Post A Picture Of Yourself

[AlanN]

U da man, Scotti, strap and all...

[Scotti Adams]

..yea Alan..I couldnt let you down...

[Mando4Life]

very nice Scotti.....kinda look like the makings for good album (er....sorry....CD...) covers to me

[Scotti Adams]

..ya think? when I do get my solo project together I will go back and look at these. My wife took some better ones on a regular camera...these were taken with that cheap digital that seems to never want to focus...

[Jack Roberts]

I'm on the left.

[mandodude]

Great pic, Jack!





pssssst... uhhh, Jack? How come nobody's lookin' at you guys?

[mandodude]

Oh!! #Now I know why!!



...check out your left hand!



Might wanna try that tune in a different key.

[Jack Roberts]

Mandodude: Now that you mention it.... major oops there: that comes from playing in G to keep the banjo player happy!

That was a gig from heck. It was is in a barn where the sound was spectacular when there was nobody there, but once it filled with people there was no way an old timey acoustic band like us could be heard. Probably a blessing for those who showed up. For a while after that gig the guitar players talked about getting amps and mics, but I told them I was bad enough unamplified. It's amazing how much veto power a mandolin player has...

They had a bunch of hay bales there in front of the "stage" and all the young people parked themselves on the hay bales. Actually, I was very happy to have so many young people there.

I'll see if I can't get pictures of our group playing at the rescue mission. The last few times we have been getting a great reception. (Maybe we're getting better).

Thanks for the kind words, Mandodude...

Jack

[mandodude]

Hey, Jack!

Your photo brought back memories for me. I did my share of "barn parties" back in the day... I remember one in particular where more folks spent the evening out in the barnyard playing with a goat than in the barn listening to us!! No lie!! And in the "adding-insult-to-injury" department, that's the party that the local newspaper decided to come out and do a story on!! And what a great article it was... a column-and-a-half on the goat (including a photo!) - a one-line mention in the last paragraph on our band! I've still got the article, too... every time I'd get to thinkin' that I was hot stuff, I'd pull it out and put myself back in my proper place...

;-)

I think it's great to see the young folks showing up, too. Ain't it something how kids and hay bales seem to attract each other?? They don't set up hay bales down at the rescue mission gig, do they?

BTW - hard to tell in the photo... whaddaya pickin' on there (the mando, not the song!)?

Keep on havin' fun, Jack... although I'm sure you are!

M'dude

[mandodude]

BTW - I don't have a pic of us playin' at that barn party, but I'd be happy to post a pic of the goat, if'n you're interested!...

;-)

[mandodude]

Hey, Christine!

Which one's you... the "red-x-in-the-box" or the "Attached Image?"

;-)

P.S. #Pour me a cup too, please!

[Tom C]

The size is probably too big.

[Jack Roberts]

Mandodude:

I'm picking a '58 Gibson A-5 "Jetro Style". Two points. Sweet sound, and great for the style I like, but it's a good thing those two dreadnaught guitars and the banjo are standing behind steel music stands, or I would never be heard.



Thanks for the kind words.

[straight-a]

Here's one of me with a friend's Rattlesnake. Wow! What an instrument!

[mandofiddle]

Here's one taken a few days ago on vacation in Moab (note the sunburn) with my almost 2-year-old boy Emmett.

[Christine W]

Now thats something to be proud of. He is such a cutie, glad to see you starting him early!

[fatt-dad]

Dear NG,

Here is my travelling Korean-made Montana. My daughter is the photographer. Today I'm taking my distressed Ibanez to Panama. Not much else to do, but wake up the customers at the Marriott - ha.

f-d

[Nik-chick]

mandodude and streborkcaj: Am I missing something? What's wrong with G?

I was just thinking the other day about how there's something special about a gig where they have to clear the livestock out before you can have the stage...the smell of manuer in the "backstage" partition especially.

mandodude: YES! Post a pic of the goat! *L* A column and a half? Was that a slow news day or what?

[John Rosett]

"there's something special about a gig where they have to clear the livestock out before you can have the stage."
we played at a bull auction a couple of years ago. we were in the pen where the bulls were shown. (thankfully after we played) we were kinda worried that they were going to let one out before we were done.
"there's no such thing as a bad gig." -jethro
"here's the song that knocked 'em dead at livestock '99"
-john

[frets1]

Check out my DAWG music!!

[Scotti Adams]

..Big Mon and I back in 1979..Im 40 now..you do the math

[Scotti Adams]

..one more..

[Scotti Adams]

..those pics were taken at Beanblossom in 1979...I found them in some of things my mom had. If you look close...thats Butch Robins on banjo, Randy Davis on bass..and right over my shoulder is Jesse McReynolds...that was at the Sunset jam that Bill used to host....Pretty cool times for a young aspiring player like myself..

You Rock Scotti. What kinda mandolin did you play back in them days?

[Scotti Adams]

..that was one of them dag burn Alvarez'...I think I had two of them..I had that model you see there and I had the higher dollar model with all the ornate inlay....I thought I was somthing.. what you cant see is Im peeing down both legs...at the same time..in time with Sally Goodin..