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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 27, 2010 - 02:54am 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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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Sep 20, 2010 - 10:14am 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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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Sep 20, 2010 - 11:18am 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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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Sep 21, 2010 - 08:16am PT
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^^ sweet looking guitars!
"Crowley plays mandolin but he never brings it, the big pussy."
He can sing pretty well too...but he is a pussy.
Crowley dust that bad-boy off, throw on some new strings and go holler in the pines for me.
If you don't, by the time you do decide to play you'll be way behind my ability on the mandolin...
Any In the Pines will be good TT.
Look for me in the flames...
Cheers and have a fantastic time everyone...boo hoo:-(
DD
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Sep 21, 2010 - 09:03am PT
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Warbler,
Nice guitars!
I'll give you the heads next time I'm headed for CA.
Could be this winter for a few weeks.
PB
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Sep 21, 2010 - 08:52pm PT
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A climbing friend of mine Carrie Bean plays the Stand-Up Bass in New South Fork Bluegrass... I have no such talent, so I aid climb and listen to Bluegrass on the Wall Blaster!
Thor
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Nov 18, 2010 - 11:01pm PT
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Since my brother died (he played really good bluegrass guitar), I've found it kind of hard to connect with others musically in quite the same way. I'm trying, though.
The other day, a friend of mine who plays the "button box" came over to my place, and we jammed for a while (me on guitar and mando). We had a good time, even though it was Irish Trad music, not bluegrass. But dang, if my little Mac laptop with its Garage Band (and my Yeti mic) doesn't make for some serious one-man-bandage fun!
Button box guy and I laid down just a spontaneous track of Loch Lavan Castle (a British Isles fiddle tune), and it sounded kind of cool. I went back a few days later and added guitar. That made it sound way better. Then I added 5-string and bass tonight. Pretty much just the first take on each, but it almost felt like being at a jam (only I was jamming with myself).
Any of you musicians regularly record your own multiple tracks?
I think it'd be cool if we brought as many instruments as we could to one of the area shindigs.
My band (minus Button Box Guy):
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Nov 19, 2010 - 08:20am PT
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Chief--that was beautiful, and a gathering of some of the current best!
Walleye--who is that crew?
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Nov 19, 2010 - 09:26am PT
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mooser
That's the Tony Rice Unit
Left to right
Ricky Simpkins on fiddle
Jimmy Gudreau on mandolin
Ronnie Simpkins on bass
Tony Rice lead and rhythm guitar
Wyatt Rice (aka. The Count) rhythm and lead guitar
Check out Unit of Measure for a detailed sampling of acoustic bliss.
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TMO
Trad climber
Puyallup, WA
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Nov 19, 2010 - 10:12am PT
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Here is Piney Perkins my 1918 Gibson Mandolin. It loves bluegrass and I do too, I must confess that I'm not a fast enough picker to git 'er done.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Nov 19, 2010 - 08:28pm PT
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Thanks, Chief.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 27, 2010 - 02:44pm PT
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Hey Sports fans,
If anybody is planning on being in S. Lake Tahoe over MLK weekend, drop on by the Fallen Angel on the 15th. One of my bands (BISON) is opening for the Infamous Stringdusters. $10 advance/$15 day of.
WAIT!!! Only $10 to see the Grammy-nominated Infamous Stringdusters ?!?!?!?!?!!!
That's right - $10.
"Who are the Infamous Stringdusters," you ask. Well, I've posted this link before, on this very thread, but it bears repeating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEghQY3M_8Y
Here's a Facebook link for the Event, so you can invite all your "friends:" http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140630169324878
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