Happy fourth of July!

[Gunnar]

https://youtu.be/f0PhYq3IUKI

Happy fourth of July y'all! Have some fun, but don't blow your hands off with fireworks, you still need them to play patriotic tunes (like liberty!)

[Mando Mort]

Indeed! Celebrate safely.

[Frankdolin]

Thanks! Happy fourth to all !!! My wife and I celebrate with an all day Harley ride. She on hers, me on mine. Freedom! PARTY!!!

[William Smith]

Didn't Ben Franklin want the tune "Liberty" to be our County's song instead of America or Star Spangled Banner?-what one was it? I know he loved that fiddle tune. Happy 4th to all you patriotic mandolin madmen and women, stay safe and don't blow off those fingers!

Great job on the guitar Gunnar! Nice arrangement and like the pick/finger style you got going on-I can pick but trying to get those extra right fingers going is a no go for me! I guess never took the time to try much

[Bernie Daniel]

https://youtu.be/f0PhYq3IUKI

Happy fourth of July y'all! Have some fun, but don't blow your hands off with fireworks, you still need them to play patriotic tunes (like liberty!)

Nice playing Gunnar!

I agree this is a good day to play Liberty -- great tune. Here is another cool version of the SSB!

[Gunnar]

Thanks, William. I think I've heard that about Mr. Franklin but don't know if it's true. I've been playing the guitar a good while longer than mandolin, so that contributes (as does the fact that much of my guitar playing is fingerstyle)
Bernie, thanks. That's a cool version of the song, that guy now needs a Chapman stick

[MikeZito]

My mother and her family are all immigrants, my father's parents and half of his siblings are immigrants . . . and we are all proud and happy to be Americans.

Happy Independence Day.

[Gunnar]

Well, technically unless you're a native American you're descended from immigrants..... that's one awesome thing about America! (Sings to self) I'm proud to be an American, where at least there's Chick-fil-a....

[Bernie Daniel]

Well, technically unless you're a native American you're descended from immigrants..... that's one awesome thing about America! (Sings to self) I'm proud to be an American, where at least there's Chick-fil-a....

You're a long way from home!

[Gunnar]

Yeah, well I've lived so much of my life in Africa, that this is home pretty much, but I am still proudly a Texan and an American (I'm probably one of very few white African Americans you'll meet)

[Bernie Daniel]

Yeah, well I've lived so much of my life in Africa, that this is home pretty much, but I am still proudly a Texan and an American (I'm probably one of very few white African Americans you'll meet)

But when you say "much of your whole life" you are taking about less than 20 years right?

[Gene Summers]

Happy Independence Day everyone!

[Gunnar]

But when you say "much of your whole life" you are taking about less than 20 years right?

About sixteen years. I was born in Texas, and we moved to Africa when I was six months old. We've lived in the same house since 2006

[JaneLigon]

Wow, great) And the celebration was thrilling)