New Mandola
If you got the emailer from The Mandolin Store this morning that included the Collings MT Mandola in it, you can take a look at the one I have coming in a month or so. I just bought it. Now, I'll TWO mandolin family instruments to stumble around on! WoooHo! Nelson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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.
Norman Blake
I am working and listening to Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2. To whoever recommended this to me (I think it was Don G.), thank you. I have listened to Whiskey Before Breakfast, Nastasha's Waltz and Fields of November so far. I now know what I have been missing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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.
Blue Sky Boys
I am sitting at work listening to the 5 CD box set of the Blue Sky Boys that I picked up at the Blue Grass Museum during Monroe Camp. Their vocal harmonies are really pretty nice. If you have anything by them, listen to Didn't They Crucify My Lord from (1936-1937) and think about Cryin' Holy To The Lord by Bill Monroe. I have noticed that Bill's version of CHTTL was different from most that I have heard. Nelson -- 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.
My first video post
All, After going to Monroe Camp this year and (again) being too shy to jam, I came up with a multi-faceted plan to make myself get better and more comfortable with people hearing my playing. Part of that plan is a commitment I made to myself to post a YouTube video on the last day of each month whether it is ready or not. This provides an incentive for me to keep a steady work pace and to get accustomed to criticism. My first attempt is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4Chu3iR7M I will admit that it is still a bit rough, but I am keeping my pledge to myself and welcome any honest comments you have. Thanks, Nelson -- 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: Recommendations for lessons with Mike
I use a Logitech webcam with Skype and it works just fine. On Sep 22, 3:55 pm, Jeff jeffrey.alexan...@louisvilleky.gov wrote: Hello all, for those of you that take video lessons with Mike, what camera/mic do you suggest, and which works for better for you, AIM/ ichat or Skype. I use windows XP if that matters any and I do have high speed internet. Thanks Jeff -- 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.
I am officially ruined
At dinner tonight, my family sat at Logan's Roadhouse in a booth that is elevated slightly on a platform. I look over and see the little metal plate attached to the end of the table warning diners to Step Down. I swear the first thing that ran through my mind, was No. You step down. I think I am beyond all hope. -- 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.
McClanahan Mandolins
Has anyone had any experience with one of these? I just watched a clip on Crossroads (wnpt.org) about this guy. His work seems top notch and really affordable. He builds them in a small shed in Goodlettsville, TN. -- 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.
Band In A Box
Taternation, Any of you use Band In A Box? I ordered it earlier today. If anyone uses it, do you have any Monroe tunes for it, and/or would you be interested in setting up a share somewhere? Gracias, Nelson -- 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: Lou Martin Newsletter
I had Weber Vintage F Oval that was X-braced. Everyone told me how purty is was, but I could never get comfortable with it. I did not occur to me that the bracing might have been it. Caveat: I realize a Weber and a Gilchrist have very little in common... On Jun 10, 11:33 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: One of my favorite mandos is the Gil that David Long has. It is built of red spruce and sugar maple with X-bracing. Steve Gilchrist usually save the red spruce for his tone bar mandos, but this one was an experiment. I hear in it that hard-edged red spruce side but with the percussiveness of the X braces. It really doesn't sound like any of the other Gil F5's. If David could just keep the curls glued on it...Ha! Of course, I recall having the same affliction earlier in the year. Bugs On Jun 10, 10:07 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Jonas, No sir, I had to put it up on blocks for a while to secure a loan. Apparently it's good for more than making music. G Po'tater On Jun 9, 8:41 am, Jonas Mattebo jonas.matt...@gmail.com wrote: Was is stolen or what? /Jonas 2010/6/9 Petimar p...@petimarpress.com Congrats on getting the F4 back, its an awesome instrument! -- 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...@goog legroups.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.
Haggard at the Ryman
I went to see Merle Haggard at the Ryman last night. At 72 and recovering from cancer, he still stood up for an hour and a half and sang, played the Tele and fiddle. It was a dang good show. An interesting couple of notes: Hag has signed a duo called the Malpass Brothers (http:// www.malpassbrothers.com/blog/index.php/category/merle-haggard-tour/) who wear Pompadour hair styles and old style suits. They sing the old honky tonk / Bakersfield stuff like Merle, Faron Young, etc. They were great. A self described coonass, whose name I can't remember shredded Can't You Hear Me Calling on the Telecaster. It was a cajuney rockabilly take on it that was something else. Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: New Skaggs CD
Erik, He plays 12+ instruments on the disc, including the mandocello. They are all well done, especially the OT banjo, in my opinion. Nelson On Sep 23, 9:47 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: I hope this is o.k. to address in this group. Nelson I guess it's not okay LOL.. I have the CD and it's a good one; I like how it's not overly drenched in reverb or over production. On another note I was at a Cracker Barrel and picked up their Bluegrass Train Songs CD (no MC on this one) It has Sam and Ronnie playing mandolin.I can usually hear those two guys styles but so far I'm having trouble picking out whose playing when. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: I feel inclined to have sex
I am more accustomed to hearing declined when I am in the mood for sex On Sep 21, 9:29 am, Anna Marley marcelojoos8...@gmail.com wrote: My name is Anna Marley, I am a girl 21 years old. Today I feel inclined to have sex. Im here, someone wants to see me?http://lupelieselot.150m.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: BDSM? Whats with this bondage/sadomasochism stuff, anyway?
I thought it stood for Bluegrass (is) Danged Special Music. I think I'll just use the leather strap to hold the mandolin, like I have been doing. On Sep 21, 2:55 pm, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Jenkies! On Sep 21, 2:14 pm, Mike Romkey rom...@qconline.com wrote: Some days playing the mandolin is a little like SM. I'm thinking especially of the anomalous, off-time turnaround riff in Wheel Hoss. That one kind of spanked me. On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:33 PM, BDSM Lovers wrote: BDSM is an acronym of BD (Bondage Discipline), DS (Dominance Submission), and SM (sadomasochism). BDSM refers to any or all of these things, and a lot of stuff besides. Tying up your lover is BDSM; so is flogging that person, or bossing that person around, or any of a thousand other things. BDSM is highly erotic, usually (though not always) involves sex or sexual tension; and is highly psychologically charged. One person (the submissive) agrees to submit to another person (the dominant); or, alternately, one person agrees to receive some sort of sensation, such as spanking, from another. MANY PEOPLE PRACTICE SOME ELEMENT OF BDSM IN THEIR SEXUAL LIVES WITHOUT EVEN BEING AWARE OF IT. Role-playing? Fantasy? You make it sound like it's all some kind of game. IT IS. YOU'RE EXERCISING YOUR IMAGINATION, AND YOU'RE PLAYING A GAME WITH THE OTHER PERSON. JUST TRY AT http://lavernfoxy.150m.com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: New Duff 'Dola
Swet. On Sep 16, 6:59 am, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Holy crap, Paul Duff definitely some building chops. That's one fine-looking instrument. You'll have to post some videos once you get this one. From: The Holstein Kid st...@senatorgroup.com.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:35:45 PM Subject: Re: New Duff 'Dola Whilst we're showing offI've uploaded a pic of my F5, now 6 months old and working magic. Holstein On Sep 16, 9:30 am, The Holstein Kid st...@senatorgroup.com.au wrote: Another work of art. What a ripper! I wonder when you'll get it?? HK On Sep 16, 8:16 am, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: I thought they were pajamas cause they seemed rather largeG On Sep 16, 5:10 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: If that old dola needs a home out west please, no boxers though! On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: You're gonna need them boxers! On Sep 15, 11:05 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: ...looks like Paul threw in a free pair of boxers too... On Sep 15, 11:00 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy Folks, howdy. I just got some pics of a new 17 scale mandola by our Mr. Paul Hello Dahling Duff. He says it's very balanced and alive. Check out the pics on the file page. Can't wait to get my grimey hands on it! Taterboy- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Compton/Grier
Brought to you by Liberty Overalls... On Jul 24, 11:29 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Was that a typo? Wal-Mart Center? On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Dasspunkdassp...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: closed. Mike and Mr. Grier will be performing live, and in person, in lovely Madison, WI on Saturday, October 3rd at Wil-Mar Center. Feel free to contact me for more info... Brian On Jul 23, 12:13 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Closing in? Damn, Orangina. Usually David and I play two sets. We start together, then split off and do seperate mini sets. David has historically done his set first and then I join him on the end, take a break, then same scheme on the second with me doing a mini set in the middle. Easy greasy. I'm looking forward to it. Been doing a LOT of playing up here in the woods. Playing a bunch with Rich DelGrosso, Carol McComb, Evo Bluefield. Some great pickers up here. Fun stuff from David the man with the hair Keenan and his honky tonk sound. Lots of great swing, gypsy, fingerstyle guitarists. Outstanding jazz singers too, Jennifer Scott of note. Yee haw, Spuds On Jul 21, 1:47 pm, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: No worries... I am still on the hunt for a proper room to have them boys down in Madison. I'm closing in! B On Jul 21, 7:58 am, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: My Bad! It was definitely Friday, October 2nd. Dasspunk wrote: Hey Fred, You booked Sat the 3rd or Fri the 2nd? Now I can't remember :) B On Jul 20, 7:20 pm, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: Well some details are still being ironed out but I don't think it's too early to announce that the Whistlepigs are dragging their sorry carcasses up to St. Paul on October 3rd--one night only at the Stepping Stone Theater. I'll keep you all posted as to when tickets are available for purchase. Mike Hedding wrote: Anyone catching any of these shows coming up? I heard they're going to be out westwas hoping someone could post a set list or tell me what kind of stuff they're playing these days. I got to start practicing.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Banjo Anachronism
I was watching an episode of The Waltons last week in which John Boy took a date to his first college dance. The year was given as 1934. The band playing was a somewhat mild stringband composed of a bass, guitar, banjo, fiddle and singer. I noticed the banjo player was playing Scruggs style. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Banjo Anachronism
Well, damn, Mike. You are right. Doc Walsh ...played in a clawhammer style, but was one of the first to record the three finger style. (Wikipedia) Since the CTH disbanded in 1934, that could be true. In other words..nevermind. On Jul 20, 3:53 pm, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if that is too far off base! 2-21 I'm Going To Georgia.mp3 4202KViewDownload On Jul 20, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Nelson wrote: I was watching an episode of The Waltons last week in which John Boy took a date to his first college dance. The year was given as 1934. The band playing was a somewhat mild stringband composed of a bass, guitar, banjo, fiddle and singer. I noticed the banjo player was playing Scruggs style. - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Maiden's Prayer - Bob Wills
I am nearly certain that I have what you are looking for. I will gather up my BW Maiden's Prayer mp3s and see. There is a book for sale by Stacy Phillips called Texas Swing Fiddle or something like that on his webpage. The book includes several transcriptions of Maiden's Prayer in it. On Jul 17, 9:16 am, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea which musicians were on that take? I have a couple of different takes from different musicians (without Bob.) I'm sure there is a copy of Bob's version in my dad's collection. M On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: Its the fiddle only, no lyrics version as appears on the 300. plus dollar collectors set Not sure what other CD's this particular take is on On Jul 17, 11:31 pm, Linda lj...@intas.net.au wrote: Does anyone have an audio file of Bob Wills playing Maiden's Prayer. I heard it a couple of nights ago ...seems he learned it off a Mexican guy in Tx. The take I heard ...left me inspired... Can you help?? linda- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: need me a new Taterbug Special
I could go for getting hopped up on some Roo jerky... On Jul 15, 2:28 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: This is the first list I have ever been on where the subject has come around to Opiated Kangaroo Jerky. I am proud to be a member On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:59 AM, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: Here in Tasmania we have roos' getting into the farmer's poppy fields...having a good feed, then going off their faces...and collapsing..wonder just how this would/could translate into some special jerky. On Jul 15, 3:54 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Adam, Thanks for the offer. Maybe I'll get lucky and hit an Armadillo. We can have the meat and use the shell for picks... On Jul 14, 10:50 am, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, send me the meat... I'll jerky it up fine and mail it back! I'll put a whoopin on it for ya, fo sho! Adam On Jul 13, 9:23 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I'd like to give one of those Taterbug Specials a try...and some coon jerky if you get lucky. We mainly get possum down here, but they take the fun out of it freezing up. Coons hop around enough to make a sport of it. On Jul 11, 10:17 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, Depends on three things: 1) How soon Dave Skowron gets this batch done 2) How many things I run over with my Roadmaster on the way up 3) How many of those I eat myself On Jul 10, 1:55 am, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: So, I don't think I saw an answer to the question, Tater. Will you have picks and roadkill jerky at the Monroe Camp? On Thu 07/ 9/09 9:49 PM , ljt lj...@intas.net.au sent: I have always thought hedgehogs would be ...too fatty to eat...but we all have to eat crow once in a while and we likely all know how that tastes. I think Rawhide is a great tune, but ..seems to be a guy thing I have one tater pick, its great. Seems like they would make cool Christmas presents...don't ya think? On Jul 10, 7:09 am, Robin Gravina robin .grav...@gmail.com wrote: Well when I made the comment, I didn't expect to be in the company of so many people who actually do eat roadkill. I'm English, so don't know too much about these American habits... we just have crows and hedgehogs, and after the trailer has been over them there's not much good pickings there. Now back to Rawhide. On Comando, John Bird said that Tater had unlocked the tune for him by helping him understand it in terms of triplets. I can hear a da-da-da daah da dah da thing going through it, but would be interesting to hear what that is all about On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Mark Seale mark.se. @gmail.com wrote: It was Robin's fault. and I'm still trying to figure out how it morphed into eatin a porcupine... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:25 PM, mistertaterbug tater bugmu...@gmail.comwrote: Yea, I'm with you, Mando Chef. Not that many people play Rawhide with the gravel it calls for (yours truly included), so it might be easier to just eat a dead possum...with sweet 'taters, of course. Songs like Rawhide are not a showcase for a bunch of acrobatic phrases played over the chord changes. There's a mood (not to mention a melody) that goes with it. If the mood's not there, the tune's not been played in my book, I don't care who you are. Now, let the onslaught begin... So how in hell did this go from a nice, civilized question regarding picks to me ranting about Rawhide? Dammit, Bobby. TB On Jul 9, 10:55 am, Mando Chef salty dogli...@gmail.com wrote: Some Roadkill could be rather tasty...I hit a porcupine going bout 60 and nearly went back to get him but he walked off. Resiliant little bastards but they are very tasty and sweet meat. I watched a guy drive through a herd of Antelope in Christmas Valley, Oregon in a corvette... the antelope jumped and he went clear under them.. amazing nothing died including the driver but Antelope makes good jerky... to close to mutten for me, unless it's farm raised. Moral of the story - when in a cave with road kill... enjoy! Adam- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com
Re: jump start?
Erik, I don't know if this is related to your situation or not, but I'll add it. I have a fibromyalgia sort of thing that causes muscle fatigue. Sometimes, I can't play because my arms just don't want to work. I find that the best way to take care of it is regular practice and not cheating myself on the sleep. For me, marathon practice sessions don't seem to help me much at all. I pick up my mandolin every night for at least 30 minutes. Some of that is spent playing a tune I am trying to learn, but most of it is spent just fiddlin' around on the thing. Sometimes, the time gets away from me and I end up playing for a couple of hours. That is my version of transcendtal meditation - when I seem to lose my consciousness of everything around me but what I an doing with the instrument. (Then again, it could be the sour mash working its magic.) Those are the only times when my daily stress really goes away for a while. It seems to me like the best advice is pointless at this time: keep at least one mandolin at home at all times. I have an MK that lives in my office. I can play it during lunch, which I try to do every day. Does your music store lease or loan instruments? Maybe they would let you borrow a floor model since they are doing a good bit of work for you. Nelson On Jul 15, 9:15 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: It takes a lot less muscle strength to fret a note than we all normally use. Remember that and you'll be fine. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:04 AM, erik berryeberr...@gmail.com wrote: New pickups and bridges. Broke 30 strings on the last tour, including 8 in one night. Needed new gear to arrive in mail, I spent 5 minutes taking a look and then said a professional's gonna have to help me here. It's sort of one of those things where every little bit that's pushed me here seemed like it had to happen at the time. Now I'm here and I'm scared. I'm not too nervous about a crowd saying to itself, that mandolin player's fatigued, I can tell. Looks like he got some sun though. I'm nervous about being so fatigued that the other guys in the band (who've been gigging with side projects this summer) will have to cover me. It's a big gig for them too and I don't want to let them down. THanks for the elastic band advice. I don't plan on running scales so much as playing the hell out of my band's tunes in the garage. And thanks for the reminder that I'm my own biggest critic. erik On Jul 15, 8:29 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing substitutes for regular practice/playing. Nothing. I have a pub gig tonight which will consist of a lot of fast-moving bluegrass songs and usually some songs I don't know or don't play regularly enough to be on top of. I'm not ready for it, but it's a bar crowd, so who's going to know if I screw up or my confidence level is down? Me, that's who. Won't matter otherwise. I already know I'm not going to be on top of it, but it doesn't matter. I'll enjoy it, get paid, have a beer and go home. It's been my experience that doing anything makes one better at it and keeps your chops up(sorry), and the reverse is certainly true. I can't say that I agree with Topher in the least except for the rubber bands advice. I know of a few fellows here in Tennyshoe that have used that treatment to great benefit. But onward to protest...How would playing a nylon-stringed instrument with a different scale length prepare one for a gig using a mandolin with metal strings? Nylon does not play like bronze/brass/steel strings. Hell, even plain steel plays differently than wound steel, so how does this help? I suppose Topher should have told you which ukelele you are supposed to warm up with, as they are different. Also, are you going to be playing scales on your gig? How about warming up with minimal amount of scales/exercises and go right to the meat? So you've got the biggest gig of your life coming up and you've got your mandolins off someplace else getting an oil change and front end alignment? Why? Tatuh On Jul 15, 3:11 am, Topher Gayle surfns...@gmail.com wrote: Wow - That really does seem like a conundrum. Both hanging on to a paint scraper, and shoveling will tire your grip, and also maybe overuse your clenching muscles. I am not a doctor or anything, but I bet it would be a good thing to work the reverse muscles to keep some sort of muscular balance. So maybe take a heavy elastic band and open your hand against the resistance for a few minutes before and after each hour of shoveling or scraping? Aside from that, I dunno - pick up a ukulele and tune it like a low-pitched mando and run scales? Topher On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:59 PM, MinnesotaMandolin eberr...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone ever run into this? My personal situation (just bought a house, getting married in a few weeks, new garage
Re: Ear Training
Dawn,
Thanks for the references. I will check them out.
Being a software guy, I have been thinking for some time about the
idea of writing an application that could take a sound file (wave,
mp3, etc) and score it. That would be a sweet little bit of software
to have. So far, I have looked into the various sound file formats
and how they store information.
If the application has to listen via a microphone and interpret
pitches, that would be one capability. If it could read the data as
stored in a file format, it would be another direction altogether.
Last night I ran across a couple of Windows programs that claim they
can to that, but did not have much luck with them. I am going to keep
looking.
Nelson
On Jul 14, 10:45 pm, Dawn Bradbury bluegrassdes...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.good-ear.com/http://www.happynote.com/ear-training.htmlhttp://www.perfectpitch.com/
http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Windows/ear_training.htmlhttp://www.bookstore.juilliard.edu/shopping/product_details.php?id=75954http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/I
like this one especially for those
who don't know anything
http://melissaphillippe.com/index.cgi/pid=15%7C13/Ear-Training-Volume...
I
like this one because it is user friendly...although I learned the system
using sol-feg syllables it is hard for me to hear harmony or to pick out
mandolin in the midst of other things...then I need the Tascam and/or Mike!
I hope this is helpful. Best! Dawn
Songs for interval recognition (interval between first and 2nd notes)
Thanks to Laura Krzyston for compiling this list!
Interval
Ascending
Descending
m2
Jaws
What's New?
Nice Work if you can get it
San Francisco (Left my heart)
I Remember You
I'm Getting Sentimental over You
Bye Bye Black Bird
Stormy Weather
It's Been a Hard Day's Night (Beatles)
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Joy to the World
The Theme (M. Davis)
Sophisticated Lady
Stella by Starlight
The Lady is a Tramp
Solar (M. Davis)
Shall We Dance (The King and I)
Fur Elise
Hernando's Hideaway
M2
Happy Birthday
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
Silent Night
There Will Never be Another You
Tennessee Waltz
My Funny Valentine
Body and Soul
They Say, Ruby
Frere Jacques
Doe, a Deer (Sound of Music)
Mary had a Little Lamb
Deck the Halls
Away in a Manger
Yesterday (Beatles)
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Freddie Freeloader
Three Blind Mice
Whistle While You Work
Mary Had a Little Lamb
M.A.S.H.
Blue Moon
Satin Doll
Tune Up
My Girl
The First Noel
m3
Work Song
Confirmation
Georgia on my Mind
A Foggy Day
Moontrane
The Impossible Dream
Somewhere my Love
O Canada
Oh Where, Oh Where has my Little dog Gone?
Brahm's Lullaby
Greensleeves
So Long, Farewell (Sound of Music)
Frosty the Snowman
What is This Thing Called Love?
500 Miles High (C. Corea)
Misty
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
Hey Jude
Peter Gunn
You're a Grand Old Flag
This Old Man
Jesus Loves Me
Star Spangled Banner
M3
Oh When the Saints
I Can't Get Started
Kum Ba Yah
While Shepherds Watched
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Well I Come From Alabama
From the Halls of Montezuma
{Big Ben Sounding the Hour?}
Beethoven's Fifth
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Good Night Ladies
Summertime
Giant Steps
Come Rain or Come Shine
Bessie's Blues
P4
Here Comes the Bride
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Oh Christmas Tree
Doxy
'Round Midnight
Maiden Voyage
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
All the Things
Ornithology
Song for my Father
Love me Tender
Auld Lang Syne
Aura Lee
The British Grenadiers
Amazing Grace
Someday my Prince Will Come
Day is Done (Taps)
Shave and a Haircut
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Valse Hot (Not Intro!)
Yardbird Suite
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
I Didn't Know What Time it Was
Almighty Fortress is Our God
Baseball Chant
Bizet's L'Arsienne
Make New Friends
Bizet's Farandole
Born Free
I've Been Working on the Railroad
TT
Maria (West Side Story)
The Simpsons
Blue Seven (Sonny Rollins)
European Siren
P5
Twinkle, Twinkle
Theme from 2001
Whisper Not (Benny Golson)
Theme From Peanuts
Bags Groove
Lavender's Blue
Hey There Georgy Girl
Blackbird (Beatles)
Feelings
7 Steps to Heaven (M. Davis)
Have You Met Miss Jones?
The Way You Look Tonight
Mozart's Minuet in G
Flintstones
Bring a Torch Jeannette Isabella
m6
Love Story (third and fourth notes)
The Entertainer
Morning of the Carnival
Go Down Moses
The Entertainer (third and fourth notes)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Love Story Theme
Please Don't Talk About me When I'm Gone
You're Everything (C. Corea)
M6
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Theme from The Sting
NBC
Dashing Through the Snow
You're a Weaver of Dreams
Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen
O-ver There
Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield
m7
There's a Place for Us (West Side Story)
Old Star Trek Theme
Have You Driven a Ford?
Somewhere (West Side Story)
I'll Close My Eyes
Watermelon Man (H. Hancock
Re: need me a new Taterbug Special
Do I have to? :) On Jul 15, 9:47 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: I figure you dry that opiated roo meat out in the Australian sun for a week and it will get hard as it needs... just look at Keith Richards... On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.netwrote: What's the new pick material? Roo teeth? On Jul 15, 9:30 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: I was just looking back at the history of this thread, and wondering if we have collectively stumbled on a new pick material. Could Mr. Gilchrist be persuaded to do the necessary RD? On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I could go for getting hopped up on some Roo jerky... On Jul 15, 2:28 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: This is the first list I have ever been on where the subject has come around to Opiated Kangaroo Jerky. I am proud to be a member On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:59 AM, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: Here in Tasmania we have roos' getting into the farmer's poppy fields...having a good feed, then going off their faces...and collapsing..wonder just how this would/could translate into some special jerky. On Jul 15, 3:54 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Adam, Thanks for the offer. Maybe I'll get lucky and hit an Armadillo. We can have the meat and use the shell for picks... On Jul 14, 10:50 am, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, send me the meat... I'll jerky it up fine and mail it back! I'll put a whoopin on it for ya, fo sho! Adam On Jul 13, 9:23 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I'd like to give one of those Taterbug Specials a try...and some coon jerky if you get lucky. We mainly get possum down here, but they take the fun out of it freezing up. Coons hop around enough to make a sport of it. On Jul 11, 10:17 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, Depends on three things: 1) How soon Dave Skowron gets this batch done 2) How many things I run over with my Roadmaster on the way up 3) How many of those I eat myself On Jul 10, 1:55 am, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: So, I don't think I saw an answer to the question, Tater. Will you have picks and roadkill jerky at the Monroe Camp? On Thu 07/ 9/09 9:49 PM , ljt lj...@intas.net.au sent: I have always thought hedgehogs would be ...too fatty to eat...but we all have to eat crow once in a while and we likely all know how that tastes. I think Rawhide is a great tune, but ..seems to be a guy thing I have one tater pick, its great. Seems like they would make cool Christmas presents...don't ya think? On Jul 10, 7:09 am, Robin Gravina robin .grav...@gmail.com wrote: Well when I made the comment, I didn't expect to be in the company of so many people who actually do eat roadkill. I'm English, so don't know too much about these American habits... we just have crows and hedgehogs, and after the trailer has been over them there's not much good pickings there. Now back to Rawhide. On Comando, John Bird said that Tater had unlocked the tune for him by helping him understand it in terms of triplets. I can hear a da-da-da daah da dah da thing going through it, but would be interesting to hear what that is all about On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Mark Seale mark.se. @gmail.com wrote: It was Robin's fault. and I'm still trying to figure out how it morphed into eatin a porcupine... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:25 PM, mistertaterbug tater bugmu...@gmail.comwrote: Yea, I'm with you, Mando Chef. Not that many people play Rawhide with the gravel it calls for (yours truly included), so it might be easier to just eat a dead possum...with sweet 'taters, of course. Songs like Rawhide are not a showcase for a bunch of acrobatic phrases played over the chord changes. There's a mood (not to mention a melody) that goes with it. If the mood's not there, the tune's not been played in my book, I don't care who you are. Now, let the onslaught begin... So how in hell did this go from a nice, civilized question regarding picks to me ranting about
Ear Training
I need some help, please. My ability to hear/identify pitches is awful. Does anyone know of a surefire method for improving it or am I stuck with it as is? Thanks, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
That dude on the mandolin ripped it!
I was reading comments online from folks that attended the Amoeba Music show in Hollywood, and found this one. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: That dude on the mandolin ripped it!
That dude on the mandolin ripped it! On Jun 25, 3:02 pm, Don Christy mandolin...@gmail.com wrote: I think the subject line must have been the quote. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Mike mikebunt...@shaw.ca wrote: On Jun 25, 1:00 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I was reading comments online from folks that attended the Amoeba Music show in Hollywood, and found this one. Am I missing something?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Correction!! Costello/Tater on the Tonight Show!!! 6/23 Tonight
I enjoyed this performance, but was a little disappointed that the fiddle, not the mandolin, filled in for the missing resonator. I was able to capture the video from the Amoeba.com web broadcast using one of the many free video streaming capture tools. It is easy to do for anyone interested in preserving that show for later viewing. Has anyone purchased the video Why Old Time? My came in the mail on Monday, but I haven't had time to watch it yet. I look forward to the chance to sit down and take a look at it. While I am at it (throwing a handfull of questions/subjects out there), who has registered for the camp in Owensboro? Nelson On Jun 24, 8:50 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: I got a close look at Telluride. I think it's the Fishman M300 which has the pickup sensors in the base of the bridge. The M100 and M200 had them embedded in the bridge saddle. He said he's going straight into a DI to the board, and they're able to make it sound decent. It's definitely changed the acoustic tone of the Gilchrist--not as full and as rich as it was with a real bridge. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM, 14stringsperrypale...@gmail.com wrote: I 'think' he got the Fishman bridge pick-up with perhaps the Aura module. I'm betting he was also playing into a mic too? On Jun 24, 12:40 am, Mike mikebunt...@shaw.ca wrote: Just watched it, great stuff. Anybody know what pickup Tater settledd on? On Jun 23, 6:25 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Not the Late Show.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: photos
Thanks for the link. Great photos. One tune I forgot to mention that they played was Femme Fatale by the Velet Underground. The full sound of the ensemble really worked well on it as opposed to the sparse treatment it normally gets. On Jun 19, 8:12 am, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the bib fo sho... Man I would have loved to have been able to get to Telluride... Stuck in TX. On Jun 19, 7:34 am, Don Christy mandolin...@gmail.com wrote: Tater looks like he's having some fun, especially the last two photos! And I think he's still wearing his tateralls under that coat.Don On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.comwrote: Some nice shots of costello and band here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/multi/elvis-costello-in-concert-in-cary- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
The Wilders
I bought the new disc by this group on Amazon (download) last night. They are an interesting group of folks, that is for sure. Anyone else listen to them? Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Costello Show
All, The show last night was a killer! (No overalls for Tater, though) The show started right at 7:30 and the went until about 10;25. I couldn't believe that they had gone that long. Elvis seemed more than happy to play just one more every time it was asked of him (the crowd was not a sell out, so that made it even more impressive to me). He was there to make his fans happy. They started with Mystery Train and ended with From Sulphur To Sugar Cane. In between they played The Race is On, much of the new album, some older stuff, The Bottle Let Me Down and Friend of the Devil. I am sure that I am leaving out something important. The guys went from ballad to blues to rock and rowdy. When the fellas tore loose in a jam, it was amazing. I have never seen such a jam with a guy rocking the accordian! My hat is off to them. It was an evening well spent! Nelson On Jun 17, 8:54 am, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks On Jun 16, 11:09 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: They usually broadcast the Telluride festival on the web on KOTO, but I don't see it listed on their calendar. Maybe Planet Bluegrass shut them down to get more people to buy tickets and come to the festival. Go towww.bluegrass.comforthe festival schedule andwww.koto.orgfor radio station info. Elvis/Mike play this Friday at 8 Mountain time. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Val Mindelvmin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know when there is likely to be a radio broadcast that is catchable ... for those of us who are geographically challenged. I'm finally back in Vermont, but haven't heard of the EC tour making it this far into the Northeast. thanks, val On Jun 15, 2:28 pm, Trey Young email_t...@yahoo.com wrote: I listened to a show from the Beacon Theatre at the Sugar Megs site this morning, it was mighty fine. They did a great version of The Race is On. I'd say you're in for a treat. From: Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:55:36 PM Subject: Costello Show Has anyone caught a show, yet? We are heading up to Nashville tomorrow to catch one. Looking forward to it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Costello Show
True. I did not like that song (Mirror) on the CD. It bored me. In the show, though, I was won over. At first (with the CD in general), I was disappointed with EC's (or probably TBone's) arranging/production of the tunes. I thought that the fiddle and mandolin could have played a much more prominent role in the overall musical picture. I got over that somewhat last night, though. Listening to the band play was a very good lesson in an instrument not being the star, but a supporting player. I guess BG oriented players are accustomed to their turn to tear it up. Last night reminded me that the job description just does not allow for that. EC surprised me somewhat, too, with his soulfulness. There was one tune in which they approached a near Marvin Gaye type feel, and Elvis delivered the feeling perfectly. I second the opinion. If the show comes near you, go. On Jun 17, 8:42 pm, Mike O m...@att.net wrote: I was at the show at the Ryman, too. It was great... and Nelson has accurately accounted the experience. the band was great and really played as an ensemble... completely in the service of the song (but really more in service of the story of each song. Nelson... how powerful was She Handed Me a Mirror? ). I thought it was kind of a contemporary string band sound... lots of rhythm and sort of unison playing. i would have loved to hear more mandolin, but I am hopelessly biased and was not in service to the song. overall, it was a lesson in the power of restraint and less being more. As a rabid Costello fan, I loved all the King of America tunes they revisited. If you get the chance... go see EC and the Sugarcanes. Mike O' On Jun 17, 7:29 pm, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Hope they can pack all that music into their slot at TelluTaterRide. I'm leaving tomorrow, show's Friday night--just have a 1 day pass. Fun, fun, fun at 10,000 feet. By this time tomorrow, I should be looking out at snowcapped mountains and picking my mandolin. Paradise. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Nelsonnelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: All, The show last night was a killer! (No overalls for Tater, though) The show started right at 7:30 and the went until about 10;25. I couldn't believe that they had gone that long. Elvis seemed more than happy to play just one more every time it was asked of him (the crowd was not a sell out, so that made it even more impressive to me). He was there to make his fans happy. They started with Mystery Train and ended with From Sulphur To Sugar Cane. In between they played The Race is On, much of the new album, some older stuff, The Bottle Let Me Down and Friend of the Devil. I am sure that I am leaving out something important. The guys went from ballad to blues to rock and rowdy. When the fellas tore loose in a jam, it was amazing. I have never seen such a jam with a guy rocking the accordian! My hat is off to them. It was an evening well spent! Nelson On Jun 17, 8:54 am, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks On Jun 16, 11:09 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: They usually broadcast the Telluride festival on the web on KOTO, but I don't see it listed on their calendar. Maybe Planet Bluegrass shut them down to get more people to buy tickets and come to the festival. Go towww.bluegrass.comforthefestivalschedule andwww.koto.orgfor radio station info. Elvis/Mike play this Friday at 8 Mountain time. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Val Mindelvmin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know when there is likely to be a radio broadcast that is catchable ... for those of us who are geographically challenged. I'm finally back in Vermont, but haven't heard of the EC tour making it this far into the Northeast. thanks, val On Jun 15, 2:28 pm, Trey Young email_t...@yahoo.com wrote: I listened to a show from the Beacon Theatre at the Sugar Megs site this morning, it was mighty fine. They did a great version of The Race is On. I'd say you're in for a treat. From: Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:55:36 PM Subject: Costello Show Has anyone caught a show, yet? We are heading up to Nashville tomorrow to catch one. Looking forward to it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Costello Show
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Blues (Broonzy)
I have become interested in translating some blues to the mandolin lately and have been listening to artists whose work might might translate well. Has anyone worked with adapting any Broonzy to the mandolin? A few tunes like Long Tall Mama stand out as good candidates. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Costello Tour Attire
I was going to say Nudie Overalls, but knowing this group, things would get outta hand pretty fast. On Jun 3, 11:29 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Tater, Are you acting as fashion consultant to Elvis on these tour dates? I'd like to know where one might buy a pair of sequined overalls Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Secrets, Profane Sugarcane
I picked this disc up this morning, and have listened to it (interrupted several times) once. I like it so far. The Crooked Line is one of my favorites. On Jun 2, 8:47 am, lj...@intas.net.au wrote: Twice in recent days we have heard various tracks from this new CD on our Australian National Radio. Very cool. On May 30, 10:39 am, lj...@intas.net.au wrote: The mandolin effort reminded me why I choose to play mandolin rather than say trumpet or even the fiddle. I have to keep an open mind where Mr. Costello is concerned. For me, he seems like an intellectual kind of composer, who in this case draws from Dylan, and Tom Wait, two people I have some listening experience with. His compositions seem very sophisticated, cerebral, and his singing seems somewhat unremarkable so the music behind him really shines. Then, one is drawn to the written lyrics ..then every now and again to the timber of his voice. The way Tater's mandolin faded sometimes so it was barely heard but there, kinda like whispering and then would step out and become more obvious worked well for me. I liked the CD a lot more than the you- tube Costello things I have seen/heard. I thought it was pretty music. The mandolin takes stayed in my head after. It was a treat to listen to, thanks Brian for putting the word out. On May 30, 8:41 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Sehr geherte Herr Dassgespunken thanks for the link - must admit I'm not a big Costello fan, despite having heard him since 'Pump it up' in my tender years, and seen him quite a few times, but having talked about it with my musical colleagues who really like him, you have to say that the man can write a song. They are never the kind of thing that you want to get up and play, but there is an enormous flow, and sometimes tremendous beauty, and they are all built on the classic elements, shuffled around, repeated and extended, which is a great reminder to not try and rebuild the wheel when you are trying to write a song, and reassuring when you think you are just copying. Yes, our leader and friends do a wonderful job- totally different, but reminiscent of the Hartford records, and also frankly of the best Dylan bands, such as the one he has now - everything at the service of the song and the music with no individual showing out. I still like stoopid simple three, two and one chord old time songs though! Robin (ok 'crooked line' just came on, now that's some good stuff) On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Brian Ray dassp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a huge Elvis Costello fan. He's in my top 3 non-grass musicians of all time. When Mike told me he was going to record with him, though I don't typically buy into such crap, I asked him to get his autograph for me. He did and it's on my fridge (thanks Mike!). I wouldn't think the mando community would find this new record overly noteworthy as it doesn't feature the mando specifically. Myself, I'm finding it completely sensational. It's an absolute clinic on ensemble play. Less, without question, can be more and perhaps if I say it out loud more often, it will make it's way to my brain and fingers. Anyway, you can hear the entire record on EC's site: http://www.elviscostello.com. Great job Miguel! I would also like to request in advance y'all do Indoor Fireworks at the Ravinia show... B- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Costello Show
Cool. The man has written some great songs. On Jun 1, 11:59 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, My Aim is True is on the list of prospects...and about 40 more. Taterbrain On Jun 1, 9:40 am, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I am raring to go now. I just booked tickets for the Ryman show on June 16. I took a tour through some of the tunes on the disc, and it seems very interesting - probably one of those albums that will age well with me. It helps that I have been an EC fan back to My Aim Is True.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: sound advice
In Sam Bush's DVD, he uses a bridge pickup and a mic combo; I believe it is a clip-on mic. As I remember, it sounds pretty good. I have look for a clip-on mic for acoustic instruments and haven't had any luck finding one I thought would work. I had an MK with a Fishman bridge pickup a while back and hated it. The difference between the sounds produced by mic and pickup was substantial. This was in a church with good sound equipment. I ended up going with a mic. On May 27, 10:53 am, MinnesotaMandolin eberr...@gmail.com wrote: oh yeah, being nervous about using electricity is old-timey erik On May 27, 8:31 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know enough about all this to even talk about it. Wait a minute, is this oldtimey? Taterdog On May 27, 8:17 am, Mike Romkey mrom...@mac.com wrote: I have one of those Fishman bridge pickups. I can't say that I like it. Or use it. I'd look into something like the Aura Don recommends ... if that's the Fishman sampled sound/life sound blending thing I've heard about. They're supposed to do amazingly good things with acoustic guitars. Maybe they have a Gil mandolin sample you can load. I heard they were developing profiles for fiddles and mandolins, but I never looked into it. I feel your pain.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Lead Belly
For some unknown reason, I started hearing Pick A Bale Of Cotton playing on the mandolin while I was eating lunch today. Has anyone played around with Lead Belly's tunes much? Seems like a few nuggets are there. Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: IMovie Mac help
Instead of using VOB files from DVD directly, I use ImTOO DVD Ripper, which is available in a Mac OS version. I takes each chapter in your DVD and rips it to your specs: resolution, format (mpg, mov, avi), etc. I think this makes doing such work much quicker. I use TMPGenc to do my editing, encoding and DVD writing. it is pretty quick. Then again, I am a PC, so I probably do everything ass backwards anyway. On May 19, 3:09 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Not a Mac user either, but sounds similar to Windows movie maker: import from the cd and it will convert it into an editable project On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.netwrote: Sorry...I am a PC. I can rip it and do just about anything you want to it, but on my Dell. On May 19, 2:27 pm, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy Any Mac power users out there in Taterland? I have a non commercial dvd of a show my band did at BB Kings and I want to import it into IMovie and edit it into clips for YouTube. A read through loads of forum pages about how easy it was for some using the method outlined below and how for many it was a complete nightmare. IMovie version 8; one poster said it worked fine in ver. 9 but many posters said it worked great in version 8 while many said it caused ver 8 to crash Can anybody steer me in the right direction?? Any help is greatly appreciated 1) Insert DVD. 2) Open Disk Utility. 3) Select the disk and then select New Image. Save the disk image wherever is convenient, such as the desktop. 4) Once the disk image is written, open iMovie 08. 5) Mount the new disk image. A Camera Detected, Scanning Contents window will appear in iMovie 08, followed by an import window. You can now import the DVD contents and start editing away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Lounge Room Lizard?
About a month or so ago, I bought a Michael Kelly A model to take to work. I didn't want to transport my regular instrument and risk having it stolen or subjected to the Alabama heat. I shut my office door every day at lunch and spend my lunch hour practicing. It has helped alot. In fact, it is time to do that now! On May 17, 7:22 am, malagrass malayt...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have my beater Ratliff F5 that I take in my car also. I have the songs in my ipod that I want to work on and it works well for me, except that having a free schedule being in sales when I do practice I don't do anything elseI have no self control. I usually find a quite place and sit there for hours... Gotta find a way to keep my job On May 16, 4:39 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: I feel you I ended up practising in the car, because of all those things. But sometimes I get the mando on while cooking and play to whatever is on the radio during times when nothing needs stirring. The other day, the only thing listenable was the hip hop show and I ended up playing dusty Miller to a song by Nas. The rhythms were absolutely perfect- funky hip hop hits the three as if there were a fiddler driving it. Anyway, just think of Jane Austen- writing superb novels at the kitchen table while the kids ran around. I guess if you want it enough... On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM, The Holstein Kid st...@senatorgroup.com.au wrote: Howdy from The Hills. I've been struggling to get enough sleep lately with a new born in the house. A constant feeling of being tired, and ongoing interruptions through being called upon for various husbandly / fatherly duties day night. When the tiny tot sleeps well, it's ok, but when she's not, it's hard to get a good solid practice in...hence the late nights when almost everyone is asleep. There are no phones, less interruptions and one can concentrate. Number one son is almost three now and he loves to spend time with dad so I make the time and do my thing at scheduled times and at night. I have come to adapt better recently when the Missus complained that I spend more time in my room playing mandolin than spending 'quality' time in the evening with her. Fair enough, she was right. I suggested that whilst she was awake watching tv in the lounge room and we had a cuppa and a chat etc, I could perhaps practice lightly in the same room. This is a tricky task as it means practicing softly enough so she can hear the tv, but not so soft that my playing is meaningless. This has worked well so far and we're all happy. At 8:30pm she's off to bed and I can move rooms and crank up the Duff to whatever measure is required. Something I discovered during my Lounge Room picking, is that I started playing along with the tv commercials. The ad comes on I quickly find the key and pick along so that it blends in. Sometimes it's harder than others but it's a good challenge and I test myself by seeing how quick I can sort it out and make it sound decent. You wouldn't believe how fast the time flies. This is a bit like doing sit- ups during every commercial as a way of getting exercise done, but I've replaced it with my music. So far so good. My problem lately is that Son No.1 gets up mighty early in the mornings wants breakfast, wants to wrestle, play cars and so on. It can be a long day when you get up short on zzz's. Has anyone else encountered these issues or come across any beaut practice tips? I best get some rest, tomorrow is almost here!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Who needs another fiddle tune book?
I always am on the lookout for a new one. Now I have to look up the difference in a song and a ditty. On May 14, 3:38 pm, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: I got this'n last year--good stuff! The 3-CD set released in conjunction (must be purchased separately IIRC) is also valuable. 14strings wrote: http://www.dearoldillinois.com/index.html- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Anne-Hathaway Wallpapers
All discussion of men in thongs should hereby be banned from this group (by gentlemen's agreement)The same would go for any discussion of men in chaps without any drawers on, too. On May 13, 10:37 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: You're absolutely right that that's just you!!! GGG On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Dennis Fehling denpamc...@msn.com wrote: I would prefer a 8/10 of the tater in a coverall thong myself. But that's just me Dennis www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me From: amit.arora...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Anne-Hathaway Wallpapers Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 18:26:26 +0530 Subscribe to WowMailz- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
All, I just uploaded a transcription of Ed Hayley's Garfield's Blackberry Blossom. It was transcribed by a fiddler who lives here in Huntsville. I haven't looked at what is already there, so this may be a duplicate. Nelson On May 12, 7:26 am, Mike Romkey mrom...@mac.com wrote: I like the it's all about the shuffle comment. That's what I was flailing for with my triplets comment. The transcript doesn't reveal a thing about inflection. Meanwhile, I was pleasantly surprised to find the aforementioned Jeff Todd Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes is online via Google Books. It does look a bit less baroque than the Haley version, though the footnote says it's based on Haley. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
Dang, I should have looked first. It is the same transcription that Tater had already put out there. The guy who did it has a number of Hayley transcriptions on his website. On May 12, 12:34 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: All, I just uploaded a transcription of Ed Hayley's Garfield's Blackberry Blossom. It was transcribed by a fiddler who lives here in Huntsville. I haven't looked at what is already there, so this may be a duplicate. Nelson On May 12, 7:26 am, Mike Romkey mrom...@mac.com wrote: I like the it's all about the shuffle comment. That's what I was flailing for with my triplets comment. The transcript doesn't reveal a thing about inflection. Meanwhile, I was pleasantly surprised to find the aforementioned Jeff Todd Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes is online via Google Books. It does look a bit less baroque than the Haley version, though the footnote says it's based on Haley.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Where's everybody gone?
The oddest thing happend here at workI got covered in stuff to get done! Other than that, I am working on my lesson stuff plus Tennesse Waltz and a few old gospel tunes. One day (when I can focus on one thing long enough), I'll record a video. The challenge will be to find a time when it won't be filled with 5 year old girl poking her smiling face in front of the camera and waving or asking 2 dozen questions! On May 9, 11:51 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like we've all got busy and quit posting. As for me, I'm up to my eyeballs in stuff, mostly musical. Has to be done. My apologies for neglecting the page. Just lots to do. What's going on out there? Come on... Taterboy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Where's everybody gone?
I get all the bacon I need watching CSPAN. I am enjoying the lessons. I feel like I am learning stuff that makes me a better player by improving my confidence and my knowledge. My wife says that my playing sounds much better. As usual, I agree with her when she says something I want to hear! :) On May 11, 9:28 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: John, Don't dig in so much. If that don't work, I know a fellow who worked on his Martin with a belt sander. I can give you his number. G Bacon? Did somebody say bacon? Taterbug On May 10, 11:10 am, malagrass malayt...@bellsouth.net wrote: As for me, spring has sprung and the rain has kept falling here in E TN. Flooding the greenhouse and everything else for that matter. It shorted out my electric fence and the pigs figured it out in short order. They ate everyone of my lettuce plants, good thing I like bacon.. I just received my new 2004 stanley #5 and its everything people say about them. I was somewhat nervous, I guess you never know but what an instrument. The only thing I'm not to happy about is the extension is not scooped and i'm on the fence about altering the instrument. Anyone have thoughts, Its just really different but hey Monroe played with that for what, 50 years. So maybe i'll get used to it.. I'm considering a couple months of online lessons, some money became available. How is everyone's progress with lessons, i'd be interested in hearing your sucesses. John in Rogvages- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Another Cracker Barrel CD
I have searched the web, the Cracker Barrel site, and the Cumberland Music site for a place to purchase these without any luck. I have 3 CBs in my town, so I can stop in and see what they have available. If they have the Old Barn Dance cd, I'll get it and can send it to you. The selection seems to vary per store. Nelson On May 5, 7:45 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried in the past to track these down with no luck. The CB website has no info; I did manage to find the record company once but they were unreachable. I'd love to get a copy of the Old Barn Dance CD (I think that was the title) mentioned here a few weeks ago. (it was the one with all the fiddle tunes on it) Much appreciated if anybody could mail me one up? I could PayPal you shipping and cost. Perry On Apr 30, 10:56 am, Petimar p...@petimarpress.com wrote: Any place to get this besides CB? What are the names of the other 3? Sounds like CD purchases in my near future.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Book Reference
All, I have found a book that I really like and wanted to pass the information along to everyone. It is the Craig Duncan Master Fiddle Solo Collection http://www.amazon.com/Craig-Duncan-Master-Fiddle-Collection/dp/0786633875/ref=cm_lmf_tit_14_rsrsrs0. I am enjoying this one a lot. Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Book Reference
That looks like a good one, too. Too many books, too little shelf space! Thanks. On Apr 28, 3:51 pm, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nelson Thanks for the tip; looks like a good book. Gonna add that to the 'ol wish list. Along the same lines is a Mark O'Connor's book by Stacy Phillips. It's a transcription of a CD that is available. Lots of great variations. How many differnt ways can you play the same fiddle tune! :) here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Bay-presents-Mark-OConnor/dp/156015/ref... On Apr 28, 2:37 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: All, I have found a book that I really like and wanted to pass the information along to everyone. It is the Craig Duncan Master Fiddle Solo Collectionhttp://www.amazon.com/Craig-Duncan-Master-Fiddle-Collection/dp/078663 I am enjoying this one a lot. Nelson- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Georgie Buck
They played here last weekend, in the midst of tornado warnings. We had other commitments that day and saw Dave Davis the day before. I would like to see them live, though. On Apr 23, 7:37 pm, JakeyLee fortpo...@gmail.com wrote: That's cool the CCDs do it. Makes sense, Joe Thompson being a mentor of the group. I got to see them play at an outdoor concert series in Brooklyn. They were great, and played with members from the Ebony Hillbillies, a black stringband from Queens (really good stuff, check em out). Thanks for all the leads on this tune. Jacob On Apr 23, 3:13 pm, Trey Young email_t...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't think the CCD uses the instrument in question on that track, that is one great album though and I sure would like to see those guys live... From: Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:07:39 PM Subject: Re: Georgie Buck It is on the Carolina Chocolate Drops disc Dona Got a Ramblin Mind. There probably isn't any mandolin on it, but I have seen the banjo player use a resonator mandolin/banjo kinda thing. I just can't remember if it is used on that track. On Apr 23, 9:43 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Now that's something I'd like to hear. Toumani Diabate and Taj Mahal. I hope google is my friend on this one. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like I've got a version of Ol' Georgie Buck by Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate...Georgie Buck is dead and the last words he said, said he didn't want no shortnin' in his bread. Buck On Apr 22, 5:34 pm, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Growling Old Men (aka, John Lowell and Ben Winship) do it on their Occupational Hazards recording. Just guitar and mandolin. It's a great cd!!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Personal YouTube Videos
I haven't tried many scotch whiskies, mainly being a mash fan. I have to say that I recently found a Kentucky whiskey that has become my favorite: Knob Creek. I find it hard to believe that such a good sipping whiskey could come from the folks at Jim Beam. On Apr 22, 8:03 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: WHAT occasion is not special enough for JW Blue? Dammit man, crack that puppy. Or Chimay blue, red, or white(if you're gonna drink beer). Sot On Apr 22, 7:26 am, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Nice picking Shaun. I think I would have gone ahead and busted open the bottle of JW Blue. When did you get the Kimble? I always admired that Red Diamond A5 in your other videos. Mark On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Time for some new ones. Be sure to read the notes on the first one. ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uVNLUeL8WU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og3t4xPigiE- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Personal YouTube Videos
Thanks for the tip. I will give it a try. I was cruising along happily with Maker's Mark until I went to a function that offered regular Jim Beam and Knob Creek. No offense to the MM folks, but they have been left behind, IMHO. On Apr 22, 10:08 am, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Well, when you're feeling a little cash flush, if you like Knob Creek, you'll love Baker's (from the same small batch Beam distillery.) I'm a bourbon man myself. Mark On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.netwrote: I haven't tried many scotch whiskies, mainly being a mash fan. I have to say that I recently found a Kentucky whiskey that has become my favorite: Knob Creek. I find it hard to believe that such a good sipping whiskey could come from the folks at Jim Beam. On Apr 22, 8:03 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: WHAT occasion is not special enough for JW Blue? Dammit man, crack that puppy. Or Chimay blue, red, or white(if you're gonna drink beer). Sot On Apr 22, 7:26 am, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Nice picking Shaun. I think I would have gone ahead and busted open the bottle of JW Blue. When did you get the Kimble? I always admired that Red Diamond A5 in your other videos. Mark On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Time for some new ones. Be sure to read the notes on the first one. ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uVNLUeL8WU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og3t4xPigiE-Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: rocky pallet
Send me your email address and I'll send. On Apr 19, 2:14 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I have it. On Apr 19, 9:40 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Boy, I've got every other kind of rocky, but not this one. Fixin' to git it though... Taterboy On Apr 19, 8:28 am, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have an MP3 of Rocky Pallet? I think it is a Skillet Licker tune. Can't think of the squirrely middle part ... best, val- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: rocky pallet
nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net On Apr 19, 2:16 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Send me your email address and I'll send. On Apr 19, 2:14 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I have it. On Apr 19, 9:40 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Boy, I've got every other kind of rocky, but not this one. Fixin' to git it though... Taterboy On Apr 19, 8:28 am, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have an MP3 of Rocky Pallet? I think it is a Skillet Licker tune. Can't think of the squirrely middle part ... best, val- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Disney Bluegrass Album
I found O Mickey Where Art Thou for less than $2 on Ebay. #5 on it is Supercalifagilissticsexpalidocious, or however you spell it. On Apr 14, 10:13 pm, Mike mikebunt...@shaw.ca wrote: What album, what's #5? On Apr 14, 11:36 am, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: If ya'll haven't heard this album since my children enjoy Blue Grass we picked it up and number 5 as it is referred to by them, is played CONSTANTLY. I received this joke today which reminded me of this song and when you get to the punchline you will all know which I am referring to. Since there has been some play on words lately, Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him. (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good).A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. Adam- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Cold Remedy
My longstanding treatment for throat ailments: Hot water Lemon juice Whiskey Honey Directions: Pour about 2 or 3 fingers of your favorite whiskey into a glass (the bigger diameter of the glass the better). Dispose of all other ingredients Drink the whiskey Repeat as long as able Nelson On Apr 12, 6:26 pm, Dennis Fehling denpamc...@msn.com wrote: The best remedy was told to me by My brother in law. there is a pub in Oregon City that is owned by a heart surgeon. He recommend fine double maly Whiskey and nothign else for just about anythig that ails you. I have tried some that was baout 65.00 a bottle and this stuff rocks and knocke just about anything that may be lurking. Dennis www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:34:41 + From: phreem...@comcast.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cold Remedy I'm no doctor but I play one on I Sight mandolin lessonsor is it mandarin ressons. Anyway , continue to take the remedy for at least one day after symptoms are gone. Also, next time start the remedy as soon as you feel the first symptoms. Medic Murph - Original Message - From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:51:26 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Cold Remedy Been down with my great nemesis strep throat since Wednesday night. I got this recipe for a cold cure from Pat Murphree on Thursday about noon. Seems to help some. Of course, now I have an overwhelming craving for Chicken Mandarin and I can't swallow anything thicker than soup yet. 2 teaspoons honey 1 pinch of cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon of grated fresh ginger (if you freeze the ginger root first it grates easier) 1/2 fresh squeezed lemon Put it all in a cup and add hot water and stir Take at least 3 or 4 times a day. Fried Tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Beaumont Rag
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Re: Redneck Haiku
'Roid range changes Not about sports medicine When we get older On Apr 5, 7:37 pm, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Two-for-four today It sure was nice to play ball Even though we lost. On Apr 5, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Don Grieser wrote: Hope springs eternal I know that this is the year Chicago Cubs On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM, mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Seven dollar beer Forty-two dollar tickets It's opening day Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 18:11:28 To: Taterbugmandotaterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Redneck Haiku I was inspired at my little girl's tee ball game today.. Combover, popcorn Perfumes clashing, babies crying Tee ball day today On Apr 3, 7:13 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: A poor cross eyed boy Becomes a visonary WSM On Apr 2, 11:24 pm, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Jerusalem Ridge Above a lonely graveyard Where Bill Monroe lays On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: The road winds around Brother Charlie's former home Jerusalem Ridge On Apr 2, 3:09 pm, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Went to play baseball But instead played my banjo What would you exchange? On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Don Grieser wrote: Three inch sheet rock screws Replace rusting baling wire But not the duct tape On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Whoops, sent the first draft on accident. I need to learn how to count. Tobacco spit cup Sittin in my cup holder Not Dr. Pepper :) On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Copenhagen spit cup Sittin in my cup holder Not Dr. Pepper On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Lost Haiku Mojo? Let's keep this thing a going Much more fun than work On Mar 31, 10:06 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Maybe a Japanese music form? I have been interested in Asian music for a while. I read somewhere that most of it is pentatonic. On Mar 31, 9:41 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if there is a musical form that rivals this haiku verse? I mean, is there a 5-7-5 form in music? What would it be? I have music laying around here in all sorts of odd meters already. How would we count it? Tater On Mar 31, 9:36 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Dammit to hell, Shaun Took the wind out of our sails Now it's back to work Taterbug On Mar 31, 2:56 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: taterbug mando mandolin players sharing nonsense and insight On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: My work here is done... Steve Cantrell wrote: Throw up funnel cake just made me laugh audibly, Fred. *From:* Fred fkel...@scicable.net *To:* taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:01:16 PM *Subject:* Re: Redneck Haiku Your latest reminded me of something... Festival groupie Pick all night under the stars Throw up funnel cake mistertaterbug wrote: George Jones on the road Headed to the liquor store Lawnmower goes slow Bluegrass festival Photo opportunity Bill says, You Back Up Help...I can't stop... Tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Redneck Haiku
The road winds around Brother Charlie's former home Jerusalem Ridge On Apr 2, 3:09 pm, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Went to play baseball But instead played my banjo What would you exchange? On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Don Grieser wrote: Three inch sheet rock screws Replace rusting baling wire But not the duct tape On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Whoops, sent the first draft on accident. I need to learn how to count. Tobacco spit cup Sittin in my cup holder Not Dr. Pepper :) On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Copenhagen spit cup Sittin in my cup holder Not Dr. Pepper On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Lost Haiku Mojo? Let's keep this thing a going Much more fun than work On Mar 31, 10:06 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Maybe a Japanese music form? I have been interested in Asian music for a while. I read somewhere that most of it is pentatonic. On Mar 31, 9:41 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if there is a musical form that rivals this haiku verse? I mean, is there a 5-7-5 form in music? What would it be? I have music laying around here in all sorts of odd meters already. How would we count it? Tater On Mar 31, 9:36 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Dammit to hell, Shaun Took the wind out of our sails Now it's back to work Taterbug On Mar 31, 2:56 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: taterbug mando mandolin players sharing nonsense and insight On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: My work here is done... Steve Cantrell wrote: Throw up funnel cake just made me laugh audibly, Fred. *From:* Fred fkel...@scicable.net *To:* taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:01:16 PM *Subject:* Re: Redneck Haiku Your latest reminded me of something... Festival groupie Pick all night under the stars Throw up funnel cake mistertaterbug wrote: George Jones on the road Headed to the liquor store Lawnmower goes slow Bluegrass festival Photo opportunity Bill says, You Back Up Help...I can't stop... Tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Redneck Haiku
Should have known better Than to post that ugly news Wish I could delete On Mar 31, 8:24 pm, Don Christy mandolin...@gmail.com wrote: Now that's what I call a thread stopper. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.netwrote: Poking fun at rednecks made me think of this news story that appeared in my home county a couple of years ago: A boy raped his mother who was passed out drunk in the middle of the day, asleep on the couch in her trailer. I never thought I would see a story that topped one I read in USA Today about 15 or 16 years or regarding a man who was arrested for being a serial horse rapist. Teen Arrested for Raping His Mother Updated: Nov 4, 2006 09:03 PM CDT Albertville, Ala. -- Police say a Marshall County teen raped his mother to get revenge on his brother. Police say 19-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville. It's a twisted crime that police say Helms admits. From what we understand the rape stemmed from an argument between him and his brother. And apparently they were arguing over a girlfriend. And the rape was some sort of retaliation towards his brother, said Sgt. Jamie Smith of the Albertville Police Department. It was unusual retaliation on an unsuspecting victim. Authorities say Helms' mother was apparently passed out drunk on the couch when the rape started. During the attack she did come to and recognize her attacker. (Reporter: As her son?) As her son, said Smith. That's when, according to the police report, the mother tried to get away, but he held her down until he was finished. It's totally sick is what it is, said Smith. Helms was arrested and charged with the 1st degree rape of his own mother. Smith says it's hard to wrap your mind around. Shocked, shocked would be more a better way to describe it. That somebody would dip to the lows to do something of this nature. It's just pretty much a shock to the conscience of the general public, said Smith. Helms is being held in the Marshall County Jail on $100,000 bond. On Mar 31, 3:06 pm, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Thinkin' up haiku Should be making more sales calls This is much more fun- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Redneck Haiku
I don't think so. Somewhere in the universe, there is a huge pile of garbage... On Mar 31, 8:52 pm, Don Christy mandolin...@gmail.com wrote: it's the internetnothing is ever truly deleted is it? On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.netwrote: Should have known better Than to post that ugly news Wish I could delete On Mar 31, 8:24 pm, Don Christy mandolin...@gmail.com wrote: Now that's what I call a thread stopper. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Poking fun at rednecks made me think of this news story that appeared in my home county a couple of years ago: A boy raped his mother who was passed out drunk in the middle of the day, asleep on the couch in her trailer. I never thought I would see a story that topped one I read in USA Today about 15 or 16 years or regarding a man who was arrested for being a serial horse rapist. Teen Arrested for Raping His Mother Updated: Nov 4, 2006 09:03 PM CDT Albertville, Ala. -- Police say a Marshall County teen raped his mother to get revenge on his brother. Police say 19-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville. It's a twisted crime that police say Helms admits. From what we understand the rape stemmed from an argument between him and his brother. And apparently they were arguing over a girlfriend. And the rape was some sort of retaliation towards his brother, said Sgt. Jamie Smith of the Albertville Police Department. It was unusual retaliation on an unsuspecting victim. Authorities say Helms' mother was apparently passed out drunk on the couch when the rape started. During the attack she did come to and recognize her attacker. (Reporter: As her son?) As her son, said Smith. That's when, according to the police report, the mother tried to get away, but he held her down until he was finished. It's totally sick is what it is, said Smith. Helms was arrested and charged with the 1st degree rape of his own mother. Smith says it's hard to wrap your mind around. Shocked, shocked would be more a better way to describe it. That somebody would dip to the lows to do something of this nature. It's just pretty much a shock to the conscience of the general public, said Smith. Helms is being held in the Marshall County Jail on $100,000 bond. On Mar 31, 3:06 pm, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Thinkin' up haiku Should be making more sales calls This is much more fun- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Redneck Haiku
Maybe a Japanese music form? I have been interested in Asian music for a while. I read somewhere that most of it is pentatonic. On Mar 31, 9:41 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if there is a musical form that rivals this haiku verse? I mean, is there a 5-7-5 form in music? What would it be? I have music laying around here in all sorts of odd meters already. How would we count it? Tater On Mar 31, 9:36 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Dammit to hell, Shaun Took the wind out of our sails Now it's back to work Taterbug On Mar 31, 2:56 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: taterbug mando mandolin players sharing nonsense and insight On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: My work here is done... Steve Cantrell wrote: Throw up funnel cake just made me laugh audibly, Fred. *From:* Fred fkel...@scicable.net *To:* taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:01:16 PM *Subject:* Re: Redneck Haiku Your latest reminded me of something... Festival groupie Pick all night under the stars Throw up funnel cake mistertaterbug wrote: George Jones on the road Headed to the liquor store Lawnmower goes slow Bluegrass festival Photo opportunity Bill says, You Back Up Help...I can't stop... Tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Redneck Haiku
Lost Haiku Mojo? Let's keep this thing a going Much more fun than work On Mar 31, 10:06 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Maybe a Japanese music form? I have been interested in Asian music for a while. I read somewhere that most of it is pentatonic. On Mar 31, 9:41 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if there is a musical form that rivals this haiku verse? I mean, is there a 5-7-5 form in music? What would it be? I have music laying around here in all sorts of odd meters already. How would we count it? Tater On Mar 31, 9:36 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Dammit to hell, Shaun Took the wind out of our sails Now it's back to work Taterbug On Mar 31, 2:56 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: taterbug mando mandolin players sharing nonsense and insight On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Fred fkel...@scicable.net wrote: My work here is done... Steve Cantrell wrote: Throw up funnel cake just made me laugh audibly, Fred. *From:* Fred fkel...@scicable.net *To:* taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:01:16 PM *Subject:* Re: Redneck Haiku Your latest reminded me of something... Festival groupie Pick all night under the stars Throw up funnel cake mistertaterbug wrote: George Jones on the road Headed to the liquor store Lawnmower goes slow Bluegrass festival Photo opportunity Bill says, You Back Up Help...I can't stop... Tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Old Time Barn Dance at the Cracker Barrel
If not, I can at least get something battered, fried and buttered with a heap of cheese on it. On Mar 31, 10:52 pm, lj...@intas.net.au wrote: And.you can have catfish for breakfast. On Apr 1, 2:27 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Cracker Barrel's inventory seems to vary from store to store. The one we frequent most often here has a good three or four discs like these. I have a different one and enjoy it. I am waiting on the Haiku disc! On Mar 31, 8:55 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds great...wish I had a Cracker Barrel close by. Their website doesn't have it for sale. Which fiddle tunes are on it? On Mar 31, 9:39 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Another Mark Howard project. Mark's been working for Cracker Barrell Old Country Store doing these things for years. I think that if you'll look, you'll find his name listed on most of them. I think that David McLaughlin had a hand in putting out a few of these as well. Taterbug On Mar 29, 5:30 pm, solofiddle solofid...@yahoo.com wrote: I'll have to look for that. Last year they had a cd called Down Home for the Holidays with Tater on it, pretty good. Might have to wait until next season to find that one again...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Fiddle and Mandolin
I believe it is Bonaparte's Retreat. There is a part that he plays low with droning, then repeats it later on the higher strings. I don't know if he has more than one version. The one I have is very slow. On Mar 30, 9:44 am, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Which Eck tune are you referring to? The cross-tunings on the fiddle can produce some very cool sounds. As to the rest, I'm just the opposite of most of ya'll. I've been playing fiddle for 30 years, but just got serious about my mandolin picking last year. I still can't get the darn pick to do what I want it to. If you want to learn the fiddle. Do it and the sooner the better. Mark On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.netwrote: Thanks, everyone, for the advice. I enjoy my mandolin and try to stay true to the fiddle side of things when I am playing old time stuff. The one instrument that I truly love is the fiddle, though. It doesn't matter if it is Bob Wills, Celtic stuff, old time music, Honky Tonk or Hank Williams. The fiddle does it for me. I have been listening to Eck Robertson alot lately. He has one tune where he drones alot and it sounds so much like pipes that it is amazing. Less polished than Monroe achieved with Scotland, but still very effective. Do any of you have a suggestion for particular books or DVDs that you have found useful or know are useful? I've played around with bowing and stuff, and think I can get the hang of it pretty quickly. I just don't want to form bad habits. Thanks again, Nelson On Mar 26, 10:37 pm, solofiddle solofid...@yahoo.com wrote: Go for it! Just remember, the first 30 years are the toughest and after that I hear it's a piece of cake. haha Seriously, if it calls you, then you will have to do it. Don't let age discourage you - it's all a matter of how badly you want it and that will dictate the time you put into it. I know of many examples of people coming late to some instrument only to really shine on it. Determination goes a long way to gettin' some of that talent that you might think others were born with. I was playing fiddle before mando, so I essentially play the mando like a fiddle - lotsa two-note chords, same fingerings for everything I would play on fiddle, etc. I'm pretty scatterbrained, so I am into studying lots of instruments and types of music at the same time. Variety is nice! Also, the more I learn the more I find some things related and they can help feed each other. For instance, I play clawhammer banjo and in the last couple of years I have gotten heavy into lap slide style resonators and bottleneck style guitar. And guess what - one of the major tunings for the slide style is closely related to the open G banjo tuning, so that helped give me some bearing right there. The same tuning moves onto the Tele with the low string removed and then you're off into Keith Richards tunes, which almost play themselves. Then I might go off into some James Brown funk on drums or guitar, and then I hear banjo and fiddle great Dan Gellert (in Fiddler magazine) talking about James and his emphasis on stressing the ONE beat and how he does that in old- time to open things up and make them funkier than stressing the 2 and 4 like most folks and so things move around in circles! When I took up banjo, logically it seemed like a crazy idea - I was still taking fiddle lessons and I had returned to college as an adult and I had no time for banjo. But, I was exposed to it and it called me and I met a great banjo teacher and things just lined up perfectly! The fiddle really helped the banjo, as I essentially play the banjo with the left hand the same way I finger the fiddle, just on a larger scale. Old time fiddle and banjo often use altered tunings, and they match up really well on the two instruments, so once I discovered the connection I could immediately play tons of fiddle tunes on the banjo. Let's look at drums - I took up drumset late in life, just because I had always wanted to. Finally got the guts to try it! And so now I play in an Oldies trio just for fun; and what a blast it is! Seems totally unrelated to my old-time music pursuits, right? Well, drums are all about rhythm, of course, and the banjo is largely about rhythm and now I am starting to combine drums and old music, like acoustic blues slide stuff. Getting into playing drums and slide or banjo at the same time! Turns out, that is an old Blues tradition and there is a specialty drumset now made to be entirely played with your feet. Way cool! So, things seem to connect in odd, fun ways. However, I recently saw the one and only banjo player Leroy Troy, and he said worried early in life about doing too many things, and someone warned him of having a split brain if he did that and that he should maybe
Fiddle and Mandolin
At some point, I would like to learn to play the fiddle. Does anyone have an experience working on them concurrently, or advice? Is it better to learn together or get as far as I want on mandolin then switch over? Thanks, Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Fiddle and Mandolin
Thanks, everyone, for the advice. I enjoy my mandolin and try to stay true to the fiddle side of things when I am playing old time stuff. The one instrument that I truly love is the fiddle, though. It doesn't matter if it is Bob Wills, Celtic stuff, old time music, Honky Tonk or Hank Williams. The fiddle does it for me. I have been listening to Eck Robertson alot lately. He has one tune where he drones alot and it sounds so much like pipes that it is amazing. Less polished than Monroe achieved with Scotland, but still very effective. Do any of you have a suggestion for particular books or DVDs that you have found useful or know are useful? I've played around with bowing and stuff, and think I can get the hang of it pretty quickly. I just don't want to form bad habits. Thanks again, Nelson On Mar 26, 10:37 pm, solofiddle solofid...@yahoo.com wrote: Go for it! Just remember, the first 30 years are the toughest and after that I hear it's a piece of cake. haha Seriously, if it calls you, then you will have to do it. Don't let age discourage you - it's all a matter of how badly you want it and that will dictate the time you put into it. I know of many examples of people coming late to some instrument only to really shine on it. Determination goes a long way to gettin' some of that talent that you might think others were born with. I was playing fiddle before mando, so I essentially play the mando like a fiddle - lotsa two-note chords, same fingerings for everything I would play on fiddle, etc. I'm pretty scatterbrained, so I am into studying lots of instruments and types of music at the same time. Variety is nice! Also, the more I learn the more I find some things related and they can help feed each other. For instance, I play clawhammer banjo and in the last couple of years I have gotten heavy into lap slide style resonators and bottleneck style guitar. And guess what - one of the major tunings for the slide style is closely related to the open G banjo tuning, so that helped give me some bearing right there. The same tuning moves onto the Tele with the low string removed and then you're off into Keith Richards tunes, which almost play themselves. Then I might go off into some James Brown funk on drums or guitar, and then I hear banjo and fiddle great Dan Gellert (in Fiddler magazine) talking about James and his emphasis on stressing the ONE beat and how he does that in old- time to open things up and make them funkier than stressing the 2 and 4 like most folks and so things move around in circles! When I took up banjo, logically it seemed like a crazy idea - I was still taking fiddle lessons and I had returned to college as an adult and I had no time for banjo. But, I was exposed to it and it called me and I met a great banjo teacher and things just lined up perfectly! The fiddle really helped the banjo, as I essentially play the banjo with the left hand the same way I finger the fiddle, just on a larger scale. Old time fiddle and banjo often use altered tunings, and they match up really well on the two instruments, so once I discovered the connection I could immediately play tons of fiddle tunes on the banjo. Let's look at drums - I took up drumset late in life, just because I had always wanted to. Finally got the guts to try it! And so now I play in an Oldies trio just for fun; and what a blast it is! Seems totally unrelated to my old-time music pursuits, right? Well, drums are all about rhythm, of course, and the banjo is largely about rhythm and now I am starting to combine drums and old music, like acoustic blues slide stuff. Getting into playing drums and slide or banjo at the same time! Turns out, that is an old Blues tradition and there is a specialty drumset now made to be entirely played with your feet. Way cool! So, things seem to connect in odd, fun ways. However, I recently saw the one and only banjo player Leroy Troy, and he said worried early in life about doing too many things, and someone warned him of having a split brain if he did that and that he should maybe focus on one thing. Well, it's obviously working for him, whatever he's doing, but my brain is split several ways and that's just the way I am! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Tater on the Cafe
When most of us got married we became men of few words Yes, Honey. I'm sorry...What did I do? On Mar 23, 12:36 pm, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: haha... but i am getting back to monroe and tater soon! :p On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.comwrote: For my Lord, For my Lord Got the newly wed music blues. My banjo player suffering them too! On Mar 22, 11:19 pm, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: haha... i am working on a building now.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Grigsby's Hornpipe
The tuning is called Black Mountain Rag Tuning, Calico Tuning, Open A Tuning, or Drunken Hiccups Tuning There is a tune called Calico which is related to Want to go to Meeting and Got No Shoes (according to the Fiddler's Companion). It uses this tuning, hence the name Calico Tuning. On Mar 21, 11:21 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, I'd like to know where/when calico was attached to AEAC#. I've heard people call it Black Mt. Rag tuning for obvious reasons, of course. Also heard that tune called Black Mt. Blues. Got another nice, simple little tune(well, okay, at first glance; these 'simple' fiddle tunes have been ripping my head off lately) from a Library of Congress field recording on Jim Meyers called Old Field Rabbit in GDAD. The open D on top adds another dimension to the way the melody comes across (What do you call that, 14 Strangs, tonal center?) Same thing with Happy Hollow. The top strings just kinda sit there unless you decide to do some other stuff with 'em. I run into fiddle cuts now and then where there's a tuned string but the melody doesn't actually use the tuned string. It was just there for sympathetic vibration. Anyway, the notation's in the Files section. Run your E strings down and have a go. But I go off on a tangent... Tater On Mar 21, 10:45 am, MinnesotaMandolin eberr...@gmail.com wrote: The name of the tuning is wonderful. Anyone know why it's called that? erik On Mar 21, 8:54 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Just when I was getting comfortable with GDGD tuning. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Hollow (from Tater) is in that tuning... On Mar 21, 12:11 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Further research shows that Eck played it in Calico (AEAC#) tuning. Has anyone messed around with this tuning? On Mar 20, 10:26 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I was listening to some Eck Robertson stuff today and encountered this tune. Fiddler's Companion tells me only slightly less than Eck himself on the recording interview. Anyone know anything about this tune? Thanks, Nelson- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Tater on the Cafe
Tater, I am going to revoice an early statement. We are due a book from you. The Monroe Style, Elements of The Monroe Style, My Take on Monroe, Analysis of Monroe's Style are all titles that get my idea across. In the golf world, lots of guys make good money writing books and doing TV work analyzing the golf swing of Ben Hogan, arguably a Monroish influence on the modern golf game. I think such a book from you would sell well, and become the authoritative work on the subject. It could even be developed with a workbook (sold separately) that you could structure lessons from or a DVD (also sold separately) that illustrate the points you make in the book. Given the short amount of time that I have spent in lessons with you makes me wish I had a comprehensive text on the subject of the elements of Monroe's playing. Given your history with Hartford, too, it could lead the way for a road stories and playing philosophy book on your own style. I might even know a very good candidate for a ghost writer if you were to go that route and need to interview some for the task. I know at least one or two others out here agree with me. Nelson On Mar 21, 11:30 pm, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Mike. Doesn't sound controversial to me, but then I'm just an enthusiast. As always, thoughtful and eloquent. Good on ya! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Grigsby's Hornpipe
I was listening to some Eck Robertson stuff today and encountered this tune. Fiddler's Companion tells me only slightly less than Eck himself on the recording interview. Anyone know anything about this tune? Thanks, Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Grigsby's Hornpipe
Further research shows that Eck played it in Calico (AEAC#) tuning. Has anyone messed around with this tuning? On Mar 20, 10:26 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I was listening to some Eck Robertson stuff today and encountered this tune. Fiddler's Companion tells me only slightly less than Eck himself on the recording interview. Anyone know anything about this tune? Thanks, Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Skillet Licker Tunes
My guess is that everyone has either become immune to my blathering emails or have gotten wise and setup a filter to purge them! :) I have a couple of versions of Rocky Pallet, but neither one seems to match up with the Skillet Licker's version. I like the way they do it and was thinking of it for the Fiddler's Convention. On Mar 14, 3:42 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: All, Does anyone play Rocky Pallet or Ride Old Buck To Water? I'd like to have the mandolin or fiddle tab/transcription and I am being lazy today. Thanks, Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
I found an interesting Irish curse this morning: Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat. It means May the cat eat you, then may the Devil eat the cat. Happy Saint Patrick's Day! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Happy Saint Patrick's Day
A number of years ago, a few friends and I met at one's apartment for breakfast on St. Patrick's Day. I remember starting with some high octane coffee, then moving on. It was a great day at work, but I don't remember very much of it. On Mar 17, 10:06 am, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I think this holiday is an excellent excuse for me to attempt an at-work drunk. The logistics can be difficult to manage, but just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth doing. From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:04:18 AM Subject: Re: Happy Saint Patrick's Day I have just been talking to my boss, and I believe I have found a suitable recipient Robin On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I found an interesting Irish curse this morning: Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat. It means May the cat eat you, then may the Devil eat the cat. Happy Saint Patrick's Day! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Skillet Licker Tunes
All, Does anyone play Rocky Pallet or Ride Old Buck To Water? I'd like to have the mandolin or fiddle tab/transcription and I am being lazy today. Thanks, Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: FFCP
John, Thanks. Sometimes those jazzy folks can get a bit out of hand. On Mar 7, 8:14 am, Mandoyak jthil...@insightbb.com wrote: Nelson, As a method of learning the fretboard Ted's FFCP method is great. Once you have the 4 positions under your fingers then moving a tune around the fretboard really becomes much easier and it's good exercise for the digits to top it off. Ted's language gets a little too high falootin' for me and he looks down his nose a bit too much on folk music but the method is spot on. John On Mar 5, 3:28 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I was looking around the web and encountered some info on the Four Finger Closed Position scale method by Ted Eschliman (Jazzmando.com). I have seen it before, but never really paid any attention (I suppose because it originated from one of those guys - jazz folk). :) Has anyone played around with this or have an opinion they'd like to share?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: YouTube Videos
jnpjr. I started working up some Hank Williams tunes last night. Jambalaya should be ready this weekend. On Mar 6, 6:53 am, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Whats yer handle on youtube? Say the secret woid and win a hundred dollars? On Mar 5, 11:10 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I am working up my first submission to YouTube. Found some Groucho Glasses/Nose on Ebay. Might as well do it in style!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Rich DelGrosso Workshop in Austin
LOL...Taterbugger sounds like a derisive term from the UK... On Mar 6, 12:23 pm, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Any of you taterbuggers headed to Austin tomorrow for this workshop at Fiddler's Green? Mark --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
YouTube Videos
I am working up my first submission to YouTube. Found some Groucho Glasses/Nose on Ebay. Might as well do it in style! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Shenandoah Breakdown
True Life Ways I could see Buddy rolling back toward country/roots music as the music climate changed in the mid sixties. I don't know what he had to be blue about...11 top 10 tunes between the US and UK by the age of 22. I know the times were different, but that still is a pretty strong showing. Can't You Hear Me Calling has a section which talks about Bill's influence on the Rock and Roll crowd. It mentions that Buddy Holly was a big fan of Ed(d) Mayfield and his brothers, who apparently were Texans. That may be the connection there... The book also says that Holly's Hiccup in Peggy Sue was derived from Bluegrass singing. On Mar 4, 8:08 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Buddy Holly and the Bluegrass Boys. Was it True Life Blues or True Love Ways? Taterbub On Mar 3, 7:47 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: From Wikipedia..During the fall of that year, he met Bob Montgomery at Hutchinson Junior High School. They shared a common interest in music and soon teamed up as Buddy and Bob. Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. ... I have been a big Holly fan for years, and have read a biography on him, but had not read of that influence before. On Mar 3, 7:43 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I don't know. I'll give it a listen and see if I can tell. It is a strong possibility that I won't be able to. What was the other song that someone says they hear Holly in? I guess with 3 chord blues based music, they are bound to sound similar now and then. I know I can find the exact part that reminds me of Holly, and probably can find the song that it brings to mind. On Mar 3, 5:55 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, You're the second person in as many days who has mentioned they heard Buddy Holly in a Monroe song. What is it I'm missing? Do you have the version of Shenandoah... where Monroe plays the root over the 4 chord change? Tater On Mar 3, 10:43 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I have been listening to this track in the Bear Family 1959-1969 set, and it is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Call me crazy, but there is a section of the second (mandolin) part that faintly brings Buddy Holly to mind. It has a feel that is similar to the way Buddy vocally approached the more openly country-influenced stuff he did. Anyway, my real question is if anyone has played around with this tune. I want to learn it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Shenandoah Breakdown
I have been listening to this track in the Bear Family 1959-1969 set, and it is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Call me crazy, but there is a section of the second (mandolin) part that faintly brings Buddy Holly to mind. It has a feel that is similar to the way Buddy vocally approached the more openly country-influenced stuff he did. Anyway, my real question is if anyone has played around with this tune. I want to learn it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Shenandoah Breakdown
I don't know. I'll give it a listen and see if I can tell. It is a strong possibility that I won't be able to. What was the other song that someone says they hear Holly in? I guess with 3 chord blues based music, they are bound to sound similar now and then. I know I can find the exact part that reminds me of Holly, and probably can find the song that it brings to mind. On Mar 3, 5:55 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, You're the second person in as many days who has mentioned they heard Buddy Holly in a Monroe song. What is it I'm missing? Do you have the version of Shenandoah... where Monroe plays the root over the 4 chord change? Tater On Mar 3, 10:43 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I have been listening to this track in the Bear Family 1959-1969 set, and it is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Call me crazy, but there is a section of the second (mandolin) part that faintly brings Buddy Holly to mind. It has a feel that is similar to the way Buddy vocally approached the more openly country-influenced stuff he did. Anyway, my real question is if anyone has played around with this tune. I want to learn it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Shenandoah Breakdown
From Wikipedia..During the fall of that year, he met Bob Montgomery at Hutchinson Junior High School. They shared a common interest in music and soon teamed up as Buddy and Bob. Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. ... I have been a big Holly fan for years, and have read a biography on him, but had not read of that influence before. On Mar 3, 7:43 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I don't know. I'll give it a listen and see if I can tell. It is a strong possibility that I won't be able to. What was the other song that someone says they hear Holly in? I guess with 3 chord blues based music, they are bound to sound similar now and then. I know I can find the exact part that reminds me of Holly, and probably can find the song that it brings to mind. On Mar 3, 5:55 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, You're the second person in as many days who has mentioned they heard Buddy Holly in a Monroe song. What is it I'm missing? Do you have the version of Shenandoah... where Monroe plays the root over the 4 chord change? Tater On Mar 3, 10:43 am, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I have been listening to this track in the Bear Family 1959-1969 set, and it is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Call me crazy, but there is a section of the second (mandolin) part that faintly brings Buddy Holly to mind. It has a feel that is similar to the way Buddy vocally approached the more openly country-influenced stuff he did. Anyway, my real question is if anyone has played around with this tune. I want to learn it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)
How appropriate that I am reading this as a pot of greens cooks down on my stove. They might be foreign to some of you, but they are one of the best foods for your body that you can find on earth. Gonna add some Great Northern beans and mashed taters to go along. On Feb 18, 3:10 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Well in my Spanish ghetto we have plenty of greens of mustard and collard sort, and there has yet to be a heavy blues and southern funk movement coming out of Castilla. I have to go with Val and say that the emotion does it, and if you change a couple of words so that a song has some relation to your own life, then you can own the emotion and sing the thang. In fact I think that is how the folk process goes pretty much. In the US you have the luck that people worked on the land and played music until recording started. In the UK people had largely moved to the city and worked 12 hours in the cloth factory and had no time or energy for singing, so the tradition pretty much turned stomach up. Now if I make a big plate of black eyed peas cooked with a hambone and some hot pepper, and serve it with rice and collard greens, also with the hambone, why do Spanish people say it reminds them of home? Why does Flamenco exist? Why are the lyrics so similar to blues? Are we sad and do we like dancing? Are we all human? Can I get another beer? (this was the random rambling thread right?) On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I'm a fan of mustard greens... and had many a helping as I carpet bagged down in the land of Tater (old times there are not forgotten, look away...). If you are what you eat... do you play what you hear? That is to say, playing a style well, requires listening to the style. If this is so, I would think this collared greens theory would have had more merit back in the day... before recordings and such. Recordings would allow more non-regional folk, and even more interestingly, more not-yet- living folk, to listen and learn. To this, I would like to thank those sons-a-bitch recording pioneers that screwed nice musical folk out of royalties and such for their own gains... and my gain 'cause it allows me to own the recordings. Thanks bastards! And this will be nothing to what the web can offer. Take Mr. Tate R. Bug for example. That boy's been given lessons over them internets for years now. I'd call him a trailblazer (among other things). Who'd a thunk it (besides me I guess)? He's spreading his collared greens all over the world, live and in person... and all this without having to leave his house. Amazing really... B On Feb 18, 12:18 pm, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Mike H, if you ever get a chance to catch The secret lives of banjos, you should. It's a show put together by Jody Stecher and Bill Evans and includes a great story about Arctic explorations, banjos and penguins ... It also shows the broad reach of the instrument. They use something Iike 27 banjos in their show and demonstrate convincingly that the banjo has a wild and well-traveled history. Meanwhile, for my $.02, I think we can play outside our immediate zones, just as we listen outside those zones, given sufficient will and passion/obsession. It's a matter of relating to the underlying emotion. Music really is generated from just a few main themes -- love, death, god, events, work -- mixed and matched as appropriate, and we can relate to these themes, even if the specifics (collard greens) are foreign. Granted there is music that is outside my ken (Chinese opera, for example), but I suspect that if I wanted to and had a spare lifetime to mess around with it, I could tackle anything that moved me. But being moved by it is the key. Just look at some of our Japanese old-time musician friends who play great, with scrupulous regard for the channels the music has come through. Of course, the farther you are from the source, the harder it is to pick up the nuances, rhythmic and otherwise, but I don't buy the you-gotta-have- been-born-there notion, nor do I think the music died with some past generation. Many young people are playing it well, with great attention to detail and history, and not-so-young people like me are still working at playing it, and that's a good thing, I think. But then I've spent much of my life in zones where the frost-free date skated to the end of June (or where other climatic realities dominate) so I'm hardly any sort of argument for regional authenticity. best, val On Feb 18, 11:19 am, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Tater tater tater tater tate- Your post was about ethnic groups and then there was a sentence about Chicago. I drank a cup of coffee and read a big chunk of a book (Making the second ghetto - race and housing in chicago 1940-1960) that I
Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)
If there isn't there should be. On Feb 18, 4:23 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Aha, now I get it. Sorry, but it's hard for me to think about more than one thing at a time like you young college whippersnappers. So, New Jersey was a mecca for banjo enthusiasts in the early days? Cool. Thanks for taking up for banjo players and trying to keep the bubbatooth syndrome in check.You've got at least one attaboy for that. I get as much mileage out of banjo jokes as the next guy, but I know the reality is there's a lot of very complicated music played on banjos, and not just by classical players. I reckon if anybody could bring respectability to banjo culture it would've been guys like Ossman and Van Eps (Aren't Fred Van Eps' recordings supposed to have been one of Earl Scruggs influences?). But beings this comes up, I wonder if so much minstrel and classical banjo music came from the northeast because of business opportunities (publishing/printing/ licensing) due to the number of people and venues closer together, or was it due to the most prominent players of the instrument in that day being located there, which obviously would attract more prominent writers/players? I know that there were a number of banjo manufacturers located in the Northeast. Why would the North feel so compelled to write romantic musical scenes about the South, however unrealistic? How romantic was it for the blacks and the dirt-poor whites? I doubt it had anything to do with climate. I do find it funny that you brought up the NJ connection considering Hartford said one time that you gotta be Jewish and from NJ to play oldtime music these days. I think he was kidding, but still the reality of it may not be too far off base. Val, where could a copy of The Secret Lives of Banjos be obtained? And yes, I do think that 27 banjos in one place is way over the legal limit. There's probably an ordinance against it someplace. puhtater On Feb 18, 12:18 pm, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: Mike H, if you ever get a chance to catch The secret lives of banjos, you should. It's a show put together by Jody Stecher and Bill Evans and includes a great story about Arctic explorations, banjos and penguins ... It also shows the broad reach of the instrument. They use something Iike 27 banjos in their show and demonstrate convincingly that the banjo has a wild and well-traveled history. Meanwhile, for my $.02, I think we can play outside our immediate zones, just as we listen outside those zones, given sufficient will and passion/obsession. It's a matter of relating to the underlying emotion. Music really is generated from just a few main themes -- love, death, god, events, work -- mixed and matched as appropriate, and we can relate to these themes, even if the specifics (collard greens) are foreign. Granted there is music that is outside my ken (Chinese opera, for example), but I suspect that if I wanted to and had a spare lifetime to mess around with it, I could tackle anything that moved me. But being moved by it is the key. Just look at some of our Japanese old-time musician friends who play great, with scrupulous regard for the channels the music has come through. Of course, the farther you are from the source, the harder it is to pick up the nuances, rhythmic and otherwise, but I don't buy the you-gotta-have- been-born-there notion, nor do I think the music died with some past generation. Many young people are playing it well, with great attention to detail and history, and not-so-young people like me are still working at playing it, and that's a good thing, I think. But then I've spent much of my life in zones where the frost-free date skated to the end of June (or where other climatic realities dominate) so I'm hardly any sort of argument for regional authenticity. best, val On Feb 18, 11:19 am, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Tater tater tater tater tate- Your post was about ethnic groups and then there was a sentence about Chicago. I drank a cup of coffee and read a big chunk of a book (Making the second ghetto - race and housing in chicago 1940-1960) that I really should have already finished yesterday before working on music. The chapter I left half finished was on white ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago. Then the coffee actually started working and I picked up my mandolin and was playing and listening to stuff on my computer whence I should have been doing homwork. That lead to reading this mailing list and thus your post, reminding me about white ethnic groups and Chicago and that I should be reading that book. I guess I should have just left the response in my head! Sorry for leading us off track. On another note, I was once told that NJ was a hotbed of classical banjo activity. I also just read an account of a North Pole expedition that
Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)
That is one of the main reasons I read biographies (where available) of the folks I listen to alot. I think that for alot of my favorites, the main muse is one of the human emotions that is maginified by environmental issues growing up. Look at Monroe and his feelings of loneliness. To me, it seems that he spent his entire life holding on to the memories of that old home place and a time when he still had someone whose love he did not have to question. When did he last feel secure - as a young boy? I think alot of folks can identify with those songs because of the emotion/feeling that is driving them. I think our culture today is just way too different from a hundred years ago and later. Our values and expectations are way out of line with those of our parents in many ways. I would have thought myself abused if I'd been required to miss school and chop cotton all day (like my mother was) or required to get up early and feed the cows, pigs and chickens before school (like my dad was). Kids don't pick up a instrument and write a song when someone makes them feel bad; they take a gun to school and take care of it. On Feb 17, 1:44 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, spoken like a true chef. I mean, who else would use the word infused with hock? Damn, what a big can of worms. Interesting way of looking at the music scene. Does this mean that banjos will only be perennial below zone 5? I suppose accordians overwinter well in zone 3 providing there is only a mild freeze. Is there a natural pest that plagues accordians? Seems the answer is a resounding no, but then, it might be polkas. You know, I think that the choice of instruments had more to do with the nationality of the peoples that settled the areas, not climate. Of course,the climate factor might have had something to do with who settled where as well. You know, people settling into climates that they were familiar with. Seems to me that the upper midwestern states were settled by Europeans who played violins and accordians in the first place, the Swedes, Germans, Norwegians, Poles, etc. You know, farmers instruments. So did the French down farther south around Missouri, and of course the French Acadians in Louisiana. I suppose the African influence in the South brought on the popularization and eventual standardization of banjos. And so on and so forth for all the nationalities I left out. Consider that the major population centers were in Eastern half of the US at the time and most of the industry, publishing, and mail order houses were too. Most of the people who could afford to buy records lived there as well. Most of the people lived there, period. From Chicago to the west there wasn't much until you got to the West Coast. Radio helped spread the word/music, but shoot, not many people in the country could afford radio either, much less get access to electricity. I had an old highway atlas of the USA once that also had a listing of powerlines on it too. There was one electrical line in Nashville in 1931 and it was the only one on the page for the state of Tennessee. I used to collect old radios, and I had a bunch of battery sets. The batteries that used to go in battery radio sets were nearly as big as a battery for a Toyota truck. I reckon it goes on and on and is far more a big soup today with all of us influencing each other because of the ease with which the information hotline is accessed. Not like it was back when places like Montana were settled. Hell, think of how far it is out there now. Imagine how isolated it would have been 100 years ago. And, it's a damned long way to the West Coast from here. But, I think collards will grow in California. This all touches on another subject, and that is the fact that we all sing songs about subjects that we know nothing or very little about, basically because we like the sound of them. How many people, given the choice between modern furnishings and luxuries (like insulation and inside plumbing and running water) would write romantic songs about cabin life? Exactly my point. I read a book about Jascha Heifetz some time ago. In it he is quoted as saying that a person should not play music that they cannot identify with because, even though their performances might be good, they will never be great or inspiring because they have no actual relationship with the material. While I agree, I also don't feel like we all should just pack it up either. Does this mean I have to stop listening to my Ali Farka Toure' cd's? Should I quit playing Swedish tunes off Richard Robinson's website? Should I not record any more tunes by black gospel groups? Should I throw away my Bill Monroe and Leake County Revelers Cd's? I like them but I don't REALLY fit their culture, though I have a toe in both. How close is close enough? I mean, come on. To address the material issue, I think there is a lot of music that has been just flat out
Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)
I abdicate the throne... On Feb 16, 4:48 pm, MinnesotaMandolin eberr...@gmail.com wrote: So, this is idea here is not a specific question, more of a half- formed idea of mine I'm sharing for discussion because I'm curious what other people think. The other day I was listening to Jawbone Railroad, a fine Montana- based stringband whose CD I picked up during my travels. They do a cool version of Keep Your Skillet Good and Greasy and it contains a vocal line about collard greens. Now, I don't think collards can grow in Montana. I know they can't in my part of the world, which is zone 3 for you greenthumbs. So the tune probably traveled to Montana. In this day and age, obviously, between the internet and other mediums tunes can travel anywhere. But most traditional stringband music seems to be Southern, that is to say, zone 5 or higher. Collard green growing climates. And I'm going to use these zone markings to keep the focus on climate and not any other sort of differentiation between the different parts of the US. Back in the day, there had to be fiddle bands in all the zones, because the instrument traveled there. There's collections of Minnesota/Wisconsin fiddle music, for example, which is mostly Scandanavian in its origins. But that part of the world had its share of Irish immigrants, as did Appalachia and other regions associated with stringband music. Up in Zone 4 or colder, though, the other major instrument seemed to be the accordian, not the banjo. So that's my wordy introduction to My Questions. Do you think the reason much of the fiddle or stringband tradition seems to be (mostly) Zones 5-8 is the banjo is cooler than the accordian? (that's a subjective question, I know) Is it because the Carter family and other professionals really crystallized a lot of very cool stuff on recorded mediums in a way that transcended their place and time? Is it because WSM was located in Nashville? Are there lost tunes that are Michigan/ Minnesota/Montana in origin and are only lost because the performers died out before the field recorders or the radio got there in time? Did the record companies think Iowans were less likely to buy records than Virginians? Certainly we can play what-if games all day about history, which is actually one of my late-night conversation hobbies. I guess what I'm after is why do you think contemporaty Montana-based stringbands sing traditional songs about collard greens (with cornbread and beans) and Carolina-based stringbands don't sing traditional songs about ice fishing? Of course, that's just keeping the focus on the United States. And with that, I'm going to wrap this up. I'm curious to read what people think. erik --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
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it is closed, but not exclusive obviously. I got accepted. Then again, maybe they just don't know me yet. On Feb 15, 4:57 pm, mandoho...@comcast.net wrote: I think I'm the one who crossed the threads, but it's okay, I'm old and confused most of the time. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle - Original Message - From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:37:01 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Facebook whoops I think threads crossed there, at least for me... oh well On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Go for it. Life is limited! On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM, mandoho...@comcast.net wrote: No Shame, heck I've got that, maybe I will put something up. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle - Original Message - From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com snip, snip, snip at this point I have no shame!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
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Re: Success is the best revenge
I have the Krauss/Plant disc and IMHO it blows. I was excited about the prospects of the two singers and the producer working together, but it got nowhere near my expectations. 'Nuff said there I also have the Skaggs disc and like it. When you pick something like a tribute to Mr. Monroe and win an award, I think part of the approval can be seen as being for the subject. It's kinda like only serious films winning Oscars I think the tribute album is Skaggs doing what he does best - fronting a right good bluegrass band playing Bill's music. I have never paid attention to the Grammy's because I have pretty much listened to music out of the mainstream. I think the last few years have been pretty hard on the music industry and awards take on a bit more of a meaning that they used to. Maybe not On Feb 12, 4:47 pm, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: On my scale, a Grammy weighs in about the same as a modicum of belly button lint. Besides a shiny mantle piece, they are best used to preface an artist in a speech, article or introduction. And in this, it is indeed almost exactly the same honor as just being nominated. Eg. It is my pleasure to introduce, the Grammy nominated, Mr. Tater Bug. That said, you could win the award for biggest horses ass (but you'd have to take it from me first) and end up with May I present... the award winning... Dass Punk. To quote a saying from my youth... same diff. What's important to me is not how much money you make but how you play. I also believe who you are comes through in your music... so there's that too I guess. And just so there's no misunderstanding... hell yeah I keep score! But as is the case with so many things... your millage may vary. Brian On Feb 12, 11:06 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Skaggs won the Grammy. So did Alison Krauss and Robert Plant(I hear they left Stuart at home, though he certainly was an integral part of the sound...ooops. He did get a thankyou). The Steel Drivers got left out and they're a damned good band. There you go. Some people could break wind and get a hand. Go figger... Agi-tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Success is the best revenge
I could use some more information on this. I saw him at the Ryman a few years ago and he played some good bluegrass and talked about Jesus. I don't consider either of those part of the dark side. You can't blame a man who tries to put the principles of his faith to work in his life. These days, I'd have to say I admire the courage. On Feb 12, 8:07 pm, MinnesotaMandolin eberr...@gmail.com wrote: This maybe is more for the You be the judge thread, but in my band we call Mr. Skaggs Darth Skaggs, because he uses his awesome powers for the dark side. erik On Feb 12, 7:33 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Something I just thought of, too: That bio documentary of Bill was rereleased this past year. Skaggs is all over that thing. Coincidence? On Feb 12, 7:25 pm, Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I have the Krauss/Plant disc and IMHO it blows. I was excited about the prospects of the two singers and the producer working together, but it got nowhere near my expectations. 'Nuff said there I also have the Skaggs disc and like it. When you pick something like a tribute to Mr. Monroe and win an award, I think part of the approval can be seen as being for the subject. It's kinda like only serious films winning Oscars I think the tribute album is Skaggs doing what he does best - fronting a right good bluegrass band playing Bill's music. I have never paid attention to the Grammy's because I have pretty much listened to music out of the mainstream. I think the last few years have been pretty hard on the music industry and awards take on a bit more of a meaning that they used to. Maybe not On Feb 12, 4:47 pm, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: On my scale, a Grammy weighs in about the same as a modicum of belly button lint. Besides a shiny mantle piece, they are best used to preface an artist in a speech, article or introduction. And in this, it is indeed almost exactly the same honor as just being nominated. Eg. It is my pleasure to introduce, the Grammy nominated, Mr. Tater Bug. That said, you could win the award for biggest horses ass (but you'd have to take it from me first) and end up with May I present... the award winning... Dass Punk. To quote a saying from my youth... same diff. What's important to me is not how much money you make but how you play. I also believe who you are comes through in your music... so there's that too I guess. And just so there's no misunderstanding... hell yeah I keep score! But as is the case with so many things... your millage may vary. Brian On Feb 12, 11:06 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Skaggs won the Grammy. So did Alison Krauss and Robert Plant(I hear they left Stuart at home, though he certainly was an integral part of the sound...ooops. He did get a thankyou). The Steel Drivers got left out and they're a damned good band. There you go. Some people could break wind and get a hand. Go figger... Agi-tater- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Building a repertoire
I started doing this after looking through books of arrangements, and wondering about the original. When I first look up a tune to learn, I look at The Mandolin Players Fakebook Stacy Phillip's Book of Fiddle Tunes and use the Fiddler's Companion website. I like the idea of trying to take the tune back to it's origin. Nelson On Feb 5, 1:01 pm, sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I agree wholeheartedly about the rewards in doing this. Collecting some obscure fiddle tunes has been something of a hobby for me, lately. The Digital Library of Appalachia is an excellent source. Try Polish My Shoes in the Middle of the Week. Good stuff. -- Original message from mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com: -- I agree with you, Val. Going back to the source is a noble calling and full of rewards. Try going back and listening to Eck Robertson's version of Sally Goodin. No need to look further. Some tunes, say Grey Eagle for one, were even in different keys than they are done these days. Tater On Feb 5, 6:41 am, Val Mindel wrote: For an amazing version of an old standard, get Chirps to play Soldier's Joy. You're right though, it sometimes takes hearing one of these oft-done tunes rendered by different hands to really get what made it so special in the first place. On Feb 4, 1:09 pm, Dasspunk wrote: I will tell Chirps howdy for you Val. I've learned a number of tunes just to learn 'em and they've not been heard from since. I'm sure I'm not alone. Then there are tunes that I've tried learning only to find I don't care for my version :) Cumberland Gap was one such tune. I don't care for the 'Grass version but when I heard Chirps' version, I totally loved it (and talk him into playing it as often as possible). Arkansas Traveler was the same... until I heard Rhys Jone's version... now I love it. It took me forever to find a Sally Goodin I liked... mine's somewhere between Bill's with a hint of Clarence White. I try and steal from the best (emphasis on try). Long story only slightly longer... you never know what you'll like tomorrow. Brian On Feb 4, 11:27 am, Val Mindel wrote: Say hi to Chirps for me. He has great tunes. He plays a really good Greensleeves (not the tune you think), with the G run down to E. And is no slouch on mandolin. On Feb 4, 8:20 am, Dasspunk wrote: There are two tunes that I refuse to play any more. Blackberry Blossom and Whiskey Before Breakfast. These tunes are butchered daily at jams everywhere and make my skin crawl. I don't mind when folks play them... it's fine beer break music. But if the point of having a repertoire is to know songs that you can play with others, then those two are probably at the top of the list. Eek! I just looked at that list on mandozine... sure enough, those are some of the most popular tunes I've ever heard at jams. And of course my two *favorites* are on there. Whatever... learn 'em all and decide for yourself which ones you like. I'm currently learning a couple tunes for a dance I'll be playing this weekend with Mr. Lynn Chirps Smith. I absolutely love Snake River Reel and his tune Mississippi Palisades. Also on tap are Cumberland Gap (OT version), Little Dutch Girl (which Sadie Compton does a nice version of) and Squirrel Heads And Gravy (which I'm finding difficult to transfer to mandolin). Brian On Feb 3, 1:16 pm, mistertaterbug wrote: Nelson, It seems to me that the list varies depending on where a person hangs his hat (which includes geographical location, chosen era of 'bluegrass', and age group). Dennis comments in jest. I told him once that if I had to listen to Red Haired Boy once more time I was going to go out and kill something. There are a few more on *that* list as well. I will say though, without looking at anyone else's list, that some of the more common oldtime fiddle tunes seem to hold up across the board, plus there are a few Monroe tunes that seem to carry over. I don't think I have a really good grasp of what might be an up-to- date list of popular 'bluegrass' tunes because I engage so heavily in eclecticism. Bugs On Feb 3, 1:04 pm, J Hill wrote: Nelson, Mandozine lists what they consider to be essential mandolin tunes to learn. Here's the link:http://www.mandozine.com/music/essential/ Jason- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post
Re: Building a repertoire
Same page! No matter how many versions of a tune I get my hands on, I am always on the lookout for a better version Don't know why... I like the Mandolin Fakebook as well. The reason I use the Fiddler's book instead is that I can scan the notes into Finale and mess around with the arrangement and listen to the tune at different tempos, etc. On Feb 5, 2:00 pm, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: nelson, can you say same page!ha! Mike - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Building a repertoire
Last fall, I played in my first festival, the Tenn. Valley Old Time Fiddler's Convention, which was once a big deal. Solley Burton won and Bobby Nobley came in second. I was far behind, mainly because of nerves. My tune was Methodist Preacher, a hybrid of the one that Tater posted here with a few changes that I found in different versions. The year before, I was in the stands video taping the performers for reference and someone asked if I planned to play the next year. Her advice to me Just play Whiskey Before Breakfast. Everybody loves that tune. No they don't. It is one that I have a hard time making myself play for that reason; it has become something of a cliche (at least to me). I played a bunch of stuff last night and decided that I am going to commit to memory the songs that I like to play and that's it. My first cut, working alphabetically is Arkansas Traveller Beaumont Rag Billy In The Lowground Black Mountain Rag Blackberry Blossom (there are some interesting things to do here, I think) Cripple Creek Cumberland Gap (OT-forgive me, but I like the way Ricky Skaggs plays it on BG Mandolin) Fisher's Hornpipe Green Willis Liberty Old Joe Clark Ragtime Annie Red Haired Boy (sorry, I like it) Red Wing Saint Anne's Reel Sally Ann Sally Goodin' Soldier's Joy Tennessee Waltz (grandpa's favorite) Texas Gales Tom and Jerry Plus some Monroe tunes that I should know like Pike County Breakdown, Roanoke, etc. and a few Celtic numbers. On Feb 4, 7:20 am, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: There are two tunes that I refuse to play any more. Blackberry Blossom and Whiskey Before Breakfast. These tunes are butchered daily at jams everywhere and make my skin crawl. I don't mind when folks play them... it's fine beer break music. But if the point of having a repertoire is to know songs that you can play with others, then those two are probably at the top of the list. Eek! I just looked at that list on mandozine... sure enough, those are some of the most popular tunes I've ever heard at jams. And of course my two *favorites* are on there. Whatever... learn 'em all and decide for yourself which ones you like. I'm currently learning a couple tunes for a dance I'll be playing this weekend with Mr. Lynn Chirps Smith. I absolutely love Snake River Reel and his tune Mississippi Palisades. Also on tap are Cumberland Gap (OT version), Little Dutch Girl (which Sadie Compton does a nice version of) and Squirrel Heads And Gravy (which I'm finding difficult to transfer to mandolin). Brian On Feb 3, 1:16 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, It seems to me that the list varies depending on where a person hangs his hat (which includes geographical location, chosen era of 'bluegrass', and age group). Dennis comments in jest. I told him once that if I had to listen to Red Haired Boy once more time I was going to go out and kill something. There are a few more on *that* list as well. I will say though, without looking at anyone else's list, that some of the more common oldtime fiddle tunes seem to hold up across the board, plus there are a few Monroe tunes that seem to carry over. I don't think I have a really good grasp of what might be an up-to- date list of popular 'bluegrass' tunes because I engage so heavily in eclecticism. Bugs On Feb 3, 1:04 pm, J Hill jason.hi...@gmail.com wrote: Nelson, Mandozine lists what they consider to be essential mandolin tunes to learn. Here's the link:http://www.mandozine.com/music/essential/ Jason- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Building a repertoire
For more info on The Merry Blacksmith, see http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MER_MIC.htm. On Feb 4, 5:09 pm, Chris Thomas christopher.s.tho...@cox.net wrote: What would you all say are the must know tunes for a basic bluegrass mandolin player's basic repertoire? I am looking for fiddle tunes, Here are the some basic fiddle tunes that I have found somewhat universal for most any jam. Some of them DO get old, but the must know list is the one that most begineers will familier with. -Red-Haired Boy -Old Joe Clark -Cripple Creek (begineer banjo players will want to play it in G) -Bill Cheathem -Whiskey Before Breakfast -Blackberry Blossom -St. Anne's Reel -Turkey in the Straw -Soldiers Joy -Angeline the Baker -Ragtime Annie -Bluegrass Stomp -Liberty --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Building a repertoire
Good morning, all, What would you all say are the must know tunes for a basic bluegrass mandolin player's basic repertoire? I am looking for fiddle tunes, whether Monroe himself played them or not. Thanks, Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Monroe Camp Faculty
Tater, Do you have a guess as to when the faculty will be finalized? Nelson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: You Be The Judge
I have a great disc by Dave Brubeck called Old Tiger and Young Lions or something like that. On each track is a guest artist for whom Brubeck wrote a melody. Each melody was suggested by the name of the guest. In many cases, Dave wrote the melody out on the way to the studio, sitting in back of the limo, and the guest saw it for the first time in the session. On alot of the tracks, they used the first take. I assume in an improvisational format like jazz, there is some wiggle room, but still, that level of talent just floors me. On Jan 27, 3:57 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, I'll have to say that it's pretty much standard procedure to count on doing multiple takes on the major sessions, unless of course there are players there that can just lay it down first take. Some bands can go in and take a couple and get a useable one. Usually, somebody has to fix something(frequently it's me) while everybody else sits and eats miniature Milky Way bars. A lot of times the focus is to get a good rhythm track or get a track that has a good overall feel and then start building the finished product. I've heard of artists taking 6 months and loads of money (upwards of the cost of a Loar) to cut an album. I wonder what used to happen when people like Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra went into the studio? You know as well as I do what happened. They laid it down and that was that. Being on the road 11 months out of the year helps with that. Hey, all ya'll don't get me wrong. Skaggs is a talented man who's worked hard and there's no denying that. I'll give him that because it's a fact. It's that *other* thing I was talking about anyway. Now I'm done with it. Tater On Jan 27, 1:37 pm, J Hill jason.hi...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I have to say on the topic is that I had heard someplace that the Ricky Skaggs and KY Thunder frequently use over-dubs / multiple takes and that seems to have tainted my listening to their music. I've heard them live and there's no doubt that his band can play and I'll be the first to say, as in the recent Yo-Yo Ma inaugural recording discussion, if you can play it once you can play it in my book (even if it took you 6 takes to get a keeper). All that being said, it does differentiate between the recordings we hear today in which recording time can be as cheap as the electricity it takes to run your MacBook and the recording days of old in which there were 5 guys crowding around a single microphone and recording time was a scarce commodity. It very well could be that RS doesn't use multiple takes anymore than any other band in which case I don't mean to single them out unfairly. Jason- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Monroe Camp 2009
Of the sessions I attended last year, the one that I would most like to see repeated and expanded is the one about fiddle tunes. (I have been going through a related exercise lately.) Specifically, you could start with the straightforward tune that Bill might have been exposed to. Play it and talk about how Bill applied his philosophy/ style to it. A part of that class, or a completely different class could be the evolution of his style. If you take Darling Corey for example, his version with Charlie is more like the old-time Darling Corey/Dig A Hole; the later version is more aggressive and bluegrassy for lack of a better term. Another idea for a class might be about Bill's sidemen. Did he play differently to accomodate different fiddlers or guitar players/ singers, for example? Also, I think a session on the influences of Bill would be cool. We have discussed this here: Prairie Ramblers, Mac and Bob, etc., Arnold Schultz. I would love to see Bobby Osborne come back. I knew of the Osborne Brothers and new a few tunes by them, but was really taken by his vocals. Nelson On Jan 21, 11:11 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Since you asked.. I thinking some folks would appreciate at least (1) ten minute or so one on one session with one of the instructors...realize this is logistically difficult but I bet it could be orchestrated...maybe the student does not have his/her choice of which instructor but get's a mini private session with a one of the pro's. 50 students times 15 minutes (10 plus a 5 buffer) = 750 minutes divided by 60 = 12.50 hours Each one of the five instructors each take a 2 1/2 hour slot where all they do is see students for the private session If students opt out of the one on one then the time constraints get easier to manage. Perry --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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: Butch Baldassari
That is sad news. I do not know much about him. One thing that is evident to me, though, is that A LOT of people cared about him. It was impossible to open a trade magazine (or go to the mandolin camp), etc. without seeing evidence of that. -Original Message- From: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com [mailto:taterbugma...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mistertaterbug Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:31 PM To: Taterbugmando Subject: Butch Baldassari I'm assuming all of you have heard of Butch Baldassari's passing by now. It has just bummed me out since yesterday morning. I got a text message from Mike Bub as we drove back from Bristol, TN saying that Butch's wife Sinclair had called and said Butch was gone. As Don Christy said in another post, it just hammers home the necessity for living every day to the fullest and for paying attention. Okay, I'll stop. It's just that it seems that all the people who are passing now are not my grandparents' age or my father's age. A lot of them are my age. Ahem... Tater --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
