Re: grounded, centered, focused
It's just great: you could build a house on tracks like 'I'd like to be over yonder', and the double mandolin on 'My Father's Footsteps' is just perfectly phrased, down to the little chokes. Undeniably a good start to the day On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.comwrote: Well I bought it as promised, an easy way to get the music quick. I'll listen tomorrow with luck. Difficult to spend 7 euros more wisely 2010/3/11, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com: Wait a minute, was Campbell on the recording? Shizzle, I forgot. Anyway, Bill was playing *a* fiddle...No, not Baker, sounded more like Brother Birch. Tbug On Mar 11, 1:18 pm, Mike Terry mterry2...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Mike, what did Bill sound like on the fiddle? Was he playin the Kenny Baker type stuff or just playin the melody? Wow, i bet that was quite a moment. On Mar 11, 9:08 am, erik berry eberr...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome. Thank you Mike. erik On Mar 11, 8:17 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Erik, I think the whole thing started out as a Robins' recording, but when he got here he communicated with Monroe and Bill basically decided to come to the session, so the direction of the whole thing changed. I was there originally to keep Bill 'on track' because he was beginning to forget some of the songs we did. Funny, because I didn't really know a few of them that well at the time. We all sat LA style as you put it. Most of it was done in the middle of one room without the benefit of baffles. No rhythm tracks and layering, just all of us batting it out. On the duet stuff, I sat right across from Bill, say within 8-10 feet. Sure, I was nervous. But I learned more those couple days about Bill's right hand than I had in decades previous. It became obvious quickly that I had to match his tremolo to make the duet blend, not only the speed of it, but the feel, the 'lope'. Bill wouldn't even play Tanyards, couldn't remember it. He told Butch to let me play it. I told him I didn't think I could do a better job of it than he could. He said, I know so, so I shut up. Nothing like being put on the spot by the Bossman. Buddy Spicher was on that cut too, I believe. Bill came to the session dressed in a suit and one of his Stetsons. All the rest of us came ragged out in tee shirts and jeans. The old school guys came to the studio dressed up and ready for 'work'. A few of the girlfriends came along. Of course Bill flirted with them. I remember one of the days everybody piled out for lunch and left. I didn't go for some reason. After hanging out in the break area for a while I went back into the studio and slipped up on Monroe playing Campbell's fiddle, playing Muleskinner Blues real quiet. I listened a little bit and then said, I didn't know you played the fiddle, Bill. He did one of those moves a possum will do when he's wanting to be invisible..you don't see me, you don't see me...; he put the fiddle down really slow and turned clean around in the chair and just sat there like he'd been that way all along. All in all it was sort of a whacky project. Randy Howard played some pretty spectacular 'contest' style solos, Dewey Farmer did his psychedelic hotrod style mandolin, Buddy Spicher brought integrity to the tunes, Butch ran around keeping it moving along despite all the rest of us giving him a fun-loving hard time. I reckon it was the first time I'd worked with Butch and certainly with Bill. Seems like we did another batch of tunes someplace else, the one that included ...Over Yonder. I don't know where any of that stuff went. Tbug On Mar 10, 10:24 am, erik berry eberr...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought my first-ever download MP3 record (welcome to 2010 Erik!) and it was Butch Robins' record. It's really cool. I'm pretty sure I can tell which tracks have just Mike on them, but boy, the Monroe-Compton duets are really slick. Hard to tell where one starts and the other stops. I like Butch's banjo playing and singing a whole lot too, which is great, since I basically got the record for the mandolinin' on it. A number of cuts I can't wait to share with my banjo player (Doin' My Time and Short'nin' Bread, to name two). Mr. C--great work on that disc. If you have a notion and a few minutes to talk about it, I'd appreciate hearing some stories. If you need a question or two I'll pitch some at you. Was this the first time you worked with Bill and/or Butch? Did you and Monroe sit right next to each other and play together? Where you nervous? Do you still play two of my favorite new tunes, My Father's Footsteps or I'd Like to Be Over Yonder, ? Was disc recorded Nashville Style or LA Style?
F12
Hey all you taterbuggers I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I haven't had a look at it, but it's apparently mint. Is this potentially a good deal, assuming that it sounds like a mandolin and not like a brick? Best Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Re: F12
Robin, Definitely a good deal price wise. But be prepared for it to sound like a brick. G Mister Encouragement On Mar 12, 3:49 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all you taterbuggers I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I haven't had a look at it, but it's apparently mint. Is this potentially a good deal, assuming that it sounds like a mandolin and not like a brick? Best Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Re: F12
I guess I'll just have to play it then! Apparently it's been sitting, brick-like, in its case for many years. Oh yes, and there is the small detail that I don't have the money! On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:20 PM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.comwrote: Robin, Definitely a good deal price wise. But be prepared for it to sound like a brick. G Mister Encouragement On Mar 12, 3:49 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all you taterbuggers I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I haven't had a look at it, but it's apparently mint. Is this potentially a good deal, assuming that it sounds like a mandolin and not like a brick? Best Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Re: F12
But then again, it never stopped me before On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.comwrote: Ah, a minor detail certainly. TBug On Mar 12, 9:36 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I'll just have to play it then! Apparently it's been sitting, brick-like, in its case for many years. Oh yes, and there is the small detail that I don't have the money! On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:20 PM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Robin, Definitely a good deal price wise. But be prepared for it to sound like a brick. G Mister Encouragement On Mar 12, 3:49 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all you taterbuggers I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I haven't had a look at it, but it's apparently mint. Is this potentially a good deal, assuming that it sounds like a mandolin and not like a brick? Best Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com taterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
Re: grounded, centered, focused
Oh I know it. I think I've listened to it a few dozen times already. A really good record. erik On Mar 12, 3:01 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: It's just great: you could build a house on tracks like 'I'd like to be over yonder', and the double mandolin on 'My Father's Footsteps' is just perfectly phrased, down to the little chokes. Undeniably a good start to the day On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.comwrote: Well I bought it as promised, an easy way to get the music quick. I'll listen tomorrow with luck. Difficult to spend 7 euros more wisely 2010/3/11, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com: Wait a minute, was Campbell on the recording? Shizzle, I forgot. Anyway, Bill was playing *a* fiddle...No, not Baker, sounded more like Brother Birch. Tbug On Mar 11, 1:18 pm, Mike Terry mterry2...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Mike, what did Bill sound like on the fiddle? Was he playin the Kenny Baker type stuff or just playin the melody? Wow, i bet that was quite a moment. On Mar 11, 9:08 am, erik berry eberr...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome. Thank you Mike. erik On Mar 11, 8:17 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Erik, I think the whole thing started out as a Robins' recording, but when he got here he communicated with Monroe and Bill basically decided to come to the session, so the direction of the whole thing changed. I was there originally to keep Bill 'on track' because he was beginning to forget some of the songs we did. Funny, because I didn't really know a few of them that well at the time. We all sat LA style as you put it. Most of it was done in the middle of one room without the benefit of baffles. No rhythm tracks and layering, just all of us batting it out. On the duet stuff, I sat right across from Bill, say within 8-10 feet. Sure, I was nervous. But I learned more those couple days about Bill's right hand than I had in decades previous. It became obvious quickly that I had to match his tremolo to make the duet blend, not only the speed of it, but the feel, the 'lope'. Bill wouldn't even play Tanyards, couldn't remember it. He told Butch to let me play it. I told him I didn't think I could do a better job of it than he could. He said, I know so, so I shut up. Nothing like being put on the spot by the Bossman. Buddy Spicher was on that cut too, I believe. Bill came to the session dressed in a suit and one of his Stetsons. All the rest of us came ragged out in tee shirts and jeans. The old school guys came to the studio dressed up and ready for 'work'. A few of the girlfriends came along. Of course Bill flirted with them. I remember one of the days everybody piled out for lunch and left. I didn't go for some reason. After hanging out in the break area for a while I went back into the studio and slipped up on Monroe playing Campbell's fiddle, playing Muleskinner Blues real quiet. I listened a little bit and then said, I didn't know you played the fiddle, Bill. He did one of those moves a possum will do when he's wanting to be invisible..you don't see me, you don't see me...; he put the fiddle down really slow and turned clean around in the chair and just sat there like he'd been that way all along. All in all it was sort of a whacky project. Randy Howard played some pretty spectacular 'contest' style solos, Dewey Farmer did his psychedelic hotrod style mandolin, Buddy Spicher brought integrity to the tunes, Butch ran around keeping it moving along despite all the rest of us giving him a fun-loving hard time. I reckon it was the first time I'd worked with Butch and certainly with Bill. Seems like we did another batch of tunes someplace else, the one that included ...Over Yonder. I don't know where any of that stuff went. Tbug On Mar 10, 10:24 am, erik berry eberr...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought my first-ever download MP3 record (welcome to 2010 Erik!) and it was Butch Robins' record. It's really cool. I'm pretty sure I can tell which tracks have just Mike on them, but boy, the Monroe-Compton duets are really slick. Hard to tell where one starts and the other stops. I like Butch's banjo playing and singing a whole lot too, which is great, since I basically got the record for the mandolinin' on it. A number of cuts I can't wait to share with my banjo player (Doin' My Time and Short'nin' Bread, to name two). Mr. C--great work on that disc. If you have a notion and a few minutes to talk about it, I'd appreciate hearing some stories. If you need a question or two I'll pitch some at you. Was this the first time you worked with Bill and/or Butch? Did you and
RE: F12
You might be able to make this mando into a decent instrument with another $1500. Gibson really kind of reached their nadir in instrument finishes and this f-12 may have may have on of gibson's extra heavy toneguard finishes. Some good luthier may have some thoughts of a newfinish, regraduating the top or other tricks of the trade that could make the 12 sound better. After all the instrument has at least 50 or more year old wood hidden under the heavy laquer finish. It is at least worth a good look! also remember that even a prewar loar may not sound up to snuff after sitting aroud unplayed for so many years.Good luckRSB From: robin.grav...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:49:25 +0100 Subject: F12 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Hey all you taterbuggers I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I haven't had a look at it, but it's apparently mint. Is this potentially a good deal, assuming that it sounds like a mandolin and not like a brick? Best Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
