I got a whopping minus 80!
-80
I got a whopping minus 80!
-80
So you really think "banjo music" is an oxymoron or were you just trying to pad your score?I got a whopping minus 80!
Bobby Bill
-45... always the odd-man-out. I'm still a Deadhead at heart and initially got into bluegrass because Jerry was into it.
FWIW - I subscribe to Sirius XM in my Subaru and have The Bluegrass Channel saved as a favorite but the button never gets pushed and instead stays on The Grateful Dead Channel except for minor detours to The Beatles Channel.
Sam Lyman
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After reading everyone else's scores, I did better than anticipated at -20.
"If your memories exceed your dreams, you have begun to die." - Anonymous
-50. It isn't a part of anything.
Bill
IM(NS)HO
Too many of those questions overlap for a player of Irish traditional music, so I got a completely undeserved -25. Should have been much lower.
My -35 should really be a -45 as I actually don't live in a mobile home
Dang, I'm impressed with scores of 80 in either direction
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20. I have to say I'm in a pretty good band situation now where I don't have to travel more than 5 miles for gigs that pay anywhere from $0 to $40.
Got a -35 and dang proud of it! Would have been even lower except for the last question, about the relative monetary value of instrument and vehicle. (That's another thread, BTW.) As I've mentioned many times, I like bluegrass just fine, but believe the mandolin is capable of SO much more than the roles to which most people who don't know any better relegate it.
But I do own this license plate:
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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-20. I like Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn or it would have been lower.
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Minus 25...
2007 Sumi F-5 Deluxe
1991 Flatiron Performer A
Martin D-35
-65... Maybe I should go to a BG festival soon
Mandolins: 1920s (?) Meinel & Herold Bowlback, 2006 Furch "Redwood MA-1" A5
Octaves: 2004 Fender FMO-66 Flat-Top, 2015 A. Karperien 5 String Electric
Banjos: 2007 Gold Tone IT-250F Irish Tenor, 1963 Vega Vox No. 1 Plectrum, 2016 Recording King RK-OT25 Clawhammer
-35, but it wasn't for lack of trying. I'm surprised it wasn't lower.
I have an uncle Earl, own The Turtles recordings ... no, I can't even begin to pull out of this. -25
-Even when you sing lead, you are singing the high harmony line +10
-3 of the 5 members of your band are first degree relatives, the 4th is married to one, and the 5th is both a relative and married to a relative +50
- you sport a crew cut and a mullet at the same time +10
- facial hair originates from the nostrels +40
- your guitar player has permanently mounted his capo at the 4th fret +10
- Everyone in the band can actually play every other person in the band's instrument +100
(ps--my score was -35)
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
-35 for me.
Got a -15. Any extra credit for not knowing what a diminished chord is?
I'm pretty sure that some bluegrassers play Doc Watson's version of Deep River Blues ... that's one of several songs in my guitar repertoire that uses a diminished chord. How can you play it without the Edim7? Then again, "That ain't bluegrass" and I suppose "That ain't no part of nothin'".
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I made it to -70 without the diminished chords. I may have to open that Malbec I've been saving for a special occasion!
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free.” -- Aldo Leopold
Oh dear. -35.
I am damned by my ownership of a couple Miles Davis CDs and 3 solid body electric mandolins. ;-)
Daniel
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