BauerHaus
Apr-16-2009, 4:11pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250301
Dang it.....I meant CAPONE.
billkilpatrick
Apr-16-2009, 5:03pm
wow! ... great story - know where can we hear the song?
Patrick Gunning
Apr-16-2009, 9:06pm
“At one point he got into a fight with an inmate named Lucas, and Lucas stabbed him in the back,” Eig said. “Capone responded by hitting him in the face with his banjo.”
LOL
journeybear
Apr-16-2009, 10:52pm
OK folks, we can add Al Capone (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50348&highlight=Capone) to the list.
According to the article linked in that thread, "Capone could read music and liked to play a banjo and a mandola, which is like a mandolin, only bigger".
Who knew?
I sure didn't. The sensitive side of Scarface - wow!
“At one point he got into a fight with an inmate named Lucas, and Lucas stabbed him in the back,” Eig said. “Capone responded by hitting him in the face with his banjo.”
We've been warning people for years about the dangers of banjos. :))
Thank goodness he had the presence of mind to use the banjo instead of the mandola. That could have been tragic! :disbelief:
“This may be the only time a gangster actually had an instrument in his instrument case.” :))
BTW Bill, it looks like they are in the process of recording the song now, and presumably it will be available in a month or two. If anyone has the resolution to blow up the sheet music, you can get the jump on it. The lyrics are actually pretty nice, very romantic. Indeed - who knew?
Dan Hoover
Jun-18-2009, 10:57am
i wonder if he wrote down the tabs for it???