View Full Version : What is your Kitchen Tapes....
telepbrman
Oct-25-2004, 10:00pm
We all know the story about the Kitchen Tapes, how Dawg just played and played and practiced and practiced with this to the point of wearing it out....so, what tape/cd is your Kitchen Tape? My KT is: Bluegrass Extravaganza. I have played it a hundred times, and it is the blueprint for my ear training, technique, and feel. I would like to add that a close second is Dawg's Old and in the Way recordings.
I'll keep you posted...dy.
siren_20
Oct-25-2004, 10:16pm
The Grisman/Garcia album, the first one...if it was possible to wear out a CD by playing it over and over, I would have gone though several copies of that one. It was my first real exposure to mandolin...and it's a great CD! Unfortunately I pretty much have it all memorized so I don't listen to it that often.
mrbook
Oct-25-2004, 10:19pm
When I was in college in the early 1970s I ran a coffeehouse on the campus. A local bluegrass guy called and said he had some friends passing through who were staying with him for the night, and wondered if I had an opening. I said we could only pay $100, which turned out to be okay, so one Monday night we had three sets from the Country Store - Dick Smith, Bill Rawlings, Chris Stifel, and Jimmy Gaudreau on mandolin. I borrowed a Wollensack tape recorder from the A/V department and taped the show with their permission, and have listened to it ever since. I first transferred it to cassette, then minidisc and CD. I never copied the breaks, but learned almost all the songs, and it was one of my biggest inspirations.
Whenever I get together with my friends we pick in the kitchen. We push the table aside, sound is good, beers are close. And no other distractions -except food.
Tony Rice's "Native American". http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
davestem
Oct-26-2004, 12:27pm
Tony Rice Unit: Unit of Measure.
oh.....yeah, me too. can I change mine? damn. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
wayfaringstranger
Oct-26-2004, 1:32pm
Skaggs and Rice
eightstrings
Oct-26-2004, 2:15pm
Chris Thile's "Not All Who Wander Are Lost." I love it!
Brett
mandoJeremy
Oct-26-2004, 2:43pm
Bela Fleck's "Drive" and Tony Rice's "Manzanita". I have worn out one copy of "Drive" and am on my second copy now. Just great stuff on both albums.
doublestop
Oct-26-2004, 3:22pm
Staats and Shaffer.....I've never heard cleaner tone from a mandolin player!
acousticphd
Oct-26-2004, 4:02pm
Todd Phillips et al "In the Pines" is a favorite for a few years now. Love listening to Mike Marshall's solos.
mandoplayer15
Oct-26-2004, 4:47pm
Chris Thile. NAWWAL.! Awesome CD. Chris Thile's new CD , Deceiver will soon be a close second.
SternART
Oct-26-2004, 5:10pm
Todd Phillip's "In The Pines" is a great CD........some nice Reischmmann solos on that one too.
Flinner transcribd that CD for Mel Bay. Used to be a book of the tunes in notation & tab.
Baron Collins-Hill
Oct-26-2004, 5:20pm
i second NOWWAL, greatest thing ever
mandoJeremy
Oct-26-2004, 8:59pm
You know, Todd personally gave me that "In the Pines" Cd and autographed it at Rockygrass '96 when we were playing there and I don't think I have played it since the first time. NOT impressed and neither was one of my Rice bandmates.
mandopete
Oct-27-2004, 7:07am
Neat to see all these mentions of Tony Rice here on a mandolin website. I have two:
Tony Rice - Cold On The Shoulder
John Reischman - Field Guide
acousticphd
Oct-27-2004, 3:20pm
You know, Todd personally gave me that "In the Pines" Cd and autographed it at Rockygrass '96 when we were playing there and I don't think I have played it since the first time. #NOT impressed and neither was one of my Rice bandmates.
mandoJeremy,
Will you take $5 for your signed CD? Just in case I get caught on the island without mine?