Dick Rosmini

[bromberg]

Dick Rosmini was a fabulous acoustic 6-string/12-string fingerpicking guitarist who was popular in the early 1960s. Unfortunately, few have heard of him and the web has little to offer. If there are any other Rosmini affiiciandos out there, please give a shout out here!
Dan

[BertKoor]

Dick Rosmini was a fabulous acoustic 6-string/12-string fingerpicking guitarist

Maybe post this also in the Guitars section:

viewforum.php?f=298

[Dirtgrain]

Thank you Dan. It's about time someone made a thread about Big Dick, the legend. The stories of him and his guitar playing are manifold. Purportedly, he came out the womb with his left hand fingers stuck in G7 chord position, and they stayed that way. The sad baby's face was locked in consternation, an unresolved crease formed between his little baby brows. He wailed and wailed.

Doctors, nurses, therapists, and researchers could not figure out why his baby fingers were stuck that way and what so perturbed him. They tried everything they could safely do to relax his fingers: relaxants, massage, herbal remedies, hours and hours of "Eensie Beensie Spider." Nothing worked.

. . . until a patient named Buddy, a heck of a guy and a superb guitarist, wandered past baby Big Dick's room and saw those fingers in a passing glance. He stopped instantly, then barging into the room, yelling at the doctors, "What on earth are you doing to this baby? This is abuse. How can you live with yourselves?"

Baby Big Dick's parents pleaded desperately, explaining their helplessness, and Buddy said, "Don't you worry. I will fix this. I'll be back in a bit."

Buddy was gone for about 30 minutes. When he returned, he was carrying the tiniest of guitars. He put the little guitar in baby Bick Dick's hands, saying, " That lead better sound good son. House it in those chords appropriately." Baby Big Dick's locked left fingers fretted that G7 like none other. One strum later, his left fingers went right to an E chord. The parents, doctors, nurses and researches all exhaled simultaneously, as that crease on baby Big Dick's brow melted away, finally resolved, and he played a mighty tune for them all.

And that's how the legend of Big Dick started.

[bromberg]

Dick Rosmini was a fabulous acoustic 6-string/12-string fingerpicking guitarist

Maybe post this also in the Guitars section:

viewforum.php?f=298

Hi Bert,
At your suggestion, I just tried to post in the Guitars section but was blocked for duplicate posting.
Thanks anyway for the idea.
Dan

[BertKoor]

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