Hi friends! Thought I'd post a quick video of our quartet from Joe Val this year. It's an original tune written by our Fiddler/Band leader Rob Flax called "Alpaca Noir". Cheers!
Hi friends! Thought I'd post a quick video of our quartet from Joe Val this year. It's an original tune written by our Fiddler/Band leader Rob Flax called "Alpaca Noir". Cheers!
Here's a few older videos of me playing mandolin, on my channel are more videos of my past and current gospel bluegrass groups. We're not pros, but we're trying our best haha.
My last days on earth
https://youtu.be/8KBeea46uvg
How great thou art
https://youtu.be/WtL0pAMsWN8
Jesu joy of man's desiring
https://youtu.be/ktfhna1jDUQ
Only had time to listen to "My Last Days" so far, so I can't comment on the others. You did a really nice job on that one! And yeah, it may be tricked out a little bit (according to your posts under the YouTube vid) but I have to say, that Kentucky really sounds great.
Did a bit o' busking yesterday with my acoustic folk / ITM band, shame the video stutters a bit.
Mandolins: The Loar LM-220; Lyon & Healy Special A #103; Epiphone Mandobird VIII
Violins: 19th century German Steiner copy; NS Design WAV 4; NS Design WAV 5; Reiter Alien II 7-string
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ausdoerrt
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
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
Here's an original song called Coins on the Ground on my Fylde long scale archtop bouzouki from my recent EP release (free download and streaming link below).
Here's another original from that show; Can't Stop Trying.
Jim Clare and I doing his song Smoke From a Hawthorn Fire at last year's Springwater Music Festival --final one, unfortunately.
Red hats were the "uniform" for the Springwater Festival, hence our headgear. (See the current "Musicians and Hats" thread). I'm on my trusty Strad-O-Lin.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Nicely done Allen!
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Nice picking, Allen and I'm hoping the twinge of MAS I experienced while listening to your Strad' will slowly fade away like drops of morning dew ...
One more from that show Lonesome City.Quote Originally Posted by Unseen122 View Post
Here's an original song called Coins on the Ground on my Fylde long scale archtop bouzouki from my recent EP release (free download and streaming link below).
Here's another original from that show; Can't Stop Trying.
Proud father playing along with some pictures of his son surfing, while playing an Adamas Mandolin accompanied by an incredible Ovation guitar player: https://youtu.be/GEyq52rkoEY
Just a little fun with my duo partner, on a road trip last fall.
Went for a hike down a trail along a stream in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Found a lovely spot, where a big fallen log stuck most of the way across. We sat out there and played a few of our favorite songs, including this fun one, Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar Town." It's also one of pickloser's favorites.
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Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
https://youtu.be/z-8H4cUw2G4
My attempt at Sailors Hornpipe.
Dude. With all due respect, that's a little harsh. I found it rather enjoyable, it sounds kinda old-school futuristic and trippy and trad slide blues all in one. And not bad sound considering he says it was recorded with a phone (in the notes below the video at the YouTube page). It's certainly better than anything I could do with trying to play those tunes.
My pickin':Practice backing tracks (MIDI-only) & scrolling sheetmusic with mandolin tab:
Another Desperado number from the Great 48: The Stanley Brothers' Remember You Love In My Prayers
My Young Gun banjo player, Jesse Personeni, is from a hot, up and coming NoCal band, The Blue Js
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Mighty fine, Nick!
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
http://HillbillyChamberMusic.bandcamp.com
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@hillbillychambermusic
Not mandolin (though it's in the background!) but a nice old John Scofield tune that I learned on pedal steel. 2 gigs in a row canceled due to the lousy Jersey Shore weather so figured I'd make lemonade out of lemons. Did a quick backing track and thanks to wife that had to sit for multiple tries before something passable. Enjoy.
Hey Marc,
nice version of an old ScoSong and what a beautiful tone you pull out of your steel...
Hats off!
Here's my first published video, taken in June at a jam in GrevenGrass in Germany.
Enjoy...
Some more Irish/Celtic mandolin. Drunken Sailor's Hornpipe (one of my favorites of late), taken at a street music festival in Lviv, Ukraine:
Mandolins: The Loar LM-220; Lyon & Healy Special A #103; Epiphone Mandobird VIII
Violins: 19th century German Steiner copy; NS Design WAV 4; NS Design WAV 5; Reiter Alien II 7-string
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ausdoerrt
Wow! My favorite so far... Love that you guys have such passion and style to go along with your music.
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