EP
Trad climber
Way Out There
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Jul 10, 2010 - 08:29pm PT
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Saw the Stringdusters at High Sierra last week.Those boys are the real deal, not that jam grass that so many festy bands are playing.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 12, 2010 - 05:28pm PT
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EP - I agree. But it's ironic that the Stringdusters' own festival is called "festy"
Exhibits A and B of Chief's "forward-leaning" hypothesis:
Pardon the silly attire, but it was "Wild West Weekend" up at High Camp (Squaw Valley USA); I figured I'd dress the part.
Not a bad backdrop for a gig, I might add:
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Bertrand
climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2010 - 12:53am PT
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Chum, are you down here yet? will you have a fixed location or are you roaming around and living out of your vehicle?
My banjo was in the car last weekend, but I was too busy epic-ing and bumbling around on the trail to find anyone to jam with.
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pc
climber
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Jul 21, 2010 - 08:34am PT
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Chief, Do you happen to know a Vancouver/Victoria fiddler named Dan Lapp? Plays a lot. Even played in that fiddle fest at the Olympic opening shindig.
He and I went to school together and used to play a lot, of jazz, together.
That's as close as I come to bluegrass ;)
pc
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 21, 2010 - 08:42am PT
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 26, 2010 - 11:54pm PT
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I just started playing with these guys. Should be fun. Drop on by if you're in the neighborhood.
I might also mention that we're putting together a 6-band lineup at Tallac Brewing Co. in S. Lake Tahoe for 21 August. Both of my bands will be there. Will you...?
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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This is going to be FUN!!!! I encourage any and all within easy striking distance to try to make it. And if you can get there early, the first of two bands I'll be playing with, Üncle Rïco, starts at 5ish. Also, it's worth mentioning that since both stages are outdoors, the music probably won't go past 10:30.
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FireIntheCity
Mountain climber
from t'Hate-haunted canyon of human despair
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Sorry 'bout the drifting, but I thought this thread needed a link to an important bluegrass related web service:
The Random Bad Bluegrass Band namer....
http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/bandnames/
LOL...."Grassy Desert Rounders"
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Jingy
Social climber
Nowhere
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I wish!!!!
Just recently watched a dvd called "The Story of Bluegrass Music"...
Learned plenty!
I used to be a funny guy.. I know I was... (part of the reason I understand when others don't take me serious)...
I used to make fun of the hill billy, banjo playin, git-ar pickin', chaw spittin', toothless, moonshine runnin' kin-folk.... I mean..... how can you not find somethng funny in that?
Let's just say I've moved passed that phase, that phase ending some 10 years ago.
I can now put that portion of the country into greater context from what I had previously assumed.
The music was born out of Scottish/Irish traditions... (you ever notice the sometimes memorizing drone of the banjo?) I made the realization while watching the film. That bag-pipe that I liked so much when it played "Amazing Grace" I heard as child at the end of the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with Donald Sutherland makes it to the end of the film and points out the last standing human.
The harmony of the singers (even when individually I may not always understand a word they were singing) sometimes leaving me shivering (don't know why... it's just vocalization... but it just does that)
Yeah.. I wish that I could play bluegrass. It may give me something to do for the rest of my life, that may bring joy to others.
Cheers for allowing me to throw down some thought on the newly invigorated subject (for me at least)
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
Paradise, CA
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Sep 20, 2010 - 06:56am PT
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Heads up to any musicians going to the facelift. I'll be jamming thur, fri, and sat night. Not a real bluegrass musician per-se but I would like to do a whole set in the high lonesome at Yeller Pines.
Beginners are OK as long as you have rhythm.
High on a Mountain Top anyone?
Timid T (aka Andy Tomaselli)
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Sep 20, 2010 - 07:14am PT
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Hey!
I'll jam...er...wait...damn.
Have fun TT
DD
ps
If'n yer in the pines...do a dedication of it for me:-)
pss
and one fer the hobos
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The Warbler
climber
the edge of America
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Sep 20, 2010 - 07:52am PT
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I can pick a little bluegrass, at about a 5.6 level.
Sounds pretty nice on my crispy old D18 with some new strings.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Sep 20, 2010 - 08:18am PT
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Warbler,
Hope you're on for some jamming next time I'm in the Valley.
Did you make it to Strawberry at Hetch Hetchy this year?
Photos of the D18?
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
Paradise, CA
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Sep 20, 2010 - 07:29pm PT
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Delhi D,
You'll definitely be there in spirit. I better dust off my not so bluegrass version of In the Pines, somewhere between Ledbelly's and Cobain's versions but I'll try to conjure a little Kentucky Colonels.
Hope some of you bring some instruments to Yeller Pines.
Crowley plays mandolin but he never brings it, the big pussy.
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