cant make this stuff up folks...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271540509790...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
cant make this stuff up folks...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271540509790...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
LOL if that thing sells, I'm going to start selling my autograph.
I once knew someone who had a brother who knew some guy that had an uncle who jammed with Jimi Hendrix! My autograph should be worth a few hundred bucks on ebay. (OK my Hendrix story if fake, but if it's on ebay, it must be real)
2012 Gibson F5 Custom Goldrush (Harvey)
2014 Rover RM-75 F
bowlback mandolin (1890's to 1900 era)
"Does not Ship to Spain".
Oh, dear. What a shame.
Only $300 too. Looks like I missed out on the Monroe-related bargain of the century there.
Gibson F5 'Harvey' Fern, Gibson F5 'Derrington' Fern
Distressed Silverangel F 'Esmerelda' aka 'Maxx'
Northfield Big Mon #127
Ellis F5 Special #288
'39 & '45 D-18's, 1950 D-28.
Thank goodness the seller thought to put up three photos. Might not have gotten a real good idea what it looks like from just one.
Oh, and its condition is "used." Now THAT is truth in advertising!
BTW, it's not a former Bluegrass Boy's hair, but his son's. If it were Edd Mayfield's hair, that'd be a whole 'nother somethin'. Still wouldn't be no part of nothin', though ...
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
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naaah i'm not interested, it's 'used'...
Sadly, I don't think even serious hair collectors would be very interested. Got HAS?
"Mongo only pawn in game of life." --- Mongo
In case you couldn't figure it out on your own, the seller and, ah, provider are in cahoots. Here's his album artwork - after the haircut - and the liner notes. Also a rendering by the seller of the fellow, before haircut.
Man! Times must be hard for some folks. Just amazing what some folks will put out there in hopes of making a buck or two.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
And I thought I had seen it all! Nope!
This is so absurd, I wasn't going to comment, and then I had to come back and say... No Comment!! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha
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... I'm a California Man!
No case?
c.1965 Harmony Monterey H410 Mandolin
"What a long, strange trip it's been..." - Robert Hunter
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Think Hippie Thoughts...
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
I was getting used to Monroebilia being treated like relics of the saints, but this is 'way past that.
The relic of someone whose father used to work with one of the saints…the chain of provenance has a missing link or two...
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Well, he's starting off with the hair off his head; if this sells we'll see what comes next.
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
And a minor player at that. Says the wiki:
In the summer of 1951, Bill Monroe's guitarist, Carter Stanley, left the band, and Monroe, who had heard of Mayfield, offered him the vacant slot as guitarist in the Bluegrass Boys. At the time he joined the Bluegrass Boys, Edd Mayfield was described as "a handsome, tough-as-barbed-wire cowpuncher, who literally grew up on a ranch, who could ride hard, lasso accurately, and literally toss and tie up a bull. . . and had the wiry strength of a gymnast.”
On October 28, 1951, Mayfield made the first of his nineteen recordings with "Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys", but he left the group within a year and was replaced by Jimmy Martin. In 1954, when Martin had left the band, Mayfield rejoined the Bluegrass Boys. A few months later he again quit.
In early 1958, Mayfield returned to Monroe for the last time. He contracted leukemia, became ill while on the road with the band, and, within three days of being stricken, died at a hospital in Bluefield, West Virginia. He was thirty two.
He sounds like a character. BTW, I assume that "nineteen recordings" means that many songs, not albums. There's a good bit more about him and The Mayfield Brothers in this article, co-written by Allan Munde. And the lineup was Edd Mayfield, guitar; Herb Mayfield, mandolinl; Smokey Mayfield, fiddle. So, at long last, actual mandolin content! Connect enough dots ...
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
Surely this is a joke, right?
Shaun Garrity
http://www.youtube.com/user/spgokc78
No joke, Skip Kelly hadn't ever seen it before!!
Might make for a very engaging hatpiece..
It certainly would be a conversation starter in some circles...
"why, do you like it? i'll have you know it's an original...etc..etc..
Thomas Quinn
I used to be 6'-4" tall once. Do ya'll think I could sell the 1'-5" I'm missing by posting it on EBAY also?
Skip, are you interrested?, haa.
David Mayfield's barber must be rolling in his grave (assuming he has passed)
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
In all fairness to Monroe fans and connecting to one of his greatest lead guitarist/singers, this may be as close as we can get to old Edd. Not saying I need to or want to get that close to Edd. I'll just listen to the Monroe/Edd recordings and try not to think if he had hair or not. Now if this was Big Mon's hair!!!
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