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Ransome
Jun-03-2009, 4:29pm
Thanks, I am still reeling from it. I had thought that after a month it would be better, but nothing is like losing your father.

kristallyn
Jun-03-2009, 4:44pm
hello ransome
I know.. I lost my dad 4 years ago, and I lost my brother ten years ago ( yesterday was the 10th aniversary of his passing) and lost my dear mum only recently on january 12th 2009
you cant expect it to get easier after a month, in fact, for me it only really started after a couple of months, as if all of a sudden I woke up and realised she was really REALLY gone, not visiting my sister in scotland or just gone shopping ..
I still reach for the phone everyday, because I d call her every morning hi mama..how are you today, she was allways happy and positive and she was my very best friend in life, I miss her so much, it takes my breath away sometimes,..
there are good days,..when I don t feel it so much, I m happy doing things with my husband and the kids, enjoying music, etc..but than it hits me when we get home and I want to call her to tell her all about it

in time, it wont be so "sharp" anymore, the edges will fade..and you ll be able to think of your dad with a smile more..and not so much with tears burning in your eyes and heart
for now..just accept the pain, grief is just the price we have to pay for the love we received and gave
it is a high price, but mums and dads are well worth it!
take care!
kris

Charles E.
Jun-07-2009, 7:02pm
I took the cigar box mando to Mt. Airy this weekend and had a grand time. Here is a photo of me playing the box and my friend Eric playing the bell mando I built back in 04.

jim simpson
Jun-07-2009, 11:01pm
You've got to love the Summer (almost) months of outdoor gigs. This is from last Tues. playing at Wheeling Park's outdoor bandshell. Today (Sunday) we played an afternoon gig at an allday fundraiser then went on to play an evening concert outdoors. The weather was just about perfect.

Christy
Jun-08-2009, 3:22am
Thanks, I am still reeling from it. I had thought that after a month it would be better, but nothing is like losing your father.

Sorry to hear about your dad. It's a really hard thing losing your parents. My dad died last year, and my mother died just 10 days later. We had their memorial service together last spring. I am still reeling from the loss. One thing I have found is that it is a long process, that seems to have many layers to it.

Big hugs to you,
Chris

Soupy1957
Jun-08-2009, 4:39am
http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/Soupy1957/Mandolin/SteveandLoar.jpg

billkilpatrick
Jun-08-2009, 5:05am
soupy ... for the love of pete, please stop it with these tantalizing LV600 photos. 36 or so days to go till i get mine - do you think you could cool it till then?

bill - bereft (and counting)

mandopete
Jun-08-2009, 1:03pm
soupy ... for the love of pete, please stop it with these tantalizing LV600 photos.

Hey, leave me outta this!

:)

Mike Bromley
Jun-08-2009, 11:28pm
This pic had to post. On a recent (today) trip home from Hamilton, Ontario, where I was the Worst Man at the marriage of Kelly Jay (in the white protest shirt) we ran into two of Kelly's old pals: Officer John, and children's entertainer Fred Penner. The gag was to apply a Taser ;)(cell phone) jolt to Kelly to prepare him for the picture.

Mando Content: The globetrotting Cafe Ball Cap.

:))

kristallyn
Jun-09-2009, 2:10am
new picture WITH mandolin this time
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/kriswijkstra/GEDC1165.jpg

Soupy1957
Jun-09-2009, 3:55am
Hey Bill...............who's "Pete????" I never said I loved anyone named "Pete!!" (lol)

Paul Statman
Jun-09-2009, 11:17am
Hey Bill...............who's "Pete????" I never said I loved anyone named "Pete!!" (lol)

I believe that's mandopete, and the gentleman has already requested that he be "left out of this", as he would like to retain the love he has for his coffee-town 'Joe' and his mando (probably why he added it to his name). Now we all need to back off before he gets mad - and nobody want to see that, I'm sure...:whistling:

billkilpatrick
Jun-09-2009, 2:07pm
... no ... no-no.

Portel
Jun-14-2009, 1:34pm
Me in the car, yesterday,
When I had just bought my first mandolin :-D

http://94.100.113.205/612600001-612650000/612633001-612633100/612633062_6_q7n7.jpeg

billkilpatrick
Jun-14-2009, 3:28pm
congratulations! long life and happiness to you all ... (you, your car, your mandolin and a long list of future members of the cast...)

Portel
Jun-14-2009, 3:50pm
congratulations! long life and happiness to you all ... (you, your car, your mandolin and a long list of future members of the cast...)

It's not my car, it's my dad's :-)
I hope the mandoline will last long, it's not much specials.
It only costed 60 euros, wich is extremely cheap.
At least, the highest string didn't last too long. I tuned it in the shop, I played a little and it broke.

Maybe, someday I'll buy a better one.
But I want to focus on guitar, since I also play guitar.
I play acoustic guitar for almost a year and a half, and electric guitar since almost a year.

hendrix2
Jun-14-2009, 4:48pm
Hi Portel,

I see you followed my advice to come to the mandolincafe!
Be warned, you will be infected with MAS here, a lot!!!

Portel
Jun-15-2009, 12:31am
Hi Portel,

I see you followed my advice to come to the mandolincafe!
Be warned, you will be infected with MAS here, a lot!!!

Already happened,
My mandolin isn't much special,
I want an F-style mandolin!

Haha, but I can always buy a better, goodlooking, mandolin once I know how to play it.

Jim MacDaniel
Jun-15-2009, 10:25am
From our annual Fathers Day sojurn to the North Beach Festival (this year they tried to throw us off and held it a week early. ;) ). The pictures have no mando content, but Al Fabrizio and Hugo Wainzinger were performing Italian classics on mandolin and guitar, respectively. Plus there was someone performing solo on a Nickleharpa, which I found fascinating. (Sorry, the music-related pics are trapped on my wife's phone, so I'll have to post them later.)

Dusty
Jun-16-2009, 7:50pm
....At the Eddie Pennington Festival in Princeton, Ky ..... busting out on Raggedy Ann.

DavidHowell
Jun-18-2009, 10:52pm
Here's two recent pictures of me and then a picture of the first mandolin I got. It had a problem with it so they let me exchange it for a similar model at the store.

kristallyn
Jun-28-2009, 5:10am
finally some pictures were taken of my band SUGARBEAT yesterday during a gig at a radioprogramme
not playing the mandolin here, but both the other guitarplayer and I play mandolin on occasion in the band

http://www.kristalmusic.nl/mediapool/64/644941/images/DSCN5610.JPG

http://www.kristalmusic.nl/mediapool/64/644941/images/DSCN5613.JPG

interview with the sugarbabes of sugarbeat :))
http://www.kristalmusic.nl/mediapool/64/644941/images/DSCN5637.JPG

and this is our BIGGEST youngest fan giving me a kiss
http://www.kristalmusic.nl/mediapool/64/644941/images/DSCN5630.JPG

Mike Bunting
Jun-28-2009, 8:00pm
[QUOTE=kristallyn;683909]finally some pictures were taken of my band SUGARBEAT yesterday during a gig at a radioprogramme
not playing the mandolin here, but both the other guitarplayer and I play mandolin on occasion in the band


Was that at the Dokkum radio station?

kristallyn
Jun-29-2009, 6:54am
no it was at radio havenstad.fm in delfzijl ( province of groningen in the netherlands):)
I drove past dokkum this morning when I took my son to the ship he is on
he is learning to be a fisherman
this is my son( proud mum) it s a picture taken for a large expo in the netherlands about fisherman that still catch their fish the old fashioned way( no mass production or damaging the sea etc)
http://wwww.hugoschuitemaker.nl/foto/a/2.jpg

Paul Statman
Jun-29-2009, 11:13am
:confused: Do we need a new thread here..?

JEStanek
Jun-29-2009, 11:39am
Nope.

Jamie

billkilpatrick
Jun-29-2009, 11:59am
how about a line?... maybe a reel or two ...

kristallyn
Jun-29-2009, 12:09pm
it wasn t my intention to go off topic or annoy anyone
srry bout that

Mike Bunting
Jun-29-2009, 12:24pm
That'd be me that headed in a different direction. Sorry about that.

billkilpatrick
Jun-29-2009, 12:25pm
"sorry" for what? ...

unflappable; rarely - if ever - on topic - bill

Jim MacDaniel
Jun-29-2009, 1:19pm
it wasn t my intention to go off topic or annoy anyone
srry bout that

The title of this thread is "Post A Picture Of Yourself", and by logical extension of loved ones, so you have been totally on topic IMHO.

Mando Gil
Jun-29-2009, 5:36pm
Having a bad day?

Jill McAuley
Jun-29-2009, 10:02pm
Kristallyn, that is an awesome photo of your son!! And well done to him for learning ways of fishing that are kind to the sea!

Cheers,
Jill

kristallyn
Jun-30-2009, 12:56am
thanks jill, he has asperger syndrom and life hasn t been easy on him so far, so we are really proud of him, he is doing so well and is very conscious of our earth mother and wildlife preservation

Dan Hoover
Jun-30-2009, 6:28am
[ this is my son( proud mum)

that is a very cool picture kris...

kristallyn
Jun-30-2009, 11:35am
thanks dan, I mailed the artist to ask if maybe we could buy a copy of it...
I realy like it

Brian Krashpad
Jul-06-2009, 7:32am
I'm just learning to play mandolin. I borrowed my Dad's for years but never got round to it. He recently asked for it back (he can't play it either), so I went out and bought a cheapie Washburn electrified model to replace it. Yesterday in church was the first time I ever played mando in public.

Upshot: no pics of me playing mando, yet. But I have lots of pics of me playing guitar or bass, so here's a couple of those.

Guitar first:

http://b7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00301/71/26/301056217_l.jpg

Me playing bass for the late great Bo Diddley!

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/102/l_2145248932b2e067f4de50a80cabe81c.jpg

Shawn Gambrel
Jul-06-2009, 9:49am
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pickerfromhell
Jul-06-2009, 10:16pm
http://i0.tagstat.com/image01/8/1bdd/000305121Lt.jpg

I'm listed in the Celtic MP3 page on this site-you can hear this Mid-Mo I'm playing in the pic...yeah, it's been fine tuned fret wise, custom bridge and electrified by Fishman into a flamethrower. I own a couple of these gems.
I record professionally for motion pics.
Under contract for TNT.
Leavey and Associates agent.

Chris Bliss
pickerfromhell

woodwizard
Jul-06-2009, 10:51pm
That's pretty cool Chris. I noticed that you're an Arkansas boy... Hello neighbor. Also noticed that your bithday is the same day as my youngest son. He'll be headed up to U of A at Fayettville this August as a freshman. I use to play a lot at Joses' in Springdale and the one on Dickson St.

pickerfromhell
Jul-07-2009, 2:48pm
Yo-WW
I work just down the road from Jose's here in Springdale.
We occasionally hold our management team meetings in their private area.
The food is still great there too.
If your son is looking for some PT work while going to school, have him stop in and see us at www.supports.org
I'm the CCO there.
Like I said, we're just down the road in the Har-Ber Meadows sub-division.
chris

Mike Bunting
Jul-07-2009, 3:19pm
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Shawn, someone tipped you over!

Mike Bromley
Jul-08-2009, 12:16am
Couldn't risk taking the mando out in this...it was over 50 celsius (104 F), but had to show the reach of Cafe Influence.....:grin:

man dough nollij
Jul-08-2009, 12:30am
Couldn't risk taking the mando out in this...it was over 50 celsius (104 F), but had to show the reach of Cafe Influence.....:grin:

Hey Mike, between the two of us we've got it covered. Had wind chills of -65F/-54C here yesterday. Ambient temps below -25F/-32C, with winds gusting to 30kts. The scene looks really similar, too, except it's pitch dark 24/7 here.

man dough nollij
Jul-08-2009, 4:38am
Here's me at the McMurdo greenhouse, reflected in the space blankets on the walls. Mando content: I'm wearing my '05 Rocky Grass t-shirt.

man dough nollij
Jul-08-2009, 4:42am
The pic didn't stick...:confused:

Mike Bromley
Jul-08-2009, 5:08am
The pic didn't stick...:confused:

Help! I'm Melllllllllltinnnnnnnnnnng.....:disbelief::))

Dan Hoover
Jul-08-2009, 6:39am
lee and mike,you guys are my heroes for the day...from one extreme to the other...cheers to you...
Quote "Here's me at the McMurdo greenhouse, reflected in the space blankets on the walls. Mando content: I'm wearing my '05 Rocky Grass t-shirt."end quote..
that has got to be one of the funkiest pictures i've ever seen...well since saturday...looks like a pick??you should make that into one...
Quote " Couldn't risk taking the mando out in this...it was over 50 celsius (104 F), but had to show the reach of Cafe Influence...." end quote..
beige is not your colour,it should just be the colour of the cap on your head...how much dust can a mando hold??

Gerry Cassidy
Jul-08-2009, 9:17am
Couldn't risk taking the mando out in this...it was over 50 celsius (104 F), but had to show the reach of Cafe Influence.....:grin:

Mike,

I'll bet that was a middle of day shot? Man, that is just fugly! I was in the Navy and did time on picket duty in the middle of the Gulf. We had our dust storms that wreaked havoc on my radar antennas, but it was never as bad as what you're dealing with there. Thanks for what you're doing. Stay safe and hang in there Buddy.

jefflester
Jul-08-2009, 10:36am
Couldn't risk taking the mando out in this...it was over 50 celsius (104 F), but had to show the reach of Cafe Influence.....:grin:
50C is a heck of a lot hotter than 104F.

Paul Statman
Jul-08-2009, 11:30am
50c is a heck of a lot hotter than 104f.

50°c = 122°f

Shawn Gambrel
Jul-08-2009, 11:44am
44059

Here is me and a Jam Model

Mike Bromley
Jul-08-2009, 3:06pm
Mike,

I'll bet that was a middle of day shot? Man, that is just fugly! I was in the Navy and did time on picket duty in the middle of the Gulf. We had our dust storms that wreaked havoc on my radar antennas, but it was never as bad as what you're dealing with there. Thanks for what you're doing. Stay safe and hang in there Buddy.

Er, thanks, but don't thank me for heroics unearned! I'm just a wellsite geologist, and I don't see any hazardous things other than the occasional scorpion and some wacky drivers. The folks in the military, on the other hand, deserve all our gratitude. They have to be outside in stuff like this all day long. I have A/C.




50C is a heck of a lot hotter than 104F.

Yes, you're right at that. 122° F. And yes, it was that hot. Somewhere in my foggy dust-addled Oil Patch brain, I was mentally converting 40° C.

:crying::mad:~o):popcorn:

Gerry Cassidy
Jul-08-2009, 5:07pm
Er, thanks, but don't thank me for heroics unearned! I'm just a wellsite geologist, and I don't see any hazardous things other than the occasional scorpion and some wacky drivers. The folks in the military, on the other hand, deserve all our gratitude. They have to be outside in stuff like this all day long. I have A/C.

Well, you're still a heckuva lot closer to it than I am. That deserves some kudos, at least.

Gerry Cassidy
Jul-08-2009, 5:53pm
A little "Duc" in Advertising...:)

The white square in the upper right is the new Mandolin Store sticker. It's a cool new logo. I wish it came out a little clearer.

Nothing like a little mobile advertising, huh? :))

Plectrosaurus
Jul-08-2009, 9:26pm
Let's see if this works.

Wesley
Jul-09-2009, 12:01pm
It looks like someone forgot to send the banjo player the "Navy Blazer" memo. Or maybe that's just how banjo players are....

lenf12
Jul-09-2009, 12:41pm
He got the "navy blazer" memo. He just can't read :))

Len B.
Clearwater, FL

JEStanek
Jul-09-2009, 1:21pm
He got the bolo memo tho... ;)

Jamie

RyanRussell
Jul-11-2009, 10:07pm
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=838184764&pid=1966250&id=838184764

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs168.snc1/6293_101386414764_838184764_1966250_1827486_n.jpg

The ban on flash photography makes me look a little shadowy. :))
:mandosmiley:

edit note: img tag did not work

Mike Bromley
Jul-12-2009, 6:25am
He got the bolo memo tho... ;)

Jamie

BOLO....Be On the Look Out, oops, right....banjo player...D'oh!

Mark Gibbs
Jul-12-2009, 10:01am
I do some art work with my photography. The mando is my Givens F5 that i dought new in 1976. Check out my new mando listed under Post a Pic of new mando. Anyone interested in photography? check out www.photomark1.smugmug.com Mark Gibbs

jim simpson
Jul-12-2009, 11:01pm
Today we (Charlie Dynamite & His Short Fuse) played an afternoon gig. We were amused by the group of beer kegs in front of the sign: parking for priest
Seemed like a good photo op, I'm 3rd from the left.

mandopete
Jul-13-2009, 9:54am
We were amused by the group of beer kegs in front of the sign.

Did you check to see if there was anything left in those kegs?

David M.
Jul-14-2009, 8:47am
Love that sign by the kegs.

Here's a couple of pics of a gig I had on June 30th for the county arts council. Marc (maj34) helped me out. Marc's on the left and was playing a Huss&Dalton dred and a Unicorn A. I'm playing a D35 and a Flatiron F.

At the end we had a couple of good buddies come up and do some fiddle tunes w/us. Fun gig, good turnout, nice cool weather.

Roger Wheeler
Jul-14-2009, 9:52am
Great pics David! Wish I coulda heard ye

Roger Wheeler
Jul-14-2009, 10:07am
Backstage with Chris Hillman Oct. 09 Workplay Bham AL. I"m playing my lefty Collings MT and Hillman is sporting a custom Red Diamond. He was showing me his song "The Other Side"

Roger Wheeler
Jul-14-2009, 11:09am
Great pic!!! Would love to meet Sam my own self

freshthreat
Jul-18-2009, 7:20pm
Here's me, mandolin and a few "other" friends!:))

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Steve Cantrell
Jul-18-2009, 8:59pm
I think I recognize you from a Fretboard Journal Article, Roger.

Roger Wheeler
Jul-20-2009, 12:56pm
Hey Steven, you are correct. I was lucky enough to have been in Hillman's class at the Fur Peace Ranch the weekend Eric Futran did the article for the Fretboard Journal and to have my pic included. He also got a really cool shot of my right hand playing with a fellow student, Robert Eustis from New Orleans, in the background. Being a southpaw came in handy for that pic!! Thanks for noticing.

Frank Silver
Aug-05-2009, 1:57pm
Here's my hat - spotted, but no me.

Frank =^..^=

Frank Silver
Aug-05-2009, 10:09pm
/Users/franksown/Desktop/P1010201.JPG

mandopete
Aug-06-2009, 8:50am
Here's my hat - spotted, but no me.

Frank =^..^=

That looks more like a kitteh.

Mike Bromley
Aug-06-2009, 9:00am
That looks more like a kitteh.

Burdock is in shock.

mandopete
Aug-06-2009, 9:08am
...ala I Can Has Cheezburger (http://www.icanhascheezeburger.com):

Mike Bromley
Aug-06-2009, 9:12am
Teh? Is taht like "meh" for catz?

mandopete
Aug-06-2009, 9:18am
Iz lolspeak.

Steve Cantrell
Aug-06-2009, 9:25am
mandopete, ur doin it rite.

Frank Silver
Aug-06-2009, 8:17pm
?? all of a sudden I can't attach pictures - why ?

JEStanek
Aug-06-2009, 8:38pm
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openair/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/cat.jpg

Are you posting photos from your PC or from a Web location? See some instructions here (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43924&highlight=post+photo).

Jamie

Frank Silver
Aug-09-2009, 4:41pm
OK ... here's my hat

JeffD
Aug-09-2009, 9:41pm
Frank thats a cool looking mandolin! What are the details?

Frank Silver
Aug-10-2009, 3:52pm
Thats my 1919 A - sounds and plays OK - tuners a bit tight, original era - but not to the mandolin pick guard. I play my Stinnet F5 about 99%, this just a wee bit, but it has some good mojo.

woodwizard
Aug-12-2009, 2:57pm
3 of us pickin at an old friends B-day party this past Sat. I'm in the middle. :mandosmiley:

Richard Francis
Aug-12-2009, 4:22pm
Here's a picture of me playing in front of a bunch of kids at a church conference (Synod School of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., if you're interested). Most of the time I was on stage with the band, but when things started jumpin' (yes, Presbyterians do get excited) I came down to be with the young ones.

Not great music, perhaps, but a heckuva lot of fun. As the Man said, "Suffer the little children..." :))

Darren Bailey
Aug-13-2009, 6:47pm
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Andy Miller
Aug-13-2009, 7:27pm
A friend snapped this picture of me singing at his kid's birthday party. I like to caption it "scared of balloons."

Hans_k
Aug-16-2009, 2:25pm
Today we played at an "American Sunday Afternoon". We had a great time, being surrounded by great American Cars and playing American music.

Tracy Ballinger
Aug-16-2009, 4:20pm
Today we played at an "American Sunday Afternoon". We had a great time, being surrounded by great American Cars and playing American music.

Hey Hans! Nice pics... and nice lookin' Jade there, too! ;)

GRW3
Aug-17-2009, 9:11am
Finally got caught with a mandolin in a picture. I'm surprised my wife didn't tell me to smile but it's a pretty typical look for pictures. It may be the most visible expression of my Scotch-Irish background as I look more German (square head included) from my paternal grandmothers family.

stratton7584
Aug-17-2009, 2:09pm
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Ben Milne
Aug-21-2009, 6:52pm
I took a few photos of mr mandos recently and happened to take a few happy snaps.
okay... here's me and my 2 mandos...

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/enginearing/100_2306.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/enginearing/100_2267.jpg

mandopete
Aug-22-2009, 10:08am
Smile for the camera?

:)

Charley wild
Aug-22-2009, 10:23am
Sorry I don't have any mandolin pictures at present. How about a lap steel photo? Aren't they closely related?:)

Paul Statman
Aug-22-2009, 11:12am
How about a lap steel photo? Aren't they closely related?:)

No, they are not- but your knees look like they might be related..

Mike Bromley
Aug-29-2009, 1:26am
The workstation & the worker, always at the ready....:cool:

billkilpatrick
Aug-29-2009, 2:47am
... rock star!

Bertram Henze
Aug-31-2009, 4:11am
Mike, is that a million audience of bacteria gazing at you backwards through the microscope (makes you look really big)? :))

Mike Bromley
Aug-31-2009, 4:44am
Mike, is that a million audience of bacteria gazing at you backwards through the microscope (makes you look really big)? :))

Actually, it makes THEM look really big. Nothing like a klatsch of surly paramecia to make for a hard-to-please crowd. Especially if they start multiplying. You ain't been tomatoed until a bunch of intracellular plasma comes flying up the oculars.

Now that I've established an oozing glob of a metaphor, it is merely mundane little chips of limestone and dolomite with the odd pertoleum globule peeking tentatively out of scattered pores...

"Can ya play 'Beverley Hillbillies' for me, Mike?"~:>:whistling::mandosmiley:

mandopete
Aug-31-2009, 8:46am
Looks more like Devo to me with the jumpsuit and all.

:)

Keith Wallen
Sep-11-2009, 10:44am
Here is one from a photo shoot with the band this week.

catmandu2
Sep-12-2009, 7:09pm
Goodness...135 pages and I've never looked in on this thread. Nice to see some of you with whom I've been sharing this board!

Adam McKillip
Sep-19-2009, 1:57am
Weddings make for snazzy pictures with mandolins.http://photos-b-0.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs231.snc1/7830_164312780925_535195925_4069961_5680463_n.jpg

tartan phantom
Sep-19-2009, 10:17am
This one was shot by a friend at a very smoky cigar-bar gig:

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/87/l_965495aa196f4566a1aeef69054faac5.jpg


Hamming for the (pretty) female photographer at an outdoor festival:

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/109/l_28f6e6fde8bf47e2bd6c70e83ff688e7.jpg

Larry S Sherman
Sep-25-2009, 11:17pm
Here's one from this summer...starting to get cooler in New England now.

Larry

Shawn Gambrel
Sep-26-2009, 9:12am
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New F5G

Mike Bromley
Sep-28-2009, 3:03pm
Uh-oh, the hardy Jordan Valley Ground Squirrel is stealing mandolin content around the Dead Sea....:))

JEStanek
Sep-28-2009, 3:19pm
Mike, for more Squirrel fun see this thread (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54808).

Jamie

billkilpatrick
Sep-28-2009, 4:58pm
Uh-oh, the hardy Jordan Valley Ground Squirrel is stealing mandolin content around the Dead Sea....:))

salty dog ... salty squirrel ... maybe alvin will come out of retirement and give you a hand with your xmas special album.

"... i still want a hula-hoop ..."

D C Blood
Oct-05-2009, 6:12am
recent show...my step-daughter, me, and my wonderful wife...:cool:

Matt DeBlass
Oct-05-2009, 6:40am
Messing around at home

buckhorn
Oct-05-2009, 8:09am
i always shudder when i see people wearing bibs (hog washers) and playing music... i just see all those snaps and zippers and can only imagine the backs of those great instruments...lets just put a T-shirt or sweat shirt over those buckles and save the beauty of all that finish work....i may be out of line , but be careful leting bib wearers with your instruments ........keith

Matt DeBlass
Oct-05-2009, 8:23am
i always shudder when i see people wearing bibs (hog washers) and playing music... i just see all those snaps and zippers and can only imagine the backs of those great instruments...lets just put a T-shirt or sweat shirt over those buckles and save the beauty of all that finish work....i may be out of line , but be careful leting bib wearers with your instruments ........keith

Maybe we could invent and market a "mando-bib" to hang around your neck to keep the snaps from scratching your axe? Like a big lobster bib, but with a picture of an F-5 on it?

D C Blood
Oct-05-2009, 1:29pm
I couldn't agree more about the bibs...I've tried to tell them, and they understand. They are not planning to ever sell those guitars, so a few marks on the back are not gonna bother them. A '94 D41 (my wife's) is not a particularly high value collector item. The D-76 Bicentennial model might be, but it was in pretty rough shape when we got it, so it's not likely to matter about a few marks. They won't play anyone else's guitars while wearing them, though...:disbelief:

Sam Bush Fan!
Oct-05-2009, 1:59pm
<This Is Me

Mike Bunting
Oct-05-2009, 2:09pm
Pointer bibs don't anything to hurt the mando on the front, one small horizontal zipper on the pocket that is above the instrument.

John Ely
Oct-05-2009, 2:58pm
Me in an old Mandolin Cafe chord t-shirt. (That was pure coincidence. My wife just happened to take the photo on a day I had it on.)

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7698/memandolin.jpg

catmandu2
Oct-05-2009, 3:46pm
i always shudder when i see people wearing bibs (hog washers) and playing music... i just see all those snaps and zippers and can only imagine the backs of those great instruments...

I do too...unless of course one is simultaneously washing hogs. In which case, it's understandable.

Dave Hicks
Oct-07-2009, 10:13am
Thwacking a bonehead G chord at the blues jam.

D.H.

46546

catmandu2
Oct-07-2009, 5:38pm
Eeeyew-all...with yer fancy little git-tars!

JEStanek
Oct-07-2009, 5:47pm
Catmandu. due to the position of the strings and your face, I read the REMO on the head as FIEND. Seemed appropriate. :))

Jamie

Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Oct-07-2009, 6:51pm
I've posted a picture bore but here are two new ones.

46549

This is our band, Route 58 playing at an outdoor arts festival. It was our 3rd hour playing, so we sat.

46550
This was at the BlueRidge Music Center just outside of Galax, VA at the Sunday afternoon Old Time jam. The guy with the banjo is my dad---we were taking a break from putting down hardwood floors in his house.

catmandu2
Oct-07-2009, 7:31pm
Catmandu. due to the position of the strings and your face, I read the REMO on the head as FIEND. Seemed appropriate. :))


Moderator, huh? Then I reckon yer the man to talk to to git this here a place named The Banjer Calf-hay.. Are ya with me boys?!! (And sonny, heh heh...yer hair is green!)

Elliot Luber
Oct-07-2009, 7:31pm
Uh-oh, the hardy Jordan Valley Ground Squirrel is stealing mandolin content around the Dead Sea....:))


Mike, which one are you?

woodwizard
Oct-16-2009, 11:43pm
Well here's one of me pickin' with my traditional oldtime string band at an Irish restaurant & pub called Kelt's this month. We're called "The Mountain Boomers String Band" .... look out now! :mandosmiley:

Gary Watkins
Oct-16-2009, 11:53pm
Just doin' what I love!:mandosmiley::)):popcorn::grin:

Mark Gibbs
Oct-21-2009, 9:39pm
Here is a photo of me and an accompanist preforming Beethoven Sonata for Tuba and Mandolin No. 8, 3rd Movement. ;)

Would you believe we are playing for an October Fest? Well we are. :)) This was taken 10-17-09 at our local Elks club where we play annually. They have a "Really Big Shooow" Dinner, dancing and Beer. We are quartet , accordion and drums cropped out for the Beethoven effect.

K3NTUCKI8oy
Oct-22-2009, 3:56am
anyone posing with the new gibsons??

mandopete
Oct-22-2009, 8:15am
...or even the old Gibsons?

D18dave
Oct-22-2009, 11:32am
three guesses to figure out which one is me...

mandopete
Oct-22-2009, 4:41pm
D. All of the above?

Perry
Oct-22-2009, 9:06pm
here we are not having fun

sean808080
Oct-27-2009, 2:49pm
http://drop.io/download/public/mch0jegpmivv8drd9ulo/646d1828e0c704cbc14d41e55600e85922b3ae6f/ed339c50-a55f-012c-c4d1-f3acfb3e3e43/ee0f65e0-a55f-012c-70ee-f46d80a58f8d/v2/thumbnail_large

Practicing out on the deck.

Paul Statman
Oct-27-2009, 11:00pm
Practicing out on the deck.

You have a big deck, then? :whistling: (Sorry - I couldn't resist it..I just watched Drew Carey, Jeff Foxworthy & Co doing that bit again)!

man dough nollij
Oct-28-2009, 1:30am
Here's me hiking the Na Pali coast (about the middle of the north coast of Kauai) with impromptu Hawaiian hiking buddy, Jackie.

Mando content: I'm wearing my Rocky Grass shirt.




Full disclosure: Pic shot by Jackie's boyfriend...:redface:

Dan Hoover
Oct-28-2009, 9:58am
Here's me hiking the Na Pali coast (about the middle of the north coast of Kauai) with impromptu Hawaiian hiking buddy, Jackie.

Mando content: I'm wearing my Rocky Grass shirt.




Full disclosure: Pic shot by Jackie's boyfriend...:redface:

hey,you look very good without all that heavy winter clothing on... it's great to see that you kept a tan living in Antarctica for so long..who's the old guy next to you???:)):)) i'm sorry,couldn't refuse...enjoy your time there,you deserve it...but?how are you gonna leave that island?cheers

journeybear
Oct-28-2009, 10:16am
i always shudder when i see people wearing bibs (hog washers) and playing music... i just see all those snaps and zippers and can only imagine the backs of those great instruments...

It's true - the back of my old F-12 looked like it had been gone over by worms or miniature trench diggers or something. Might have been from buttons, especially all those post-"Urban Cowboy" western-style shirts I was wearing at gigs, the ones with metal buttons. By the time I noticed it was too late, much too late. :crying:

Keith Wallen
Oct-30-2009, 1:48pm
Here is a pic of the band playing in the Oregon District in Dayton Ohio last weekend. Dressed up a little...

LateBloomer
Oct-30-2009, 7:09pm
Keith you make a great hippie! Wish I could have been there to see and hear you!

ledmandlin
Oct-31-2009, 7:12pm
i have heard it for both of them, usually for the used for 'staches (for me at least) when they have that duane allman look

This is a long time after the quote, but I had to say, Duane wore a 'stache with mutton chops; it was Greg who had the big burns, no 'stache and a soul patch--FWIW.

To diminish the non-sequitor aspect of this belated thread, page 92 is where I found the misguided references to creative facial hair on icons not present to represent themselves; so, I took the liberty.

Carry on.

journeybear
Oct-31-2009, 9:35pm
... To diminish the non-sequitor aspect of this belated thread, page 92 is where ....

BTW & FWIW, when you quote somebody, there's a little arrow in the quoted section after the quoted poster's name that, if you click on it, takes you back to the quoted post. You can quote me on that! :grin:

Keith Wallen
Nov-03-2009, 3:56pm
Thanks LateBloomer it was a good time! I enjoyed having the big hair... He he

tburcham
Nov-04-2009, 12:41am
Here's a mandolin trio with your's truly in the middle (with my Silverangel F5)
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/album.php?albumid=602&pictureid=4219

Tim Saxton
Nov-04-2009, 12:31pm
Chiliwack Bluegrass Festival 2009

Tim Saxton
Nov-04-2009, 12:33pm
Tall Timbergrass @ Chiliwack Bluegrass Festival 2009

RichM
Nov-09-2009, 12:21pm
Okay, I've resisted this for years, but I actually kind of like this photo. This is the way I feel when I play, very intensely focused on the instrument. This is me trying out a Lyon & Healy Style A at Gruhn's... and yes, the L&H followed me home!

Larry S Sherman
Nov-09-2009, 5:06pm
... and yes, the L&H followed me home!

Really nice looking mando!

Larry

NickAlberty
Nov-09-2009, 5:29pm
Myself playing at War Eagle Mill in Rogers, AR.

JeffD
Nov-10-2009, 2:59am
a Lyon & Healy Style A at Gruhn's... and yes, the L&H followed me home!

One of those mandolins is on my MAS list.

Chris Rogers
Nov-14-2009, 12:27pm
Southern Gothic Tragedy at an open mic this week at McGrath's in Alameda, CA.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13392071@N06/4103508500/in/set-72157620799070692/

Mike Bromley
Nov-15-2009, 6:50am
Me and Gramps having a go at some Blues in the not too distant past, somewhere in Calgary....

catmandu2
Nov-16-2009, 12:47pm
Can anyone tell me how to post images (stills) from Youtube vid clips?

man dough nollij
Nov-16-2009, 8:44pm
Can anyone tell me how to post images (stills) from Youtube vid clips?

I don't know of a slick way, but you can always pause the video at the still you want, and hit the "printscreen" key. They open MS Paint (assuming you're on a PC), and paste the screen shot (ctrl alt v) into Paint. Then you can edit the resulting screen shot, cropping out the stuff outside the image. Kind of clunky; I'm sure there's a better way, but I don't know it.

catmandu2
Nov-16-2009, 8:54pm
Thanks Lee...I'll try it.

Fiddlin at The Blue Luna, Butte, Montana

somanyrhodes
Dec-09-2009, 4:06pm
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/somanyrhodes/TheNewBillMonroe.jpg

Mandoviol
Dec-09-2009, 4:24pm
I don't know of a slick way, but you can always pause the video at the still you want, and hit the "printscreen" key. They open MS Paint (assuming you're on a PC), and paste the screen shot (ctrl alt v) into Paint. Then you can edit the resulting screen shot, cropping out the stuff outside the image. Kind of clunky; I'm sure there's a better way, but I don't know it.

If you have a Windows machine, open the file (assuming it's .wmv) with Windows Movie Maker. There's a snapshot button that will allow you to take a still shot from the video and save it as a .jpeg.

If your video is only on Youtube, you can paste the Youtube URL in Media Converter (www.mediaconverter.org) and choose the file outpout type you desire. Then you can insert that clip into your editing software and get a picture from it.

I agree with Lee, there's really no super slick way of doing it; Nero's player will allow you to, but I'm not sure of others.

Brian Krashpad
Dec-09-2009, 4:57pm
I posted a couple pics a number of pages back, but since I'm a noob mando player, I only had photos of me playing other instruments (guitar, bass). It just occurred to me that a month or so ago, I was asked by some friends to sit in on their closer at an outdoor event, and thus now have pics of me actually playing a mandolin:

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs209.snc1/7617_148540623878_512618878_2581238_1963923_n.jpg

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs209.snc1/7617_148549448878_512618878_2581341_5695417_n.jpg

Not hardly the most flattering shots, and it's just a cheapie Washburn acoustic-electric I picked up for $85 on craigslist, but what can I say, I just started this year and am teaching myself. At least I ain't afraid of crowds, haha!

Pete Hicks
Dec-10-2009, 1:36pm
Here is a shot of me playing my homemade F-5.

Mandoviol
Dec-10-2009, 2:03pm
I do too...unless of course one is simultaneously washing hogs. In which case, it's understandable.

This is why I wear suspenders at jams where I'm standing...keeps the buttons off and the mando safe.

jasona
Dec-16-2009, 1:02pm
Picture of me with my handmade mandolin strap...

Scott Austin
Jan-02-2010, 5:52pm
Here goes

Mandolin Mick
Jan-02-2010, 6:48pm
48760

Me with my mandolin & car in Door County, Wisconsin. Labor Day weekend 2009.

Earlyman67
Jan-02-2010, 7:55pm
My band, I am not the hot one.

Leigh Coates
Jan-03-2010, 8:36am
My band, I am not the hot one.

I don't know, you look pretty hot to me!

mandolindude04
Jan-03-2010, 9:28am
http://http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=757471&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=1540066436&id=1540066436

This is a self portrait that I took on the last Sunday afternoon of 2009. I'm wearing the shirt and tie I wore to church earlier that day. I played my Mandolin for the service that day along with other members of our ensemble who play the last Sunday of each month at Intercession Episcopal Church.

mandolindude04
Jan-03-2010, 9:33am
Well, I couldn't get the pic to upload, or download or whatever....Any suggestions?

LKN2MYIS
Jan-03-2010, 9:58am
Okay, not with a mandolin, but during a recent visit to the Danube River valley (October, 2009).

Phil Goodson
Jan-03-2010, 1:39pm
Can anyone tell me how to post images (stills) from Youtube vid clips?

Here's one of the slickest things I've found for capturing part or all of a screen. Very elegant to use. I use it almost daily for one thing or another. (Like swiping part of a mando picture off the web. :grin: )
Usually works on those pages that do not allow right-click copying too.
NFI

5 clicks (http://www.screen-capture.net/screen-capture/SpiderReg.asp)
There's a free trial version. I've used the $9.99 cheepo version for several years. You can save, copy, paste, print, or whatever.
Again: NFI

Here's a little shot of a little corner of this post:

JEStanek
Jan-03-2010, 2:36pm
Well, I couldn't get the pic to upload, or download or whatever....Any suggestions?

Here's a post a photo tutorial (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?p=580215&highlight=post+photo#post580215).

Jamie

moledalin
Jan-04-2010, 2:42pm
My fav electric

jim simpson
Jan-07-2010, 7:18pm
We (Cabin Fever String Band) had our first gig of the year last Sat. evening. We even had a sold out crowd as a friend informed me when he called for reservations. It was so cold out, I expected a smaller audience but I guess folks are more rugged around here than I realized.

jim simpson
Jan-08-2010, 7:20pm
Today a friend emailed me pictures of a gig from last July, one of the hottest day of summer. I wish we had just a little of that heat now in Jan.
I am playing with Charlie Dynamite and His Short Fuse:

Ben Milne
Jan-26-2010, 9:42pm
Yes Folks, It's a 5 point F-style Mandohawk

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/enginearing/100_2662.jpg


after a full 12 months without a haircut, it was time to do away with the locks. Its summer here at the moment, so it took some dedication to leave the 12-month mop for the last two weeks. It feels so much fresher - As much as you guys above the equator have been in deep freeze thru the new year, we have been being roasted and basted here down under.


http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/enginearing/100_2641.jpg

man dough nollij
Jan-27-2010, 9:30pm
Here's a pic of me standing next to the geographical south pole yesterday. I got to do a quick boondoggle down there to see the new pole station. You can check out some more pics on my blog at http://pen-gwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/pole-boondoggle.html.

Mando content: It was colder there than the Peaks of Telluride!

JEStanek
Jan-27-2010, 10:15pm
Lee, that is pretty cool.

Jamie

Bertram Henze
Jan-28-2010, 4:07am
Looks like tee shirts are standard dress for the south pole...

Just imagine Robert F. Scott, reaching the pole frozen and half-starved, to find a big office block and probably a shopping mall, complete with a reception party, like "congrats, you're the 1000th visitor" :))

Fstpicker
Jan-28-2010, 6:49am
Playing my Mid-Missouri M-1 at an Irish Jam in Daytonahttp://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs071.snc3/13839_239192683202_626018202_4385609_3425613_n.jpg
Playing my friend's "F" model Breedlove...was it ever nice!
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs051.snc3/13839_239192613202_626018202_4385607_7090347_n.jpg

Jeff

Bcmando
Feb-03-2010, 4:43pm
Bobby Miller with his prized Duff F5.

NickAlberty
Feb-03-2010, 5:07pm
Myself (with mandolin) and our band, SpringStreet. We'll be at SPBGMA this weekend competing in the band contest.

GVD
Feb-03-2010, 5:10pm
Here's a pic of me standing next to the geographical south pole yesterday. I got to do a quick boondoggle down there to see the new pole station. You can check out some more pics on my blog at http://pen-gwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/pole-boondoggle.html.

Mando content: It was colder there than the Peaks of Telluride!

Looks like a C 130 interior. Make sure you're wearing good ear protection when you ride one of those noisy beasts. I wish I had done that myself back in the day.

mzurer
Feb-03-2010, 7:44pm
Here's me getting my little girl into the act. Since I only practice when I'm on vacation, I'm not all that much better than she is!

mandopete
Feb-03-2010, 8:33pm
Since I only practice when I'm on vacation, I'm not all that much better than she is!


Now that's a routine I could agree with!

ira
Feb-04-2010, 11:11am
getting ready to do some therapy with a group in a middle school with my dog otto (he is a therapy pooch-awesome!). no mando- but that is the cedar top guitar i was asking about on another thread (thanks for the help again folks- she is a cheapie but a diamond in the rough).

journeybear
Feb-04-2010, 12:42pm
I don't photograph well, but I was looking through my files and found some that ain't so bad, or didn't break the camera, or don't induce nausea. My favorite is the band shot from an outdoor gig:

man dough nollij
Feb-04-2010, 2:35pm
Looks like a C 130 interior. Make sure you're wearing good ear protection when you ride one of those noisy beasts. I wish I had done that myself back in the day.

Close, it's a New York Air National Guard LC-130, a Herc on skis. They are pretty loud, but not as bad as the C-141s they used to use for the Christchurch-McMurdo flights. Now we ride down on C-17s and even Aussie Aerbuses with windows and everything. Posh. I'll be hopping on a C-17 northbound in five days!

Mando content: Anybody have tab for Leavin' on a Jet Plane? :mandosmiley:

Mike Bromley
Feb-06-2010, 3:35am
First gig with the new BG band, the Stray Dawgs, Calgary, January 2010.

Good solid grimace goin' on. Love the condenser mic.:grin:

Soundfarmer Pete
Feb-06-2010, 5:22am
Twanging away on "Junior"
http://www.thewuffler.f9.co.uk/SKULL13.jpg
http://www.myspace.com/skullcrackerltd

freshthreat
Feb-06-2010, 9:15am
Here's me playin' some Aaron Copland in Phoenix.
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb149/freshthreat/phonixcassete078.jpg
And another with a few "friends".:grin:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb149/freshthreat/twomny007.jpg

Mike Bromley
Feb-06-2010, 11:54am
Here's me playin' some Aaron Copland in Phoenix.


How do you prevent tremolo-rash as yer stratoblaster digs into yer PRS?...or mando-clunk for that matter?

AlanN
Feb-06-2010, 12:16pm
Or go to the head, for that matter

Randy King
Feb-06-2010, 12:27pm
Lookin' for some Little Footprints In The Snow

Dave Gumbart
Feb-11-2010, 10:05pm
Well, there's a photo of me somewhere back there from at least 3 years ago (wow - long thread), and while no one's been clamoring for it, here ya go, fresh Dave from 2 weeks ago. Away for a weekend with a group of friends in not quite the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania - still considered a cross-country ski weekend, and this was year 30 in a row for this group. 30! I've been around for 20 of those years. Picture is slightly blurry, which is sort of appropriate. Must have been the random chord strumming part of the song.

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2010, 1:43pm
OK..Here is myself, Chet Atkins, Tommy Isenhour (F5LOAR) and Steve Brown (GLASSWEB)

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2010, 1:47pm
and another of myself with The Hester A5

JEStanek
Feb-22-2010, 1:48pm
That Chet Atkins one is a bit disturbing, Darryl. Headhunters in the Carolinas. :)

Jamie

AlanN
Feb-22-2010, 1:50pm
F5LOAR is choking poor Chet!

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2010, 2:25pm
Chet did look a bit better when he arrived in the back of the car (wearing a tux, of course)

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2010, 2:30pm
GLASSWEB got some foot action going on my snake A4

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2010, 2:33pm
But F5LOAR thought "you hear one snake A model, you've heard 'em all"

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2010, 2:35pm
Getting Chet ready for the ride home

STEViE Simpson
Feb-22-2010, 2:39pm
Me with mine....

Axl Resonator
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/46/l_34fdb08b51f641077db4e49dd46f9a5a.jpg

My Harmony an' me playin' Weyfest....
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/107/l_c7ef780c397d4c1c9b2b8fe624797c21.jpg

I have another two Harmonys, one's a bit older than this one an' the other is a lot newer from the '70s.

jim simpson
Feb-22-2010, 10:25pm
I'm not sure if 2 Simpsons can be posted in a row! These are from a Friday night gig - Cabin Fever String Band. It was a nice full house on a cold winter's night. Sound man, Len Smith, also took the photos. He's good at both and it was great getting reaquainted with an old friend.

mandopete
Mar-02-2010, 12:26pm
Okay, this thread needed a bump.

Here's me wearing my best Johnny Cash outfit as the emcee at last weekend's Wintergrass music festival. Thanks to Jean Gieger for the photo!

mandopete
Mar-25-2010, 8:46am
I missed your 7th birthday - can you ever forgive me?

I has a sad.

:(

JEStanek
Mar-25-2010, 8:47am
Bon Anniverary, Pete's thread. One of my favorites.

Jamie

wwwilkie
Mar-25-2010, 12:05pm
I'm on the far left with my first mandolin. It's some kind of Kentucky which I decided to paint blue one day. Played with these guys for 2 years '97, '98 based in Pekanbaru, Sumatra. We were called "Boedak Boedak Kecoh" which would roughly translate to "the Wild Boys".

danb
Mar-25-2010, 12:20pm
Getting Chet ready for the ride home

Seeing Tom holding a severed head and apparently picking it's nose with a tool reminds me never to make fun of his Nudie suits.

woodwizard
Mar-25-2010, 1:02pm
Me & my Old-Time band "The Mountain Boomers" the other night at JC's BBQ

Randi Gormley
Mar-26-2010, 10:26am
Oh look! there's the possum t-shirt! most cool.

scotto
Mar-28-2010, 2:41pm
let's see if this works...http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30992411&id=1012273233

Laurence Firth
Mar-31-2010, 3:25pm
This is me at an Open Mic in Los Angeles playing backup for my friends Nick and Nicole. Darn music stand is blocking a clear view of my mando!:grin:

56908

danb
Apr-12-2010, 7:05am
My son took this one the other day

JeffD
Apr-12-2010, 12:04pm
My son took this one the other day

You look like one of those CSI folks on TV. "Check the fingerprints on that Loar with all those at the festival..."

JonZ
Apr-12-2010, 12:16pm
Hell no! I need my privacy.

woodwizard
Apr-12-2010, 12:52pm
My son took this one the other day

Nice hat! :)

danb
Apr-12-2010, 1:01pm
hehe- the loar sniffers, coming soon to the bluegrass network..

chordbanger
Apr-17-2010, 9:13am
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg226/misstoy_photos/001-58.jpg

chordbanger
Apr-17-2010, 9:15am
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg226/misstoy_photos/005-14.jpg

mandopete
Apr-17-2010, 7:20pm
Proof postitive!

John Soper
Apr-18-2010, 4:26am
Everclear picture: 95 proof...

woodwizard
Apr-18-2010, 11:40am
Hot! 101 proof :)

mandopete
May-25-2010, 9:18am
Bump.

Brian Krashpad
May-25-2010, 12:13pm
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/138/l_ef8fc863d2ac4bb7affeb59cb2295ba4.jpg

mandopete
May-26-2010, 11:59am
Crash pad? That's a term I havent heard since the '60's!

:)

Nice looking guitars, two of my favorite models!

stevenmando
May-26-2010, 12:38pm
Great Mando content and love love the red tennis shoes seems I had a pair of thoes years gone by and they were comfortable to should get me a pair and start a post mando players in red or black comfortable tennis shoes .

Brian Krashpad
May-26-2010, 2:09pm
Crash pad? That's a term I haven't heard since the '60's!

:)

The term actually was given new life beginning in the late '70's and '80's (through today) when the punk and "alternative" scenes came into their own. A lot of those bands tour out of a single van, and seldom make more than gas money and maybe enough for bread and peanut butter to eat. As a result of the "DIY" ethic of the scene, local music fans and musicians would offer their places as crash pads to touring bands. Back in pre-internet days, there was even an annual publication called "Book Your Own F*cking Life" that listed venues, local bands to put on your bill/contact, and crashes state-by-state and town by town, both in North America and around the world.

A copy of BYOFL was lying around when I and a friend were choosing a name for a new punk rock and roll band I was forming back in '96. I liked the sound of the term "Crash Pad" more than anything else, plus the hard/soft dichotomy between the 2 words, so that was chosen as our name. As a stage name, I eventually became known as Brian Krashpad, in accord with longstanding punk rock tradition (like Joey Ramone, etc.). I use the "K" spelling for the stage name because my legal last name also starts with a K, so either way my initials are BK.


Nice looking guitars, two of my favorite models!

Thanks. It was kind of an "audition" gig, in that we'd never played there before, so I brought two of my more expensive axes in hopes of being "taken seriously."

;)

I'd've brought a nicer mandolin as well, but all I gots is two cheapies.

mandopete
May-27-2010, 3:17pm
Thanks. It was kind of an "audition" gig, in that we'd never played there before, so I brought two of my more expensive axes in hopes of being "taken seriously."

Man, if I was looking to be taken seriously I would have brought along a clarinet!

:)

Brian Krashpad
May-27-2010, 3:50pm
Man, if I was looking to be taken seriously I would have brought along a clarinet!

:)

Haha, please, I have enough trouble with mandolin! I'm still a novice player. I figured if I joined a band looking for a mando player it'd be a great way to hone my chops quickly. Subsequently, it turned out that their electric guitarist is not very available, so I've been playing about 2/3 of each set starting on mandolin and then switching to electric guitar.

Ed Goist
Jun-13-2010, 7:17pm
Here's me with my new (to me) 2004 Breedlove Quartz OO.

My wife took the photo this morning. It's one of my favorite photos of me...

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Paul Statman
Jun-13-2010, 7:28pm
Nice shot, tell her! I bet you play a lot of guitar, don't you?

Ed Goist
Jun-14-2010, 8:06am
Nice shot, tell her! I bet you play a lot of guitar, don't you?

Thanks, I'll tell her! Is it my technique, or the fingernails on my right hand that gave me away? :)

mandopete
Jun-14-2010, 9:25am
That, or the lack of a pick.

Paul Statman
Jun-14-2010, 10:19am
Thanks, I'll tell her! Is it my technique, or the fingernails on my right hand that gave me away? :)
Your magnificent set of string-picking talons speaks volumes!

Ed Goist
Jun-14-2010, 10:30am
That, or the lack of a pick.

Hi Pete:

I'm using a pick (it's just quite small). It's the small, firm, tear-drop shaped propitiatory pick sold by Acoustic Music Works (http://www.acousticmusicworks.com/). It's the pick recommended and used by their main mandolin instructor, Charley Rappaport (http://www.acousticmusicworks.com/lessons.html). I think these picks cost like $.60 each. Awesome - I love them!

I think my pick's a little more visible in this pix..

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That's enough photos of me for a while...I don't want to crash the Cafe's server! ;)

Jim MacDaniel
Jun-14-2010, 10:58am
I'm on the far left with my first mandolin. It's some kind of Kentucky which I decided to paint blue one day. Played with these guys for 2 years '97, '98 based in Pekanbaru, Sumatra. We were called "Boedak Boedak Kecoh" which would roughly translate to "the Wild Boys".

Cool -- my favorite pic of the thread by far :mandosmiley:

Mark Gibbs
Jun-14-2010, 12:23pm
Cool -- my favorite pic of the thread by far :mandosmiley:

Yea that is a great photo. I will ask Wyatt about photo. Wyatt now is building mighty fine Mandolins and arch top guitars. I have 2 of his mandolins 1 built is 2009 and 1 built in 2010. If you want to see some photos of my new mandolins search my threads.
Mark

Ed Goist
Jun-14-2010, 12:47pm
Cool -- my favorite pic of the thread by far :mandosmiley:

Agreed! What a magnificent backdrop for a photo! Also, I love the serious expression on the guitar player's face in contrast to all of the smiles...A+ photo.

Jim Hilburn
Jun-14-2010, 4:08pm
I just got an email and FB friend request from the lead guitar player in my high school band "The Sonics" who I last saw in '66 and that lead to a few more contacts from the olden days. So I thought I should make a new profile pic showing what it is I do now.

Dfyngravity
Jun-14-2010, 5:02pm
It great to finally put a face with your name Jim. Your work is impeccable and I have admired it for a long time. Keep it up, one day I still hope to own one of your mandolins.

Jim MacDaniel
Jun-17-2010, 12:08pm
Haven't posted a pic for a while, and since I just received my new cafe cap in red, I thought now was as good a time as any...

mandopete
Jun-18-2010, 9:50am
I just got an email and FB friend request from the lead guitar player in my high school band "The Sonics" who I last saw in '66 and that lead to a few more contacts from the olden days.

The Sonics? As in "Strychnine" ? They were the quintessential garage band and a Seattle icon to be sure! Funny you should mention the FB thing and connecting with old rock band friends. I was contacted by a guy that I played with in a band in high school and we have been exchanging photos and stories. Big fun!

mandopete
Jun-18-2010, 9:51am
Haven't posted a pic for a while, and since I just received my new cafe cap in red, I thought now was as good a time as any...

Nice shirt too Jim!

mandopete
Jun-18-2010, 9:57am
Warning - No Mandolin Content.

My first rock and roll band from 1971. As I look at this picture (I'm the one on the left with the striped pants) I can't get over how much I look like my 15 year old son. Even that snarky smile, eerie...

jim simpson
Jun-18-2010, 10:35am
I love the striped pants, way cool! I also love the guitars, is that a Harmony Bobkat next to you?

Wesley
Jun-18-2010, 1:50pm
I'd love to see a copy of your playlist from back then.

tree
Jun-18-2010, 2:30pm
Is that a Mosrite guitar opposite you?

mandopete
Jun-18-2010, 9:33pm
I love the striped pants, way cool! I also love the guitars, is that a Harmony Bobkat next to you?

No, that's Mike the bass player.

;)

Actually I have no idea what kind of bass that was. He had a nice Fender amp, albeit a solid state amp. It was the first "big" amp we had in that band.

mandopete
Jun-18-2010, 9:34pm
I'd love to see a copy of your playlist from back then.

Sympathy For The Devil
Brown Sugar
Honky Tonk Woman
Blues in E
I'm So Glad
Tribute to Satchmo (a song I wrote)

That's all I can remember.

mandopete
Jun-18-2010, 9:35pm
Is that a Mosrite guitar opposite you?

You know for years we tried to figure that out. He bought the guitar at a pawn shop and it had no identifying marks. We always thought it was a Mosrite.