Ronnie McCoury

[carleshicks]

I saw The Del McCoury Band last night at the Ark in Ann Arbor Mi. After the show Ronnie took me back in their dressing room and we picked for a half hour or so. What an amazing mando player. he helped me with the chords to Baltimore Johnny which I have been playing wrong. Then he let me play his Loar, what a fine Instrument. It has some things that are different than some of the other 23 loars I have played. The ribs have a quilted figure and are stained very dark all the way around with very little contrast from light to dark. The point protectors wher not dovetailed either. He said that when it was found it had hardly ever been played and had been under a bed for so long that the back was split from the neck heel to the center of the back. he sent it to Steve Gilcrest for repaire and it was fixed perfectly. At first I thought that it sounded way better than my Master Model but after he A B ed the two a couple of time his loar was only slightly loader but the tone was almost identical. He said that if I used j75 instead of j74 I would get some more volume and then he tossed me a new set. Ronnie is a super nice guy and an excelent musician I thuroughly enjoyed my self.

[AlanN]

I bet you did. I get so jazzed up picking with the greats that it makes all the knucklehead jams I've been in seem inconsequential.

[cooper4205]

he is a quality guy, i got a chance to talk with him last weekend, and he told me the same thing about his loar and that it still had some opening up to do. that's awesome you got to pick with him, i would have been too nervous to even pull off a chop.

[SternART]

Those McCoury fellas are a class act!

[mandopete]

Way, way, way cool - congratulations!

[bgmando]

You're the luckiest of dogs!

Thanks for great report.

I watched Ronnie at a fest one time treat a young kid to his Gilchrist and encourage him about music.
He's super.

[jaco]

My favorite bluegrass band. What a picker. Hope you got some pics that's one for the kids, grandkids whatever.

[carleshicks]

No I didn't get any pictures. i didn't even think of that.

[Rick Schmidlin]

I look forward to Ronnie ad family in Vancouver this November.

[tope]

An evening to live for, congratulations. And how are the J75s on your MM?

[Mikey G]

I've seen him play that Loar and it sounds great. Of course, Ronnie could play a 2x4 with strings and make it sound pretty sweet. I'm looking forward to seeing Del and the boys at IBMA next Friday. A buddy of mine told me that Del was going to stop touring with the band in the near future. I sure hope that's not true. Ronnie is a tremendous mandolin player, and I love the harmonies with him and his dad.

[carleshicks]

Tope, I have not tried the J75's yet I just put a set of exp74's on 2 weeks ago and they have a lot of life left in them.

[chopz]

I saw The Del McCoury Band last night at the Ark in Ann Arbor Mi. After the show Ronnie took me back in their dressing room and we picked for a half hour or so. What an amazing mando player. he helped me with the chords to Baltimore Johnny which I have been playing wrong. Then he let me play his Loar, what a fine Instrument. It has some things that are different than some of the other 23 loars I have played. The ribs have a quilted figure and are stained very dark all the way around with very little contrast from light to dark. The point protectors wher not dovetailed either. He said that when it was found it had hardly ever been played and had been under a bed for so long that the back was split from the neck heel to the center of the back. he sent it to Steve Gilcrest for repaire and it was fixed perfectly. At first I thought that it sounded way better than my Master Model but after he A B ed the two a couple of time his loar was only slightly loader but the tone was almost identical. He said that if I used j75 instead of j74 I would get some more volume and then he tossed me a new set. Ronnie is a super nice guy and an excelent musician I thuroughly enjoyed my self.
Sound like a class-act, no wonder The Del McCoury Band has won the IBMA Entertainer of the Year Award 9 times.

Can't wait to see them at Dollywood next week!
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[mandoman4807]

Charles,
You may have to modify the string slots on your bridge and or nut to fit the j 75`s correctly.When my MM was built and set up initially, they used the 74`s. When Dave Harvey put the larger 75`s on, he had to made the slots slightly larger on the E and G positions for fit and intonation.

Darrell

[carleshicks]

That will be alright I enjoy tinkering with mandos as much as playing them.

[Chadah77]

I too, am looking forward to seeing the DMB at Dollywood , Whoa! Tomorrow!!!
I can't wait. We are gonna to try to go both days. Then on Friday and Saturday, Gonna go to Townsend, TN. for the Old Timer's Festival. Should be pretty good.