The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, OR
The Third Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering is a "Tenor Guitar Weekend", with tenor guitar music happening every night and every day in Astoria (and nearby Gearhart), Oregon from Thursday night May 31st through Sunday night June 3rd.
More information is available here.
Plays bass guitar, tenor guitar, guitar, and mandolin for 'The R.u.B.'
"I know it's only rock-n-roll, but I like it." - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Gonna be a good one. It'll be nice to have Lowell Levinger and Spider Murphy playing full sets, although it looks like perhaps we won't have Marcy Marxer back.
On my way out of town yesterday, I stopped by the Astoria Guitar Company, which hosted the first two Tenor Guitar Gatherings ... and it's gone! The shop moved out and left an empty space. The custom leather shop that occupied another space in the same building is also gone.
So I guess we'll have another space lined up for jamming and workshops, but I will miss that guitar shop.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
The Priest and the Publicans: Gospel bluegrass out of the box.
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Donaldson • Rigel • Thormahlen • Andersen • Old Wave • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Roberts • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Ed, Martin
I'm taking tenor banjo lessons from Spider... wow, kind of like sitting beneath a fire hose!
I'm going to help Spider produce some products. What kind of stuff would folks at the Gathering most appreciate?
"But no well informed person ever called the picking of the mandolin music." New York Times, 1897
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Products? Um ... the "Play Like Spider" hand prostheses? Spider Murphy's All-Purpose Oil Soap? The "No, Not THAT Spider Murphy; Seriously, Do I Sound German to You?" T-shirt?
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
The Priest and the Publicans: Gospel bluegrass out of the box.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know.
Donaldson • Rigel • Thormahlen • Andersen • Old Wave • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Roberts • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
How about instructional materials? DVDs, books?
"But no well informed person ever called the picking of the mandolin music." New York Times, 1897
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Ah! Yes, I think folks at the TGG would be interested in that stuff. I might buy something that taught fingerpicking patterns, for example, since the rolls I know are pretty basic. Focus first on handouts to support the workshop, but do a DVD if you have time. Maybe a "Spider Teaches Blues" book would be nice: chords, comping patterns, progressions, fills, and lead playing.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
The Priest and the Publicans: Gospel bluegrass out of the box.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know.
Donaldson • Rigel • Thormahlen • Andersen • Old Wave • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Roberts • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Man, I would love to go to the TGG, it's just not in the cards this year. I hope I get to go next year assuming there will be one. Does any one have any experiance on how difficult it is to fly with a tenor guitar?
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
I took an international flight to Greece with a tenor guitar in a gig bag (among other instruments) and didn't have a problem carrying it on. But that was several years ago.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
The Priest and the Publicans: Gospel bluegrass out of the box.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know.
Donaldson • Rigel • Thormahlen • Andersen • Old Wave • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Roberts • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Plays bass guitar, tenor guitar, guitar, and mandolin for 'The R.u.B.'
"I know it's only rock-n-roll, but I like it." - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Lowell's 5 string [FCGDA] is an interesting bit of added range,
but would dropping so far into the bass clef be falling below tenor voice?
sneaking into baritone range ..
Y'all come back next year, good to drop in for a jam with new people
in addition to those who live here..
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
YouTube vids from this year's gathering.
Plays bass guitar, tenor guitar, guitar, and mandolin for 'The R.u.B.'
"I know it's only rock-n-roll, but I like it." - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Ed! You were there and I didn't meet you?
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
The Priest and the Publicans: Gospel bluegrass out of the box.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know.
Donaldson • Rigel • Thormahlen • Andersen • Old Wave • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Roberts • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Martin, I wish!
I got the YouTube video links from the Tenor Guitar Gathering page on Facebook, and thought I'd share them here for others (like me) who were not able to attend.
Maybe next year? (Though Oregon is a long way from Ohio)
Plays bass guitar, tenor guitar, guitar, and mandolin for 'The R.u.B.'
"I know it's only rock-n-roll, but I like it." - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
Amtrak.. you can play music all the way on the train.. & catch the bus from Portland..
[no airport TSA strip/cavity searches ]
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
Re: The 3rd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering: 5/31-6/3 in Astoria, O
vincit qui se vincit
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