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red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:30pm
Mike Compton shows that dayglo green and wild tiedie is still in.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:31pm
We tune because we care.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:32pm
A wall of talent.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:34pm
Mike Compton playing guitar (mine) and Skip Gorman playing a Fern.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:36pm
Red Henry having fun teaching.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:38pm
Ever feel small in an overwhelming situation?
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:40pm
Husband and wife, husband playing, wife there. Who appears to be having more fun?
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:41pm
Relaxed style.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:42pm
"Banks of the Ohio" for real
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:44pm
David Long jamming with some campers.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:45pm
Chris Henry and Skip Gorman showing us the deal.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 6:48pm
Mike Compton and David Long "Stomp"ing. Sorry about the lack of light. I hope you enjoy these. The workshop was great. We found out why Bill Monroe is the Father of Bluegrass. The man could say more with one note....
Tony
Darren Kern
Sep-10-2006, 6:52pm
Thanks a ton for the pics, it looks like it was a really awesome time.
Brady Smith
Sep-10-2006, 7:04pm
Nice pics....heading down next weekend myself for round two.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 7:28pm
For all of you going, take a tape recorder or mini disc recorder or the like. There are no handouts. They are giving you the feel of what Bill Monroe does, so you can apply it.
Tony
Brady Smith
Sep-10-2006, 7:32pm
Wonderful....i will then be totally useless. Without handouts (music in front of me anyway) I will be unable to function. Unfortunately I have to learn by seeing....hands on approaches don't do much for me.
red7flag
Sep-10-2006, 7:43pm
Brady, I did try to encourage them to provide some handouts, if not for a learning tool, then at least to help remind us once we are home some of what we learned.
Tony
Brady Smith
Sep-10-2006, 7:53pm
Exactly...oh well, it'll be interesting whether I get to play much or not.
Basically somebody could sit in front of me and show me Mary had a Little Lamb and tell me this is how it should be played, then after about 4 hours we'd still be at it. If you'd give me the music, I'd play it in a few minutes then be able to work out the nuances.
wayfaringstranger
Sep-10-2006, 9:47pm
Ha! Thanks for posting those, Tony.
Love that picture with the festival audience (and the dude with the big hat) sitting behind me.
red7flag
Sep-11-2006, 8:41am
I thought I would add this thoughtful David Long picture.
Tony
Here is one of David and I. It was a really great camp. Really learned how much I don't know about Monroe's style. I've got a ton to work on. When I recover I'll post more.
Here is one from the concert.
johnhgayjr
Sep-11-2006, 9:26am
Hi guys,
Great pics - I had a ball and enjoyed pickin with everyone. #
The instructors really know Monroe and it was cool to get their different takes on it. #
Seems like Red and Chris Henry are more into early Monroe (40's - 70's which was more notey and a little cleaner) and Compton and Long are more into the later style (more slides, more bluesy, less precise - on purpose). #Compton can do either and even demonstrated the differences between the early and later styles. #Skip Gorman is a master of Monroe's approach to fiddle tunes. #Red Henry, Compton, and Skip Gorman each got some of their chops directly from Monroe. #Each was very impressive in their knowledge and ability to play it and teach it.
As far as not having handouts - it didn't bother me. #I learn by ear so that worked fine for me. #There were some questions about whether to try to use TAB to learn the tunes. #Compton was anti-TAB. #He said it becomes a crutch that can hold you back. #Compton mentioned occasionally using sheet music. #I also believe the Henry's were not proponents of TAB. #
On the way home I thought I probably didn't get as much out of it as I wanted - I thought I was too set in my ways to learn new stuff. #But I picked up the mando this morning for a few minutes and was playing stuff I had never played before so I guess more sunk in than I thought.
I've got a few pics from the concert Saturday. #I post as soon as I can get them off the camera.
John Gay
Memphis
Dusty
Sep-11-2006, 11:31am
Were the advanced classes that much better than the intermediate or about the same?
JimRichter
Sep-11-2006, 12:10pm
Well, being the Monroe guy I am, I've been pretty bummed about not being able to attend the camps and got even more depressed last night looking at Tony's photos.
But, providence manifested itself today. #Justin Holt, the IBMM guy who put all this together, sent me an unexpected email inviting me to come down and see this coming Saturday's concert and pick afterwards. #Needless to say, I said yes! #I'll be kind of in the area since I'll be competing down in Princeton Indiana Saturday in the state banjo and mandolin contests and when I'm done, I can swing on down to Owensboro. #Yippee!
So to whomever might be there this coming weekend, I'll see you there!
Jim
Jim, your name came up in conversation as one of the folks we had hoped to see there. Sorry we missed you. We all owe Justin a lot of thanks for dreaming this whole thing up. He is also a heck of a nice guy and can pick the hound out of the mandolin. Here is another photo from the concert. It was a real treat to have Tom Ewing there.
Bud
JimRichter
Sep-11-2006, 12:51pm
Yea, Bud, I'd thought of that myself. #If I'd had the money or time to swing it, I'd been down there. #Been an opportunity to meet you, pick with Mark Royal again, see Mike and David, and be overwhelmed with Monroe. Looking at the photos, I also saw several other people I know/recognize, such as James Todd from Indy. #Plus, the IBMM is one of my favorite stops in Kentucky. #I'm thankful that Justin invited me down there to see the concert/pick this coming weekend. #Sorry I missed you and the missus.
It does make the heart swell a little bit to hear that you were thought about when you weren't there. #I was definitely there in spirit.
Jim
makoto
Sep-11-2006, 3:19pm
Tony and Bud, thanks for the pictures. I had a great time there, and I am sure I learned a lot more than I am presently aware of. I am too stuck on having something to "read", but I am actually glad there were no handouts because it made me see this as an oral tradition. It is a different way of learning, and it was a challenge to not have the paper to look at. I actually had to pay attention to what the instructor said and played!
Jim, I was expecting to see you there and surprised when you weren't. I wish I could come back next week and do it all over!
James Todd
Here is another nice shot from the session on "Bill's Blues". Check out David and Mikes hands. Attitude, confidence, power, double stops. These are some of the attributes that contributed to Bill's music.
Brady Smith
Sep-12-2006, 7:50am
Looks like he needs to clean the moss out of that case though.
robinsmith
Sep-12-2006, 2:08pm
What I did at mando camp. Got good karma on my mando in Rosine.
wayfaringstranger
Sep-12-2006, 6:45pm
Nice picture, Robin.
Wonder if anyone else caught this one? This had to be the second funniest thing I saw all weekend:
http://static.flickr.com/28/241957669_f32ed26822.jpg
Now there's something you don't see every day...
DryBones
Sep-12-2006, 7:09pm
ok, I'll bite....what was the funniest?
wayfaringstranger
Sep-12-2006, 8:15pm
The funniest moment (for me, at least) was Mike Compton impersonating Bill Monroe:
During the faculty concert, Chris Henry took a stunning break to a tune they were playing, and the look on his face said that he knew it, too. When Mr. Compton went up for his break next, he gave a quick glance back at Chris and then launched into a *nasty* (and I mean this in the best possible way) and *very* aggressive break full of ridiculously fast downstrokes.
He then followed this by turning around to Chris, leaning in towards him, and giving him this look that said "*That's* how it's done, boy."
Just like Bill, in other words.
The main difference being that Mike followed it up with a huge grin. I about wet myself laughing.
JimRichter
Sep-13-2006, 6:16am
Classic Compton.
During IBMA last year, I was hanging out in Butch Robins' suite and saw/heard one of the best Compton/Grier performances ever. Butch and David have talked about it since, and both know how "magical" it was. I talked to Mike a little about it, but in typical Compton fashion, he didn't make too much of it.
Anycase Mike and Grier were on the money, signalling each other through telepathy, doing outrageous renditions of Sweet Lizzie and other such stuff. A little later on Chris Henry joined the jam, as well as Shin Akimoto who is a wonderful Compton style mandolinist. I chose not to play cause I would have been over my head (and I was tanked on John Hamlett's (sunburst here at the Cafe) moonshine.
I sat in the middle of a wall of Monroe inspired sound and heard a fierce competition between Shin, Chris Henry, and Mike. They did a Roanoke that almost made me sh## my pants. And as good as Shin and Chris are, they could not whip Compton imho. Mike's got such a southern bullheaded Mississippi thing going on, that he's not intimidated by anyone, except maybe his mother and WSM. That was the first time I'd heard Chris Henry play and was deeply impressed. When Mike excused himself from the jam, Steve Gilchrist then picked with Chris and Shin and Monroe-fest continued.
Jim
ilarn89
Sep-13-2006, 6:36am
Well, I'm headin' down to Owensboro this weekend. I hope you guys didn't use up all the fun. Definitely got me looking forward to the trip. Monroe CD already in the player.
Lane Pryce
Sep-13-2006, 7:32am
She musta been peed cauz it sure looks like she done popped him in the lip!!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif Lp
robinsmith
Sep-13-2006, 2:18pm
The funniest moment (for me, at least) was Mike Compton impersonating Bill Monroe:
During the faculty concert, Chris Henry took a stunning break to a tune they were playing, and the look on his face said that he knew it, too. When Mr. Compton went up for his break next, he gave a quick glance back at Chris and then launched into a *nasty* (and I mean this in the best possible way) and *very* aggressive break full of ridiculously fast downstrokes.
He then followed this by turning around to Chris, leaning in towards him, and giving him this look that said "*That's* how it's done, boy."
Just like Bill, in other words.
The main difference being that Mike followed it up with a huge grin. I about wet myself laughing.
I thought the funniest moment was Mike Compton imatating David Grisman saying Bill Monroe was trying to play like him. You know how he moves his head from side to side like an Indian dancer.
John M. Riley
Sep-14-2006, 9:14am
I was there too this past weekend. It was great and it really brought my mandolin playing back to life.... I hadnt been playing alot lately and it got me going again..Did I jam with any of you guys down there....i was playing the rattlesnake f5..
John M. Riley
Sep-14-2006, 9:18am
and playing down by the pool too..
wayfaringstranger
Sep-14-2006, 11:41am
Yep, you jammed with me (I had a Rose f-5 and was playing guitar on saturday night).
john
John M. Riley
Sep-14-2006, 11:38pm
ok,your the feller from around lexington.. you sure had a good sounding rose. That was some fun jammin out at the pool...
Here is another photo that I took at the Old Home Place near Rosine, during our trip up last week. I wonder if they had a good jam at the pool last night? Wish I was still there.
jmpullen
Sep-15-2006, 5:15pm
Yes Marcus, wasn't it a wonderful weekend ? The picking and singing at the pool was the highlight of each day for me...
Most fun I've had in years. I sure hope we can all get together again soon. Memories I won't soon forget ! Jim
John M. Riley
Sep-17-2006, 1:20pm
Hello Jim!! It was great. Im just now getting back home from the smokey mountains. Me and the wife took a little trip. Maybe next time ill come over and we can pick some! See ya around
robinsmith
Sep-20-2006, 7:23am
Hey...where are the pix from session 2?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
Brady Smith
Nov-07-2006, 10:32pm
I'll throw a few up, so to speak. From round #2.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/100_0774.jpg
Brady Smith
Nov-07-2006, 10:33pm
another
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/mandoconcertpics001.jpg
Brady Smith
Nov-07-2006, 10:33pm
again
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/mandoconcertpics004.jpg
Brady Smith
Nov-07-2006, 10:34pm
one morehttp://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/mandoconcertpics005.jpg
Brady Smith
Nov-07-2006, 10:35pm
another
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/mandoconcertpics009.jpg
Brady Smith
Nov-07-2006, 10:36pm
last one....hope ya liked!
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/mandoconcertpics007.jpg
pcnky
May-28-2007, 12:29pm
another
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/bsmith712/mandoconcertpics009.jpg
We thought they looked like a police lineup .... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif