Mandolin cafe is as important as water.Agree?

I just need to take a moment to express how much I love Mandolin Cafe. So if youll excuse me for just a moment, Im going to do so. When I wake up in the morning one of the first things I do is dive into this web site. Its pure, positive,mature,and informative. It's one of the few websites I can honestly say after surfing through makes me feel literally happier. It allows all of us to display our passion for our instruments un-interupted,And its not just the site that makes it a great thing, but its the respect everyone who goes on it seems to have for the site. They keep it real and help make it great place for anyone to go who is passionate about something. So that being said thankyou. If anyone else would like to share what Mandolin Cafe has done for them and the impactit has had on your love for the mando then Id thrilled to hear about it, as would many others on here.


Demetrius

[mmukav]

It's a great site! Scott should be applauded for his efforts. (and patience!) Ditto on the above, and just the amount of good info you can get on this site is outstanding! Mike http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[katmando3]

I, too, love this site! I have learned an incredible amount here. I try to surf here everyday ( and generally several times). It's an unbelievable wealth of information and I thank you, Scott, for providing it for all of us.

[Unseen122]

All that is so true. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Scotti Adams]

..yep..beats anything I have ever stepped in http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif seriously..I would be lost without this place....I agree with everything that was said up above....thanks Scott

[jim simpson]

Kudos to Scott for creating such a great site for our community. It sure is cool to hear from such a diverse group of pickers, makers, etc.
Thanks Scott!

[chipotle]

I agree with you gdae_boy1. Great post!

my 2¢...

Reading the posts on the message board here were very instrumental in getting me to actually attempt to learn to play the mandolin. I just started learning about 4 months ago, I'm 44 and have never played a stringed instrument. I love the fact that there are so many folks here of many degrees of talent and expertise that will take the time to help out a raw rookie that really has to work at it.

Thank you Scott for the site and everyone who posts here, this site is educational and motivational! Everyones participation really make this a superior forum.

[bjc]

My friends think I have an addiction...and they are right...but as an electric guitar player I LOVE the support I've gotten here...just wish 6-stringers could be as supportive and helpful...I check it a few times a day even (and SHHHH....) when I am at work...

Well theirs my point, Look at what everyone on the cafe has to say so far in reguards to this topic. These are pretty positive feebacks.I do hope your seeing all of this Scott. I used to go on the computer and waste so much time just trying to find any good info on the mandolin, it would take forever to sometimes never find what I was looking for. Not on here though, you put up a post and pow! sec later you get some amazing in depth answers. I havent even been left hanging yet.

Demetrius

[levin4now]

I was surprised at mandolin camp last week how many people had not heard of the Mandolin Cafe website. We should have a few new members soon!

[duuuude]

I can't begin to describe the leaps and bounds my mando world has been through since finding the cafe soon after beginning. There's no way I would be anywhere near where I am now with either playing ability or knowledge, and I would never have met the pickin' buddies I have who only serve to drive one another farther along! We truly have our own unique little world here.
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[drelb]

I'm here several times a day as well and have found it a very valuable resource for just about everything mando related. I've changed pics and recently bought a mando > $3500 based on many of the remarks the group has made. Thanks Scott for a job very well done.

[sirmando]

Well I am new to the mando and have lots of info. to help me in many ways. I tell everyone I meet that likes the mando to check out this site. When I first started to play the mandolin I would look forever to find something that would only take me a couple seconds. Thank you scott for this site and to all the people who posts here!

[ira]

important as water? maybenot...but, a big part of my daily existence, certainly. i check the cafe numerous times a day, and have learned a significant amount about the instrument, different musical genres, and technical equiptment from the postings. i have also garnered a sense of comraderie which i didn't think possible through a website that has now transfered to a periodic in person get together. quite amazing.

thanks scott for the forum, but also thanks to all of you out there who make the forum what it is.

Count how many glasses of water you had today. Now count how many times you went on the cafe . My point exactly!

[Russ(String-Alley)]

yes!
one of the most important mando places on earth. I may not have been on the boards a lot as of late but thanks to this place, my playing gets better so my gigs get more frequent, this summer has been my busiest ones ever. hands down.

Thanks Scott for giving us a home!
cheers and single malts
-Russ

[RobP]

Ditto to all the above. I like to "hang out" here several times a day as well. My kids tease me about how often I leave Mandolin Cafe open on the computer. It feels like a community out here -- and I appreciate all who post and also all who mostly lurk and learn, like me.

Cheers,

Rob in Oregon

[jbrwky]

Not me. I started out, you know, just experimenting with Co-mando and then tried a little Mandozine, but just on the weekends. Then someone said "have you tried any Mandolin Cafe?" Of course I said no way! I couldn't afford it number one,(MAS which is contagious BTW, don't let anyone tell you otherwise), and then I was afraid of the kind of people that used that site etc. But this guy said no, really, it's cool and all that addiction stuff is just losers who can't take it. Wellll, next thing you know I'm looking at it two, three hours a day, which was OK as long I was home. But then entire weekends would go by and I couldn't remember where the time went. Finally I'm on it at work and my performance suffers and of course it's noticed. Now I'm on the street, no Loar, no Gilchrist, just begging passers-by for a Sweetpea, anything you know, to get me through till the next jam. Nosiree, I wouldn't tell anyone about this stuff. I'm really afraid I'm headed for Pac Rim dementia. Probably end up alone, with a PePekk F2.

[mpeknox]

without mandolin cafe i would have never learned to fear the big hand. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[cam]

Yeah thanx for a great site Scott and all contributors - this is what the net's for.

[Sellars]

Definately! having seen a lot of music related forums, this one stands out as the best, head and shoulders!! keep up the good work!

[Scott Tichenor]

Thank you, but much credit goes to Dan Beimborn for optimizing the software that runs this so it could withstand the demands we place on it. Job well done, Dan. Also, thanks to the members who really make this a great place to hang out. Carry on, and have fun.

[Scotti Adams]

..lets hear it for Dan..a one and a two and a... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[mandodebbie]

Because of this site, I no longer feel alone. Not like back in high school when the group of boys who practiced their banjos and electic guitars every noon hour sent a friend -( they were too proud to speak to me in person )- to tell me to stop hanging around when they were jamming. You see, I wasn't tall and gorgeous enough in thoses days. And I only played classical guitar. I wished I would have picked up the mandolin back then. But would my life really have changed?
Who knows? Something to bring up in therapy, I guess.

[CapnScarlett]

Here goes...post number one!

I found this site a little over a month ago while looking for mandolin information. #I'd just bought one on a whim and wanted to learn about it (as it's my first instrument that's not a hand-me-down). #Generally I figure out instruments very quickly, but the speed at which I'm progressing on the mandolin is unbelievable. #I have a feeling it's got something to do with this site. #I found the song/tune projects board, and hopefully will be posting a recording of "Fisher's Hornpipe" tonight if all goes according to plan. #

I'll admit I'm addicted. #I'm definitely at work right now! #

Kate

[ira]

i guess i was wrong, it must be as important than water. just looked at my profile and i have over 1500 posts.
i thought i had a life!!!!!!http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Damnation Gulch]

I've learned so much in such a short period of time, some things went under my radar till after I purchased my recent mando but that was nobody's fault but mine. I dig this place and yes everyone seem to be very helpfull.

[elenbrandt]

This place is like heroin and it just costs me money. Will I stop? #Noooooooo!
"We covet what we see every day." #Hannibal Lector

That eye candy section led me to Hans Brentrups' door begging for mercy and new mandolins. #I ask you...Where else on earth can you find out about single-malt, high grade coffee, string tension,study hiaku and anagram technique, the history of bluegrass -- all at the same time -- and have "Big-daddy Tichenor" keep us all behaving enough so that he doesn't have to turn the car around? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif

[Ted Eschliman]

Once again were on the same page, Counselor; where else on the internet but the MC board can you get "One-stop" service to equip you in:
Proper Boozin'
Caffeinating
String Physics
Japanese Poetry
Word play
History
And of course, an occasional spanking...
(Did I miss anything, Elen?)

[derrickrc]

I am new to the mandolin and and the cafe but two things come to my mind which stand out as outstanding about this site:
1. People on the site are pretty civil. I have been on some sites which people use as a podium/soapbox to put others down, I haven't yet seen this sort of behavior.
2. Being new to the mandolin, the cafe has been extremely helpful. I don't write on the message board but I read it alot and Man the things you can learn!
To the mandolin cafe and all brothers and sisters in music-
Keep up the good work. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[pathfinder]

The best things in life are discovered through word of mouth or random chance. #And in my experience, the Mandolin Cafe is one of these things. #Just a civilized, democratic place where 5,000 people across the world can exchange ideas, advice, techniques and experiences. #Scott Tichenor should be held up as the poster boy for what the Internet is capable of doing.

[Flatpick]

The people are what make this site worthy of our time. There is wealth of imformation, the picture posts are my favorites. The topics don't move too fast to keep up with. I've been on some guitar sites like Harmony Central and you post something and it gets buried before anyone has a chance to reply to it. I guess it's just a more laid back here. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif

[John Bertotti]

gdae_boy1 I'm with you all the way. This is one great place. Like any family there is an occasional disturbance. I actually negleted this section of the board for a long time after one disturbance. But for the most part this is great. I am just amazed that someone isn't posting something all the time. I actually get dissappointed when I check and thereisn't anything knew in certain sections of this board. I also think it is a positive influence on the younger crowd. God knows that now a days they need positive places to go. Three cheers for Scott. HIP HIP Hooray!!! John http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[elenbrandt]

I have to say that I have met some really dear friends on this site. I may never have the pleasure to sit at a table with them, or pick tunes, but they are treasured nonetheless. It is like an extended family who doesn't complain about who's gonna get Grandma's good china. (Granted, we spend some days shredding each other over our choice of instruments and strings...) Day or night, happy, lonely, excited about an accomplishment -- you can plug in and feel connected. We need to remember to be grateful and good to Scott, or he will put a chain link fence on the playground. # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif

[berkeleymando]

An excellent site, filled with resources
Lots of knowledgeable people exchanging ideas
Enough pictures and enticing luthierie to inspire mando lust in the most frigid of hearts
Long live the mandolin cafe!