Bill monroe on other instruments

[Fretbear]

One good thing about WSM carrying his own Martin is it would make it easier to change guitar men in a hurry...he would only have to ascertain that they could pick and sing...."No time to go home and get your stuff boy, we're leaving NOW......"

[loafers glory]

Hey Evan...
That's my guitar Monroe is playing tween those ladies at The Opry House..You musta got that photo from Compton,I think he's the only one I've sent it to...I really miss Bill Monroe...
Raymond Huffmaster

[evanreilly]

Huffie!
I don't remember where I found that picture.
Maybe I got it from Mike.
That is/was Diana Christian on Bill's right, is it not?

[JMOSS99]

Here's the pic of Bill showing Tony a few licks.

I remember the night of this photo of Monroe and Rice.
Monroe use to allow me to record all the SF shows
through the mixing board. I am not sure if this was
the night we opened for Monroe or not right now.

It was earlier that night there at the
Great American Music Hall where this photo was
taken, that Kenny Baker said out loud and with
Monroe off to his side, that he never listened
to the words to songs and that he could not remember
the words to any of the songs if you asked him too.
Monroe turned his head and looked at Kenny. #Ha ha..
Kenny was making the point that he focused on the
melodies and not the words. #

I am sure Baker was just talking...
However, once when I was sitting around at Baker's farm
on his front porch there was a mandolin there. #I played
a split string on it and Baker watched then said that
he had never heard of such a thing. #I didn't believe it
at first but surely after some questioning he appeared
to have never heard of it. #Well, I said, your boss
plays split strings all the time. #:-)

Who knows what people notice... #I guess...

Jim Moss
FWB

[earthsave]

I always thought it was Charlie's G-run. But I'm sure someone else did it afore either of em.

[ricardo]

Bill's MARTIN... - now if THAT guitar ever shows-up - and can be "documented""....(and yes, I've heard..."stories" too!??) - Moose. # #

[Bob Sayers]

The early recording of "Mule Skinner Blues" with Bill Monroe flogging that guitar on the Grand Ole Opry is where bluegrass begins, in my opinion. The power, the "bluegrass time," the high lonesome sound--it all crystalizes in that one performance.

By the way, F5loar jogged my memory about Bill's D-28. Someone interviewed Peter Rowan many years ago (can't remember the source) and he said that Monroe lent him his old 'bone to play while singing lead with the BG Boys. Apparently someone made off with it while it was in Rowan's care--something that Mr. Bill wasn't too happy about! I'm surprised it was never recovered. Maybe they didn't have the serial number. Maybe F5loar knows more of the story.

Bob

[mando-tech]

Monroe played the lead guitar run on the very first song recorded with the Blue Grass Boys, New Muleskinner Blues, in 1940. His guitarist at the time, Clyde Moody, played (inaudible) mandolin. I understand that Monroe used to insist that his guitarists play Monroe's '40 herringbone D-28, at least for recording, for years afterwards, because it had the sound he wanted.

(Ref.: Neil Rosenberg, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys; An Illustrated Discography, c. 1974)

Are you sure it was NEW Mule Skinner Blues, or just Mule Skinner Blues where Bill did the 'kick off', we are talking about TWO different songs here!,..with totally different lyrics.

[MikeEdgerton]

There is nothing finer than a 7 year old thread.

[Mike Bunting]

They're like chili or good whiskey, they need to age.

[pglasse]

Well, there's always Bill Monroe playing Redd Volkaert's pink Telecaster....

[MikeEdgerton]

Then there's this one that I've been holding onto since I found it last year.

[f5loar]

Well when the Mule Skinner Blues was first recorded in 1940 it was consider the "New" version of the time.

[mandolirius]

They're like chili or good whiskey, they need to age.

I don't care what you say......I ain't eating no seven-year-old chili.

[BradKlein]

Then there's this one that I've been holding onto since I found it last year.

Nice photo, Mike!

[Pete Counter]

Well, there's always Bill Monroe playing Redd Volkaert's pink Telecaster....

Paul, thats the first thing I thought of!

[Marty Henrickson]

I was glad to see this thread, if for no other reason than to see the pic of Bill and Tony!

[GTison]

Here's a surprise. Monroe playing a tele. Ozark Rag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEb3-RC2DBI