Banjo Disrespect

[Steve Lavelle]

No real banjos were harmed in this sporting event:
http://www.charlestondailymail.com/a...ICLE/150429920

“This is the only existing throwing banjo on the planet,” said judge Geoff Wiley, holding a well-worn banjo left behind in a folk music venue. A long rope with pre-measured segments is tied around the banjo’s neck so Wiley can retrieve it from the canal. He then measures the distance of each competitor’s toss to determine the winners. Wiley repairs and fortifies the instrument after each year’s competition.

[JeffD]

Yea that is merely a BSO (banjo shaped object). You can throw them in the river all day for all I care.

[bassthumper]

at GALAX they have a mandolin toss at Kilbasa Bills

[zedmando]

[G7MOF]

It could be the new easy to use Base ball/Cricket bat!!!

[T.D.Nydn]

I don't see the point in retrieving them..

[Ron McMillan]

yawn

[journeybear]

"Once a major transportation route for the then-separate cities of Brooklyn and New York, the Gowanus Canal was home to coal yards, chemical factories and fuel refineries that left behind severely contaminated water. Years of storm runoff discharges, sewer outflows and industrial pollutants turned the Gowanus into one of the nation’s most contaminated waterways. It was named a Superfund site in 2010, meaning the government can force polluters to pay for its restoration.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, contaminants include PCBs, coal tar wastes, heavy metals and volatile organics. Sunday’s competition gave new meaning to the term heavy metal."

Add banjos to the list of contaminants.

[stevedenver]

I hate to admit this, but:

I have been working on clawhammer style for guitar, and I find it great, and a bit of a skill to internalize
then,

my friend loaned me an open backed banjo
and ....im finding I kinda like banjo, very different from mando or guitar, like no string tension, and surprisingly heavy given its mostly frame and neck, but, there are some subtle sounds one can get, which I never really knew....

Don't know if I want to commit. Like mandos, "gooduns" seem to be expensive.

Like habanero sauce, the occasional experience is intriguing, interesting, stimulating, out of the daily routine, and ok, but daily, mebbee not so much. Plus, I have all my teeth and don't own any coveralls.

[Eddie Sheehy]

The definition of Perfect Pitch is the sound of a Banjo hitting another banjo in a dumpster...

[T.D.Nydn]

When you buy a great guitar,your paying for skilled luthiery experience,when you buy a great mandolin,your paying for skilled luthiery experience,,,when you buy a banjo,your paying for a drum with a neck on it.

[DataNick]

I play the banjo, but as a gentlemen I don't admit to it in polite company...

[zedmando]

The definition of Perfect Pitch is the sound of a Banjo hitting another banjo in a dumpster...

I always heard it was when you throw an accordion into a dumpster and it lands on the banjo.
But that one works as well.

[darylcrisp]

(disclaimer-I play clawhammer) this is a funny thread. check out Bach on an openback-its kinda cool




and this one by Chris Coole is wonderful, called "Old Dog"



not trying to convert any of you or anything like that..............no, I would never try something like that........................

[journeybear]

I play the banjo, but as a gentlemen I don't admit to it in polite company...

Since you say so to us here, I take this as an insult, sir!

The definition of Perfect Pitch is the sound of a Banjo hitting another banjo in a dumpster...

I always heard it was when you throw an accordion into a dumpster and it lands on the banjo.

I've heard this thus: Perfect pitch is the act of throwing a banjo in a dumpster without hitting the sides. (Landing on another banjo is a plus, of course.)

The banjo tosses at this event are not perfect, therefore, as there is no such skill or accuracy involved. They are perfectly acceptable, however, though the retrieval via the attached rope lessens the perfection. And the acceptability.

[DataNick]

Since you say so to us here, I take this as an insult, sir!

Hey JB,

This place is more of a locker room versus the parlor where tea and crumpets are served...LOL!

[kenny boy]

I like banjo players an banjo music . but don't like banjos.

[stevedenver]

Hey JB,

This place is more of a locker room versus the parlor where tea and crumpets are served...LOL!

I think you have that backwards.....

[Tom Coletti]

You humans need some Jens Kruger in your lives.





--Tom

[catmandu2]

As one interested in mélange - I enjoyed the concerto piece. A really nice prelude with that "gypsy" flair - and the banjo emulating the cimbalom..

[fredfrank]

It was my understanding that the reason for the retrieval is that everyone throws that same banjo. It was specially constructed for throwing. I can't imagine why anyone would want to toss a perfectly good banjo in the water. =^D

[mandroid]

Punkin' Chunkin' is single use only ..

[zedmando]

If anyone is offended by the banjo joking going on here--that I see this more likely sibling stuff.

You can pick on your brothers and sisters and it's different than people who aren't family doing it

Even moreso with fighting--I mean you can fight with them, but if somebody else goes after them or insults them, then you stick up for them.

I see the same thing with picking on other musicians who play other instruments, or the instruments themselves.

It's all in fun. (And as a guitarist & bassist as well--I still tell guitar & bass jokes.)

[zedmando]

So as an example--here's a guitar player joke.

A kid says to his mother, "Mom when I grow up I want to be a guitar player."
His mother replies, "Now dear, you know you can't do both."

And one picking on bass players.

Did you hear about the drummer who locked the keys in the car?
It took him 30 minutes to get the bass player out of the backseat.

[zedmando]

And another:

A missionary goes to a remote tropical island where the people there have had little if any contact with the outside world.
When he arrives there are drums playing--and he soon discovers they play all the time, they never stop.
But he perseveres.
He learns the local language, gets to know the people and becomes part of the community in a way.

So as he is more accepted he finally decides to ask about the drums.

So one day after he has been there about a year, he goes to the leader and says, "Ever since I got here about a year ago the drums have been playing, and they have not stopped. Why is that?"
The leader responds, "If the drums stop then a very bad thing happens."
The missionary figures this is some local superstition and so he seeks to understand it.
"What sort of bad thing will happen?" he asks.
the leader answers, "If the drums stop, the bass solo starts."