Why bother calling... Never listens to me anyway.
Why bother calling... Never listens to me anyway.
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
Many years ago I used to play a Rickenbacker guitar/bass double-neck on stage.
One time a guy said to me: 'What is that thing?'
I simply said: 'It's a lot of fun!'
He didn't get the joke . . . .
My OM has been called a guitar, a Portugese guitar, a ukulele, a banjo, a bouzouki, a mandolin. One BG musician saw the case and asked "four strings or five strings?" I shrug that off.
Once they gave me a present for playing: a bottle of Jack Daniels. I had a hard time shruggin that one off. Made me think of the motto of Scottish Kings: "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit"
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
“A beautiful looking guitar being held by an idiot.”
Gunga......Gunga.....Gu-Lunga
"Your new toy."
Being right is overrated. Doing right is what matters.
Northfield F5S Blacktop
Pono MND-20H
My two favourite comments (apologies since I posted them before):
"Can you play Duelling Banjos on that ukulele?"
And on an offshore rig when a female worker, presumably a guitarist, came to my cabin because she'd heard I had a guitar:
"Oh. It's just a little one."
Story of my life.
Bren
Ukulele, banjo, and wuffo (short for "wuffo you play that funny-lookin' little guitar?").
Northfield F2S
Howard Morris A-4
Eastman DGM3 Mandola
Eastman MD805PGE
Miscellaneous tingums
I play guitar in a church group and have occasionally added a ukulele.
"Oh, play that mandolin on this one"
"It's a ukulele"
On the next occasion:: "Oh, the mandolin, I love that!"
"Um, thanks"
Now that I actually have a mandolin, I can't wait to bring it along and see what they say.
Well, that's strange.
Mandolin: Kentucky KM150
Other instruments: way too many, and yet, not nearly enough.
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Annoying.
Just last gig, "Is that an ukulele?" understandable because we are an uke-centric band. Me: "No, this is a mandolin", and she went, "Drat! My nephew was right. I knew it was an uke, and he insisted it was a mandolin. Waddaya know."
It's been called - by others - "Out Of Tune".
My college-freshman daughter asked me over last Winter break what instrument I was playing. I told her it was a mandolin. Her response: "It doesn't LOOK Chinese."
Northfield NF-F5S
Eastman DM-815
1977 Stelling Bellflower archtop
Recording King RK-35
2013 Martin D-18
On the basis that I describe my bouzouki as an "inflated mandolin", I guess my mandolin must be a "deflated bouzouki". (but they still say banjo....)
"What's that funny guitar thing..?"
Gives me an idea for a new cafe group, "The 8 String Uke Club"
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
After a gig a woman came up to me asking what instrument I just played. I told her it's a mandolin. No, she said, that's not it...
I left it at that.
New mandolin / double bass cd out! Check www.janoskoolen.nl
Usually a polite question of 'what is that'? I explain that it's a mandolin but that it's an 'A' style which is not what most people are used to seeing. I sometimes add that an F style is more common but since those are more expensive, that's why I have an 'A' style. About half the time folks do know what it is so we're making progress!
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