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Darren,

It looks as though you have a wonderful icon corner there.

"Slava Isusu Christu!"

mandodude

O.K. Pete... since it's been over three years since I first posted in this thread, I'll go again.

Hey... and check it out! This time, no horse costume! ...

Here's me (for real!) as of this past Sunday. We were booked to play an outdoor festival in south central Tennessee that got rained out (actually, almost got SNOWED out!). Rather than sit around in...

Here's a rather grainy-looking mandodude circa 1974. The mando was an Epiphone EM-sumpthingoranother that I picked up cheap 'cause it was a demo model from the Chicago NAMM (or whatever they called...

All good suggestions, 'hack, but an Ovation is probably the last axe you'd want to consider taking out into the cold, Wisconsin winter. The difference in coefficients of expansion (and/or...

Sat in the other night with the band at a local blues establishment (hey, after all, this is the Chicago area!)... kicked out lots o' your basic 12-bar, Chicago-style stuff... had an absolute blast!!...

LOVE your cap, Pete!

By the way... who's the guy with the mandolin??

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Okay... so she doesn't have a mandolin...

She did, however, play a prominent role in a mando-related thread here at the ol' Cafe some time ago. It's quiz time, kiddies: Who's been hangin' around...

I've gotta fever, Pete...

GAWD! Talk about "Old Home Week!"

Figure I ought to chime in, too, and say "hi" to my ol' friends!

Illinois' own... the lovely Miss Ashley Lewis of Ashton Gap and her Dearstone...

P.S. Django, ol' buddy... how ya been, my friend!?!

FWIW, Jeff is actually an Illinois boy - Arlington Heights/Elk Grove Village... just outside of Chicago.

Hey, Becky...

Did you ever sell your Winfield Yellowstone?

Is it just me, or does anyone else think of Mr. Hankey when they look at that pic?

D major augmented" would be my guess...

I bought Bobby’s A5jr not quite a year ago when he listed it on the Café’s Classifieds. It’s an ’87 pre-Gibson, tone bar braced, signed by Dennis Behlin. When I got it, it looked as though it had...

...not the least of which being Homer Simpson!

Little known fact: Dan Castellaneta, best known as the "voice" of Homer Simpson, was educated at Northern Illinois University, an esteemed...

Pete,

I did buy it.

Mmmmmm... delicious!!

That's funny... I don't remember you, Pete...

Scotti,

Please allow this "old timer" to crawl out of the woodwork and offer his sincere congratulations on your monumental achievement!

mandodude

Y'know... it takes a lot to absolutely floor ol' m'dude but Alan, my friend, you have succeeded. #I'm both thrilled and humbled to know that you actually remembered this, my "big day!" #My most...

Actually, not quite (at least from '87 on)...

The A5-JR has always been part of Flatiron's "Signature Series," their top o' the line carved mandolin line. It represented a tone bar alternative to...

Blueglass,

PLEASE! Try my method before you go attacking your axe with any chemicals. I'm tellin' ya, man... it works! As they say - I've "been there, done that!"

Blueglass,

Use a little ball of the black McIntyre putty itself to "pick" it off. Just sorta dab at the black dot with the putty ball and little by little it'll lift all the residue off. Worked...

Mandolin in case??
What I'd really like to know
is: "In case of what??"