mariners who reached base ( Adrián Beltré and Kenji Johjima on singles and Raúl Ibáñez on a walk ) were erased on double plays by infielders Garrett Atkins, Clint Barmes, Jamey Carroll, and Todd Helton.
Atkins began his career in stage plays both on-and-off Broadway, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television.
Atkins plays Nick Castle in John Carpenter's supernatural revenge story: a fisherman and love interest of Elizabeth Solley ( Jamie Lee Curtis ); he is also one of the key characters to battle the fog-zombies.
John Carpenter cast Atkins again for his post apocalyptic science fiction film, Escape from New York ( 1981 ), in which he plays Rehme, one of the military commanders given the task of monitoring the both the President-and later, Snake Plissken-after they are dropped into the heart of Manhattan, now a maximum security prison.
Directed by George A. Romero and scripted by Stephen King ( based on short tales by the latter ), Atkins plays Stan in the wraparound segment that brackets this anthology of five horror tales featuring an arctic monster, vengeaful zombies, giant bugs, and a verdant alien virus.
Stephen King's son ( Joe Hill ) plays Billy, the horror-mad son of Atkins in the film.
Atkins plays Dr. Daniel ' Dan ' Chalis, a surgeon who winds up investigating Cochran and his evil toy factory.
Atkins plays the character Detective Grogan.
Atkins plays Dr. Caleb Menck, Roberts ' personal physician.
Atkins plays Sergeant Fred Hardy.
Atkins plays Detective McCleary.
Atkins plays the character Sheriff Cap who, with his troops, pursues the pursuers.
Christopher Atkins plays Rick Monroe, a jock and a popular guy in college in Titusville, Florida ; he is outspoken and overconfident.

Atkins and guitar
With country music record sales declining as rock and roll took over, Atkins and Bob Ferguson took their cue from Owen Bradley and eliminated fiddles and steel guitar as a means of making country singers appeal to pop fans.
A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.
Atkins also collaborated with Australian guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel.
Orbison attempted to sell to RCA Victor songs he recorded that were written by other writers as well, working with and being completely in awe of Chet Atkins who had played guitar with Presley.
To capitalize, Clinton formed a backing band for a tour, featuring teenage barbershop employee Billy Bass Nelson on bass and his friend Eddie Hazel on guitar, with the lineup eventually rounded out by Tawl Ross on guitar, Tiki Fulwood on drums, and Mickey Atkins on organ.
Fontana, Presley was joined by established RCA musicians Chet Atkins ( who also helped Sholes produce the session ) on guitar, and Floyd Cramer on piano.
* Chet Atkins – acoustic guitar
Atkins ' propulsive marching band-style drumming, the lack of bass and guitar, and Lydon's increasing lyrical abstraction made this LP a difficult listen for rock fans, and contemporary reviews expressed great confusion.
Chet Atkins later wrote that his brother, home on a family visit, presented the younger Atkins with an expensive Gibson archtop guitar that had been given to Jim Atkins by Les Paul.
Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records / Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now ( 1968 ), on which he updated some of his earlier hits ; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester ( 1976 ), for RCA Victor.
Johnson started learning the guitar at age 11 and rapidly began progressing through the music that would heavily influence his future style, including ALEXI LAIHO, Mike Bloomfield, Chet Atkins, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Reed, Bob Dylan and Django Reinhardt, among others.
At the age of 16 he obtained a Chet Atkins model Gretsch guitar, and formed a duo, Jimmy and Duane, with his friend Jimmy Delbridge ( who later recorded as Jimmy Dell ).
Chet Atkins joined them playing electric guitar in 1949 until leaving in 1950.
Country guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins had used a similar, self-designed device on his late 1950s recordings of " Hot Toddy " and Slinkey.
Santiago has described his guitar technique as " angular and bent ", and he cites Les Paul, George Harrison, Chet Atkins, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Jimi Hendrix as major influences on his style.
In 1980, Atkins left Public Image Ltd to concentrate on his band Brian Brain with Pete Jones ( who also played with Public Image Ltd in 1982 and 1983 ) on bass ( in 1983 replaced by original Go-Gos ' bassist Margot Olavarria ) and Bobby Surgeoner on guitar ( later replaced by Olavarria's husband, Geoff Smyth ).
In 1967, Atkins met Charles Manson when he played guitar at the house where she was living with several friends.
The first tour in support of the Blinking Lights album, billed as Eels with Strings, featured primarily acoustic guitar -, organ-and piano-based performances by E backed by Allen ' Big Al ' Hunter on piano and upright bass ; Jeffrey Lyster ( also known as Chet Atkins III or ' The Chet ') on guitar, mandolin, pedal steel, musical saw and drums ; and the string quartet of violinists Paloma Udovic and Julie Carpenter, violist Heather Lockie and cellist Ana Lenchantin.
Howe said he took from Atkins, " the idea that one guitarist could play any kind of guitar style.
* Other covers have been by The Hollies, country guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Odetta, Dolly Parton, folk chanteuse Judy Collins, The Kingston Trio, Marianne Faithfull ( 1964 single ), Jackie DeShannon, The Seekers, soul singer Sam Cooke, blues belter Etta James, Duke Ellington, Neil Young ( with air raid sound effects ), the Doodletown Pipers, Marlene Dietrich, Bobby Darin, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Sielun Veljet, on their single " Blowin ' in the Wind ", Stevie Wonder ( whose version became a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 ), John Fogerty, The Hooters on their 1994 album The Hooters Live, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and was performed by Jenny in the award-winning film Forrest Gump ( sung by Joan Baez ), and was lampooned in Me, Myself & Irene.

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