View Full Version : Fern #81408: Grisman's.
telepbrman
May-18-2005, 2:03am
Do we know of any good photo's of this mando? Is this the "Old and In the Way" Mandolin? The one with the block inlay, then the Apollon fingerboard? I am wanting to get a good eyeball on this "Old and In the Way" Mandolin...thanks, dy.
Not the greatest photos, but:
81408 at the mandolin archive (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl?1168)
siren_20
May-18-2005, 9:22am
You might also want to try the "Shady Grove" album, as well as the first "Tone Poems".
f5joe
May-18-2005, 11:24am
Dan, those pictures are fantastic. I should know, I took them!
Darryl Wolfe
May-18-2005, 12:11pm
Yep #F5Joe goes way back too. Obviously, it was Joe, myself and Grisman there together checkin' out mandos. #As a matter of fact, at one point Joe had all that Grismanesque hair.. like in those pictures too, but I think Joe would agree that Grisman looks tame there compared to Mike Marshall who was standing just around the corner http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Darryl Wolfe
May-18-2005, 12:13pm
Smile, ps..the pictures are great, my scans of them aren't..note the very early Paganoni case it is in.
telepbrman
May-18-2005, 1:19pm
Thanks all. I have the two Acoustic Disc Old and in the Way CD's, and also the Shady Grove....any other areas to see? Thanks, dy.
Darryl, my hair was "prettier".
Hell, I just wanna keep my hair now!
Picture from Frets magazine of mandos owned by Grisman in 1988. Top- Gilchrist octave mandola, left to right- Kentucky Dawg, 4-12-23 Loar, '25 Fern, Monteleone Grand Artist.
ronlane3
May-18-2005, 9:39pm
The finance and accounting side of me can't help but do the math on that collection. Rough estimate about $240,000. Wow how sweet is that.
om21ed
May-18-2005, 9:51pm
has he ever recorded with the dawg ?
SternART
May-18-2005, 9:57pm
If I'm not mistaken the Dawg's Fern is pictured in one of the Tone Poems booklets, that go with the CD's.
Might be Tone Poems I with Tony Rice.......someone check me on that, I don't have the booklets handy.
Greg H.
May-18-2005, 11:07pm
You are correct. He plays it on 'Dawg After Dark' on the first of the Tone Poems CDs. Tony is playing a 1939 Gibson J-100 on that one. The Griffith Loar and David's '23 Loar also make appearances in that book.
chirorehab
May-18-2005, 11:38pm
He used the Kentucky dawg on his instructional cds...
telepbrman
May-19-2005, 1:23am
Geno---The photo is from a Frets rag in 88?
Yeah, June '88. None of us old guys in our right mind would throw away those old Frets. Here's the cover of that issue for the younger folks who missed it.
telepbrman
May-19-2005, 1:02pm
Thanks for the info....I'm on the hunt, dy.
jefflester
May-19-2005, 2:00pm
Yeah, the Kentucky is the only one of that batch worth risking for that cover shot. But he's probably not really balancing it, since you can't see the whole body. :-)
That dawg is the one on the cover of Dawg Grass/Dawg Jazz.
jefflester
May-19-2005, 2:14pm
That dawg is the one on the cover of Dawg Grass/Dawg Jazz.
And the cover of Dawg '90.
Waittaminute, are we talking about the Dawg (plink-plink) or the dawg (woof-woof)? :-)
I remember see the quintet in '82? I believe it was the Mark O'conner era.
They were playing Ricochette -all on mandos of course, and at one part of the tune, they all started throwing their mandos up and catching them. Gently of course and with their straps on.
Lefty&French
May-19-2005, 2:55pm
Remember this one ?
Thanks, L&F, I don't believe I've ever seen that one.
Lefty&French
May-19-2005, 3:02pm
Alan, it's Mondo Mando 1981 LP inside sleeve.
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The one record I don't have.
That's a great album, great cover art, and great photo on the sleeve. I wish they would reissue it on CD.
pd
Lefty&French
May-19-2005, 3:28pm
OK Alan, I know what I can do for you !
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Milles merci!