You can take a classically trained musician to the beach, but you can't make him normal.
You can take a classically trained musician to the beach, but you can't make him normal.
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
You can take the man out of the symphony, but you can't take the symphony out of the man.
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
You can lead Avi to water, but you can't take the mandolin out of his hand.
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
Tatoo, can you pass this up to my cabin ?
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
OK, I'm willing to just buy a MC hat.
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
You can lead a bowl back mandolinist to water, but you can't make him sink...
OK, I promise I'll stop now.
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
And suddenly they all realized that Avi's real secret was a solar powered mandolin.
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It's a catch and release program...
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 & #002: A double stack of Pancakes.
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Whew..
What a blizzard of...(expletive)
I'm glad I don't have to choose.
Good luck and happy sailing my beloved Mandolin Cafe Administrators....
B.
Billy Packard
Gilchrist A3, 1993
Stiver Fern, 1990
Weber Fern, 2007
Gibson F4 Hybrid #1, D. Harvey 2009
Gibson 1923 A2
Numerous wonderful guitars
"It was the third time that week that the mandolin had suffered the indignity of being shaken down for it's lunch money by the bare footed bully."
"Mongo only pawn in game of life." --- Mongo
Thanks Jeannie!!!
This is what I'm bringing when I go on "naked and afraid"..
The real story on how the snakes were driven out of Ireland.
A quarter tone flat and a half a beat behind.
"Have you seen my Blue Chip Pick?"
Tony Huber
1930 Martin Style C #14783
2011 Mowry GOM
2013 Hester F4 #31
2014 Ellis F5 #322
2017 Nyberg Mandola #172
The moment life emerged from the primordial ooze.
... Pry this.. from my cold, dead, fingers !
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
"You see, I'm good, but I really can not walk on water."
As he struck his 29th odd pose with his Kerman in front of the green screen, Avi wondered why the photographer had made him stand in this water basin, making his toes wrinkle.
bratsche
"There are two refuges from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
GearGems - Gifts & apparel for musicians and more!
MandolaViola's YouTube Channel
High tide in 2 hours. Save the mandolin
I play the MANDOLIN!
(Also can't believe there have been not quickening references but "There can be only one!" does make for limited jam sessions :D )
Jason Anderson
"...while a great mandolin is a wonderful treat, I would venture to say that there is always more each of us can do with the tools we have available at hand. The biggest limiting factors belong to us not the instruments." Paul Glasse
Stumbling Towards Competence
"After receiving a mandolin instead of a shred guitar for his birthday, Avi decided to try to divebomb it anyway."
A light shining in the wilderness ...
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
"Avi Avital. The other Marty Stuart"
Searching for mandolin nirvana? Meet a musician who's found it! Join Avi Avital at "workshop, time."
Chuck
Mandolin needs a new Cnut
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
Oh mandolin, thine seductress. I could have floated home, if only I'd chosen the double bass!
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