Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks? Here I'm just a youngster. I started at 53 - never played anything but hand drums, jug, and washboard before. I hope to actually learn to play one day....
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Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks? Here I'm just a youngster. I started at 53 - never played anything but hand drums, jug, and washboard before. I hope to actually learn to play one day....
I was at that GAMH Jug Band Revival show. It was all part of the 2nd Annual San Francisco Jug Band Festival.
Jim Kweskin, Goeff Mudaur, Maria Muldaur, Dawg, and John. The highlight of the night...
For mando I nominate Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore, "Back to Back." I know, technically not a duet since they have an astonishingly good back up band, but the band does let the mandos take over. The...
Couldn't sound worse. Could it?
Wayne
I was going to buy this mandolin a few years ago. Then I ran into Pomeroy #13 and fell in love. Technically #8 isn't a Pomeroy. It is made by Don and is a fine mandolin. #13 is the first of Don's...
I use the Boss. Sturdy, 7 EQ, really gives a boost to my Mandoblaster. Highly recommended.
Wayne
I was not born on Friday the 13th (it was a Tuesday) but my 13th birthday was on Fiday the 13th. This Friday the 13th I turned 58.
Wayne
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Absolutely mind-blowingly beautiful!!
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif You really make me wish I had been there.
Wayne
Mark,
I've lived in the Davis area since 1977 when I moved to Winters from the Bay Area. I had three small kids and spent most of my time working and doing family stuff but I got out every now and...
PsuedoCelt, you certainly have the modalities of learning correct. We learn "visually" by seeing, "auditorily" by hearing, and "kinestheticaly" by doing. Traditional academics primarily focus on...
I've flown Delta many times with no problems. It has always been to Montana (visiting my folks) so I've had to switch to the Skywest planes in Salt Lake - still not a problem. I've never had a...
So far LoS only has High Sierra and something called the All Good Music Festival in West Virginia on their schedule (although nobody seems to have told All Good - LoS is not on the website schedule)....
I'm getting my High Sierra tickets tickets today! Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain, Del McCoury, Chris Thile and How to Grow a Band, the Waybacks, Hot Buttered Rum, and Strings for Industry (?Darol...
Crowder,
I was going to say something about my Pomeroy too. The first thing that jumped out at me was the sustain it has.
Wayne
wesley,
I had the same reaction. A racing mandolin. Beautiful, classy, bet it sounds great.
Wayne
Amen to that Garnet! Fantastic topic. We've got a bootleg cd of the Great American String Band (it's my girlfriends - she's a Jerry worshipper and grabs anything he's on) so it's good to read...
I had to miss Supergrass this year because of work. I was really disappointed because I had such a great time last year. All these pictures are wonderful and almost make me feel like I was there....
I know and understand so much more than I ever have (the books, dvd's, methods, lessons have helped that). But I don't always know how to apply it - and I blame that largely on not putting in the...
Thank God, I'm not the only one. I know I need to practice more, spend more time with my instrument and listen, and play some more. But I always seem to have a hard time making that time to practice...
Mandroid,
I favor pottery jugs. It was B.D. Tite who said, "Any old jug can hold likker but not all jugs hold music." (or somethin' like that.) A guy in the Bay Area, John Cowan, plays an old coal...
Benignus
I guess I tried to point to two examples in my experience. I neglected to mention that the guy with the Stella was a kid from Palo Alto who had the wherewithal to own a Martin or whatever...
What a wonderful topic this has been. It is going to step on some toes because we're talking about the reasons, both concious and unconcious, we choose the instruments we choose. We like to think we...
I've seen them once live - they just kicked my butt. Still love them but I tend to think of them as a neo-jug band. Yeah, no jug, but what can you call a band that starts off a cd with "Down Home...
The jug band I play in does that song regularly - it's a favorite of the banjo players' who kicks it off. Way fun tune.
Cool website!
Wayne
It is amazing how there can be such a difference between strings. Of course if they're a different gauge than what your mando is set up for there is automatically a problem. Whenever I get a mando I...